👨‍💻 IBM i: Have Job Titles Lost Their Meaning? In the IBM i market, job titles often fail to capture the full scope of an individual’s responsibilities and expertise. As most of us know, IBM i-ers wear multiple hats, having broad and deep experience across the IBM i platform. In fact, you might be one […]
How Modern is the IBM i platform?
Welcome to another edition of Talsco Weekly IBM i Briefs: TRs for IBM i 7.4 and 7.5. Career: Help Wanted—IBM i Coders. Database: What is DB2 for i Multisystem? Modernization: How Modern is the IBM i platform? Leadership: Building Productive IT Teams. News TRs for IBM i 7.4 and 7.5 “These are relatively minor releases […]
Talsco Weekly: A Wave of IBM i Modernization Projects
Welcome to another edition of Talsco Weekly Modernization: A Wave of IBM i Modernization Projects. Is it a Business Problem or an IT problem? Development: A quick guide on installing Node.js. Do you want to create a Subsystem for Web Services? The Ultimate SQL Guide for the Beginner. AI: Code Translator. Modernization A Wave of […]
Talsco Weekly: Trust allows for Digital Transformation
Welcome to another edition of Talsco Weekly Trends: The digital reinvention of enterprise tech go-to-market. Development: Convert Fixed form RPG to Free Form RPGLE. Key things I wish I knew earlier as a developer. Leadership: Managing Up When Leadership Is Stuck in the Weeds. Modernization: Most App Modernization Projects a Struggle, Survey Finds. Digital Transformation: […]
Talsco Weekly: IBM i Career, Modernization and RPG Programming
Welcome to another edition of Talsco Weekly News: No Plan To Bring .NET To Power, IBM Says. Career: Developers are burned out. Leadership: IBM on the Evolving Role of the CIO: Interview with Kathryn Guarini, CIO of IBM. Modernization: What is the IBM i and is it worth it? Programming: Code your first React UI […]
RPG Developers: What Are You Waiting For?
An RPG Developer Starts a New Habit I spoke to an RPG Developer the other day. He spent his entire career working with RPG fixed format and SEU. The last several months he was given the opportunity to work with RPG free form and RDi. Â He made a point to use both of them daily. […]
IBM i and Industry 4.0
What does Industry 4.0 mean? It is the intersection of IoT, data, analytics, AI, and machine learning. It sounds complex, and it is. And its the future of manufacturing. McKinsey & Company describes this as Manufacturing’s Next Act. The companies that are ready for the “fourth industrial revolution” or at least parts of it need […]
The IBM i knows manufacturing
Manufacturing relies on the IBM i Manufacturing makes the world go round. From the materials that make up our infrastructure to the buildings we work in, the machinery and the vehicles we drive, all the way down to items we wear.  They are all manufactured. A large percentage of the manufacturing that is done around […]
Is your AS/400 shop in technical debt?
Technical Debt So what is “technical debt”? It’s a term to describe software development “that reflects the implied cost of additional rework caused by choosing an easy solution now instead of using a better approach that would take longer.” Technical debt, might be development related. Due to project pressures code is not as clean as it could […]
RPG Programmers are Retiring
RPG Programmers, Retirements and Modernization IT modernization projects are like a game of chess. The fact that RPG and other legacy programmers continue to retire at a rapid pace makes this a hot topic in the IBM i (AS/400) and Mainframe communities. So, how do IBM i shops deal with the linked technical and resource […]