January 27, 2017
January 27, 2017 | Volume 14 Issue 2
• LEAD ARTICLE: Compliance Is Dead, Long Live Compliance!
• FEATURED ARTICLE: TechTip: C# for RPGers - More List Methods and a String Surprise
• NEWS HIGHLIGHT: As Cloud Adoption Soars, Data Protection and Security Concerns Loom
• ON-DEMAND WEBCAST:
• FEATURED VIDEO: Cognitive Security: Augmenting Traditional Systems
• EVENT: How to Get Started with BI Dashboards
Compliance Is Dead, Long Live Compliance!
Carol discusses how compliance requirements are not going away and, in fact, are increasing for some organizations.
Written by Carol Woodbury
Why am I talking about compliance? Compliance—in my opinion—is a tired term that was horribly over-used a few years ago. Every issue that security officers wanted to be resolved was somehow categorized as a “compliance requirement,” and every ad from all vendors—security-related or not—proclaimed the virtues of how their product solved your compliance woes.
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TechTip: C# for RPGers - More List Methods and a String Surprise
Let’s continue to explore the List data type methods! I’ll also present a particularly useful string method that you’ll want to port to RPG.
Written by Rafael Victória-Pereira
The last TechTip introduced the List data type and explained a few of its (many) methods. This one will pick up where the last one left off. If you read the previous article, you’ll know that there’s an intruder in the list of IBM i names: “S/38” should be removed. Let’s start there.
2017 IBM i Marketplace Revealed
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The IBM i Marketplace Survey—now in its 3rd year—was designed to solve this problem. Watch this on-demand webinar for the exclusive results of the 2017 survey. IBM i Champion Tom Huntington is joined by a panel of technology experts to discuss year-over-year trends and new insights. The panel will discuss:
- What other platforms do you run alongside IBM i?
- What programming and Open Source languages are you using?
- What are your top IT issues?
- What version of POWER and what OS level is most prevalent?
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- Is IBM i a good ROI?
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