Last week CNN printed an article highlighting the struggles of several state governments to handle the tsunami of unemployment claims in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. The culprit? The decades-old COBOL applications running on their mainframe systems. Phil Murphy, the Governor of New Jersey even put out a call for ‘volunteer’ COBOL programmers, lamenting […]
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I was visiting an IBM i customer recently for a presentation on IBM i “modernization”. After the presentation, I got the opportunity to spend time with their business end users. I asked them what IT could do for them to help them do their jobs more effectively and to serve their customers better. The customer
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The popularity of Python has spiked over the last couple years according to the Tiobe Index (a measurement of programming language popularity https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/). Looking to get started with Open Source languages on the IBM i? You might want to start by checking out Python. Because of its simplicity and power, Python is one of the
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How would you like to add millions of programmers to your staff without having to pay for them? Sound too good to be true? Well, amazingly, it’s not. This is exactly the promise and advantage of using Open Source languages like Node, Python and PHP on your IBM i. With Open Source, you no longer
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With all the new Open Source announcements for the IBM i in 2019, many IBM i users are justifiably excited and anxious to start using this new technology. At Eradani, we have been building Open Source applications for the IBM i for several years and have learned some valuable lessons about how to use Open
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It is time for us (IBM i IT professionals) to drive new technology initiatives. Every day, I speak with IBM i users who, like me, are passionate about the platform and completely frustrated that their bosses can’t seem to understand the value of the most reliable, most secure, easiest to run platform on the planet.
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A popular myth surrounding the IBM i is that its user interface is limited to green screen 5250 displays. It’s NOT! You can build the most modern, functional, easy-to-use user experiences using JavaScript running natively on IBM i. According to statistics from GitHub, JavaScript is currently the most used language for building applications stored in GitHub
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Way back in the early 1980s, when I worked for IBM, I used to teach a class in application design concepts for the System/38 (the precursor to the IBM i). In that class I taught programmers that, for performance reasons, they should write big monolithic programs that comprised all the steps of an entire business
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Low Risk, High Reward Modernization for IBM i (AS/400) Why would you do it any other way? So, you want to modernize your applications and you have executives who are pushing to move away from the IBM i (AS/400). Your end users hate the green screen and people are worried about the potential coming lack
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