Timothy Prickett Morgan
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Write PDM Scans to Database Files
June 8, 2011 Ted Holt
… Read moreNote: The code accompanying this article is available for download here.
My shop licenses a documentation package that tells us all sorts of useful information, such as which programs use which files and which programs call which programs. Nevertheless, we still use PDM string searches to search source code. I wrote a utility that makes such searches more powerful. Maybe you’ll find it beneficial.
How To Search Using PDM
You have two ways to search source code with PDM. You can use option 25 from the WRKOBJPDM and WRKMBRPDM displays, or you can use the Find String Using PDM
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ILE: Decisions, Decisions, Part 1
June 8, 2011 Susan Gantner
… Read moreI’ve been working with and teaching people about ILE for many years. There are a few questions that come up again and again. So I thought I’d cover my responses in some tips. In this tip, the subject is binding directories.
I’m often asked about the best way to use binding directories and/or how many binding directories I recommend.
My philosophy is to keep things as simple as possible for the developers. I believe that ILE’s value is in making development more efficient by making it easy to develop and use your own application functions that you can use as
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IBM Adds SupportLine for Power Systems Blades
June 6, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreI would have assumed that Power Systems blade servers slapped into BladeCenter blade server enclosures had SupportLine hand-holding from IBM, but apparently not. Or rather more precisely, they do now.
In announcement letter 611-013, IBM extended the Hardware Maintenance Services (product number 6950-95A) to augment that hardware support. To put it in plain English (or rather American), SupportLine is one of the things that makes a Power blade setup an AS/400 and not just an RS/6000.
SupportLine for Power Systems BladeCenter is a remote support option (presumably delivered out of IBM’s Rochester, Minnesota, facility for the Americas region)
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Red Hat Revs Enterprise Linux To 6.1
June 6, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreCommercial Linux distributor Red Hat has announced the first update to its Enterprise Linux 6 operating system.
The RHEL 6.1 update comes six months after the major upgrade to the 6.0 version, and Tim Burke, vice president of Linux engineering, tells me that in addition to the 314 updated packages and 49 new packages that were rolled up in the 6.1 update, the Linux 2.6.32 kernel has been tweaked to support a whole slew of new hardware that is coming down the pike later this year and early next. Burke could not be explicit about what hardware has been added
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Time For IBM i To Catch Mono–Again
June 6, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreJust after Attachmate‘s takeover of Novell and just before it did the breaking of that company into two divisions, SUSE selling Linux and Novell selling everything else, Attachmate told the people working on the open source Mono project they were no longer needed at the company. But it is a lot harder to kill an open source project than taking away techie paychecks, and a new project has sprung up to carry on the Mono work.
Mono, of course, is a project founded by Miguel de Icaza, whose is one of the bigwigs behind the Gnome user interface for
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COMMON Europe Extends Top i Concerns Survey To June 24
June 6, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreThe Memorial Day holiday got in the way of the Top i Concerns survey being conducted by COMMON Europe, which had hoped to have a representative number of participants ahead of the holiday and its conference in Milan, Italy. But people were busy out there on the Intertubes, so Deshpande Ranga, vice president and events manager at COMMON Europe and the Top Concerns project lead, has extended the survey participation date to June 24.
That’s the AS/400’s birthday week, people, so why not show a little spirit and help COMMON Europe out and participate in the survey?
As the
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Intel’s AppUp Is A Cloudy Clone of IBM’s Smart Cube
June 6, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreJust before The Four Hundred went on hiatus for the Memorial Day weekend, I took a briefing with the folks at Intel‘s Data Center Group about a new product/service called the AppUp Small Business Service on Hybrid Cloud that will probably give you that sense of déjà vu as I had.
It borrows many of the concepts from the original AS/400 launch a zillion years ago and, more recently, from the Smart Cube appliances that IBM has stopped talking about.
The genius of the AS/400–there are many very smart ideas in the system–was that the box launched with thousands
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Midrange Server Sales Spike Big Time in Q1
June 6, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreThe low-end of the server racket came out of the Great Recession first, followed by IBM mainframes and then a push for big Unix boxes as 2010 came to a close. And in the first quarter of 2011, it was the midrange server makers turn to rake in some money, according to the server box counters at IDC. And the rebound couldn’t have come soon enough for vendors, resellers, and customers alike. The latter have been eager to upgrade their systems, and the former have been egging them on for a year or two.
IDC measures the factory revenue
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I, Cloud-i-us
June 6, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreIt is perhaps fitting to discuss the future of cloud computing on the IBM i platform on the same day that IT and consumer electronics darling Apple is expected to launch iCloud, its fourth iteration of online services for its various iMac, iPhone, iPod, and iPad devices. If anyone has dibs on the iCloud name, you would think it would be IBM with its iSeries, System i, and Power Systems-IBM i platforms. But Apple ponied up the $4.5 million to buy the iCloud name from its owner and beat IBM to the punch.
Exactly what iCloud is–and isn’t–remains cloaked in
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Admin Alert: Other Options for a Post-Upgrade Backup
May 25, 2011 Joe Hertvik
… Read moreIn an earlier column, I wrote about how administrators can save time after an i operating system upgrade by performing a Save System (SAVSYS) backup instead of a full system save. Several readers wrote in with more information and system information backup tips. Let’s look at what they had to say about post-upgrade backups and what we can learn from them.
A Better Post-Upgrade Backup Strategy
Pete Massiello of iTech Solutions wrote in with the best suggestion for post-upgrade backups when he said:
I perform many upgrades, and I tell my customers that the best option, if time permits,