IBM i Global

Welcome to a fresh blog post!  The first “You and i” blog post in its new location – the IBM i Community (https://bit.ly/IBMiCommunity).  (I’d like to put the link to the blog right here, but until I post this, I don’t even know what it will be!  That’s how “fresh” this is!)

 

The IBM i Community is a new resource for those who use, work with, depend on, and love the IBM i operating system.  It’s a part of the IBM Power Community, and it has a number of capabilities that will be useful to the entire community (lower case “c”), including

• a place for discussions, including, right now, a post from Scott Forstie about the “iSee” video series,
• a place to talk about upcoming events (which is empty now, for a couple of good reasons, but will have real information soon, I imagine) and
• A home for blogs, like this one.

The transition of this blog from its former home to the IBM i Community has taken a while to crystalize, so I have a number of topics which have queued up in my “I’d like to blog about this” pile.  I’m looking forward to getting to them.  I don’t really know what I’ll write about first, but here are some topics:

• IBM i Strategy – what’s new, and what’s the same
• IBM i and “Cloud”
• What does “modernization” mean to IBM i these days?
• Scott Forstie’s GitHub Gist (quick link: https://gist.github.com/forstie)
• The “iSee” Video Blog from Tim Rowe and Scott Forstie (quick link: https://www.common.org/education-events/library/isee)
• The Db2 for i SQL Tutor (quick link: http://ibm.biz/Db2foriSQLTutor)
• Best/latest/coolest IBM i Client Stories from the page http://bit.ly/IBMiClientInnovation
• What’s the 2021 IBM i focus?
• Other questions people ask me on Twitter, LinkedIn, in e-mail and at events. You are welcome to make suggestions!

(As an aside, if each of you would just go check out the GitHub, Video Blog, and Tutor links above, I could delay writing about them.  Would you do that for me?  Thanks in advance!)

Because I’d like to start writing about the topics above, I’m making this post rather short.  Welcome to the new home of this blog. It started in 2009, and I hope to continue writing it for many years to come.  I hope you will continue to join me.