Timothy Prickett Morgan
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IBM i 7.1 TR6 Updated, Licenses Less Restrictive, And i 6.1.1 Ends On Power7+
June 3, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreTechnology Refresh number 6 for the IBM i 7.1 operation system, which came out in February with the entry and midrange servers based on the Power7+ processors, still has that new car smell about it. But ahead of some Power Systems announcements due on June 10 and in conjunction with a special silver anniversary promotion for Solution Edition setups, IBM has rolled out updates to TR6. The company also tweaked IBM i licensing and said Power7+ is the last stop for IBM i 6.1.1.
Yes, I know. That is an update of a refresh. Kinda funny, ain’t it? It feels
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Power System Tweaks Loom As IBM Offers 25th Anniversary Edition Iron
June 3, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreIBM is getting ready to host its Edge 2013 customer and partner event for big data and cloud in Las Vegas next week, and the word on the street is that a slew of Power Systems announcements are on the way. IBM could not keep all of its powder dry, however, and last week put out a special 25th Anniversary deal for entry IBM i boxes.
The Edge event used to be dedicated to storage, but it has expanded to cover Power Systems, System x, and PureSystems platforms, as well as related systems software for this machinery and, of course,
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Third Time A Charm For Maxava iFoundation Grants, Like Times One And Two
May 20, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreHigh availability and disaster recovery software maker Maxava is throwing its money around the IBM i community again, and I mean that in the best way possible. The New Zealand company, which has become an increasingly global company over the past decade, has been generous once again and has ponied up $50,000 to fund the Maxava iFoundation, which it started three years ago.
A lot of companies whine about needing to do something to support the IBM i community in direct and tangible ways, but Maxava has put $150,000 of its money where our mouths are. There have been
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IBM Adds Power7+ Servers To Long-Running Rebate Deals
May 20, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreWith new Power7+ entry and midrange servers fully ramped and Big Blue well into its second quarter, it is time to add the new Power Systems machines to more deals, and that is precisely what IBM has done.
In announcement letter 313-040, the Power 710+, Power 720+, Power 730+, and Power 740+ entry machines are now part of the Power Systems First-In-Location rebate offering, which gives customers a cash rebate if they are installing their first Power Systems machine along with pre-qualified application software from independent software vendors. Power 750+ and Power 760+ midrange boxes are also now eligible
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COMMON Europe Cancels Its June Conference
May 20, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreCOMMON Europe has given a jolt to the IBM i community, and right as we are approaching the 25th birthday–the silver anniversary, in fact–of the “Project Silverlake” machine that became the AS/400 minicomputer. After a hard look at the attendance data for its European Power Summit 2013 a month from now, COMMON Europe made the tough decision to cancel the event.
In a statement published on the COMMON Europe site, the European Power Summit Organizing Committee that is organizing the pan-European and pan-platform event, said that the event in Annecy, France, near Switzerland and a positively beautiful location, was
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Making Hadoop Elephants Drink From Silverlake
May 20, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreIn last week’s issue, I talked generally about big data and the use of tools like the Hadoop big data muncher created by Yahoo to emulate the very early unstructured data processing and related file system created by Google to power its search engine. While you do not have to take a snapshot of the Internet and index it continuously, as Google did when the Google File System and the MapReduce batch processing method was created, you do have your own big data challenges.
Well, they are probably more accurately described as midrange data problems, to be honest, and if
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Adding A Job Queue To A Batch Subsystem
May 15, 2013 Hey, Joe
… Read moreI want to add another batch job queue to my QBATCH subsystem for submitting reporting jobs that take a long time to process. I want to put them in their own job queue so they can just chug away in QBATCH without interfering with my other batch work. How do I add another job queue that I can submit these jobs to?
–Bob
Adding batch job queues to QBATCH is easy. All you have to do is perform the following steps and you’ll be able to create another QBATCH job queue in no time.
- Check to see how many jobs
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Bind By Slash-Copy
May 15, 2013 Ted Holt
… Read moreI advise, recommend, urge, admonish, and even cajole RPG programmers to quit using subroutines and start using subprocedures instead. Yet I still hear from people who work in shops that allow the use of RPG IV (a.k.a. ILE RPG), but do not allow binding to modules and service programs. Today I offer two ways to use subprocedures that do not require ILE binding.
But first, let’s have a quick review of ILE binding of subprocedures into programs.
1. Bind by copy
The object code of the subprocedures of a module is copied into the object code of a program
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Take COMMON Europe’s Top Concerns 2013 Survey
May 13, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreIt’s that time of the year again. If you have a suggestion for IBM or just a helpful suggestion on how it might improve the Power Systems platform running the IBM i operating systems, now is your chance to do something about it.
For the past seven years, COMMON Europe has done its part to poll the IBM i user base and try to figure out what they are worried about. And now the eighth annual Top Concerns survey is open for you to speak your mind and help shape the future of this platform.
The 2013 Top Concerns survey
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IBM Adds Power7+ Iron To Virtual Loaner Program
May 13, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreIf you are a business partner who can’t get access to a new Power7+ machine but you want to compile and test your code on some shiny new iron, then IBM has a slice of iron it wants you to take for free.
On April 24, the developerWorks web site aimed at application developers announced that the Virtual Loaner Program, a long-running service that Big Blue set up when it decided to go cloudy for developers instead of giving them cut-priced Power Systems on which to code their apps, had been updated with Power7+ machines. IBM does not say what