THE FOUR HUNDRED - Power Systems & IBM i Insights

1. GenAI Is The Death Of Deterministic Project Budgeting

   Like many of you in the IBM i community, we have been treading the AI waters for a couple of years now, starting with small proof-of-concept applications such as chatbots but progressing to far more advanced and complex code-to-AI interfaces.

   One such project leveraged AI for recurring Jaccard similarity index processing over large sets of business data. The small projects fool a person into thinking that the large projects are just more of the same but, in reality, large projects take you into the world of proprietary AI APIs and can be complex engineering efforts.

   We mostly use ChatGPT because …

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2. PTC Adds Support For VS Code With Implementer 12.7

   IBM i shops that rely on PTC’s Implementer software to manage their RPG development will soon be able to use the tool within the VS Code development environment. The upcoming release of Implementer 12.7 will introduce several other important features as PTC begins the process of modernizing the tool.

   Implementer is a well-established change management system targeting the IBM i environment. The software traces its roots to 1987, when four Pansophic (creators of the PRMS ERP system now owned by Infor) employees founded Silvon Software in Chicago. One of their first products was a tool to manage source code …

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3. Guru: Single Threading A Program Execution

   A paceline in cycling is a formation where all the cyclists ride in a single file line and the lead bike is pulling the group along as everyone else is drafting behind. Eventually the lead bike will drift to the side and to the back of the line, and the next bike will take the lead for the group.

   If a spirited cyclist leaves the paceline and goes alone, all the aerodynamic benefits of drafting are lost.

   

   Likewise, at my organization, we have a CL job that is submitted hourly throughout the day every day. Normally the submitted job completes …

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4. As I See It: Push Back

   According to police reports, it happened between 3:30 and 4:00 in the morning. On April 10 of this year, a 20-year-old Houston resident, Daniel Moreno-Gama, made his way to San Francisco’s plush Russian Hill neighborhood, where he located the home of OpenAI chief executive officer Sam Altman. While the Altman family slept, he lit a Molotov cocktail and threw it at the gate in Altman’s driveway setting it ablaze.

   Then he made his way to OpenAI’s San Francisco headquarters, where he allegedly struck the glass doors with a chair and threatened to “burn it down and kill anyone inside”.

   His …

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5. IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 28, Number 21

   The flow of security vulnerabilities and PTF patches has been kind of spotty for the past several weeks. Which is good, because we were in transit across the United States. We have successfully relocated from California to Pennsylvania, and are settling in. We are almost unpacked, and my Network Operations Center, or NOC, is coming together. Thanks for your patience!

   Here is the rundown of PTF Groups by IBM i release level since we last published:

   PTF Groups 7.6:

   • HIPERs (High Impact/Pervasive)
   • Security
   • WebSphere Application Server V8.5
   • QMGTOOLS
   • Visual Studio Code for IBM i

   PTF Groups 7.5:

   • HIPERs (High Impact/Pervasive)

   …

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