From AS400 to iSeries to System i to Power Servers and beyond

projex is an ibm business partnerWhat is the IBM i on Power Systems?

The IBM i is part of the IBM POWER family of e-business servers and midrange computers. Previously known as the AS400, evolving to the iSeries and System i most recently re-branded the IBM i (or IBM i on Power Systems to give its full title) this flexible machine offers a secure platform capable of running thousands of the world's most popular business applications - all on a single, highly integrated, powerful system.

The IBM Power System is the physical machine and IBM i is the operating system.

IBM i integrates a trusted combination of relational database, security, Web services, networking and storage management capabilities.

It has long been recognized for delivering business value through innovations and programs that reflect industry-leading technologies and best practices. IBM i's integrated design helps reduce cost with its famous 99.999% availability and increases productivity of your existing IT infrastructure and system users.

The bottom line is:

The IBM i is the worlds leading business platform, running a totally secure operating system that interfaces with every other computer and software application that your business may be using. A safe, secure, reliable and hitech solution for business in the Internet age.

Specializing in the IBM i arena for many years has generated a wide ranging industry experience, exposure to hundreds of applications and broad technical knowledge.

As an IBM i Consultant the critical qualities include; a detailed knowledge of the platform, a superior grasp of related technologies, an ability to quickly produce tangible results, professionally and with a specialist approach.

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"timshel is a weird Hebrew word. That's true, but it's also a well known English rock band. timshel have a dedicated fans following them around the pub, club and festival scene for their alternate rock sound which is reminiscent of a mixture of various gods of rock ranging from the Stones to Blind Melon to Nickelback to that fat mad Scottish bird on X Factor (maybe not so much the last one). timshel comprises a bunch of lads that play loud music and they play it very well. Nuff Said" - quote: me, last week.

Based in Southampton, a large seaside town on the southern coast of England, these chaps have been writing and playing their blend of musical rock for years. I have a vague familial connection, my cousin Rob Litten, is the drummer in the aforementioned band. However, putting all family bias aside, timshel rock. Quite literally. That's an empirical fact.

I've been listening to various timshel mp3s in my car for years, so a few weeks ago when Rob called me and asked if I could help them get a website off the ground I was delighted to be involved.

Here's a quick overview of what made up the timshel website http://www.timshel-band.co.uk

The website core is Drupal 6 running a number of modules to tweak its performance and versatility:

  • Advanced Forum - an absolute requirement if you are implementing the out-of-box drupal forum
  • CCK - of course. Drupal6 without CCK is simply drupal not-quite-working-right
  • CCK Embedded Audio and Media - letting us play MP3 and sample videos
  • Calendar and Date Modules - we are still fine tuning this, but by the time you read this it's probably being used to broadcast gig dates, festival venues and auspicious lunar cycles
  • CKeditor - Simply the best wysiwig editor for Drupal. If you dont think it is... well.. your wrong. so there. This should be in core.
  • ActiveTags and Taxonomy Cloud - for those lovely keyword clouds
  • dfGallery - first time I have used this Gallery display module. And its really cool.
  • XMLSitemap - yet another Drupal module that should be in core.
  • and loads more...

IBMi + WDSC7.0 + TN5250 = Wow Squared!

Posted Tue, 12/15/2009 - 11:20

WebSphere Development Tools for the IBMi is Very Very Very Cool!

I've just installed WDSC7.0 for the first time (/me ducks from the barrage of rotten fruit launched at him from the rowdy-RDi-crowd) and have almost had a religious experience with it.

For years I've been feverishly hammering away in S.E.U. and P.D.M. mistakenly thinking that I just haven't got the time to learn a new G.U.I for writing RPG and CL programs on the IBMi.

Look at that - I used WDSC, RDi, SEU, PDM, GUI and IBMi all in the same paragraph Wink but at least I never used the word leverage or any other business junk phrases like lets run that idea up the flagpole and see who salutes

Possibly I'm the only IBMi Developer who wasnt already using a modern source code editor, in which case you're laughing at me, but just in case you (dear reader) are still in the world of SEU then just stop right now and get a copy of WDSC7 from your IBM business partner. It's FREE as its been replaced by the new, very expensive, re branded Rational Developer.

From my perspective, WDSC7 is simply amazing.

AS400 is dead, long live IBMi

Posted Mon, 11/16/2009 - 20:11

Its IBM i running on IBM Power systems ( think Windows Server 2003 running on Dell Poweredge Hardware ) but that's a bit of a mouthful so we simply say the IBMi.

After coming back from the last i-Developers convention I was feeling excited about all the fantastic things that this machine is capable of. The IBM Power System has incredibly bullet proof hardware and combined with the IBMi operating system it's just a totally integrated, incredibly resilient and easy to use Business Server for the new millennium. It's totally Internet friendly and everyone agrees its the most secure server on the market today. It pumps out websites, emails, spreadsheet, full windows integration and even totally supports the old green screen applications from the 80/90s.

A fantastic bit of kit thats evolved incredibly from it's early B10 models 20 years ago.

But there is one problem with the IBMi - and its a big one!

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