If you are a user of an IBM i software package or a vendor of IBM i applications, then API enablement creates significant opportunities for you. In addition to providing packaged application customers with the latest user experiences and connectivity, APIs can address one of the oldest issues in using packaged software. Early in my […]
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“I feel like I have been working with hand tools and somebody just gave me a power saw and drill.” That’s how a customer described to me his experience of building web services and APIs in JavaScript for his IBM i applications. “Don’t get me wrong”, he said, “I still love RPG and we will
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It’s exciting to see the number of IBM i users who have discovered the power of extending their RPG and COBOL applications using APIs and web services. The challenge they now face is how to maintain and manage those connections. Many customers we have worked with are connecting applications across their internal networks via APIS.
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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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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.
I Have Seen the Enemy—And it is Us (And I Say that with Love) Read More »
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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