[[{“value”:”We assume that the operating system and hardware levels of the laggards are four or five years back from the current leaders; so, in plain English American, we take the data for the leaders four or five years ago (the difference depends on when operating system releases go off extended support and how old the iron is we think they are running upon) and apply it to three-fourth of the installed base of iron that we think represents the laggards.
Here is what the operating system installed base by release levels looks like from the surveys running from 2021 through 2025, inclusive:”}]] Read More
Rocket Consolidates Half a Dozen Terminal Emulators With Secure Host Access Alex Woodie
[[{“value”:”Rocket Software has rolled out Secure Host Access, a new terminal emulator for utilizing the classic greenscreen interfaces of heritage IBM i, mainframe, and Unix applications. The new offering consolidates multiple emulators acquired by Rocket over the years into a single offering, while delivering much-needed security features that the previous emulators largely lacked.
Rocket Software’s Secure Host Access is a terminal emulator that provides a full array of TN5250, TS3270, and VT connectivity from PCs, Web browsers, and mobile devices. The Java-based product offers all the features and capabilities that you would expect to find in a mature emulator, …
The post Rocket Consolidates Half a Dozen Terminal Emulators With Secure Host Access appeared first on IT Jungle.”}]] Read More
ARCAD Discover: Global Application Analysis With An AI Interface Michel Mouchon
[[{“value”:”Here is a simple test to reckon the value of the applications that run your company. Walk down to the datacenter, or over to the datacloset, or SSH out to the cloud, and turn the physical or logical machine running those applications off. What happens next?
Aside from a lot of animated conversations and possibly some cursing, not much until you turn the machine back on and the system, databases, and applications reboot. You already knew this, but now everyone else has discovered, rather suddenly, how the very existence of the business and the livelihoods of the employees is dependent …
The post ARCAD Discover: Global Application Analysis With An AI Interface appeared first on IT Jungle.”}]] Read More
IBM Christens Its 2025 Class Of Champions – IT Jungle
[[{“value”:”IBM also refreshed the badges it distributes as part of the related IBM Rising Champion Advocacy program.
“I’m thrilled to receive the news that I’ve been recognized as an IBM Champion once again in 2025,” Josh Patterson, a solutions architect at managed service provider Lightedge, said on LinkedIn.”}]] Read More
Case Study: How One IBM i Shop Is Resolving Tech Debt with Education and Code-Conversion Software
[[{“value”:”When Poersch was hired, his new boss enrolled him in imPower Technologies IBM i Concepts and Operations (maximum 8 weeks in length) and Programming in ILE RPG (maximum 10 weeks in length) courses, taught by Jim Buck, a top IBM i educator with online course offerings.
For this conversion, he’s using TARGET/400, a program developed in the 1980s by John Caine and a partner that enables IBM i shops to convert their RPG 2 to RPGLE.”}]] Read More
