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IBM Goes GA With Power Autonomous Operations
IBM is now shipping Power Autonomous Operations, a new product that uses AI to help customers manage and optimize their Power environments with little to no human involvement. In addition to lowering the manual effort for administrators, the product provides a natural language interface for administrators, which IBM says lowers operational burden and accelerates problem resolution.
Big Blue unveiled Power Autonomous Operations in July when it made its delayed Spring Technology Refresh (TR) for IBM i and announced the Power S1112 entry-level machine. It started shipping Autonomous Ops on September 23.
Just as Bob is helping to accelerate productivity of …
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IBM Wheels And Deals To Sell Power Systems, Storage, and Software
Companies are focused on generative AI and how it might be integrated into their applications and their business, but everyone realizes by now that adding GenAI to the systems stack often means needing to upgrade existing back office (transactions) and front office (data analytics) systems so they can feed the AI beast faster and more efficiently. Because there is nothing in the world more expensive than a GPU or an XPU sitting idle when it could be chewing on or spitting out tokens.
To that end, Big Blue is offering a “Buy Now. Pay Later” deal for customers who are …
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Guru: When RNF0722 Won’t Let Your Legendary RPG Program Compile
Some RPG programs have been around for decades. They started small enough. Then another calculation was added here, another subroutine there, a /COPY member or two, and years of enhancements, fixes, and changing business requirements.
Eventually, some of them became colossal. And let’s face it, we all have “legacy” or, as some would argue, “legendary” programs that are older than a lot of our new hires.
We all know these programs. They’re the ones everybody agrees should be broken apart someday, but they’re also important production programs that still need to be maintained today. And sometimes “today” presents a very …
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A Read-Only MCP Server For Db2 for i
IBM i developers who want to let their users query Db2 for i using AI tools like Claude Desktop and Cursor, but also want to limit their access to the database, may be interested in a new open source MCP server that connects to the database in read-only mode.
Roni Ström just wanted to be able to leverage the SQL-generation capabilities of latest AI coding assistants to be able to ask questions of Db2 for i using plain language. But the Finnish IBM i developer was becoming frustrated with the process.
“I kept doing the same thing,” Ström wrote in …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 28, Number 35
Another week, another bunch of things to ponder about the IBM i platform and get fixed or re-fixed. This is ever the way with systems software, which is constantly changing, and despite the fact that Big Blue is not Meta Platforms and it is not interested in “moving fast and breaking things” sometimes things don’t work right or stop working due to unintended consequences.
This is life on an Earth with an icing of software on it.
First up, here is something to look out for: NTP Client job can’t start after applying latest PTF (SJ11498). More information is available …
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