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Volume 9, Number 29 -- September 23, 2009
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WDSC vs. RDi
by Susan Gantner

It's no secret that I'm a big fan of RSE (Remote System Explorer). When I'm talking to developers who still use SEU to edit their source code, I always nag them to give RSE a try. Assuming I manage to convince them to take a look at it, usually the next topic of discussion relates to whether that means they should load the RSE that's in WDSC or the version that's in RDi. READ MORE >

Let's Start Over from the Beginning
Hey, Ted:

We have RPG programs that use SQL cursors to sequentially retrieve data. If a program cancels and I call it again, the program resumes processing a cursor where it left off. I have to sign off and back on in order to restart from the top. Why doesn't the program start over from the beginning of the returned data set? READ MORE >



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The Cost of Not Backing Up
Hey, Joe:

I'm performing a disaster recovery review for a client. The client backs up only i5/OS user libraries daily. He doesn't back up program libraries, QUSRSYS, QGPL, or QSYS2. He doesn't process the SAVSECDTA, SAVCFG, SAVDLO, or SAV commands daily or weekly, either. He's adamant that he has enough libraries to perform a successful system recovery. And it gets worse. . . . READ MORE >


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The Four Hundred
Start Planning for Power7 Iron Now

Oracle-Sun Exadata V2, Meet iDatabase V1

IBM to Sell U2 Database Business to Rocket Software

Mad Dog 21/21: Big Blue's Sun Strategy Gamble--IBM Without i

Disk Sales Compressed in the Second Quarter

Four Hundred Stuff
3B Aims to Break Barriers with its 'unERP'

Redesigned Reporting Infrastructure Pays Off in Inventory Reduction

Bug Busters Fine-Tunes Budget-Minded HA Offering

Crossroads Unveils SPHiNX, a New VTL Solution for i OS

Vision Lays Out HA and DR Options in Well-Written White Paper

Four Hundred Monitor
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System i PTF Guide
September 19, 2009: Volume 11, Number 38

September 12, 2009: Volume 11, Number 37

September 5, 2009: Volume 11, Number 36

August 29, 2009: Volume 11, Number 35

August 22, 2009: Volume 11, Number 34

August 15, 2009: Volume 11, Number 33

August 8, 2009: Volume 11, Number 32

TPM at The Register
Dell plus Perot - It's a start

HP bundles up services for data centres

AMD grows very own Opteron chipsets

ScaleMP certifies on Intel Nehalem iron

AMD to reverse pay cuts

Mainframe shops gush over big iron

SGI's Itanium super smokes Java test

Oracle Q1 sales down, profit up

Black hole swallows EMEA server revenues

Citrix gooses XenApp with virtualization

HP chases Cisco with ProCurve blade switches

Oracle, Sun speed-launch Exadata V2

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
WDSC vs. RDi

Let's Start Over from the Beginning

The Cost of Not Backing Up

Four Hundred Guru

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