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Top stuff

1) How can businesses best respond to digital transformation? How can they take advantage of the opportunity to innovate, differentiate and grow? And how can they do all of this cost-efficiently, leveraging and optimizing the newest information technologies as part of their overall physical operations? Find out how in the latest executive guide, IBM i strategy and roadmap.

2) We are just getting started ... IBM i 7.4: A Platform for Innovators, by Innovators video: IBM i: A platform for innovators, by innovators

3) Engineering for the enterprise Power Systems Servers Receive Top Reliability Ranking in Latest ITIC Survey

4) 2019 Drone Challenge. We’re giving away another 1,500 DJI Tello drones this year. Enter now to start the challenges and stay in the game. (open to residents of USA, Canada, UK and Spain) Video: Linus Tech Tips: 1500 drone giveaway from IBM

5) How did AI help the beautiful game for the Tanners and their loyal fans? Starting at 2nd from the bottom of the Bostik League, in the seventh tier of the English football pyramid - find out their story. Can AI help Leatherhead FC Raise Their Game? Full Film

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POWER news stuff

• IBM i—For Innovators, by Innovators • IBM Gives A Peek Of The Future At POWERUp 2019 • IBM i 7.4: A strong foundation for continuous innovation • IBM i 7.4 Hot New Features Unveiled • Why i Reason #87: Eschewing Performance for Its Own Sake • Open Source Integrations Keep IBM i Vital • YiPs Founder Discusses Advances in IBM i Talent Development • New Talent Brings Innovation to IBM i • Former Fresh Faces Blaze New Trails With IBM i • Db2 Mirror for i Offers Continuous Availability • POWERUp Delivers Shot In The Arm To IBM i • Hope to see you there > IBM i Conference in the UK • Defining Community • Surprising benefits of support services for your open-source environment • 2019 IBM Champions for Power Systems Showcase Modern Applications • User Groups are the Heartbeat of the Power Systems Community • User Groups Provide Local Connections With a Global Reach • Simplify and Accelerate SAP HANA Landscapes • Top IBM Power Systems Myths: Power Systems are too expensive compared to x86 • Top five questions for Chief Data Officers in 2019 • and it runs on our POWERai systems >H2O.ai Named a Leader for AutoML Solutions in Latest Evaluation by Independent Research Firm. • AI infrastructure that adapts to your changing business priorities • Ready to Scale AI? Don't Suffer from Core Starvation • Achieving AI Payoff: From Science Fiction to Facts • Powering the Future of HPC & AI with OpenPOWER • How artificial intelligence is changing the game at Leatherhead FC • Snapshot: Francis Calizo • IBM Systems Magazine - POWER editions : May and June • Video: IBM i in 9 slides • Video: IBM Systems Lab Services and the CORAL project • Video: Operationalize Trusted AI with IBM OpenScale • These LTO guys know how to have fun >TAPE PARTY • Video: Itelligence and IBM Power Systems better serve customers on SAP S/4HANA • Video: itelligence + IBM - embarking Nordic clients on a journey to cloud • •

IBM Europe Announcement Letters Hardware IBM DS8880 storage family delivers a 1.92 TB flash capacity option IBM DS8880F storage family delivers a 1.92 TB flash capacity option Software Revised information: IBM WebSphere Portal Server removed from IBM Rational Developer for i RPG and COBOL + Modernization Tools, Java Edition V9.6 and IBM Rational Developer for AIX and Linux AIX COBOL Edition V9.1 Revised end of support date: IBM WebSphere Application Server with Java SE 7 or Java SE 7.1 IBM Host Access Client Package V14.0 brings a managed operational structure that delivers efficiency and streamlines installation of updates, 64-bit PCOMM architecture, embedded JRE for HOD clients, and improved performance on the security layer Enterprise Linux 8 for Power delivers a shared foundation for both the emerging and current worlds of enterprise IT IBM Cloud Private V3.2 adds IBM Multicloud Manager, an integrated solution purpose-built to help modernize your applications to cloud native deployments IBM Security Guardium introduces active analytics use cases and a simplified user experience IBM Watson Machine Learning Community Edition V1.6.1 helps you get started faster with a software distribution for machine learning running on an enterprise platform for AI IBM Spectrum Computing Suite for High Performance Analytics V10.2 delivers enhanced workload orchestration capabilities for open source, high-performance analytical workloads Withdrawals Software withdrawal and support discontinuance: IBM Rational Developer for i V9.5.x - Replacement available Software support discontinuance: IBM Platform Computing offerings specific to IBM Power Systems and IBM System x Hardware withdrawal: IBM Storwize V7000 cache upgrade feature - No replacement Hardware withdrawal: Select IBM System Storage features - No replacements Hardware withdrawal: IBM FlashSystem 900 feature code AF15 for models AE3 and UF3 - Replacement available

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POWER techie stuff

• Updated > IBM i Performance FAQ • Updated > POWER9 RAS Whitepaper • Deep Dive On IBM i 7.4 And IBM i 7.3 TR6 Hardware Limits • Retranslation Could Boost Performance • SAP on IBM i May newsletter: Announcing IBM i 7.4 and Db2 Mirror for i, IBM Power Enterprise Pools 2.0, Registration open for SAP on IBM i Summit • IBM Bolsters ACS with Database and Administrative Goodies • Time to download ACS • IBM i ニュース 第111号 - 6/26-28「Power Systems テクニカル・ワークショップ 2019」／技術者 ブログ続々公開／IBM i 気鋭のアーキテクト特集 • PowerVM Installation and Upgrade Experience • Migrating from Oracle Exadata to IBM Power Systems—No magic required • Configuring Native SR-IOV on AIX with Link Aggregation • AIX logins slow to prompt for password - KRB5files OR compat • How to use the VIOS VML to install AIX updates. • Live Partition Mobility from the Novalink command line • Configuring Native SR-IOV on AIX with Link Aggregation •

Cloud Stuff

• BluePrint Techtalks: What's Running My Containers? A Review of Runtimes and Standards • Using Terraform with PowerVC to deploy new AIX VMs • How to navigate multicloud management • Video: What is Cloud-Native? • Video: What is Multicloud? How Do You Manage It? • Video: What is a Content Delivery Network (CDN)? • New open source project, Razee, a continuous delivery tool built to run microservices at scale.Video: Introduction to Razee with Jason McGee

Storage stuff

• How to consider the influence of distance to the overall response time > You cannot change the speed of light and flash storage may notice it • Power Systems Refreshes Flash Drives, Promises NVM-Express For IBM i • NVMe over Fibre Channel for Dummies • You cannot change the speed of light and flash storage may notice it • Auto-negotiation with Fibre Channel Speeds • The Best Video Mix! • The Big Data Challenge • Video: Block Storage vs. File Storage • Video: What is Object Storage?

Security stuff

• IBM i 7.4 and IBM Db2 Mirror for i Enhance Security and Availability • How IBM i 7.4 Improves Security • New Release! What New Security Features Does IBM i V7R4 Bring Us? • TechTip: Streamline Authority Collection with IBM Db2 Web Query, Part 1 • Using TLS1.3 with Node.js • Data protection modernization: What’s it worth? • Video: What is a DDoS Attack? • Common Europe Webinars: IBM i Security Best Practices with Syncsort

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Data & analytics stuff

• Speaking The SQL Lingua Franca On IBM i • Guru: Emulate Control Break Reporting With DB2 For i SQL • Drilling Down Into Db2 Mirror for IBM i • A good document on NoSQL database technology • Using SQL to retrieve data from spooled files. • Get information about a job, including current SQL statement • Parsing SQL statements using a table function

Cognitive stuff

• R Comes To i • Dispelling Myths About Training AI Models • The AI Revolution: Practical Thoughts on Your AI Project • What We Learned Breaking a Guinness World Record • It's Time to Live & Breathe AI in Retail • Improvement to programming of and offloading computations to NIVIDA GPUs: What’s new in IBM XL C/C++ for Linux, V16.1.1 and IBM XL for Linux, V16.1.1 • New CUDA Toolkit required for GPU offloading with Linux 16.1.1 PTF3 • Tech talk: Using Node-RED and AI to analyze social media • Snap ML: Examples of use cases from the financial services sector • Deploying Big Data with a Spark • Video: Operationalize Trusted AI with IBM Watson OpenScale • Video: Use Snap ML to train logistic regression and random forest models for credit default risk • Video: Our Journey with H2O Driverless AI • Video: GPUs: Explained

Development stuff

• 90-second video summary of hot content on IBM Developer News • Varying-Dimension Arrays for RPG • Guru: 7.4 Brings New RPG Goodies • IBM Bolsters RPG And COBOL Development • NodeRun Is Node.js For Everyone • The Stark Reality of App Modernization • Rational Developer for i V9.6.0.6 fixpack is now available! • Discontinuance of support for Rational Developer for i V9.5, V9.1, and V9.0 • XML can Enable Modernization to Deliver IBM i Business Value • How to obtain 5733OPS [End of all fixes December 15, 2019] • Open Source Support for IBM i outlines the options for acquiring open source support on IBM i • Guru: Application Tracing With The QTRC APIs • Guru: Open Access To The Rescue ‐ The Next Step • Guru: Creating Excel Spreadsheets With Python • RPG Academy - Modernization: Guidelines for Modernization Goals, Part 3 • Webinar:App Modernization • Application modernization with IBM Cloud Private on IBM Power Systems • Video (1h): Tutorial: IBM Cloud Private Application Modernization with Transformation Advisor on Power Systems • Decrease technical debt >> Video: RDi 9.6.0.6 Extract Constant Refactoring!! • Common Europe Webinar: 6 RDi Tutorials in 60 Minutes •

IBM Redbooks News IBM Power System E980: Technical Overview and Introduction IBM Power Systems S922, S914, and S924 Technical Overview and Introduction IBM Power Systems H922 and H924 Technical Overview and Introduction IBM Power System E950: Technical Overview and Introduction IBM Power Systems LC921 and LC922: Technical Overview and Introduction IBM Power System L922 Technical Overview and Introduction IBM High-Performance Computing Insights with IBM Power System AC922 Clustered Solution IBM Power System AC922 Technical Overview and Introduction IBM Cloud Private System Administrator's Guide IBM Cloud Private Application Developer's Guide Implementing the IBM Storwize V7000 with IBM Spectrum Virtualize V8.2.1 Implementing the IBM Storwize V5000 Gen2 (including the Storwize V5010, V5020, and V5030) with IBM Spectrum Virtualize V8.2.1 IBM Solutions for Hybrid Cloud Networking Configuration Version 1 Release1 IBM Cloud Object Storage Concepts and Architecture: System Edition IBM FlashSystem 9100 Architecture, Performance, and Implementation Electronic Health Records with Epic and IBM FlashSystem 9100 Blueprint Version 2 Release 1 Residencies IBM i using POWER9-based Technology IBM AIX Market Place Cloud with PowerVM and PowerVC IBM Power Systems PowerAI Offerings Overciew Cognitive Computing and the AC922

Upcoming POWER events, education or training stuff Search and find IBM's latest training sessions on offer: IBM's Training and Skills courses IBM Training: Guaranteed to run June 2019

Q2

• NEW >> 10-14 Jun London Tech week, UK • NEW >> 11 Jun Cognitive Systems Virtual User Group: Watson Studio Local on Power with Steve La • 11-12 Jun 2019 International i-Power Conference, The DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel, Milton Keynes, UK • NEW >> 12 Jun DevSecOps ‐ Putting Security in DevOps • NEW >> 12-13 Jun The AI Summit London 2019, UK • 16-19 Jun Common Europe Congress (CEC) 2019, Radisson Blu Hotel, Berlin, Germany • NEW >> 26 Jun An Introduction to AI and Machine Learning • 26 Jun Spectrum Storage User Group: IBM Manchester User Group - Customers, IBM Manchester, UK • NEW >> 27 Jun AIX VUG - USA: IBM Public Cloud Offering with Ashok Shamsundar and Jose Paez

Q3

• NEW >> 12 Jul Setting up notebook & visualisation on Watson Studio • TBD July IBM Systems Technical University, Melbourne, Australia • TBD Aug IBM Systems Technical University, Sao Paulo, Brazil • NEW >> 23-24 Jul Common Virtual Conference (Note: if you can’t attend live, still register as you will have access to the recordings for 30 days post event) • 11-13 Sept IBM Systems Technical University, Johannesburg, S.A. • 15-20 Sept IBM i Large User Group (The LUG), IBM Rochester, MN, USA

Q4

• TBD Oct IBM Systems Technical University, Colombia • 07-11 Oct IBM Systems Technical University, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA • 21-25 Oct IBM Systems Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic • TBD Nov IBM Systems Technical University, Bali, Indonesia • TBD Nov IBM Systems Technical University, Bangkok, Thailand • 3 Nov Spectrum Storage User Group: IBM Hursley User Group - Customer day , IBM Hursley, UK •

Replays

• 23 May AIX VUG - USA: Performance Management for Power Systems (PM for Power) with Rafique Jadran • 15 May POWER VUG: Session 86: Db2 Mirror for i Revealed • 25 Apr AIX VUG - USA: PowerAI Vision with Srinivas Chitiveli and Clarisse Taaffe-Hedglin • 24 Apr POWER VUG: Session 85: How ICP & CAM can deliver multicloud solutions for containers and VMs • 23 Apr Cognitive Systems Virtual User Group: Interactive Analytics (OmniSci, formerly MapD) with James Yu and Jason Bachman • ILE RPG | IBM Bi-Weekly Ep. 6

Other Stuff

• IBM Helps Researchers Explore the Impossible With New IBM Q System One

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