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Getting the Message, Part 1
by Paul Tuohy

When we look at modernizing (or writing new) applications, one of the basic principles is to tier the application, i.e., separate the interface, the business logic, and the database processing. The concept is that any of the components can be changed without affecting the others and, more importantly, you can have multiple interfaces making use of the same business logic and database routines. READ MORE >

How Do I Find What's Not There?
Hey, Ted:

Our inventory items are assigned seven-digit numbers. When we accept an order for a custom product, we assign it a number, build the product, ship it, and retire the number. After a few years, the system automatically purges these numbers, which means we are free to reuse these numbers. Is there a way to make an SQL query find the numbers within a range that are not assigned to items? READ MORE >



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Admin Alert: Locking Down i5/OS System Security Values
by Joe Hertvik

This week, I'm demonstrating a technique for protecting your system security setup from unauthorized changes by other i5/OS administrative users. Introduced in i5/OS V5R2 and located inside System Service Tools (SST), there is an operating system configuration that lets you lock down security settings so that no users can change your preset i5/OS security scheme. Here's how it works. READ MORE >


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The Four Hundred
IBM's DB2 Pure Scale--Not Quite iDatabase V1

Early Views on iManifest: ISV Expectations, Public Misconceptions

News Flash: IT to Drive Economic Recovery

As I See It: The Greening of IT

The Power Systems Catalog Gets Skinnier

Four Hundred Stuff
Cloud Storage Services Make their Way to the i OS Midrange

MKS Adds Test Management to ALM Suite

Gartner Ranks the Managed File Transfer Products

Vision Analyzes i OS Server Health with Free iSCORE Tool

LANSA Integrates with Oracle for Supply Chain Interoperability

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

System i PTF Guide
October 10, 2009: Volume 11, Number 41

October 3, 2009: Volume 11, Number 40

September 26, 2009: Volume 11, Number 39

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

TPM at The Register
Ellison whips out his Sparc TPC-C test

HP, EMC cozy up to Oracle

Sun kicks out 10/09 Solaris update

Google: Servers are DIMM witted

Cisco rewards bit twiddlers in router-to-server contest

Alpha-male Ellison issues $10m Exadata challenge

Cisco readies rack servers for the holidays

IBM throws DB2 Power cluster at Ellison's Exadata

EMC outs Atmos compute cloud

Sun adds Oracle Linux to ops tools

Parallels bares all with server hypervisor

Terracotta straps on Ehcache speed engine

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Getting the Message, Part 1

How Do I Find What's Not There?

Admin Alert: Locking Down i5/OS System Security Values

Four Hundred Guru

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