RPG + Python: What to Expect as a First-Time Python Developer The Similarities Between RPG and Python If you’re an experienced RPG developer looking to expand your skills into Python, you may be wondering – just how different are these languages really? While RPG and Python share some common procedural programming concepts, Python offers a […]
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More Than APIs Every day, I speak with IBM i users with new and interesting use cases for connecting their IBM i systems to help their businesses increase revenue, reduce costs, and better serve their customers. Some are integrating applications across multiple platforms within their organizations, replacing expensive, batch-oriented technologies like FTP/SFTP and EDI to
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An IBM i developer called me recently to discuss their challenges with API enabling their IBM i. He had been experimenting with several tools that easily generate an HTTP endpoint for accessing a DB2 table or an RPG program. However, as he got deeper into building the APIs his company needed, he found that he
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Last week, I had a surprising conversation with an IBM i user. She contacted us about our API generation solutions, and I told her that many people were using our tools for IBM i modernization. Her response was, “we are not modernizing; we are transforming.” “What’s the difference?” I asked. She replied, “Our company has
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Not too long ago, I spoke with an executive at a large clothing manufacturer who was facing a significant challenge. All their core systems ran on the IBM i, and he told me that their one programmer was finally about to retire. That programmer was the only person who really understood how their applications worked.
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Apache Kafka is a high-performance, resilient, open source-based, event-driven, pub-sub messaging application for providing loosely coupled connections between a variety of message producers and consumers. If that sentence seems like a whole bunch of confusing jargon, read on! In this post, I’ll introduce the basics of Kafka and why it can be so valuable. At
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According to the latest statistics, almost 60% of all web traffic is initiated from mobile devices. More than 50% of business to business web interactions now come from mobile (check out mobile statistics here). Yet, for many IBM i shops, building native mobile apps is expensive and requires skills they don’t have in house. How
If You are Not Looking at Progressive Web Apps, You Should Be! Read More »
We were on a family to trip to Disneyland this past weekend and my kids wanted to go on the Indiana Jones ride. We really don’t like long lines so we kept checking our Disney app to see if the current wait for the ride was less than ninety minutes. After checking several times an
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The number of calls we have gotten recently from IBM i users that have the need to share functions and data with their .Net counterparts has been surprising. We are seeing strong demand to provide real-time, high-speed integration between the two environments. The use cases range from customers who are building a new UI for
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If you are an RPG programmer, the above code probably looks totally foreign. But if you are among the 15% or so of IBM i shops that use COBOL, you know this as the data descriptions you work with every day. Some of the largest IBM i shops in the world are built around
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