April 17, 2017
April 17, 2017 | Volume 12 Issue 6
• LEAD ARTICLE: Taking Orion out for a Test Drive
• FEATURED ARTICLE: Eye on the i World: How IBM Watson Analytics Can Assist with IBM i Business Intelligence Tasks
• NEWS HIGHLIGHT: Profound UI 5.8 Adds Enhanced Capabilities to JumpStart Code Generator
• BUYER'S GUIDE: TLAForms
• EVENT: What Happens When IBM i Enters the Windows World
Taking Orion out for a Test Drive
Some open-source development adventures of a former IT Director.
Written by Steve Pitcher
I’ve been in out of the IBM i development trenches for a while now. In fact, I can say I haven’t really written too much RPG or CL code in the last five years, due to on the roles I occupied in my former day job as an IT Director. The most I could muster is a whole lot of LotusScript.
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Eye on the i World: How IBM Watson Analytics Can Assist with IBM i Business Intelligence Tasks
Using IBM Watson Analytics for extending an enterprise's ability to understand its own data doesn't happen automatically. Datawatch, an ISV that offers software for facilitating Watson Analytics' use, explains how it can be done with its Monarch product.
Written by John Ghrist
The traditional strength of the IBM i has been the superior ability to handle data and databases and to report the information contained in them to those who need it. A myriad of third-party business intelligence and reporting products offered to support the platform have enhanced this ability even more. However, although IBM hasn't done the best job of pointing it out, IBM Watson Analytics may be able to help SMB enterprises do an even better job of analyzing their own internal data.
TLAForms by TL Ashford converts your traditional IBM i spool files into high quality, professional forms.
Use a GUI Designer to create forms using data from a spool file and data from your IBM i files. Forms can be designed with true-type fonts, bar codes – including QR Code and Datamatrix, color images, overlays, lines, boxes and ellipses all in full color.
The software generates your forms as PDF documents that are archived to the IFS, automatically emailed and/or printed. Forms can be printed to IBM i PostScript printers, any printer connected to the network, or any printer connected to a PC. IFS locations, email addresses, and printers can be variable based on data within the spool file, data within the IBM i file or spool file attributes.
No programming is required to generate the new forms from your existing ERP, WMS or in-house application software.
The experienced TL Ashford technical support team will provide any pre-designed templates like the VICS Bill of Lading, and make sure working with the software is as easy and productive as possible!