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Volume 12, Number 22 -- September 5, 2012
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Future Coding
by Paul Tuohy

One of my favorite benefits that comes from speaking at conferences is the great questions that get asked of me and other speakers. Even if we can answer the question, be assured the next time we're gathered with colleagues over a cup of coffee (or other beverage of choice), one of us will say, I was asked an interesting question at my last conference. . . READ MORE >

Checking IBM i OS and PTF Level Status for Sarbanes-Oxley Documentation
Hey, Joe:

I have to write a quarterly procedure for our Sarbanes-Oxley manual that details how we make sure our IBM i operating system and PTFs are current. Our auditors want us to prove that we are up to date on upgrades and fixes. Any ideas on how we can do that? I'm on i 6.1.1. READ MORE >



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Admin Alert: Two Useful PC5250 Parameters In IBM i Access For Windows 7.1
by Joe Hertvik

With IBM i Access for Windows 7.1, IBM offers some valuable parameters for customizing Personal Communications sessions (PC5250) to connect to your IBM i partitions. This week, I'll look at two of these features--setting a default path for PC5250 configuration files; and storing PC5250 window and font information--that can be useful for IBM i administrators trying to provide better control over their user installs. READ MORE >


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The Four Hundred
IBM Power7+ Chips Give Servers A Double Whammy

Scant New Talent Is Finding IBM i

TEMBO Taps inFORM to Distribute Database Modernization Tool

Mad Dog 21/21: Has The PC Lost Its Mojo?

Server Sales Slow As Buyers Await New Processors

Four Hundred Stuff
Security Bundle Blocks Unwanted Web Traffic from Reaching IBM i

IBM i Excel Spreadsheet Generator Now Unicode Compliant

Maxava Taps Baseline to Resell HA in the Cloud

Trimble to Buy Trucking Software Firm TMW Systems for $335M

Indigo Chooses CNX's Valence to Modernize RPG App

Four Hundred Monitor
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System i PTF Guide
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July 21, 2012: Volume 14, Number 29

July 14, 2012: Volume 14, Number 28

TPM at The Register
IBM to double-stuff sockets with power-packed Power7+

Ethernet switch sales sizzle

Applied Micro's X-Gene server chip ARMed to the teeth

Look out, world! SUSE Linux's OpenStack control-freak is loose

AMD to double up cores with Jaguars

Worldwide server sales head south as shipments put on ice

AMD CTO spills 'Steamroller' core specs

IBM embiggens iron with System zEnterprise EC12 mainframe

VMware: Our monster will eat servers, belch clouds, excrete profit

VMware rolls up an integrated cloudy control freak

VMware kills vRAM memory tax with vSphere 5.1 server virt

Broadcom launches Trident II switch chip

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Future Coding

Checking IBM i OS and PTF Level Status for Sarbanes-Oxley Documentation

Admin Alert: Two Useful PC5250 Parameters In IBM i Access For Windows 7.1

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