Timothy Prickett Morgan
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IT Budgets To Crunch This Year In North America And Europe
January 30, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreIf you were expecting for IT spending to go up this year and for new projects to get going and perhaps get a pay raise, the consensus is building that this is not going to happen. That’s the bad news. The good news would seem to be that instead of being asked to do more with less, IT shops will be asked to do a lot more with a tiny bit more dough. But it’s not that simple, so don’t jump to conclusions.
IT market researcher Gartner spends a lot of time with CIOs to try to help them figure
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Reader Feedback On IBM’s Move On Up To Power7 Upgrade Math
January 30, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreHey, TPM:
Best wishes for 2012!
In the table in your story, IBM’s Move On Up To Power7 Upgrade Math, taking into account the last supported release that can could run on that model, can you update this with input from this link from IBM: http://www-947.ibm.com/systems/support/i/planning/upgrade/osmapping.html
Nobody in their right mind will pay software maintenance for machines that cannot run a release that is supported. For example, the iSeries 170 and 250 machines can run V5R3 at the latest, and there is no point (apart from sympathy for IBM, ha!) to pay software support if the right for
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IBM Throws The Books At Big Power7 Shops
January 30, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreIf you are shopping for a big bad box to run IBM i, AIX, or Linux–or a combination of the three–then Big Blue has a deal for you on its enterprise-class Power 770, 780, and 795 servers. The deal that IBM offered to customers of System p5 590, System p5 595 machines in October 2007 and then in March 2010 on the Power 595 in the wake of the initial Power7-based servers, which came out a month earlier.
In announcement letter 312-011, Big Blue has rolled out the Power Systems 2 For 1 Power 7 Processor Book promotion. If
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Big Blue’s Software Gurus Rethink Systems
January 30, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreThe AS/400 Division and its affiliated Rochester Lab and manufacturing facility has brought some of the key innovations in systems to market ever created by IBM–dense DRAM, magnetoresistive disk heads and dense disk drives, 64-bit PowerPC processor, relational database technology, server virtualization hypervisors, the list goes on–and that made Big Blue a player in the systems market when they were on the cutting edge and that still make it a player today. But the reality of the situation is that Rochester is no longer a center of gravity for systems in the way it was in the past.
The
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How Do I Export an iSeries Certificate File?
January 25, 2012 Hey, Joe
… Read moreI’m trying to export one of my i5/OS digital certificates into a PC file for server installation. Every time I try the export function, I get the message: An error occurred while opening files to write. What’s going on and how can I export the certificate to a file? I’m running i5/OS V5R4M5.
–Abe
It could be the way you’re trying to export the file. Here’s how I’ve successfully downloaded digital certificates in the past, and where I’ve hit that particular message. Maybe this technique will help you export your certificate.
1. Start the IBM Web Administration for i
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qsort: A Better SORTA
January 25, 2012 Jon Paris
… Read moreOver the past few years I’ve done quite a lot of PHP coding alongside my RPG work, and PHP’s extensive use of arrays has furthered my conviction that we RPGers just don’t use arrays nearly enough. There are many reasons for this, of course, one of which is RPG’s limited ability to sort and search arrays.
Admittedly in recent releases the restrictions have been somewhat alleviated, but there are still many limitations. For example, take a look at the DS below:
d customerData ds Dim(1000) Qualified d name 30a d address1 40a d address2 40a d city 30a d state
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Limited Capabilities Workaround
January 25, 2012 Patrick Botz
… Read moreLimited capabilities is a widely used security function of IBM i. User profiles have an attribute named limited capabilities or LMTCPB. CL commands have an attribute named allow limited capabilities users or ALWLMTUSR). CL commands set to ALWLMTUSR(*NO) cannot be run from a command line by user profiles set to LMTCPB(*YES). To be more precise, these commands cannot be run from a command line, the command-entry display, FTP, REXEC, the QCAPCMD API, or as an option from a command grouping menu.
This is all well and good. Sometimes, however, you run into situations where a few user profiles, that should
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IBM Gives The 7042-CR6 HMC Another Execution Stay
January 23, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreIBM just can’t seem to kill the 7042-CR6 hardware management console, or HMC. It has now had its second stay of execution.
The HMC is on its way out over the long haul, of course, as The Four Hundred explained back in April 2011, which IBM announced the Systems Director Management Console, or SDMC. While the HMC was tied to Power Systems iron, managing its PowerVM hypervisor, the SMDC, which runs a new suite of tools for managing Power Systems, System x, and BladeCenter iron and their respective hypervisors. The SDMC tool itself runs on Power Systems machines with
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Big Blue Expands Power Systems Recycling Deal
January 23, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreAn enterprise server is almost as hard to get rid of as it is to get the bean counters to pay for it in the first place. That is why server makers sometimes sweeten their new server acquisition deals by agreeing to take back old boxes when customers buy new boxes.
Way back in September 2007 when the new machines were the Power6-based System i machines, IBM launched an AS/400 and eServer iSeries no-charge removal program, which has been updated numerous times over the years. In announcement letter 311-182, IBM has tweaked the no-charge removal the deal one more
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IBM Squeezes Magnetic Memory Bit Down To A Dozen Atoms
January 23, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreIBM has revealed one possible contender for data storage that we might see far into the future. In a paper presented by techies from the Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California, Big Blue is showing off that it can encode a bit of data in a dozen iron atoms using antiferromagnetic properties of the atoms.
In the most capacious hard drives used in PCs and servers today, it takes about 1 million atoms to encode a bit of data using disk heads that employ giant magnetoresistance to encode and read data on the platter of a disk drive.
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