At the most basic level, an application is a computer program that has been designed to perform a group of coordinated operations to solve a particular problem. Consequently, all applications are constructed around five basic elements.

By Roger Sanders

Editor's Note: This article is excerpted from chapter 6 of QuickStart Guide to Db2 Development with Python, by Roger Sanders.

Those elements are:

1. Input
2. Logic (decision control)
3. Memory (data storage and retrieval)
4. Arithmetic operations (calculations or processing)
5. Output

SURVEY HIGHLIGHTS

By HelpSystems

Editor's note: This article introduces the February 2022 Report: 2022 IBM i Marketplace Survey Results, which is available to download from the MC White Paper Center.

Cybersecurity continues to top the charts as the main concern when planning an IT environment.

Perhaps the most consistent data point in the IBM i Marketplace Survey Results is the ongoing cybersecurity threat. Over the past six years, cybersecurity has been the main concern for people planning their IT environment, and this year was no exception. Although it has decreased since last year’s results, 62% of respondents still said this was their number one concern. And although organizations prioritizing security seem to be implementing multiple solutions, it is still alarming that, on average, almost 30% of respondents do not plan to implement each of the surveyed cybersecurity solutions. If your organization has concerns over IBM i cybersecurity skills, managed security services could be a way of filling in any holes.

- IBM FlashSystem Cyber Vault is designed to assist businesses in detecting and recovering more swiftly from cyberattacks

- IBM FlashSystem 7300, 9500, and third generation FlashCore Modules are optimized for hybrid cloud environments, designed to deliver increased performance, scalability, and agility

By IBM Corporation

IBM today unveiled IBM FlashSystem Cyber Vault to help companies better detect and recover quickly from ransomware and other cyberattacks. The company also announced new FlashSystem storage models, based on IBM Spectrum Virtualize to provide a single and consistent operating environment, that are designed to increase cyber resilience and application performance within a hybrid cloud environment.