Month: January 2025

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​[[{“value”:”Fortra last week formally released its 2025 IBM i Marketplace Survey results, which marks the start of the second decade of analysis into the IBM i community. In the closely watched Top Concerns component, there were minor changes in the top four items, led by cybersecurity for the ninth straight year. But what’s notable in 2025 is that there’s movement at the bottom of the list, indicating heightened interest in items such as artificial intelligence and machine learning.
IBM i users from around the world took Fortra’s annual IBM i Marketplace Survey in late 2024 – 250 of them …
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​[[{“value”:”What will happen this year in the little neck of the IT wood that we call the IBM i community? It’s hard to say for sure, but one thing is certain: It sure a lot of fun guessing what might happen or what could happen! And who knows? Some of these predictions may actually come true.
After 20 years with IBM i software vendor PKS Software, Heidi Schmidt has seen a thing or two in the midrange. There have been many ups and downs over the years, and a wide array of names. But Schmidt is bullish that the …
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​[[{“value”:”It was the old black-and-white photo that first captured my attention: A woman standing next to a stack of thick folders containing green-bar printer paper that stretched from the floor to just above her head. In the photo she is smiling and appears to be balancing the unsteady tower. The year is 1969, the woman is Margaret Hamilton, and she has good reason to smile.
Eight years prior, she worked at the MIT Lincoln Lab, a research and development facility funded by the Department of Defense. There, she worked on something called the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) Project. MIT was …
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​[[{“value”:”We are finally getting back into synch between The Four Hundred and the IBM i PTF Guide, and with this week’s issue numbers 3 and 4, you will be all caught up.
In Number 3, dated January 18, we note that IBM has put out the latest service pack 950.D0 for system firmware levels VL950, VM950, and VH950, which you can read all about here. The updates are available for the following Power9 machines:

Power System S914 (9009-41G)
Power System E950 (9040-MR9)
Power System E980 (9080-M9S)
Power System H922 (9223-22H)
Power System H922 (9223-22S)
Power System H924 (9223-42H)

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