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We're bringing you a week's worth of news in one day! Grab some coffee and catch up on IBM i (AS/400, iSeries) news from last week:

'tis the season... IBM i conference season, that is! Much like the Spring time, Fall is also a very busy time for RPG/IBM i professionals, with a line-up of user groups and conferences that include Transforum 2014, RPG and DB2 Summit, Fall COMMON, and ZendCon. So, the upcoming interactions with fellow IBM i professionals naturally made me want to write a blog post about networking.

We know what it's like to prepare for a conference, especially one as big as Transforum. On top of having to finish action items for your supervisor, clients, and team members, you have to prepare for the conference as well! We totally understand the struggle, especially shipping items... (What a hassle!). Similar to you, we've been working tirelessly. Our CEO Alex Roytman has been preparing ferociously for the presentation with TMW on innovative solutions for IBM i and we've been preparing, gathering, and shipping items for our booth. (We're at booth #129- Come visit us!)

Here's a flood of articles from last week. Enjoy the brevity of information!

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.

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

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."

IBM i News in Review: August 7 - 14