Welcome to another edition of Talsco Weekly IBM i Brief: The Push To Modernize the IBM i. Watsonx: AI for the IBM i platform. Development: Do you know what QSHCURL is? Learning: The Future of the RPG developer depends on this. Hiring: Don’t Panic About RPG Developer Retirements: How Training and Open-Source Languages Can Ensure […]
Hiring RPG Developers
Don’t Panic About RPG Developer Retirements: How Training and Open-Source Languages Can Ensure a Smooth Transition
As RPG developers on the IBM i platform reach retirement age, it has led to a concern about the availability of RPG Developers and the potential impact it will have on businesses that rely on mission critical RPG applications.
The one thing that needs to be addressed is that the availability of RPG developers, or the lack thereof, is not as big of an issue as one might think when it comes to the future of the IBM i platform.
Talsco Weekly: The New Development Toys for the IBM i
Welcome to another edition of Talsco Weekly Development: The New Development Toys for the IBM i. Visual Studio Code and RPGLE. Db2: The hidden history of Db2. AI: IBMs Strategic Partnerships help AI Adoption. Hiring: Why It Pays to Be Sceptical About Behaviour Tests. Development The New Development Toys for the IBM i “From Merlin […]
Talsco Weekly: News, Data, Careers & Modernization for IBM i
Welcome to another edition of Talsco Weekly News: Infor to stop developing on-prem software for IBM iSeries. Data: IBM Mulls Using DataMigrator as Cloud Warehouse Pipeline. Hiring: IT hiring: 5 challenges with emerging technologies. Modernization: There are Unicorns on the Mainframe. Career: A subtle mistake about how to aquire useful career skills. News Infor to […]
Talsco Weekly: IBM i Latest Trends, API and Development
Welcome to another edition of Talsco Weekly Development: The Best Language for RPG Developers to Learn. Is COBOL on IBM i Experiencing a Renaissance?. Trends: 10 IoT technology trends to watch in 2022. Hiring: How to Attract and Hire RPG Developers. API: APIs: The secret ingredient for one company’s massive tech leap. Development The Best […]
The IBM i Market Needs to Pivot
Photo by Keith Johnston on Unsplash Welcome to another edition of Talsco Weekly News: Skytap and Azure offer migration services. Profound Logic Modernization Survey. Career: Should you accept a salary cut? Hiring: A shift to hiring apprentices. The talent drought in the cloud market. Leadership: Upskilling in the IT market. Follow the Brewers lead when it comes to staffing. […]
The IBM i Market Hires For Natural Talent
Photo by Lesly Juarez on Unsplash The IBM i market needs to pivot and hire for natural talent. What do the Milwaukee Brewers have to do with hiring and leadership? A lot. While you might not be a Brewer fan, the Manager of the Brewers, Craig Counsell has proven his leadership and ability to adapt and engineer his […]
Dusting Off An AS/400
Dusting Off An AS/400 It’s interesting learning about the perceptions people have about the AS/400 when they first come across it. Keep in mind we fully understand that this platform is no longer called the AS/400 and it has been called its current name, the IBM i, since 2008. Nevertheless, I stumbled upon this blog […]
The New Crop of RPG Developers
What Are New RPG Developers saying? It’s hard to argue that IBM i (AS/400) shops are starting to see the affects of retiring RPG Developers. Keep in mind that a retiring workforce is not isolated to the RPG Developer community. There are countless verticals, industry domains, and technology stacks that face the same problem. Take […]
Train RPG Developers with imPower Technologies
The smart (new) way to train RPG Developers There seems to be a lot of concern with how we are going to deal with the shortage of RPG Developers in the future. In reality, the solution is really not that difficult. Find individuals with natural talent. Then train them in RPG. Sounds simple enough. But, the […]