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IBM i System Tasks and Their Functions
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When You Need Us, We Are Ready To Do Grunt Work Andrew Johnson David Fahrenkrug
There are two secrets to success for any cloud or any service provider. First, get the best people, ones that understand people, business, and technology. Second, automate everything that can be automated because that is the only way the business will be able to scale and not collapse under the weight of the expense of – and difficulty in – hiring the next batch of people to grow the business.
A third thing might be hire people who can constantly automate themselves out of a job, but who also find new and valuable jobs to do.
To be a managed …
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Generative AI: Coming to an ERP Near You Alex Woodie
Don’t look now, but generative AI technology like ChatGPT is spreading into every aspect of computing, including the large enterprise applications at the heart of business. The technology may not be on IBM i-based ERP suites yet, but it’s just a matter of time.
The sophistication of AI technology has been building steadily for the past 10 years, thanks to the adoption of massive neural networks that can be trained on huge amounts of unstructured data, such as text and images.
Dubbed deep learning, the brute-force approach paid handsome dividends for two computational problems in particular: computer vision and natural …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 12 Doug Bidwell
We are always on the hunt for something new, but sometimes we find something that is not new but is new to us and maybe you, too. Here is a case in point: The IBM i 7.4 section on the IBM documentation site was last updated in the last half of the year 2021 and now describes the enhancements made to ILE RPG after 7.4 with PTFs. You can see it here. Also, we wanted to point out that we have re-organized the ACS_NAV worksheet contents, adding a bunch of links to documents and several YouTube links. That is …
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