• What Happened to My QFileSvr.400 Connection?

  April 11, 2012 Hey, Joe

  I set up a QFileSvr.400 connection for accessing AS/400 Integrated File Systems (AS/400 IFS) objects on another IBM i machine. I use it several times a month to transfer files. All of a sudden, the connection stopped working and I have no clue why. Do you have any idea what could happened and how I can fix it? –Bob As I’ve written before, I love using QFileSvr.400 for accessing, modifying, and copying or moving files between two IBM i systems (Power i, System i, and iSeries). A QFileSvr.400 link is incredibly easy to set up. All you have to do

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• Interpreted CL Members, Take 2

  April 11, 2012 Ted Holt

  Once again, the alert and astute readers of this august publication have proven true the old adage that multiple methods exist for removing the outer covering of a feline animal. Several of you wrote in response to my article, Interpreted CL Members, to share other methods of running CL commands in interpreted mode. Here are some of the comments I received. I use REXX to handle scripting for CL commands. While I’m not an expert, I’ve found it useful for tasks that you do at a command line to set up something, do over and over, and forget the

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• Index Advisor, Part 2

  April 11, 2012 Paul Tuohy

  In part 1 of this series, I introduced you to the basic functionality of Index Advisor. In this article, we will take a look at more of the options and functionality available with Index Advisor for Systems Director Navigator for i. More Options Apart from the obvious information (table and schema names), the Index Advisor window also gives us some pertinent information, such as: The advised key The first and last time the index was advised The number of times the index was advised The longest and average execution times for the queries that generated the index advise The

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• Oracle Unveils New BI Apps for Exalytics Machine

  April 10, 2012 Alex Woodie

  Oracle last week unveiled two new business intelligence applications, called Manufacturing Analytics and Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) Analytics. The new offerings are certified to run on Exalytics, Oracle’s new in-memory analytics machine, and are preconfigured to work with Oracle’s E-Business Suite, although it can also work with data from JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and World and other ERP systems. The new Manufacturing Analytics application is designed to give executives deeper insight into important elements of their companies’ operations, including manufacturing schedules, cost, quality, and service levels. The software helps customers correlate work order information with production plans, improve insight into raw

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• TIBCO to Buy LogLogic

  April 10, 2012 Alex Woodie

  Data broker software developer TIBCO Software will buy log management and security software provider LogLogic, the company announced last week. LogLogic’s products are designed to store and make sense out of large amounts of log data for the purposes of security and regulatory compliance. The company sells pre-configured, Lintel-based appliances fitted with Fibre Channel network cards that can slurp in hundreds of thousands of records per second. The company also sells virtual appliances that customers can install on their own hardware. Some of the company’s offerings are geared to long-term archives, while others are designed for real-time detection of

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• MuleSoft Taps Avalara for Automated Tax Calculation in the Cloud

  April 10, 2012 Alex Woodie

  The deadline for federal income tax returns is less than a week away, putting millions of Americans under the gun to get their returns finished. And while the tax code isn’t getting any easier to understand, two companies–MuleSoft and Avalara–are partnering to simplify the calculation of taxes with a new solution called iApp4Tax that will streamline the way that business software integrates with Avalara’s tax-calculation service. The new iApp4Tax offering is sold by MuleSoft, a provider of commercial open source integration software called Mule iON that runs in the cloud, or what MuleSoft calls its integration platform as

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• Micro Focus Updates RUMBA Emulator

  April 10, 2012 Alex Woodie

  Micro Focus issued new releases of RUMBA and Web-to-Host, its Windows- and Web-based terminal emulators that are popular in IBM i 5250 environments. RUMBA version 8.2, which shipped in November, gains several new features aimed at bolstering user productivity, including: support for IPv6; a new on-screen spell checker that supports a custom dictionary; new support for automatic and dynamic linking; and enhancements to its desktop profile management features. RUMBA 8.2 is also certified for FIPS 140-2, enabling it to be used in government applications. It’s also certified to be compatible with Microsoft Systems Center Configuration Manager (SCCM), as well as

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• Info Builders Adds SaaS Features to BI Software

  April 10, 2012 Alex Woodie

  Information Builders last week unveiled new features in its flagship WebFOCUS business intelligence software that are designed to help it run in a software as a service (SaaS) environment. WebFOCUS deserves special attention by IBM i shops for two reasons. First, it’s one of the few tier-one business intelligence applications that actually runs on the IBM i server. Secondly, it forms the basis of DB2 Web Query, which IBM sells into the IBM i customer base. Many (but not all) features that first appear in WebFOCUS eventually make it into DB2 Web Query, where they can be utilized by a

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• SQL Conference Puts Spotlight on IBM i

  April 10, 2012 Dan Burger

  Database expertise begins with the ability to analyze database performance and scalability, create new features and functionality, recognize what not to change, and identify where changes are appropriate. And for RPG and COBOL application developers who haven’t already done so, learning SQL and using it to access the DB2 for i (DB2/400) database, is one of the skills that separates the modern programmer from the legacy folks. It’s a foregone conclusion the IBM i shops of the future will have these tools in the shed. It’s with this in mind that System i Developer put together a two-day technical conference

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• Hubspan Sees Growth in Cloud-Based Application Integration

  April 10, 2012 Alex Woodie

  Application integration is one of those IT disciplines that is begging for simplification. Since the early days of networked business computing, the task of keeping data flowing between applications has been a big pain in the IT department–and a giant source of revenue for service providers. It’s also an area that business process service provider Hubspan sees as a big opportunity to address with its cloud-based integration offering. Hubspan’s flagship platform is a cloud-based integration service called the WebSpan SaaS Integration Platform. The product can be thought of as a hosted EDI translator on steroids. But WebSpan goes beyond moving

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