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February 2025

Into February we go โ€ฆ

New articles this month are from two new authors to PowerWire, Jane from FormaServe, in the UK, and Wim from Remain Software, in the Netherlands.  Wim is providing us with a series of articles called ‘A Hackerโ€™s Delight: Conversion from Json numbers to packed using bit operations.’   Look out for a new article each month to co-inside with our newsletter.

Exciting news this month: Our editor, Andy Youens, is achieving a career goal by co-authoring an IBM Redbook titled “Modernization Techniques for IBM Power.” Look for the draft version in March!

Andy will also share his experience of writing for this prestigious publication in an upcoming article.

As always, we want to hear from you about your user group in your country, what dates are your events. Let us know and we will publish them in our monthly newsletter.

Here are the i-UG (UK IBM Power User Group) events for this year

A busy year for the board and committee of the i-UG. We hope to see you at all at least one of these events, come and say hello, we really are a friendly bunch!

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A New OS for IBM i?

Word on the streets is that IBM is about to release a new version of the IBM i operating system (you didnโ€™t hear that at PowerWire!).  We are sure that you can guess what that version might be, but how about picking out our best new name for this operating system?

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The new IBM i Operating System will be with us soon, what do you think it will be called?

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