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PCI-Express 4.0 Spec To Double Up Peripheral Bandwidth

December 5, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Systems using PCI-Express 3.0 peripherals are not yet on the market–unless you count Xeon E5-based machines shipping ahead of next year’s launch–and the basic feeds and speeds of the PCI-Express 4.0 spec have been hammered out by the PCI-Special Interest Group that controls the spec.

After about nine months of running simulations, PCI-SIG said that it would be able to push the bandwidth on the PCI-Express bus to 16 GT/sec (that’s gigatransfers per second), double the 8 GT/sec of the shiny new PCI-Express 3.0, and still remain on copper interconnects between adapter cards and peripheral slots on systems. This will

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Disk Drive Shipments To Dive 30 Percent in Q4

December 5, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Fears that the catastrophic flooding in Thailand that has killed hundreds of people and dislocated millions more would have a dramatic impact on the hard disk drive business are apparently going to be realized. The looming disk drive shortage is already driving up raw disk and PC prices and it won’t be long before server prices start rising, too.

This tragic situation, like the earthquake and tsunami in Japan back in March, demonstrates the need to diversify the IT supply chain and second- or third-source parts despite our tendency to want to ramp up volumes at a limited number of

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JDA Settles Lawsuit With Dillard’s Over i2 Software

December 5, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan

The acquisition of supply chain specialist i2 Technologies may have helped drive the revenues and profits of JDA Software in the past year, but the acquisition cost JDA perhaps more than it expected.

JDA tried to buy i2 back in August 2008, the belly of the Great Recession, for $346 million, but four months later, when it was unable to line up the financing, it called the deal off. Then in November 2009, when the economy had improved a bit, JDA took another run at i2, shelling out $396 million to acquire the company, adding it to its already-acquired set

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Read Once, Update Many

November 30, 2011 Ted Holt

Using SQL rather than native I/O to query and manipulate the database is more than replacing one syntactical regulation with another. It requires a different way of thinking. Nevertheless, corresponding features do differ, and today I show one way that the SQL update differs from a native update.

Consider the following scenario from a project in which I was recently involved.

I needed to read a database table (physical file) from top to bottom. After I retrieve each row (record), I called one or both of two high-level language programs, using parameters to pass data values from the table and

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Another IFS Interface

November 30, 2011 Ted Holt

The Work with Links (WRKLNK) command is underwhelming. If it were my software, I would add a lot of options to it. But since it isn’t my software, I’ll content myself by using an alternate green-screen interface that has features that are missing from WRKLNK.

The alternate interface to IFS directories is the Edit File (EDTF) command. If you specify a single file name in the FILE parameter, EDTF opens the file in the editor. However, if you specify a directory name or a wildcarded name, EDTF presents a directory listing. (The Display File (DSPF) command works the same way.)

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Why Are My Batch Jobs Running at Priority 20?

November 30, 2011 Hey, Joe

I’m looking at my work management setup on one of my System i boxes. I noticed that all the jobs in my QBATCH subsystem are executing at run priority 20, the same priority as my interactive jobs. What’s going on, here, and how do I reset my batch jobs to run priority 50 where they belong?

–Henry

In three steps, here’s what I think is happening and how you can change your batch run priorities.

Step 1: Your job and its routing data

Each submitted job has its own routing data. Job routing data can easily be viewed through the

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BCD Jazzes Up Presto Web Enablement Tool with Version 3.5

November 30, 2011 Alex Woodie

IBM i developers who use Business Computer Design Int’l‘s Presto now have access to several nifty new features that should make it easier to customize Web pages created from green screens. The new features include a new auto complete function for fields, easier ways to work with screen values and radio buttons, enhancement to its JavaScript event manager, and some overall improvements to its graphical user interface, among other goodies.

BCD originally launched Presto about three years ago to provide IBM i customers with a quick way to Web-enable green screens without modifying underlying source code–or even needing access

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Profound Announces Another RPG:OA First, Unveils RDi Plug-In

November 29, 2011 Alex Woodie

Using Profound Logic‘s RPG Open Access toolset is about to get easier. This month the company rolled out its new Eclipse plug-in that allows IBM i developers to access Profound UI functions within the comfort of Rational Developer for i (RDi). The announcement marks the latest in a series of RPG:OA-related firsts for Profound.

RPG:OA, which IBM launched the in April 2010 under the official name of Rational Open Access: RPG Edition, was created to provide an RPG-centric mechanism for creating Web 2.0 screens, user interfaces for mobile devices, database connections, and integration points using XML and Web services

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Connectria Launches Amazon S3 Cloud Clone

November 29, 2011 Alex Woodie

The data center and cloud hosting company Connectria this month launched a new cloud storage solution that uses an API that’s compatible with Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), enabling companies to move their Amazon S3 storage to Connectria without big changes to business processes–and possibly saving them money.

Since it launched in 2006, Amazon S3 has become an extremely popular storage mechanism for entire websites, images, and computer backups. According to Amazon, at the end of June, S3 stored more than 449 billion objects and processed up to 290,000 requests per second.

However, some people may not be comfortable with

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Zend Studio 9 Hits the Gym and the Cloud

November 29, 2011 Alex Woodie

A leaner, meaner version of Zend Studio is now available that will start up faster and consume fewer resources than it did before, thanks to new capabilities for turning off unneeded functions. Also, Zend Technologies has added new cloud connectors to the Eclipse-based development environment that makes it easier to run Zend Studio development workloads on a Zend cloud, or production workloads on an Amazon, Rackspace, or IBM cloud.

It wouldn’t be fair to say that Zend Studio–which supports development of PHP applications for deployment on IBM i, Windows, Linux, and other platforms–had let itself go and

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