In june we presented on these best practices based on our expertise and experience in deployment to our clients. This is by no means a complete picture, and will certainly vary by client. However, once you read the presentation, you should have a better understanding about how best to roll out the clients. IBM i … Read more
For an environment long thought a dead end, IBM has revitalized the platform with its new COBOL tools for AIX in RDp. The UI is a wonderful replacement for vi or other text based editors, yet allows developers to build upon their vi expertise by allowing common vi commands in the LPEX editor. The COBOL Development Tools … Read more
For those who missed our webinar last week on the updated tools from Rational, I’m posting the presentation here (thanks to Slideshare). If you want the audio… well.. .you’ll just have to give one of us a call here at the office and we’ll reenact it. O.K.? What’s New in Rational Software for POWER Systems … Read more
Today, IBM has released several products geared towards development on IBM POWER systems (notably, the POWER7). IBM is targetting customers running on Sun hardware and especially Oracle applications. Now customer will be able to migrate from Solaris/SPARC to POWER/AIX with new compilers and development tools for C/C++ and COBOL. New compilers (priced separatly or packacked … Read more
We’ll be answering this question and more on April 16th at 11AM. This is webinar that is geared towards those participating the POWER7 launch events. We’ll cover: Leverage graphical tools to increase quality and time to market within smaller teams Team collaboration features to improve your development process workflow Expose host business processes as Web … Read more
Vi is to the Linux/Unix world as ‘edit’ is to MS-DOS. If you use Vi, you are probably aware of vim, which a more robust tool, but very similar. I won’t dive into the whole history – goto Wikipedia for that. Unless you have specifically installed Vim on Ubuntu or modified the .vimrc file on … Read more
For those customers who have not seen this, its time to upgrade. If you don’t upgrade you will find you won’t get the software support you need for applications running on these OS versions. Calling IBM support and getting PMR is hard enough, don’t let this become an obstacle in the future. IBM Global Technology … Read more