The Origins of the IBM i: A Trip Through Computer History Status is offline

​No, we will skip over the contemporary history and go straight back to the beginning of time, I mean, of the AS/400, and, cover three of the central concepts of the platform, which characterized the AS/400 then and to this day still characterize today’s IBM i: single-level store, the layered OS, and objects.
The underlying reason for this stratification, which Soltis mentions in Inside/AS400, were two trends: increasing processor power, and a desire to develop software using higher levels of abstraction than were provided by low-level programming languages. Read More 

Using the Cloud to Protect Mission-Critical Workloads Precisely Editor

​Cloud computing offers a wide range of new use cases for IBM shops. Following the dramatic increase in remote work following the COVID-19 pandemic, the shift toward IBM i in the cloud has gained momentum. In addition to the inherent flexibility that a  cloud solution has to offer, this has opened up a host of … Continued
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Shared CTEs – They’re Here… Kent Milligan – IBM Technology Expert Labs

​Before delivering the Shared CTE implementation change, the IBM i development team did a great job delivering flagging support for the IBM i 7.3 and 7.4 releases which makes it easy to use an SQL Plan Cache Snapshot or SQL Monitor to identify your SQL requests that might be impacted by this change.
Before updating your 7.4 Database Group PTF level or upgrading to IBM i 7.4 or 7.5, use the flagging support to identify which SQL statements on your system use a Shared CTE. Read More 

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