Future-Proof Your Applications: Strategies for Modernizing with LANSA LANSA Editors

​[[{“value”:”Application modernization is crucial for organizations to stay resilient, responsive, and relevant on an enterprise scale. Some applications are faster and better than the 5250 applications that have been used for decades, so using outdated applications can lead to problems at work. LANSA’s modernization tools can help companies leverage state-of-the-art technologies to their benefit to
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Send email with SQL [email protected] (Simon Hutchinson)

​[[{“value”:”We have been able to send email from our IBM i partitions for several releases, using IBM commands and various third party tools. I use the Send SMTP Email command, SNDSMTPEMM, that comes within the IBM i operating system. Within the latest round of Technology Refreshes, IBM i 7.5 TR3 and 7.4 TR9, comes another way, with SQL.
A new scalar function was added to the SYSTOOLS library called SEND_EMAIL. It has four parameters:

TO_EMAIL:  Recipients email address. Mandatory
SUBJECT:  Email’s subject line. Mandatory
BODY:  Email’s body. Mandatory
ATTACHMENT: IFS path name of the file to be sent as an attachment. Optional, if omitted no attachment is sent

For example:
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What’s Up with Open Source on IBM i? Alex Woodie

​[[{“value”:”Open source software has become a steadfast component of the IBM i stack. But what open source software are IBM i shops using today? Results from Fortra’s recent IBM i Marketplace Survey provide answers.
It may seem odd now, but open source hasn’t always been a staple of the IBM i server’s software diet. Until PHP arrived on the platform two decades ago, proprietary software was the only option for IBM i shops.
But today, IBM i shops have hundreds of open source products to choose from. Thanks to the IBM i server’s openness, just about any product that can …
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