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Investigation about the Future of IBM i
by Torbjörn Appehl

• "Earlier this year, two students at the Swedish bank “Handelsbanken” were asked to do an investigation about IBM i and the future of the platform. The two students, Veronica Randleff och Victor produced among other things the following article."

Source: http://www.data3.se/?p=6046

The Visual Designer in our Profound UI suite is the easiest way to quickly create browser-based interfaces for your IBM i desktop applications. But did you know that the same technology is available for mobile development?

Profound Mobile offers all of the features that make Profound UI great - including the Visual Designer and RPG Open Access Handler - but streamlined for mobile application development.

In this blog post, I'll walk you through a sample application that I created using Profound Mobile. Aside from a few design considerations for a mobile layout (vs. a desktop application), the development is very similar to what you would create with Profound UI. I've included the Rich Display File DDS, RPG, and CL source for this application at the bottom of this article. The application is driven by a standard RPG program, using the Open Access Handler.

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IBM i Strategist Sets Priorities, Balances Resources

by Dan Burger

• "IBM is a company with a boatload of resources. How those resources are applied to its large and prosperous IBM i market segment is a topic that we like to discuss from the perspective of you can't do enough for IBM i and, by the way, we think you are doing too little. Chief architect for IBM i, Steve Will, bristles at the accusation. IBM i strategy is his domain. Resource allocation is his tight rope to walk."

Source: http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh072715-story01.html

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Top 5 New Technologies on the IBM i
by Alex Woodie

• Native Flash Storage
• Row and Column Access Control
• JSON
• Node.js
• REST Web Services

Source: http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh062915-story01.html

I wanted to do a series of blog posts about more advanced conversion theme functionality. This is an area that we get questions on quite often. So in this series of posts, I will lay out some examples of things you can do in conversion themes with a little bit of code. (You can see part one of this series here and part two here.)

Who's ready for COMMON 2015? We are!

Now that it's less than two weeks before COMMON's Annual Conference in Anaheim, I'm starting to feel the excitement. There's a lot going on (as always) at COMMON, but here are the top 10 things that I'm looking forward to:

Attending the Wisconsin Midrange Computer Professional Association's (WMCPA) Spring Technical Conference next week? Don't miss the chance to learn tips for successful RPG, database and application development and modernization with sessions by Profound Logic Developer and IBM i Champion Scott Klement. You can also learn more about RPG and DB modernization with a hands-on lab led by Jeff Tickner from our partner ARCAD Software.

I’ve been working with IBM i going on 10 years now, and it’s amazing to me how far things have come in this time. I’ve always got my eye open for the latest news around our platform, and one of the most exciting developments I’ve seen from IBM in a long time came back in October, when IBM published a feature list for IBM i 7.1 TR9. Among many other things, it was announced that a port of Node.js would be included with IBM i.

Read part one of this series here.