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...
Your homegrown applications, legacy ERP systems and even your trusted Query/400 tool remain a core part of your business systems. Invoices, purchase orders, labels and checks generated from these solutions become the “face” of your company, and are of the utmost importance not only because...
We, in Fresche’s Web Application Development team, are frequently called upon to consider a new business application, and estimate how much it will cost to build it....
Introduction This is the first part of a series of technical articles about Java and IBM i integration, called "Java and i" (yes, some pun intended). We will explore running Java applications on IBM i and leveraging the integrated IBM Db2 for i database. Initially, we will...
In the early 2000s, I was responsible for competitive analysis for IBM’s AS/400, then iSeries and now IBM i platform. On one level, the job was simple: demonstrate how IBM delivers superior technology with lower total cost of ownership (TCO). The tricky part was getting...
Robert Arce is the foremost field resizing expert at Fresche Solutions. When he came to Fresche he immediately adopted X‑Resize, Fresche’s solution to help automate resizing projects. He truly believes in the efficacy of the product and its usefulness in any field resizing effort for...