Have you ever thought about modernizing your database? A lot of IBM i companies have replaced the green screen with a graphical interface and converted their legacy monolithic programs into procedures and functions written in modern programming languages, but what about the database? Data is often...
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...
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...
Change is a Good Thing. We improve only when we do something different. Think about it: people who want to lose weight will try to change what they eat and how often they exercise. Why? Because their daily habits and routines are sustaining that current weight....
How to Start Off Your IBM i System’s Transformation “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” - Lao Tzu My family and I have a begun a journey, one that started a few months ago. After more than two decades in our current home,...
There are some fundamental parts in almost all IBM i modernization projects: - Reengineer the database (DB2 for i) - Refactor the code (RPG or COBOL) - Improve the user interface (DDS or panels) Of course, the details of these three components are what makes modernization discussions so interesting. How...
The 3rd Industrial Revolution was the Digital Revolution with the advancement of Internet, PC and ICT. We have now entered in the 4th Industrial Revolution (1) and as say IBM CEO Ginni Rometty "If it’s Digital, it will become Cognitive" (2). Gartner and McKinsey, as well as...
You have a meeting scheduled for this afternoon with a new company executive, and you already know how the conversation will go with regard to the company’s current IT systems: "What’s with these old green screens? At the previous company I worked for, we used solution...