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IBM i #NewsinReview: August 21-28

Posted by Profound Logic on Sep 1, 2014 3:12:48 AM

IBM i News

You've been busy. So here's what's happened while you were off saving the IBM i community from mayhem:

  • Partners Need To Get Certified--For Power8 And IBM i
    By: Timothy Prickett Morgan
    Brief: "IBM's PartnerWorld business partner organization sent out notices to Power Systems resellers on August 12 that all authorized business partners would have to meet new recertification requirements for the current Scale-Out Power8 systems as well as what I presume are future and impending bigger NUMA shared memory machines that are referred to as the Enterprise Power8 systems in the letter."
    Website: http://bit.ly/XVVXs7
  • Use SQL To Read IFS Directories
    By: Ted Holt
    Brief: Use SQL to access Integrated File System (IFS)
    Website: http://bit.ly/1AXVROC
  • CMS/400 Could Switch Hands in $3 Billion Private Equity Deal
    By: Alex Woodie
    Brief: CVC Capital Partners, a London private equity firm, bids $3 billion for Epicor Software, an American provider of ERP software for midsize manufacturers and distributors of an RPG based app called CMS/400.
    Website: http://bit.ly/1mYbJs3
  • 'Game Changer' Mobile App Rollout Under Way
    By: Dan Burger
    Brief: San Diego-Imperial Counties Developmental Services, Inc. (SDICDSI) chooses Profound UI to develop mobile apps that support its community based services
    Website: http://bit.ly/1vG2lPa
  • IBM Gets the US Nod to Sell System x Biz to Lenovo
    By: Timothy Prickett Morgan
    Brief: "IBM's $2.3 billion deal to sell off its entire System x business, including all of its X86 based systems and 7,500 employees who design, make, market, and sell its machines, to Chinese computing giant Lenovo Group. The deal was announced at the end of January this year, and has apparently been held up by regulators in the United States as they review the security implications of having a dominant supplier of systems controlled by a company located in a foreign nation."
    Website: http://bit.ly/1qFaqTN
  • Automatically Detecting and Re-Enabling Disabled NetServer Profiles
    By: Joe Hertvik
    Brief: How to automatically re-enable the i5/OS NetServer (NetServer) user profile when a user disables the i5/OS NetServer after opening an IBM i file share program.
    Website: http://bit.ly/1vT46bR
  • Creating A GUID In DB2 For i
    By: Michael Sansoterra
    Brief: How to create a GUID/UUID in RPG to write DB2 code that is compatible with SQL Server
    Website: http://bit.ly/1vT4aIK

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