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Trinium Keeps on Trucking with Mobile Interface from mrc
December 11, 2012 Alex Woodie
Chalk up another win for mrc, the developer of Web application development tools for IBM i and other platforms. Last week, the Chicago, Illinois, company announced the roll-out of a new mobile interface that it helped build for trucking software provider Trinium Technologies.
Trinium-MC2 is a Web app that lets truck drivers communicate with their Trinium dispatch system directly from any smartphone or tablet. Dispatch instructions can be sent, received, acknowledged, and completed by drivers on their smartphones or tablets, the vendors say.
Trinium says it already has more than 1,000 users of M2C, which mrc and Trinium
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Zend Debuts Studio 10 Beta
November 6, 2012 Alex Woodie
Zend Technologies used its annual ZendCon conference last month to unveil beta releases of three products, including Zend Studio 10, Zend Server 6, and Zend Server Gateway. While Zend wants customers to use all three products together, IBM i shops will be most interested in the beta of Zend Studio, which brings new cloud, mobile, and productivity features.
Zend Studio is an Eclipse-based integrated development environment that provides a spectrum of tools for rapidly writing rich Internet applications, with PHP back ends, JavaScript and JQuery front ends, and REST Web services connecting them. Studio offers productivity features like code
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Knowledge Is Power When Assessing Your IBM i Legacy
October 29, 2012 Alex Woodie
The IBM i platform can be both a blessing and a curse to you, the IBM i customer. While its integrated nature and reliability insulates you from tasks and expenses commonly faced by users of mainstream platforms, the “black box” and its longevity also tends to mask problems that may be lurking in your RPG code. So it’s not surprising that when you evaluate how to modernize your IT system, the lack of visibility into the inner workings of your system can lead to fear, panic, and, ultimately, uninformed decisions.
It is interesting to note how the IBM i platform’s
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SAP Sends HANA to the Cloud
October 23, 2012 Alex Woodie
SAP last week announced HANA Cloud, a cloud version of its in-memory database that can be used to power cloud applications developed in Java or its NetWeaver technology. SAP also unveiled a hosted version of HANA that lives on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud and will allow customers to quickly spin up HANA to run small workloads or for testing proof of concepts.
HANA was on full display last week at the SAP TechEd 2012 shindig in Las Vegas, Nevada. The popular in-memory database system, which can be used for both transactional and analytical workloads, is less than two
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Dell Hires Former STG CTO As It Launches Active System 800 Integrated Iron
October 22, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan
A few months ago, I got a tip that Jai Menon, the chief technology officer for the Systems and Technology Group at IBM, had left Big Blue and was preparing to take a high-level job at Dell. People at the enterprise groups at both IBM and Dell refused to comment on it, and so did Menon when I tried to contact him over the Intertubes, and so I waited for the inevitable announcement. It came last week as Dell launched an integrated, converged system called the Active System 800.
Yes, the AS 800.
Dell has put together a
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Oracle Lures JDE Shops with New Exalogic Hardware
October 9, 2012 Alex Woodie
Want scalability for your JD Edwards EnterpriseOne ERP system? You could choose a “blue stack” configuration based on the latest IBM Power Systems servers. But if you’re talking with Oracle salespeople about a hardware upgrade, chances are good that you’ll be pointed toward the latest technology in Oracle’s “red stack,” namely the Exalogic Elastic Cloud X3-2, which can be outfitted with 480 Intel Xeon processors and 7.7 TB of memory.
Oracle unveiled the latest in its Exalogic brand last week at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco. In case you missed it, OpenWorld this year was all about the
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Android or iOS: Which Mobile OS Fits Best with IBM i?
October 2, 2012 Joe Pluta and Shannon O'Donnell
The Web may be on every desktop, but smartphones are in everyone’s pockets, from truck drivers to forklift operators. If you’re not already developing Web and mobile applications, chances are you will soon. Joe Pluta (Pluta Brothers Design) and Shannon O’Donnell (IBM i App Store) take you through the benefits of developing applications from IBM i on either the Android and iOS platforms. (Editor’s note: Joe and Shannon, by the way, are speaking on Android and iOS development, respectively, at the upcoming IBM i DevCon conference.)
Android and (IBM) i: A Match Made in Development Heaven
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Remain Software Adds to Multi-Platform Choices
October 2, 2012 Dan Burger
Application lifecycle management vendor Remain Software has broadened the scope of its change management software known as TD/OMS. The software, which has been rewritten in Java, now supports Solaris and Mac OS application development environments along with the IBM i, Windows, Linux, and Unix environments supported by the previous release.
As before, it also supports popular fourth-generation languages (4GLs) for the IBM i platform, including LANSA‘s RDML, CA‘s 2E and Plex, AS/SET, and Magic Software‘s 4GL. And Remain Software provides support for automatic deployment to the Tomcat and Websphere application servers.
The latest piece for the TD/OMS
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IBM Power7+ Chips Give Servers A Double Whammy
September 4, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan
If you are in the middle of acquiring a Power7-based server to run IBM i, AIX, or Linux workloads, you might want to give it a rethink about right now. Because IBM has some interesting twists that are coming out with the next-generation Power7+ processors that will dramatically affect their bang for the buck and therefore what you should be paying now for any processing capacity or whole systems that you acquire.
IBM has been vague about exactly when the Power7+ chips and their new Power Systems servers will ship, but has said that the new processors will come out
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Admin Alert: Copying User Profiles Between Systems
August 22, 2012 Joe Hertvik
There are times when IBM i administrators may need to copy a user profile from one IBM i system to another, especially when promoting software from a development to a production system. This week, I’ll illustrate three different techniques for copying profiles between systems and talk about their strengths and weaknesses.
Three Ways To Copy User Profiles Between Systems
There are three different ways that I know of to copy a user profile between IBM i operating systems. These techniques are ranked here in terms of the most difficult way to the easiest way to copy a user profile.
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