iModernize - The Profound Logic Software Blog

After countless hours of writing copy, fixing broken links, and ensuring quality content for businesses looking for IBM i modernization solutions, it's finally finished! Like an excited child that's eager to show you his/her prized toy, we'd love to show you our top 5 favorite features of the brand new Profound Logic Website!

We have become accustomed to, or perhaps reliant on spell checkers in almost all tools we use to document or write. Some may argue that the spell checker makes us lazy, others will say that it makes us more efficient but we all recognize and use the familiar red squiggly lines that appear on screen as we type.

A short holiday week means less for you to read. Check out the updates from MCPress and IBM Systems Magazine:

When's the last time you were challenged to be creative? Middle School? High School? We believe everyone is innately creative. We want to empower you to show it off with the rest of the community by sharing your IBM i modernization story.

One of the most exciting features of Profound UI 5.0 is the Universal Display File Editor and Handler. Universal Display Files are a dead simple way to produce web output from an RPG program.

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

• The Coder's Shortcut to Satisfaction
  By: Dan Burger
  Brief: Susan Gantner created Favorite Keyboard Shortcuts for RSE to encourage programmers to try new things, provide how-to instructions on most-useful features etc.
  Website: http://bit.ly/1qF81Z6

• 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

• IT Evolution Chicago Style
  By: Dan Burger
  Brief: Details about 2014 Omni Technical User Conference
  Website: http://bit.ly/1or8Hfx

• 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

Last week, I published Upcoming DDS Conversion Enhancements (Part 1 of 2). I described the Character Subfile Option Code for the upcoming Profound UI release. To finish off this series, I will describe Right Click Context Menus.

I received a call from my boss saying, "Cindy, tomorrow we'll be participating in the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. Bring extra clothes and a towel."

I added a couple of commonly requested features to our DDS Conversion Module for Profound UI 5.0, so I thought I would post a preview. I spend the majority of my time working with customers who are doing conversions so I think these enhancements will benefit all.