Timothy Prickett Morgan
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Composing An XML Document From Relational Data, Part 1
August 8, 2012 Hey, Mike
… Read moreMy boss asked me if I know of a cheap or free tool that can automatically export a DB2 (for i) table to an XML file. I told him that I could write a Java program pretty easily that could accomplish this for a specific table, but I’m not aware of any way to “generically” do it for any table.
For example:
select * from deleteme TheKey SomeText 1 Row Number 1 2 Row Number 2That code should produce output something like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <deleteme> <row> <TheKey>1</TheKey> <SomeText>Row Number 1</SomeText> </row> <row> <TheKey>2</TheKey> <SomeText>Row Number 2</SomeText>
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SAP Breaks Records In Q2, Fires Up SMB BI Partners
August 6, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreAs expected, German software giant SAP turned in the best second quarter in its long history, with sales rising 18 percent to €3.9bn and profits after taxes up 12 percent to €661 million. The company has also announced a new program to help BI partners to peddled SAP’s wares into the SMB space.
In the quarter ended in June, SAP’s software license revenues grew by 26 percent, to €1.06 billion, while support revenues rose by 16 percent to €2.01 billion. Consulting revenues were up 7 percent, to €617 million, while other services rose 11 percent to €157 million. Cloud and
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Services Prop Up Manhattan Associates In Q2, Capel Tapped As Next CEO
August 6, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreSupply chain software maker Mahattan Associates, like many other software sellers out there in recent months, has seen license sales dip while at the same time seeing an uptick in services revenues, therefore saving its financial cookies.
In the second quarter ended in June, software license sales at Manhattan Associates fell by 6.1 percent, to $15.3 million, a pretty fast deceleration from the first quarter of the year, when license sales more than doubled to $15.6 million. This may be the new normal for the company, which is still a pretty good clip for new software licenses. Services revenues
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Reader Feedback On IBM Gives Killer Power System Deals Down Under
August 6, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreTimothy,
Nice that somebody in the good ol’ USA notices that there are some advantages to life Down Under, especially if you are after a Power 720 or 750 server.
Who needs Zeds or Zees anyway? I am curious what Aussie slang involves Zs though–maybe you can educate me?
But just in case we have a boat-load of Yanks coming Down Under to plunder our servers and take them back (sounds a bit like post-war when the same thing happened to our women), you should also realise that not everything is rosy here. (Except the Prime Minister’s hair).
The cost
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Oracle Slapped Over Anti-Power Advertising Campaigns
August 6, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreLarry Ellison, co-founder and CEO of Oracle, has never been shy and he likes to compete. The company also likes to keep its marketing messages as simple as they are aggressive, and contrary to the do-nothing marketing approach by IBM, Oracle has something to prove since it acquired Sun Microsystems more than two years ago. Still, sometimes its claims about how it is better than one competitor or the other cross the line.
Twice in the past year, in fact, according to rulings from the Better Business Bureau‘s National Advertising Division, the advertising part of the North
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IBM i Wins Software Pricing Throwdown Versus AIX-DB2 Combo
August 6, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreThe advent of the PowerLinux machines back in April, which have discounted Linux and PowerVM hypervisor software and substantially discounted memory and disk storage prices compared to the plain vanilla Power Systems machines in which they are based, got me to thinking about software pricing. And that, as we all know, is a dangerous thing. And it turns out, compared to AIX and DB2 for Unix shops, customers using entry Power Systems-IBM i machines are, at least at list prices, getting quite a deal.
Shhhh. Don’t tell IBM.
No one was more surprised than me to figure this out.
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Admin Alert: The Right Way To Delete User Profiles, Part 1
July 25, 2012 Joe Hertvik
… Read moreTo most people, deleting user profiles on an IBM i partition is an easy process that doesn’t warrant much thought. However, your user deletion process can be complicated by several different items, including compliance requirements and special handling needed for user profiles that are critical to system functioning. This issue and next, let’s look at some dos and don’ts for profile deletion and outline a procedure for deleting user profiles.
A Common Procedure For Anyone Who Leaves Your Organization
IMHO, the best way to deal with terminated users is to perform the following five steps:
- Know and follow organization specific
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Is An RPGOA-like Standard For HTML5 On The Horizon?
July 25, 2012 Alex Roytman
… Read moreThere is a lot of talk lately about HTML5. But do most people understand what HTML5 really is? One way to define it is to say it’s the next version of HTML; basically an update to HTML4.
But is it more than that? Perhaps it’s not just an update, but a new thing altogether, a new way to build Web and mobile applications.
To me, HTML5 signifies a different paradigm, where Web applications are built as true applications, not just as Web pages.
More Than Just HTML
The enhancements being adopted and proposed into the HTML5 standard encompass HTML, CSS,
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Big Blue Puts Out New Hardware PTF Group For IBM i 6.1 And 7.1
July 23, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreHere’s a puzzler that we haven’t been able to sort out. There are two new hardware group PTFs that IBM put out last week that are not part of its Technology Refresh cycle and that don’t seem to be tied to cumulative releases of the IBM i 6.1 or 7.1 operating systems, either.
The PTF group is SF99705 for IBM i 7.1 (PDF) and SF99605 for IBM i 6.1 (PDF), and as best as we can tell here at IT Jungle, the PTF patches include firmware and Microsoft patches for drivers and licensed internal code that lives at the
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IBM Rolls Out Lab Services For PureSystems Integration
July 23, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreStarting next month, the techies from the various divisions of IBM‘s Systems and Technology Group are going to be peddling yet another bunch of services to help customers integrate their existing systems with new PureSystems modular gear.
In announcement letter 612-027, you’ll find the IBM Systems Lab Services is offering what it calls ServiceUnits for premium, remote, and local services, all of which are designed to help customers adopt new technologies and integrate them with their existing systems. In this case, IBM is offering QuickStart services for PureFlex Standard, Express, and Enterprise Editions (those are varying degrees of