iSeries

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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Posted Wed, 12/02/2009 - 06:26

Wow! It's December already!

After a whirlwind year involving moving the whole family, two dogs and a pile of News 3x/400 magazines to this side of the pond I cant believe it's nearly 2010 already. Two thousand nine has seen us settling into our new life in the US,  focussing mainly on IBMi and I feel that I've reached a kind of career milestone. After a couple of years focusing on other areas, in the IT wilderness, this year has seen my return to the IBM Midrange club and in the immortal words of Gary Glitter “I’m glad to be back”

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!

upgrade client access iseries navigator from the as400 ifs

Posted Fri, 11/13/2009 - 13:52

Before anyone complains "Yes, OK, I called it an as400 in the blog title" but that is only because so many people still google using as400 because googling with system i just returns completely mad results. "Hell, even IBM who sell the darned System i called it a eServer iSeries Access" Slant

I just got back from a week at the iSeries DEVCON 2009 in Vegas.

Posted Fri, 10/30/2009 - 10:32

Never seen so many grey haired developers in one hotel   Wink

On a serious note - Some terrific speakers and I was impressed by the general knowledge of all the presenters. I can honestly say I never got bored for one moment and good presentation style kept my attention for all 4 days. Joe Pluta in particular is an amusing guy with some strong opinions, and very funny to listen to.

It's nice to listen to i-people who are as obviously enthusiastic about the i as i am... see what I did there?

a little something about me

My name is Nick Litten.

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Born in the UK and growing up in a military family, we moved all over England and Europe during my formative years. My early career in IT was mainly based in and around London. It took me nearly 30 years to travel to this side of the pond and discover the Blueridge Mountains. I was hooked and quickly decided to choose Virginia, USA, as home. The Blueridge region is beautiful and it's smack in the middle of the East Coast Technology belt.

I consider myself extraordinarily fortunate simply because I really enjoy my career in Information Technology. I live IT, breathe IT and speak IT - with an English accent mind you! I still fight a a daily battle to prevent myself saying "Hey Y'all".

I dont know my job title and I dont know the name of the computer I work with

Posted Thu, 02/26/2009 - 13:31

OK, so just what the heck DO we call the AS400 nowadays?

On a few blogs and forums this topic is frequently raising its head. It seems to be a bone of contention with virtually every IBM 'thingie' System developer out there.

Personally, I'm having a tough job getting away from calling it 'The 400'. The Application System/400 was born hot on the tails of the System/38. Bit of a boring name for such a great computer server, but Hey - it was easily shortened to the AS400 and the name made sense!

Projex400

Just what is Projex400?

Essentially Projex400 is a free ibm iseries application for as400 developers and operators. 

It's an application bursting with goodies designed to make life easier for every developer, operator and user of the IBM AS/400 iSeries i5/OS. Speeding application development and boosting problem investigation is going to save you time and money. Projex400 is, and always has been, free!

Projex400 has been around since 1990 (originally branded PGMRAID it was renamed PROJEX400 in 1994) and this library of commands and applets has multiplied many times over during this time. The bundle contains some really neat tools that enable you to use provided commands or menu options to present you with data in very readable formats.

Essentially PROJEX400 is a collection of Software tools; utilities, commands, procedures or any other way you choose to describe them.

iSeries RPG Editor for your laptop (free AS400 SEU RDi Alternative)

Posted Fri, 12/05/2008 - 12:50

I've just stumbled across an open source RPG Source Editor thats built around a PC Editor called Eclipse - I've only ever used Eclipse for my very infrequent Java work. Having recently decided to upgrade all the Projex400 utilities to RPG/FREE and make them available on this website I'm very excited about this great bit of software.

More details are at RPG NEXT GEN which looks very promising.

This site offers some resources for working with the programming language RPG (native on IBM System i). IMHO IBM has done a poor job so far providing the RPG programming community with any decent software development kit for RPG compared to the Java Development Kit offered by Sun to the java community. Some people might now argue that IBM has done a great job by providing WDSCi and EGL. But perhaps this is comparing apples with pears. Anyway ... where is the solution?

One thing is clear ... there is no current adhoc solution to it. I'm trying to make life a little bit easier for the RPG developers and offer some resources.

It's still in Alpha stages of development but i think this could become a serious rival to the excellent (but expensive) IBMoffering - WDSC.

IBM System-i (AS400) Services

Projex is an authorized IBM AS/400 - iSeries - i5 software developer and IBM Business Partner

Focused on AS400 Application Programming and Systems Consulting we can also step in on an interim basis to fill a job vacancy - whether its a programmer position, project manager, or helpdesk position.

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