This was our presentation last week at the IBM Innovate conference. In this we talk about the recent advances in System i (aka iSeries, as400), and the tools that support this operating system including Rational Developer for Power systems. There are some interesting points on the new compiler features. We also cover some new features … Read more
Some have contacted me that they have been unable to find my presentation on the conference web site. I would have sworn I posted it (more than once), but the conference organizer website was considerably different than last year, and not necessarily better. That said, for those who would like to view all the ooey … Read more
WebSphere App Server on the i/OS does not come with a feature to automatically start and stop, and sometimes its best to use a CL command to stop it. I frequently see users doing an ENDSBS(WAS7), which wreaks havoc with the JVM. Please don’t just end the subsystem. When you do this, the JVM drops … 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
For those who missed the webinar this morning, I have posted a couple of presentations on SlideShare. Rational Team Concert For IBM System i – Executive Overview V2 View more documents from Strongback Consulting. Since we did not have an available connection to the Sandbox, here is also a scenario demonstrating the usage of RTCi. … Read more
In April of last year, IBM ceased marketing and selling of the WDSC product. The strategy was to separate out the compilers from the development environment. If you are currently running WDSC and are looking to move forward with it, here is what you need to know: If you purchased WDSC Advanced, you will be … Read more
If your organization has no real version control system or your idea of version control is making a copy of your rpgle source code in your library (you AS/400 folks know who you are), well, check out Team Concert Express C. Its a free version of Team Concert and runs on Windows or Linux. We’ve … 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
This is probably old news for some of you, but I just caught it. I think this was announced on January 29th. I had just got to the point to where I thought users were finally going to V5R4, when this comes out. Geesh. Anyhow. Looks likes this gives you the added features you need … Read more