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Profound to Resell RPG Open Access for IBM
May 10, 2011 Alex Woodie
Profound Logic is reselling IBM‘s Rational Open Access: RPG Edition software with its own suite of Web modernization tools for IBM i, the company announced at the COMMON conference in Minneapolis last week. The move, which coincides with the launch of Profound UI 3.0, will make it easier for IBM i customers to obtain the RPG feature, which IBM has sold as a separately licensable product since delivering it with IBM i 7.1 last year.
IBM has come under some criticism for how it distributes RPG Open Access, which has been widely hailed as one of the most revolutionary
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Some Insight Into the HMC-to-SDMC Transition
May 2, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan
Two weeks ago, I told you about how IBM was replacing the Hardware Management Console (HMC) for rack and tower Power-based servers with a new console called the Systems Director Management Console (SDMC) that would add BladeCenter chassis and Power-based blades to the mix with converged Systems Director-HMC functionality.
I received an interesting comment on the SDMC from a reader of The Four Hundred and also stumbled on a roadmap for the HMC-to-SDMC transition that spreads a little more light on Big Blue’s plans that its announcement April 12 did.
First, the reader comment:
Is it just me or is
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LANSA Turns aXes into IBM i Cloud Enabler
April 26, 2011 Alex Woodie
LANSA is shipping a new release of its aXes Web enablement software that’s designed to turn IBM i server environments into private and public clouds, including a platform for software as a service (SaaS). The vendor’s new aXes-Cloud software, which ships with aXes version 2.0, enables organizations to make multiple IBM i server applications available to any browser-supported device. Version 2.0 also includes new query and spool file capabilities that IBM i users may find useful.
There’s no denying the fact that “cloud” is extremely hot at the moment. Regardless of what the term actually means or whether it represents
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Best Options for Post-i 6.1.1 Upgrade Backups
April 20, 2011 Hey, Joe
We’re performing an i/OS 6.1.1 upgrade this weekend. My boss wants to perform a full system backup after we get done. However, full system backups take six-hours to run in my shop. I have a very tight upgrade window, and the machine can only be down for 18 hours. What’s my best option for backing up a newly upgraded operating system?
–Wil
There are two overriding goals in tight operating system upgrade scenarios: 1) Protect your work so that you don’t have to perform an i 6.1.1 upgrade a second time if the machine crashes; and 2) Get the machine
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AURA Keeps Classic IBM i PHP Toolkit Alive
April 19, 2011 Alex Woodie
IBM i shops that have relied on, and grown to appreciate, the old PHP Toolkit that IBM is replacing with a new open source solution will be pleased to hear that AURA Equipments is keeping the product alive. In fact, the French software company is rolling out a new release of the “classic” PHP toolkit–now called EasyCom for PHP–that addresses some of the shortcomings that led IBM to banish it in the first place.
Five years ago, AURA and Zend Technology formed a partnership whereby AURA’s client-server integration technology, called EasyCom, was OEM’ed and packaged into the PHP offerings that
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Reader Feedback on As I See It: Shared Sacrifice
April 18, 2011 Hi Victor,
Your April 11 article, As I See It: Shared Sacrifice, is mind boggling.
I’d love to send excerpts to my congressional delegation and governor. I don’t want to plagiarize, so what is the appropriate way to quote your article quoting others?
By the way, CVS is one of the few large corporations headquartered here in Rhode Island.
–Ed
Hi Ed,
The fair use provisions of the copyright law say you can quote a few items, but why not just email your politicians a paragraph of your own and then a link to Victor’s story?
–TPM
Victor:
I always enjoy
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ITG Says IBM i + DB2 for i Still Offers Lowest TCO
April 11, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan
As The Four Hundred previously reported, a new vice president, Colin Parris, has taken the reins as business line manager for the Power Systems line of servers. And one of the things that IBM has done as Parris took control is have its stable of consultants who do price/performance and other kinds of analysis for Power Systems go out and update their reports to reflect the new Power7 iron and related operating systems that debuted last year.
You can see a list of the updated Power Systems reports here. International Technology Group, the Los Altos, California, consultancy that
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IBM i Manifest Americas Faces New Dilemma
April 4, 2011 Dan Burger
IBM i Manifest Americas marketing person Jenniefer Halverson is leaving the IBM i advocacy group after only four months. It’s a shame, because during her time there the organization gained momentum that it did not have before her arrival. Whether this vehicle has engine strong enough to pull it up the steep hills that lie ahead is yet to be seen. For the time being, this is a setback.
Two factors played a role in Halverson’s decision. The first was a new job opportunity with a burgeoning company in the Windows market. The position was going to be very demanding
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Automatically Deleting Spooled Files through Expiration Dates
March 23, 2011 Hey, Joe
Last year, I stumbled on a cool method for automatically deleting spooled files. When you create a spooled file, you can set the number of days that you want to keep that file on your system. Then once a night, you can submit a job that runs the Delete Expired Spooled Files (DLTEXPSPLF) command that will automatically delete expired spooled files. You should try it.
–Peter
After working with the Power i and its antecedents for almost 30 years, I always find it interesting when somebody shows me something valuable that I haven’t used before. DLTEXPSPLF is a simple command
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Some Insight Into the iASP and ISV Issue
March 7, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan
In last week’s issue of The Four Hundred, I made a logical leap about the problem with supporting independent auxiliary storage pools, or iASPs, that has caused the AS/400 Large User Group to issue a call to arms to compel independent software vendors to support this decades-old feature of the OS/400 and IBM i operating system. While the logical leap I made concerning the root cause of the issue was incorrect, I stand by my assertion that IBM should have made iASP technology transparent to ISV applications and therefore inherently supported.
The AS/400 LUG, in case you don’t know,