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An Introduction to Python on IBM i, Part 3
by Garry Taylor

Guido Van Rossum, creator of Python, once said, Python is an experiment in how much freedom programmers need. Too much freedom and nobody can read another's code; too little and expressiveness is endangered. READ MORE >

The Case of the Missing Logical File
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Admin Alert: Running System i Cleanup Manually
by Joe Hertvik

A reader recently wrote me inquiring about some of the finer points in running the i operating system's cleanup tasks for clearing out messages, job logs, and other system output. While IBM offers a decent automated cleanup function, it's not quite as clear how to manually run the cleanup option. This week, I'll review what cleanup tasks do and show you how to run this function either automatically or manually. READ MORE >


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The Four Hundred
Q&A With Power Systems Top Brass, Part Two

DR Plans Keep Bad Things from Happening to Good Companies

IBM Gets Tape Ready for 'Big Data'

Mad Dog 21/21: Ptolemy And Shorter You

looksoftware Looks Ahead

Four Hundred Stuff
SMA Comes Out of the Blue with IT Automation Tools

looksoftware Expanding RPG Open Access Use

CNX Goes Mobile with Valence 3.0

Bsafe Changes Name to Enforcive, Updates IBM i Security Suite

Rapid Data Recovery on a Budget

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

System i PTF Guide
September 25, 2010: Volume 12, Number 39

September 18, 2010: Volume 12, Number 38

September 11, 2010: Volume 12, Number 37

September 4, 2010: Volume 12, Number 36

August 28, 2010: Volume 12, Number 35

August 21, 2010: Volume 12, Number 34

TPM at The Register
VMware gets Go-ing with Shavlik buy

AMD chases servers with fanless FirePro GPU

Desktop OS revenue and growth outpace servers

Nvidia dollars lifted by Intel's Sandy Bridge ramp, payola

Cisco dollars pinched by cheap switches, vanishing cameras

Intel juices cash divvy – again

Galleon hedge fund founder convicted on all 14 counts

Unisys revs up big ClearPath mainframes

Akamai, Riverbed join forces to juice clouds

Ubuntu eats OpenStack for clouds

Clouds puff up Rackspace in Q1

Cisco taps ex-Sun chip guru for servers

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
An Introduction to Python on IBM i, Part 3

The Case of the Missing Logical File

Admin Alert: Running System i Cleanup Manually

Four Hundred Guru

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