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Volume 12, Number 1 -- January 11, 2012
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New in DB2 for i 7.1: Use Global Variables to Track Environment Settings
by Michael Sansoterra

The concept of having a locally maintained application scratch pad to keep track of session specific information has been around for quite awhile. RPG applications have long used the LDA (Local Data Area) to track common information meant to be shared between programs within a job. (This saves developers the trouble of passing around all of this common information as parameters.) READ MORE >

IBM i and Zip Files
by Ted Holt

You may have heard of the new zip file APIs--QZipZip and QZipUnzip--that IBM added to IBM i 7.1. I am looking forward to using them. But if your shop is like mine, that is, you're not running 7.1, there's another way to work with zip files, and it does a good job. READ MORE >



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Admin Alert: Is It a Performance Issue or a Throughput Issue?
by Joe Hertvik

It's common for Power i users to complain their batch jobs are running too slowly. But is system capability responsible for slow batch throughput or could the problem be caused by poor work management procedures? This week, let's look at a few scenarios where users say their batch jobs are running too slowly and discuss what, if anything (short of a hardware upgrade), can help speed up batch processing. READ MORE >


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The Four Hundred
The World Is Not Going To End In 2012

Rocket Software Buys iCluster HA Biz From IBM

IBM Delivers Open Source Version of EGL Tools

As I See It: Punxsutawney Blue

A Little .NET Can Go A Long Way

Four Hundred Stuff
Zend Updates PHP Server Stack for IBM i

CCSS Helps Detects Fraud with New Database Monitor

ARCAD Adds New Testing Features to ALM Suite

Linoma Adds Enterprise Features to MFT Software

Applied Logic Gives FEU New Printing and Zip Functions

Four Hundred Monitor
Four Hundred Monitor's
Full iSeries Events Calendar

System i PTF Guide
January 7, 2012: Volume 14, Number 1

December 31, 2011: Volume 13, Number 17

December 24, 2011: Volume 13, Number 16

December 17, 2011: Volume 13, Number 15

December 10, 2011: Volume 13, Number 14

December 3, 2011: Volume 13, Number 13

TPM at The Register
US economy hands IT a mixed bag in December

Enterprise and govt chief Bell exits Dell

Amazon cloud double fluffs in 2011

Cisco enlists NCR in Middle East, Africa server push

Gartner chops 2012 IT spending forecast

Cray's Q4 whacked by AMD's Opteron delays

New CEO Rometty tweaks IBM exec lineup

Apache lets fly Hadoop 1.0 data muncher

IBM buys Green Hat for virty dev tools

Chip sales sag says semiconductor seller survey

Big cloud Internap eats little cloud Voxel

Oracle VM whips rowdy virtual machines into submission

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
New in DB2 for i 7.1: Use Global Variables to Track Environment Settings

IBM i and Zip Files

Admin Alert: Is It a Performance Issue or a Throughput Issue?

Four Hundred Guru

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