Month: June 2023

​When I was at the POWERUp conference in Denver back in late April along with my co-editor, Alex Woodie, we were sitting in the opening keynote address when Alison Butterill, IBM i offering manager, and Steve Will, IBM i chief architect, were on stage talking about the AS/400 launch and how the platform has evolved over time, there was a point in the presentation when a slide went up that listed some of the key features of the platform. I remember seeing “Innovate” and “Integrate” at the top of the list, and that sent my brain down an internal monologue …
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​Struggling with skills and resources to manage and safeguard your IBM i systems? Looking to reduce operating costs and gain access to subject matter experts? You aren’t alone. Many IT leaders continue to face retiring IBM i skillsets, are single threaded with limited resources and unable to support growing business demands.
Attend our upcoming webinar to learn about Remote Managed Services and how thousands of companies are using it to streamline IBM i operations and costs, improve availability, and access expert IT skills to manage and secure their systems.
Raymond Hammell, Cloud Solutions Architect at Fresche Solutions, will cover the …
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​Maybe the most important part of your IBM i modernization strategy should be modernizing the tools you are using to develop and maintain your applications. Most of the application development world has moved to tools centered around using Git for version control. There is no reason IBM i developers cannot do the same thing. IBM is solidly behind this strategy with their new Merlin product and most of the change management vendors have some kind of Git integration.
By adopting Git for version control, IBM i applications can be managed with the same tools that are being used for development …
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​In this week’s edition of the IBM i PTF Guide, I have added a Ref tab, which contains general, pertinent information not found elsewhere in the Guide. I also wanted to point out that with a PTF for Advanced Job Scheduler server side, which is SI83469 and which is included in HTTP group PTF update June 2023, AJS will support processing of Set ASP Group when enabled. Finally, IASP support built in!
Here is the rundown of PTF Groups by IBM i release level since we last published:
PTF Groups 7.5:

Backup Recovery Solutions
IBM HTTP Server for

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​As we celebrate 35 years of IBM i, some members of the IMS team share their initial thoughts on the platform. #ibmi #imsolutions #ibmiat35 Read More