Timothy Prickett Morgan
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IDC Says IT Spending Will Come In A Bit Higher In 2014
August 11, 2014 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreWe are more than halfway through the year, and the forecasters at IDC have taken a look at the state of the economies of the world and the political situation around the globe and come up with a new IT spending forecast for 2014.
The good news is that after revising its forecast down back in May, spending is now projected to rise as much this year as it did last year. To be specific, IT spending will rise by 4.1 percent as expressed in U.S. dollars and at 4.5 percent in constant currency. Three months ago, the economists
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OpenVMS Spinout A Possible Prelude To An IBM i Future?
August 11, 2014 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreThere are a few operating systems in the world that get both the tags “legacy” and “venerable” attached to them, one denoting a kind of dismissal or outright disdain and the other connoting respect and maybe even sometimes awe. IBM‘s MVS platform, which has also been called OS/390 and more recently known as z/OS, is certainly venerable and legacy if you don’t want to be accurate or generous, and so is OS/400, formerly known as i5/OS and now IBM i. And so is the VMS operating system for VAX, Alpha, and Itanium systems from Digital Equipment Corp,
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When IBM i RGZPFM Doesn’t Want To Rebuild Access Paths
July 30, 2014 Hey, Joe
… Read moreI’m trying to run this Reorganize Physical File (RGZPFM) command to reorganize one of my files while it’s active:
RGZPFM FILE(lib_name/file_name) MBR(member_name) RBDACCPTH(*OPTIMIZE) ALWCANCEL(*YES) LOCK(*SHRUPD)
But I keep getting this CPF3135 error:
CPF3135 - Access path for member &2 already in use.
This is not what I anticipated. Am I doing something wrong?
–Alan
My guess is that your RGZPFM command will complete correctly if you run the command using these parameters:
RGZPFM FILE(lib_name/file_name) MBR(member_name) RBDACCPTH(*NO) ALWCANCEL(*YES) LOCK(*SHRUPD)
The difference between this command and your command is that the Rebuild Access Paths
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How Do I De-Edit? Let Me Count The Ways
July 30, 2014 Ted Holt
… Read moreI’m sure that you, the professional that you are, are expert in the process of editing numbers. Unlike me, you may even have memorized the edit codes we often use in RPG and DDS source code. Editing is important because it makes life easier for the folks who use the software we produce. But do you know how to de-edit?
These days data comes from many sources, and the people who send us this data (or from whom we glean it) don’t always give it to us in tidy packages. Converting such data to a usable format can be challenging,
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Decisions, Decisions: Templates Or Snippets?
July 30, 2014 Susan Gantner
… Read moreAll you RSE (a.k.a., RDi, RDP, WDSC) users out there: Do you prefer templates or snippets?
For some of you, the response may be “What’s a Template?” Or “What’s a Snippet?” For those readers, I’ll direct you to first learn more about the basics of both topics via earlier tips from Paul Tuohy, when he wrote about creating templates and creating snippets. If your answer to my original question about templates vs. snippets is “Yes” (meaning you like both), perhaps you don’t need to read the rest of this tip.
As with several capabilities of the Rational toolset, these
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SAP’s Q2 Bottom Line Pinched By Potential Lawsuit Charges
July 28, 2014 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreHot on the heels of Germany’s victory in the World Cup soccer tournament, software giant SAP is extolling the benefits of the HANA in-memory technology that the German team used to analyze its own players as well as do competitive analysis on its opponents before, during, and after matches. “When you think about what they accomplish with their smart use of big data, it amounts to making a complex game look simple,” explained co-CEO Bill McDermott in a conference call with Wall Street analysts going over SAP’s second quarter financial results. “And now we know that simple helps win the
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Power Systems Sales Down In Q2, But Improving
July 28, 2014 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreWith the Power8 machines launched in April and not shipping in some cases until June and in others until August, no one expected for the second quarter to be a necessarily great one for IBM‘s Power Systems business. But, as it turns out, it was not as bad as many quarters have been, even though there was an understandable decline. With Power8 machines now shipping, and as we report elsewhere in this issue, more on the way in the midrange and high-end, perhaps the Power Systems line will stabilize in the second half of the year.
We certainly hope
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IBM Readies More Power8 Iron For Launch
July 28, 2014 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreBig Blue is getting ready to flesh out the rest of the Power8 systems lineup, and it looks like the pace is picking up a bit. Back in June, IBM announced a four-core variant of the Power S814 single-socket server, a machine that was only tentatively expected to be launched in the third quarter and was not part of analyst or customer briefings. IBM had said very little about its plans for larger systems that gang up more than four Power8 processors.
In fact, the roadmaps that I have been able to get my hands on seemed to indicate that
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Porting A User Profile From One IBM i Machine To Another
July 23, 2014 Hey, Joe
… Read moreWe’re consolidating our IBM i partitions on another Power 7+ machine that belongs to my parent company. They want to move and install some special-purpose user profiles from of their partitions to one of our partitions. What’s the best way to port a user profile from one partition to another?
–Tim
You have two choices here. 1) You can either take a printout of the user profiles in question and manually recreate them on your target machine; or 2) You can back up and restore the user profiles from one machine to another.
My preference is to back up and
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Beefing Up The Job Log
July 23, 2014 Ted Holt
… Read moreNext to Barbara Morris, the job log is the IBM i professional’s best friend. However, even though job logs give useful information, they don’t always tell us everything we need to know to diagnose job failure. A recent email from perspicacious reader Daniel Long reminded me that sometimes we have to help ourselves.
A job log can tell us when a job started and ended, the list of libraries at its disposal, the CL commands and programs it ran, the messages those programs sent, etc. The one thing the job log does not show us, and how I