by Dawn May | Jul 1, 2013 | Programming
IBM i is an old friend. We programming geeks of golden age have been writing reliable business programs for years on IBM i. Our IBM i has protected our programming investment like a family member—operating system releases, hardware upgrades, no matter, our programs still run our businesses decades later. Unlike so many other business machines we shall not name, we people of IBM i, can truly say we got a good business deal with our IBM i.
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by Dawn May | Jun 26, 2013 | Programming
Download AIX Open Source binaries for your IBM i …
IBM i PASE Option 33 re-distributes many common AIX binaries so you do not have to FTP them from another AIX machine. However, if you are looking for additional PASE/Linux utilities found on many Linux laptops (zip, unzip, gunzip, etc.), check out Young i Professionals (YIPs) instructions for downloading AIX Open Source binaries into PASE.
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by Dawn May | May 16, 2013 | Architecture, Programming
As a member of the PASE development team, inquiries from the IBM i community regarding PASE often come to me. In one such recent email, the following phrase caught my eye:
To most, including me, it (PASE) is just “the other side I rarely use.”
E-x-a-c-t-l-y!
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