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Volume 9, Number 12 -- April 1, 2009
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A Sleepy RPG Program
Hey, Ted:

Does RPG have anything equivalent to CL's Delay Job (DLYJOB) command? I am working on an RF application, and I need to code a delay of a few seconds into my program. Besides using a do loop with a final value of 1,000,000,000,000, how can I cause a timed interval within an RPG program? READ MORE >

Treasury of new DB2 6.1 (V6R1) Features, Part 5: New Functions and Change Stamp Columns
by Michael Sansoterra

Today's tip addresses the new built-in functions available in DB2 for i (a.k.a. DB2 for i5/OS, SQL/400, and DB2 UDB for iSeries), change stamp columns and row change expressions. READ MORE >



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Admin Alert: Change Your Tape Drives, Change Your Tape Management Costs
by Joe Hertvik

One shop I work with went through a tape drive revolution with two recent hardware purchases. They went from using several different tape drive formats to using one higher speed backup format for all locations. Here's what they found out from the experience, and how a simple tape drive upgrade helped them lower their operational tape management costs. READ MORE >


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The Four Hundred
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As I See It: Generation Gap

BCD Cranks Up Services, Training for PHP Deployments

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A Cloud Solution for the Spreadsheet Proliferation Problem

SunGard Looks for Growth with New Reseller Program

TMW to Add .NET Features to i OS-Based Trucking App

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TPM at The Register
Dell girds iron from the tower to the blade

HP goes to eleven with ProLiant launch

IBM punts two racks, a blade, and a hybrid thingy

Fujitsu talks big on x64 server sales

Rumour: Sun pink slips to fly today

IBM turns back on server history

Smoking power supply alarms net brokerage house

Parallels: Bare-metal hypervisor in the works

Blades and VMs - IT's peanut butter cup

Otellini: 'I'd rather have Sun be independent'

Red Hat sales buck Meltdown

Dell Nehalem men badmouth your servers

AMD migrates live VMs from Shanghai to Istanbul

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
A Sleepy RPG Program

Treasury of new DB2 6.1 (V6R1) Features, Part 5: New Functions and Change Stamp Columns

Admin Alert: Change Your Tape Drives, Change Your Tape Management Costs

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