Another year has passed, and now our thoughts turn to the New Year, 2025. New Years is one of my favorite times of the year, it is filled with excitement for what the forthcoming year will bring us all.
Before we put the old year out of mind, what did you find interesting last year? These were the top ten popular posts from last year:
- Creating Excel spreadsheets with SQL
- Send email with SQL
- Using Select Into with Execute Immediate
- Create an Excel spreadsheet from a CL program
- End to free format directive
- Generate spreadsheet with SQL in batch job
- Capturing SQL results into a data area
- Enumeration of constants comes to RPG
- Using SQL to ping remote servers
- Withdrawal of support for some development tools
If you have any favorite posts I wrote last year, that is not one of the above, please post a link to them in the comments below. I am really interested in how you use my work.
IMHO what will happen in the IBM i world in 2025?
The first is a "no brainer" as IBM has already said that IBM Power servers with the Power11 chip in them will be available this year.
I also predict that a new release, IBM i Next (7.6?), will be announced this year. Why? See the chart below from IBM.
As IBM only like to support two releases at a time, if your using IBM i 7.4 or less you should explore if you can upgrade to 7.5 this year. As it has been available for three years I would regard it as a stable release.
There will be two new Technology Refreshes, of course, one in the Spring and the other in the Fall for IBM i 7.4 and 7.5. I am pretty confident that one of which will coincide with the announcement of a new release.
There are a number of anniversaries this year:
- 66 years: First iteration of the RPG programming language
- 37 years: AS/400 server and OS/400 operating system
- 30 years: RPGLE (ILE RPG) programming language
- 24 years: Free form calculations only in RPG
- 12 years: Free form definitions in RPG
- 10 years: Modern (Totally free form) RPG.
And it will be the twelfth year of this blog.
Finally, let's all raise a glass of our favorite beverage and toast the New Year and all the exciting things it will bring us.
Happy New Year to everyone!
Those are some very impressive numbers! Free Form is 24, Totally Free Form is 10? Lets make a resolution to only use totally free form RPG in 2025! If your excuse is that it isn't your standard then your standard is in dire need of an update.
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