Words of wisdom from the IBM i community
Looks like IBM had a but of a flub on the ‘Redpaper‘ site … a redpaper showed up on my planet.midrange.com RSS feed with the title ‘i5/OS Program Conversion: Getting ready for i5/OS V6R1’. The abstract was quite interesting … Abstract: IBM® plans to deliver i5/OS® V6R1 in 2008. With this new release, IBM will…
Our friend Aaron Bartell produced a … um … interesting (yeah, that’s the right word) video while taking a break from writing an article for System i Network magazine. What do you think?
How did we do? Well, it has been a mixed bag. Our interest in keeping the solution cross platform quickly ran aground as we faced the difficulty in getting the more entrenched RPG programmers to embrace Java as well as finding Java programmers who were comfortable in the System i world. We also got some…
We initially began our iSeries modernization process with writing custom web apps using WDSC utilizing the Webfacing feature. I first learned about WebFacing at COMMON in San Antonio in 2004. At the time it seemed like the answer we were looking for. So, I purchased Claus Weiss’ book “Understanding the IBM WebFacing Tool.” This is…
Five years ago I started a company with a few other folks who were trying to “save” a school administration system that was written in RPG that we did not own. In this particular case, the company that owned the software and the source code was really just using the customer base as a revenue…
Together with user based pricing (9407-) for i5/OS, IBM released two new hardware models which support this new licensing scheme – those are the 515 for up to 40 users with limited extension capability, and the 525 for bigger deployments. The 515 is mostly the same hardware as the 520+ (1.9 Ghz Power5+). So there’s…
The other day I was wandering around the internet and found a blog post that had a short interview with Toni Taylor, who is the IBM liaison to iSociety, that I thought was pretty good. Since midrange.com is one of the founding members of iSociety, and as a sort of experiment, I’m going to make…
For those of you who have been paying attention, midrange.com was nominated for a System i Innovation Award in the Community Support category. While we didn’t win the award (Trevor Perry of angustheitchap.com won), it was quite an honor to be a finalist. It certainly shows that people have noticed, and appreciate, the work that…
Well. I was at the Systemideveloper.com spring conference last week and managed to let my voice be heard during George Farr’s speech to the masses – us RPG programmers. First let me say that I definitely respect George and appreciate many of the things his team does that helps my development efforts. I don’t think…
Hah, I’ll bet you thought this blog was dead … didn’t you? It’s not … at least mostly not dead. Here’s a hint that might save your bacon sometime in the future. It may seem obvious to some people … but Service Programs are probably the BEST enhancement to System i that IBM ever implemented….