You’re reading IBM i Pulse, our weekly bite-sized roundup of the latest headlines in the IBM i industry. Some interesting projections this week...let's get straight to it!
More proof IBM i 7.3 is coming
by Simon Hutchinson
- "In the IBM developerWorks website there are now sections for IBM i 7.3 and 7.2 TR4 enhancements, which were created on January 13."
- "Does this mean that the new release will be out this spring?"
Source: http://www.rpgpgm.com/2016/01/more-proof-ibm-i-73-is-coming.html
Baseline Data Boss Predicts Steady Stream Of Outsourced Production Environments
by Dan Burger
- "'I think the trend in moving production IT environments to managed service providers will continue to be steady,' Lance Thompson, president and CEO at Baseline Data Services, predicted last week during a telephone interview with IT Jungle."
- "MSPs hosting IBM i production environments may be gaining momentum, but it's still a trickle from my perspective. Thompson says it's more than that..."
Source: http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh012516-story05.html
Upsert One Row From A Data Structure
by Ted Holt
- "MERGE is designed to update a lot of rows in one table from a lot of rows in another one. If Lewis were trying to upsert a lot of rows from a data structure array or a multiple-occurrence data structure, maybe MERGE would make sense, but I'm pretty sure SQL won't allow that."
- "Instead, I recommended that he try either operation--INSERT or UPDATE--and if it fails, try the other one, like this..."
Source: http://www.itjungle.com/fhg/fhg012616-story02.html
LISUG Wins With Second-Annual Night of 1000 Stars
by Charles Guarino
- "Earlier this month and for the second year in a row LISUG held it’s Night of 1000 Stars. The single charge was to deliver any IT topic in six to eight minutes."
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The topics presented at the meeting were:
- Simple Photography Website
- Encryption Depiction
- Image Catalogs Made Easy
- more...
Source: http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/ibmi/trends/whatsnew/1000_Stars/
And that's it for this week. Let me know if there's any different things I can add or sources to choose from.
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