Timothy Prickett Morgan
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More Reader Feedback On Big Blue Gives A Solid Installed Base Number
August 27, 2012 Hey, TPM
… Read moreWell I, for one, am glad IBM put an actual figure to their active customer base, machines, and/or customers. At least it is 150,000 active paying businesses using the AS/400-i and gives me some credence for continuing to develop on them. I have five AS/400-i’s laying around and too many PCs. None of them are on maintenance, so the active figure maybe a tad low on those with used machines and no maintenance. And yes, I actively use only two of those i machines, and for development only.
–TS
To be precise, and as I said in my previous comment
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IBM Touts PureSystems Uptake For PoCs, In Emerging Markets
August 27, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreIt has been four months since IBM launched its Flex System modular systems and the management and cloudy infrastructure software that turns the server, network, and storage in the machine into a PureSystems box. The software vendors are lining up behind the machine, and the first customers are starting to buy boxes to kick the tires and see how they might work in production.
As of early August, IBM had an ecosystem with over 700 business partners, mostly independent software vendors (ISVs) and system resellers, who were certified to peddle the boxes, and over 160 software packages have been put
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IBM Lassos Texas Memory Systems For Flashy Storage
August 27, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreIBM has been partnering with SandForce, now part of storage controller maker LSI, and Fusion-io for server-based PCI-Express cards with flash memory welded onto them to boost server performance. But now, with the acquisition of Texas Memory Systems, there’s a new flash storage sheriff in town.
Just as I was getting ready to go on holiday on August 16, IBM shelled out an undisclosed wad of cash to acquire TMS, which is the pioneer in memory-based accelerated storage. The company was founded in Houston back in 1978, at the dawn of the minicomputer and supercomputer ages, in
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Admin Alert: Copying User Profiles Between Systems
August 22, 2012 Joe Hertvik
… Read moreThere are times when IBM i administrators may need to copy a user profile from one IBM i system to another, especially when promoting software from a development to a production system. This week, I’ll illustrate three different techniques for copying profiles between systems and talk about their strengths and weaknesses.
Three Ways To Copy User Profiles Between Systems
There are three different ways that I know of to copy a user profile between IBM i operating systems. These techniques are ranked here in terms of the most difficult way to the easiest way to copy a user profile.
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Where’s The Module?
August 22, 2012 Susan Gantner
… Read moreNote: The code accompanying this article is available for download here.
Over the years I have participated in many discussions about how to find all the programs that have a specific module bound into them. Since the DSPPGM command doesn’t support output to a file, it provides a challenge to find this information. The question always seems odd to me, because my philosophy is that if the code in a module is needed in more than one program, it goes into a service program. The service program is then referenced by (and shared by) all the programs that need
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iBelieve Revival From looksoftware Heads Down To Wall Street
August 13, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreThe iBelieve event is coming to the Big Apple, and if you are in the tri-state area on September 27, then looksoftware wants you to stop by Wall Street and sit in on its latest IBM i community event.
During my holiday two weeks ago, I went down to Wall Street where my wife works to have lunch with her and stopped by the Downtown Conference Centre run by Pace University on William Street, just a few blocks east of Ground Zero and a few blocks north of Wall Street. The shindig is perfect and looks like it might hold
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IBM Rounds Out Flex Systems With Xeon E5 Iron
August 13, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreBig Blue added new machines to the Flex System lineup last week, but don’t get too excited. They were not Power7-based machines, or better still Power7+ nodes, but just X86-based nodes for the “Project Troy” modular system that the company debuted in April that are based on the latest Xeon E5 processors for two-socket and four-socket servers that were announced in May by Intel.
The Xeon E5-2600s are geared down versions of the Xeon E5-2600s that came out in March, sporting one fewer QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) link between the processor sockets and therefore lower memory capacity and bandwidth between
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Reader Feedback On Big Blue Gives A Solid Installed Base Number
August 13, 2012 Hey, TPM
… Read moreI wonder how, or if, IBM counts the thousands of used servers that have been removed from the original account, but are still working perfectly for smaller companies. These are often running vertical application software supported by IBM partners (or not). Perhaps half of our customer base is now operating on used Model 520s due to IBM’s pricing structure for new System i servers. Most don’t keep an IBM hardware maintenance contract.
Obviously these customers don’t matter much to IBM (they barely care about entry level sales of new servers). But they are still an active part of the ecosystem.
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Power7+ Chips Juiced With Faster Clocks, Memory Compression
August 13, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreI have my ticket booked to head west to the Hot Chips 24 conference hosted by Stanford University, where IBM, Oracle, Advanced Micro Devices, and Intel are expected to talk about just announced and impending processors. But Big Blue seems unable to contain its enthusiasm for the Power7+ chip that it will talk about alongside its next-generation zNext processors for its System z mainframes.
A little more than a month ago, I told you about some of the details on the forthcoming chip that could be scrounged from poking around the Intertubes. From a die shot of
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Admin Alert: The Right Way To Delete User Profiles, Part 2
August 8, 2012 Joe Hertvik
… Read moreLast issue, I introduced a two-part article discussing techniques for deleting user profiles. Part one focused on prepping a user profile for deletion. In part two this week, I discuss how to determine whether the user is a critical user and what to do about it, and I demonstrate three techniques for deleting users. After reading both articles, you will have a good template for creating an IBM i user deletion procedure in your organization.
The Five Steps Of User Deletion
Last issue, I introduced a template that determined the best way to deal with terminated IBM i users