Timothy Prickett Morgan
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IBM Readies October Power Systems Announcements
October 10, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreThe word on the street is that IBM is gearing up for some new Power Systems announcements. The exact nature of the announcements is not clear, but I am hearing a little bit of this and a little bit of that about what Big Blue has cooking for its IBM i, AIX, and Linux customers who use Power-based systems. What I can tell you for sure that whatever Big Blue is up to, and contrary to what some of its own roadmaps have been pointing to, it is not calling it the Power7+ server refresh.
I don’t yet know if
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Admin Alert: How to Retrieve Password Parameters for Auditors
October 5, 2011 Joe Hertvik
… Read moreYour organization’s fiscal year may have ended on September 30. Meaning you could soon be visited by auditors looking for information on how your organization operates its AS/400-class machine (iSeries, System i, Power i). Your auditors will be particularly interested in your password configuration parameters and whether they meet standards. To that end, here’s a quick drill for retrieving password setup values at audit time.
What Auditors Want
Auditors generally require you to provide the following sets of password related parameters.
- Your password configuration parameters–The rules users follow for creating passwords.
- Configuration and program code for Password Validation Program
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Another Way to Pass Parms to SBMJOB
October 5, 2011 Bruce Guetzkow
… Read moreNote: The code accompanying this article is available for download here.
A couple of years ago I needed to develop a process where a group of items could be selected from a screen and a report listing those items could be generated. On the surface, a simple task. Of course, if you give a mouse a cookie, they’re going to want a glass of milk, or another report. . . and another. Again, not too complicated. All that should be needed is a way to submit a call to a variable list of programs. As long as each program
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Call Again and Again and Again…
October 5, 2011 Paul Tuohy
… Read moreNote: The code accompanying this article is available for download here.
In programming terms, recursion is the process whereby a function may call itself. Traditionally, this is something we are not used to in RPG. Programs and subroutines cannot call themselves. Or if you did somehow manage it (and you could), you would get unpredictable results.
But the introduction of subprocedures opened up the possibility of using recursion because subprocedures can call themselves.
It is usually very difficult to come up with practical examples of using recursion, and most of those examples are usually very specific to an application.
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Admin Alert: How to Retrieve Password Parameters for Auditors
October 5, 2011 Joe Hertvik
… Read moreYour organization’s fiscal year may have ended on September 30. Meaning you could soon be visited by auditors looking for information on how your organization operates its AS/400-class machine (iSeries, System i, Power i). Your auditors will be particularly interested in your password configuration parameters and whether they meet standards. To that end, here’s a quick drill for retrieving password setup values at audit time.
What Auditors Want
Auditors generally require you to provide the following sets of password related parameters.
- Your password configuration parameters–The rules users follow for creating passwords.
- Configuration and program code for Password Validation Program
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Another Way to Pass Parms to SBMJOB
October 5, 2011 Bruce Guetzkow
… Read moreNote: The code accompanying this article is available for download here.
A couple of years ago I needed to develop a process where a group of items could be selected from a screen and a report listing those items could be generated. On the surface, a simple task. Of course, if you give a mouse a cookie, they’re going to want a glass of milk, or another report. . . and another. Again, not too complicated. All that should be needed is a way to submit a call to a variable list of programs. As long as each program
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Call Again and Again and Again…
October 5, 2011 Paul Tuohy
… Read moreNote: The code accompanying this article is available for download here.
In programming terms, recursion is the process whereby a function may call itself. Traditionally, this is something we are not used to in RPG. Programs and subroutines cannot call themselves. Or if you did somehow manage it (and you could), you would get unpredictable results.
But the introduction of subprocedures opened up the possibility of using recursion because subprocedures can call themselves.
It is usually very difficult to come up with practical examples of using recursion, and most of those examples are usually very specific to an application.
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IBM’s Market Value Passes Microsoft After 15 Years
October 3, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreWell, it only took a decade and a half, but as far as Wall Street is concerned, IBM is now as valuable as Microsoft.
On late Friday, as I was putting together this newsletter, IBM’s stock was hovering around $178 a share, giving Big Blue a market capitalization of $212 billion. That’s a little bit off from the $185.63 high that IBM set back on July 22, but with Microsoft’s shares falling (for a variety of reasons), IBM has pulled slightly ahead of Big Bill at the Thursday close. Microsoft had recovered a little to a $215 billion valuation
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IBM Invests Nearly $4 Billion In Next-Gen Chip Tech
October 3, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreIt looks like IBM is going to stay in the chip manufacturing business for at least a few more years, which is good news for Power Systems-IBM i shops.
New York governor Andrew Cuomo announced last week that it was kicking in $400 million into various high-tech campuses of the State University of New York (SUNY) relating to the development of future chip technologies while at the same time IBM agreed to pump $3.6 billion into its chip research facilities in Yorktown Heights, New York, and in its chip manufacturing facilities in nearby East Fishkill. Cuomo also announced that a
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Reader Feedback on New Systems and QuickTransit Emulator
October 3, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreTimothy:
Thumbs up on the lead-off article Start Planning For New Systems Now. Thorough but useful at every turn, practical rather than a tech spew of speeds and feeds, and a great bit of tactical advice regarding negotiation on a Power7 in light of the upcoming Power7+.
Just wanted to let you know I enjoyed it and will be referencing it where relevant in some LinkedIn groups I participate in.
–MB
That’s why you keep me around. Glad to be of use.
–TPM
So did Transitive decide to quietly escape IBM’s wrath by being absorbed by them? It really