Happy birthday, IBM i. What’s the significance of this celebration that June 21st has for the IBM i community? IBM chose the release date of the AS/400 to celebrate the start of what has become the modern IBM i on Power Systems platform. So there’s...
In 1988, I moved from Australia to the United States. My plans were not permanent, yet it is now 30 years since I emigrated. That same year, AS/400 was born into the world. Without understanding its future, no one expected the life of the platform...
Greg Patterson, Senior Sales Engineer in Pre-Sales at Fresche, shares his favorite green screen story: Recently, Greg was onsite at a customer specifically for a data entry issue they were experiencing with their green screen applications. Specifically, they wanted to add additional functionalities, but didn’t have...
What could we tell a new user or customer of IBM i? How could it fundamentally be defined? We might say it’s an operating system, just like Windows, with the hardware running it being Power Systems by IBM. But IBM i is unique, not just a...
What’s in a Name? Responsive? Perhaps web design or IBM i don’t come to mind when you hear the word “responsive”. Merriam Webster’s definition of responsive includes “quick to respond or react appropriately or sympathetically” and uses “sensitive” as a synonym. Dictionary.com tells us “responding especially readily and sympathetically...