Timothy Prickett Morgan
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A Bevy Of BIFs: %ScanRpl (Scan And Replace)
September 24, 2014 Jon Paris
… Read moreThis gem of a BIF was introduced with the V7.1 release and so was not available some five years ago when I wrote my original Bevy series of tips. Now that more people have V7.1 in their shops, I decided it was time to revisit the series and add it to the collection. It is probably my all-time favorite BIF . . . at least so far.
Simply put, %ScanRpl will search a target string for a given character sequence and replace it with another. Not only that but it will then continue to search through the target string and
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Testing The Ruby Waters
September 24, 2014 Aaron Bartell
… Read moreAs of October 2013 Ruby is supported on IBM i via PowerRuby. This is good news as Ruby has become a very popular programming language for producing web applications because of its simplicity, flexibility, and vast community. In this article we will be introducing you to tools that aid in learning Ruby on IBM i.
Often times the easiest way to learn a programming language is by starting small and playing with it. Ruby makes this very easy to do with its included Interactive Ruby Shell, or irb for short.
The irb environment is also called REPL (Read,
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Ellison Steps Down As Oracle CEO As Q1 Comes In A Bit Short
September 22, 2014 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreWell, the IT industry just got a whole lot more boring, or maybe not. Larry Ellison, the co-founder of software giant and now systems player Oracle, turned 70 recently and has decided that he no longer wants to be CEO of the company. The news that he is stepping down as CEO to assume the role of executive chairman and chief technology officer comes just as Oracle has come up a little bit short in its latest financial results and as the company is preparing for its annual OpenWorld shindig, which will bring over 60,000 people to San Francisco.
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Reader Feedback On Plotting Out A Power Systems Resurgence
September 22, 2014 Tim
… Read moreThe answer to the “i conundrum” comes from basic marketing rather than technology!
For years, IBM followed a “generic server” strategy that pushed the IBM brand rather than the attributes of any one processor family. That might have been a good strategy for commodity servers, like the xSeries, but was death for highly differentiated computing platforms like the iSeries . . . that the public was not educated to understand the value proposition. The Linux push is, unfortunately, a continuation of that failed strategy!
Now that IBM has exited the commodity computing business, it is time to reverse its marketing
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Micro Focus Acquires Attachmate, Builds Software Powerhouse
September 22, 2014 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreTwo software powerhouses with extensive software portfolios aimed at proprietary IBM systems are coming together with Micro Focus shelling out $1.2 billion and assuming a bunch of debt to acquire Attachmate. The combination will create a software giant with just under $1.4 billion in sales and 34,000 customers between the two of them.
Micro Focus, which is perhaps best known for its COBOL application development tools, is oddly enough the smaller of the two companies, so it might seem unusual for Micro Focus to be doing the buying. But it was always assumed that the private equity owners who
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Restoring Passwords & Private Authorities When Using RSTUSRPRF
September 17, 2014 Hey, Joe
… Read moreRestoring Passwords & Private Authorities When Using RSTUSRPRF
Thanks for your nice article on copying user profiles between IBM i systems. I wanted to add that I copied a profile between systems and got this system message.
CPC3713 - &2 &1 restored without password or group linkage
I fixed it by adding the Security Data parameter to the Restore User Profile (RSTUSRPRF) command. I’m running IBM i 6.1.
–Avraham
Here’s what happened with Avraham’s system and how it affects user profile restores.
When moving user profiles between systems, IBM has two scenarios for restoring passwords and private authorities for
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Share And Share Alike With RSE
September 17, 2014 Susan Gantner
… Read moreIn my last tip, Decisions, Decisions: Templates Or Snippets?, I discussed taking advantage of both Templates and Snippets. They are used to make life simpler when including small pieces of code that might otherwise be copied from another source member somewhere or, worse yet, rewritten from scratch over and over again.
Once you’ve created a few templates and/or snippets, your fellow developers may ask you to share the wealth. So how do you do that? There are Import and Export options for both Snippets and Templates. They work a bit differently, however.
Remember that Templates are created via the
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Bash Is Not A Shell Game
September 17, 2014 Aaron Bartell
… Read moreIt is interesting to observe where the IBM i side of IBM invests its resources. The operating system and database get a whole lot of investment, but the native application layer seemingly not nearly as much. Why? Because I don’t believe they see a viable future for modern applications being written in timely fashion with the likes of RPG. If that is true then what future does the platform have? The PASE environment on IBM i is the remaining hope for the operating system to live in the realm of modernity. Why? Because that’s where modern things are being ported
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IBM Broadens European Power Systems ISV Promotion
September 15, 2014 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreA deal that IBM created for its Power Systems customers and software partners earlier this year for its Europe, Middle East, and Africa region has been extended to include new Power8 iron.
The original deal came out in January, and it is called the 2014 Power ISV Solution Connection Program. As the name suggests, it gives business partner and system integrator companies rebates that range from $500 to $3,000 if they work with application software providers to close deals running on Power Systems iron. The deal was updated in announcement letter ZA14-1004, and it gives bigger rebates to
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More Power8 Announcements Coming Next Month
September 15, 2014 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreIt looks like you should pencil in the first week of October for some pretty big Power Systems announcements from IBM. We know that IBM has planned to get some additional Power Systems machines in the field before the end of the year, and it is looking like the big event will be at the Enterprise2014 conference that Big Blue is hosting in Las Vegas.
Enterprise2014 is the third big event that IBM is putting on in Vegas this year, and the theme of the conference is “the infrastructure for cloud, data, and engagement.” That pretty much covers everything