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A Couple of RSE Quickies
by Paul Tuohy

Believe it or not, there are a few features of RSE that I do not use on a daily basis. When working on my own system, my own projects, and my own development environment, I know where everything is and how to navigate it. READ MORE >

Down with Dependence!
by Ted Holt

ACME Software has just released version 1.0 of the DWIM (Do What I Mean) utility. Placing the DWIM command in your CL programs (or calling the program counterpart from programs written in other languages) will solve all your problems, because the computer will stop doing what you tell it to do and do what you intended for it to do instead. READ MORE >



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Just When Do IBM i PTFs Get Applied, Anyway?
Hey, Joe:

Our management has our operators apply cumulative PTFs (CUME) with no regard to when the system will be IPLed. They load the CUME, and the system may not be IPLed until a few weeks later. The managers believe that no PTFs are applied until after the IPL. I think that some PTFs are applied immediately, while others wait for the IPL. What's the real story on how PTFs are applied? READ MORE >


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The Four Hundred
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Five Handles For The Mobile Application Pot

The Definite Article, No Doubt About It

Mad Dog 21/21: Mobile IBM Has Apps, But With Gaps

Server Transitions Give Internal Storage Arrays Sales A Breather

Four Hundred Stuff
International Presence Launches CloudFax/400

Vision Shares GUI Across IBM i and AIX HA Products

CNX Bolsters 'Nitro' Enhancements in IBM i Web Toolset

InterForm/400 Gets Better PDF Support

College Makes IBM i Apps Appear Less Old, More Cool

Four Hundred Monitor
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TPM at The Register
Opscode gets more venture dough for its Chef

Intel comfortably conquers chip market in 2011

DataStax adds search to Cassandra NoSQL

Amazon, Eucalyptus team on cloud compatibility

Nvidia shows off first 'Kepler' GPUs

Former Yahoo! Hadoop honcho uncloaks from stealth

x86 chips squeeze out a growth in Q4

EMC wants to be the Linux of big data

Supercomputers sold like hotcakes in 2011

Xoreax grids up Windows to goose apps

AMD aims lower with Opteron 3200s

Humans best crossword-puzzling computer

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
A Couple of RSE Quickies

Down with Dependence!

Just When Do IBM i PTFs Get Applied, Anyway?

Four Hundred Guru

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