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System i
SCS provides a full range of education and support
for the System i user. Whether you need
to just expand your knowledge base, or develop a
plan for the future to more fully utilize your
System i, or audit how it is being used today so
that you are sure it is protected from whatever may
happen, or just need another pair of hands for
something you have planned, SCS can help.
- IT Strategic Planning
Seminars,
- System i related education &
consulting
(including RPG ILE and RPG /Free),
- Application Design
and Coding using a Rapid Application Design methodology,
- Security Planning, Audits, and Software from SkyView Partners,
- High Availability /
Disaster Recovery planning and consulting,
The System i Blog
IT Winds of Change
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Posted 6/26/2008
I do not believe in revolutionary
change. At least not for IT. I don’t believe that something is going
to jump up and sweep across the land like a blazing wildfire, remaking
the landscape as it goes. But I do believe there are forces at work
today, forces that may take years and which some of us may not even be
aware of now, that are going to radically alter much that we take for
granted in the ‘i’ world.
(read
more and comment)
Application Modernization
- Whatever
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Posted 6/10/2008
OK, I’ll admit it. I’m a bit
grouchy tonight.
Oh, I know what you’re thinking. Dave,
you’re so funny, so friendly, how could you possibly be grumpy? Truth
is, I’m not really all that funny and friendly. I’m cynical and
sarcastic. Passes for humor much of the time, but the mental state that
produces it is quite a bit different. My basic problem is a common one,
and in this day and age when everyone is open and honest about their
disabilities I might as well just come out with it – my name is Dave
Shirey and I’m a Grouch. Not all the time, of course. Generally it’s a
morning problem and after I have a cup of tea and yell at someone I
usually settle right down.
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more and comment)
Big News From IBM on the
System i
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Posted 4/2/2008
Breaking news from the Common
Conference in Nashville. In the Town Meeting session this morning,
IBM made some major announcements and I wanted you, yes you, to be the
very first to know.
(read
more and comment)
V6R1 Upgrade Conversion Information
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Posted 3/10/2008
By now you have probably heard that
the next release of i5/OS is out and about (GA on March 7). And
you have also probably heard that V6R1 requires a program conversion
step. But you may not have heard why the conversion is necessary
or what is involved in doing it. Well, keep reading and I will
tell you.
(read
more and comment)
SOA - Uh, What I Really Meant Was .
. .
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Posted 9/12/2007
About a month ago, maybe a bit
more, I wrote a blog entry on SOA; Service Oriented Architecture. I
have had many sleepless nights since then because in reading back over
that article I see that I was actually pretty positive about SOA.
There’s nothing wrong
with that, of course, except for the fact that I am, as I have admitted
a number of times, a cynical idealist, and my experience has been that
anytime I am more or less positive about anything that can’t be eaten
with a marinara sauce or drunk with crushed ice, that I am wrong. So I
have been thinking about SOA again, trying to decide if what I said was
really true or if I was carried away in the moment. And I guess I have
come to a couple of conclusions. (read
more and comment)
i5/OS - A Release is Not Forever
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Posted 8/1/2007
Yes, those were
the days. The days when you could just find a version of OS/400 (now
i5/OS) that you really liked and sit on it. From the point of view of
your ERP system it really didn’t matter. As long as the release ran RPG
you were good to go. But now, that seems to be changing.
(read
more and comment)
SOA - Maybe It Doesn't Stink After All
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Posted 7/10/2007
If you have read any of my blog
posts you probably have gathered that I am a bit old school. I am, as
advertised, a cynical idealist. I like the idea of a new idea but it
generally takes some work to convince me it’s a good idea. Sorry, but
when you get to a certain point in your life it’s easy to say ‘been
there, done that’.
And that certainly
seemed to be the case with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
(read
more and comment)
PHP or RPGIII?
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Posted 6/12/2007
OK, here’s a question for you.
Yeah, that’s right. You. Have you taken a look at a copy of System
iNews lately? No, that’s not the question. Just hang in there with me
for a few minutes. Have you taken a look at a copy of System iNews
lately? It’s interesting. Every article is about developing web
enabled systems using PHP or using the IFS from RPG programs, or
customizing the SQL query engine or what not. It’s like in the last
year we’ve gone from doing RPG IV stuff to all this other technology.
You hardly even see any articles about ILE anymore, it’s too passé.
(read
more and comment)
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