Timothy Prickett Morgan
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Key Information Systems Buys Cloud And Co-Location Biz
August 26, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreLong-time IBM i platform reseller and system integrator Key Information Systems is going into the data center co-location, connectivity, and cloud computing businesses after acquiring ISWest, a data center operator located in its neck of Southern California.
Key Info did not disclose the financial details of the acquisition, but Leif Morin, the company’s president, tells The Four Hundred that the opportunity to acquire the assets of ISWest and take on its team of data center operations experts was too good to pass up. Key has 55 employees and generates around $55 million per year from its reseller and consulting
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IBM To Host Cloud Summit For ISVs and MSPs In Rochester
August 26, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreBig Blue is looking to get managed service providers who are building infrastructure clouds based on the IBM i platform together with independent software vendors who want to run their wares in the cloud together at a IBM i Cloud Summit held in Rochester, Minnesota.
The event, which will run on October 2 and 3, will be free of charge to MSPs and ISVs that want to attend, but they will have to cover their own travel and lodging costs, says Ian Jarman, the long-time IBM i product manager who is now business unit executive for Lab Services in the
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IBM Chops Power7+ Processor Prices On Flex Iron
August 26, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreIf you are shopping for a new two-socket Flex p260+ server node, then good news. IBM just slashed the prices on the processor cards on three out of the four processor card features that were announced with the machines earlier this month.
As The Four Hundred previously reported, IBM trotted out three new server nodes in the Flex System chassis on August 6. Apparently IBM is unhappy with the pricing of the 7895-23A processor cards, which were aimed specifically at IBM i shops and which have two Power7+ processors running at 4 GHz, each with two cores. But the
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Reeder Feedback On A New IBM i Team Is Needed
August 26, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreDan:
Quite often I pass the articles around from IT Jungle. This one caused quite a stir in our organization–in a good way.
My eyes were opened. I learned that management does not understand the difference between “big data” and “data centric programming” vs. “application programming.”
I am the database engineer here (a brand new position), and we are going through some growing pains as a result. But, we are in a perfect storm to embrace the challenges. I am looking for a good article, in plain English on data centric programming.
Thank you and keep up the good
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One Power 750 Matches Two Xeon Servers On SAP BW Test
August 26, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreFor many years now, IBM has been very keen on using various data warehousing benchmark tests based on applications from German software giant SAP to show the relative scalability of Power Systems running OS/400, i5/OS, and IBM i, and to make comparisons to other systems. Now, IBM has perhaps won a throwdown with Hewlett-Packard.
Last year, when HP was trying to show off the performance of its ProLiant DL580 G7 servers running SAP code and using the HANA in-memory database from SAP to support its Business Warehouse data warehouse, the company chose the Business Warehouse Enhanced Mixed Load benchmark,
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IBM To Divulge Power8 Processor Secrets At Hot Chips
August 26, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreIt is late on a Friday night after a hard week, and I have to be up at some awful hour to catch a plane at JFK to get myself to San Francisco in the morning. (The flight boards at 6:20 a.m. for a 7 a.m. takeoff, and I would be lying if I said that Delta Flight DL629 was not a little familiar to me after a few years.) But I don’t care about all that, and I don’t care about being tired because if there is one thing I love, it is going to Hot Chips once a
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Which Job Is Filling Up My System Storage?
August 21, 2013 Hey, Joe
… Read moreEvery so often, our system storage breaches its threshold level, and we have to find the job that is filling up storage before it crashes our system. This is usually a race against time. Do you have any tips on how to quickly find runaway jobs that are gobbling up storage?
–Mike
I feel your pain on this one. Hitting the threshold can be a recurring event in some shops, and it’s always better to find out sooner when this problem occurs rather than later.
Here’s how I handle this issue.
Set Your ASP Threshold At A Reasonable Level
On
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Join The Queue With Open Access
August 21, 2013 Jon Paris
… Read moreNote: The code accompanying this article is available for download here.
It has been a while since my last tip on RPG Open Access and now that everyone running IBM i V6 or 7 has access to it for no additional cost, I thought it was time to revisit the subject.
OA handlers operate in one of two modes: buffer and names/values. The buffer option performs better, but requires the handler to know the layout of the data in the buffer in advance. Names/values (NV) handlers, such as the one I introduced in the previous article, do not
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Override Default Data Types In The SQL Descriptor
August 21, 2013 Hey, Mike
… Read moreNote: The code accompanying this article is available for download here.
I’d like to use SQL Descriptors in an embedded SQL program to read column data into host variables. However, if my host variable type doesn’t match exactly the parameter or column data type then I receive an SQL0076 error: “DATA or INDICATOR item not correct.” How can I, for example, receive the data from a CHAR(10) column from the SQL descriptor into an RPG varying-length character 20 variable, without using an explicit CAST in the SQL statement?
–J.B.
AUTHOR’S NOTE: If you’re unfamiliar with SQL descriptors, please see
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Flex Systems Get New 10GE And 40GE Switches, Too
August 12, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreIn addition to the three new Flex System server nodes that are discussed elsewhere in this issue, IBM also announced three new switch modules that slip into the back of the chassis and offer connectivity between enclosures and across racks of enclosures. (The number three is just a coincidence and there are no dependencies. Although three is, of course, the magic number.)
The first new switch, which you can see in announcement letter 113-125, is called the EN6131, and it is a based on the Switch-X Ethernet ASICs from Mellanox Technologies. This switch has 14 internal ports