Timothy Prickett Morgan
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Aussies And Kiwis Get Killer Power 720 Bundle
September 12, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreThe exploding Chinese economy has been a boon for both Australia and New Zealand, which sit close together and are packed with food and raw materials that the Chinese economy needs. New Zealand has suffered an earthquake that has literally and economically rattled the country, but it is running trade surpluses according to The Economist. Like its larger neighbor, Australia, and the United States, New Zealand has its own deficit spending and housing bubble, too. But both Australia and New Zealand managed to escape the clutches of the Great Recession.
Given all this, I found the announcement of a
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Admin Alert: Starting Multiple PC5250 Sessions in a Batch File
September 7, 2011 Joe Hertvik
… Read moreIn a recent column, I demonstrated how to configure a PC5250 session so that you can run multiple sessions on the same PC to a single iSeries/System i/Power i partition. The problem with that technique was that it only worked using sessions that connected to the same partition. This issue, I’ll demonstrate how to automatically start multiple PC5250 sessions on the same PC that connect to different partitions.
Today’s column was inspired by reader Bill Swann, who reminded me that the iSeries Access for Windows package includes a very simple procedure for launching multiple PC5250 sessions at the same time
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Dynamically Invoke SQL UDFs From RPG Code
September 7, 2011 Hey, Mike
… Read moreI’m wondering if it is possible to use dynamic SQL (prepare/execute or execute immediate) to call a User Defined [scalar] Function (UDF).
I understand we can use the SET statement in our code but we would like to “soft” code some RPG business logic and we are looking at having the RPG code dynamically call certain UDFs based on certain conditions. So it would be nice to create dynamic SQL statements to call certain UDFs. Thanks!
–Brian
Hi, Brian:
Today is your lucky day because there is a way to do this. Starting with V5R1, the VALUES INTO statement can
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Adobe Flash Builder for the iSeries Programmer, Part 2
September 7, 2011 Shannon O'Donnell
… Read moreNOTE: The code accompanying this article is available for download here.
In my last article, I introduced you to the Adobe Flash Builder tool and showed you just how easy it is to create Flash-based user interfaces. In addition, I showed you how to integrate Flash components that other people create without having to know much, if anything, about them. And I told you that in future articles I would be showing you how to use Flash Builder to display and interact with iSeries DB2/400 data.
Well, the future has arrived! In this article, which is the first
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Admin Alert: Two PC5250 Configuration Secrets
August 24, 2011 Joe Hertvik
… Read moreWith a history that spans well over a decade, the PC5250 program that comes with iSeries Access for Windows 6.1 contains tons of features that the average user or administrator may be unaware of. This week, I am discussing how you can use PC5250 to delete unneeded macros and to run multiple unique green-screen sessions on your desktop. Let’s get started.
Deleting a PC5250 Macro
In an earlier issue, I demonstrated how to record and play PC5250 macros. After that article was posted, several readers wrote in asking me how to delete existing macros on their systems. Here’s the
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Add a Record to Any File
August 24, 2011 Bruce Guetzkow
… Read moreNote: The code accompanying this article is available for download here.
Sometimes it is handy to be able to write simple data records to a file from a CLLE module/program without having to write additional programs or procedures. Since IBM has not provided a direct way to do this as part of the operating system, here is a simple method that you can install and use in a matter of minutes.
I’ve seen several examples over the years of ways to add a record to any file. Usually a temporary file is involved using a program-described file in the
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An Indicator By Any Other Name
August 24, 2011 Jon Paris
… Read moreBecause indicators have been around forever, we kind of take them for granted. I often find that RPGers don’t really understand all the ways in which they can be used. This tip is an attempt to highlight four things that every RPGer should know about our little friends.
1. Indicators, or at least the standard set, are an array.
You may not need to use indicators *In01 – *In99 as an array, but the fact that they are an array offers an opportunity to name them with minimal effort.
I have always hated the fact that we have to rely
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Kronos Sells Lots of HR Software On Premise and In Its Cloud
August 22, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreWorkforce management software maker Kronos continues to grow despite the troubling job market in the United States. Perhaps people are trying to do a better job managing the people and expertise that they have?
In its third fiscal quarter ended in July, Kronos, which is privately held, said that sales were up in the double-digits. Specifically, the company said that revenues were up 13.9 percent year-on-year to $210.8 million. Earnings before interest, taxes, and amortization (EBITA in the accounting lingo) rose by 27.6 percent, to $60.5 million. Software license sales were up over 30 percent, with sales of the absence
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IBM Cuts BNT Switch Tags, Adds Fibre Channel SAN Switches
August 22, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreAs a long-time IBM customer, you are probably not used to the fact that there is an IBM System Networking division that sells data center and storage switches. And as a really long time IBM customer, as many AS/400 shops certainly are, you are probably wondering why the hell Big Blue sold off its networking business to Cisco Systems in 1999 and basically gave the company a decade of high margins.
No matter. IBM has acquired and partnered to build up its own portfolio of switching products, and the company is eager to dislodge the incumbents whose switches are on
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Big Blue Tweaks Red Hat Deal for Power Systems
August 22, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreIBM has updated a special Linux promotion it announced last year for Red Hat and SUSE Linux variants running on Power Systems machines.
Under the Linux on Power Systems Capacity Upgrade on Demand offering in announcement letter 310-240, announced August 17 last year, IBM gave customers with spare and unused processor capacity on selected Power Systems machines freebie Linux licenses and memory capacity to support them. The deal offered free Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 or 5 and free SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 and 11 licenses on Power 570 servers using Power6 and Power6+ processors, Power 595 servers