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 […]
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: What is Chat GPT and why should you care?
Welcome to another edition of Talsco Weekly News: History of ITJungle. Walking down memory lane with the IBM i. AI: What is Chat GPT and why should you care? Digital: Enterprise Software is Legacy and the Impact of AI on Jobs. Modernization: Refactor legacy code with AWS Blu Insights. News History of ITJungle If there […]
Talsco Weekly: The Future of Software Development
Welcome to another edition of Talsco Weekly News: IBM Releases First-Quarter Results. Get IBM i Training. Development: The Future of Software Development. Modernization: How to Deal with Technical Debt. Is it Modernizing IT, The Business, or Both? News IBM Releases First-Quarter Results “First quarter results demonstrate that clients continue turning to IBM for their unique […]
IBM and R3 Partner for Enterprise Financial Blockchain Solution
IBM and R3 Partner for Enterprise Financial Blockchain Solution Blockchain hit the market back in 2008 as a public ledger around the rise of cryptocurrency transactions for bitcoin. The technology is especially well-suited for financial services use cases where securing highly sensitive data, including digital identities and currencies, tokenized assets, payment information, and smart contracts […]
Would Amazon buy IBM?
Welcome to another edition of Talsco Weekly. News: Would Amazon ever buy IBM? Should have IBM purchased Amazon in 2007? Career: What does a good resume look like? A shift is taking place: CIOs are uniquely positioned to become CEOs. ERP: VAI ERP solution is posting double-digit growth. Modernization: Does your company strangle innovation? Application […]
The IBM i is going to the cloud
Welcome to this weeks edition of Talsco Weekly. News: IBM sells off software to make way for AI, and IoT. Skytap is helping IBM i customers go to the cloud. Career: The power of storytelling. Watson can help your career. Leadership: Motivate through this leadership behavior. Managers, admit your failures and you people will love […]
AI, Automation and the future for the RPG developer
Will robots replace the RPG developer? No, not anytime soon. Automation has been going on since the beginning of time. It’s human nature. We don’t want to be stagnant and are always looking for easier ways of doing things. Society has been build upon automation and innovation. It’s true that technology and automation eliminate jobs, […]
A New Open Source ERP for the IBM i
Open Source ERP Developed in free-form RPG introduced at COMMON Great things happen when you have a COMMON belief in building an open source ERP for the IBM i. Alex Woodie, from ITJungle, unveils the news in his October 15th article. “An open source ERP package written in free-form RPG. Dubbed intERPprise, the software project […]
IBM’s future with AI, Data and Cloud
Welcome to another edition of Talsco Weekly AI, Data and Cloud continue to be topics of conversation in and around the community. The challenge is understanding how it all fits together. In this weeks edition you will find articles with links about the following: News: Cloud and Data are better with AI & the mainframe […]