Timothy Prickett Morgan
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A View of a View of a View
April 13, 2011 Ted Holt
… Read moreOne of the traits of a good database is that users are not forced to perceive the structure of the data as it is stored in the tables, but are free to perceive the data in ways that are meaningful to them. Today I share an SQL technique that achieves that goal. (No, you can’t do this with logical files.)
Alternate Reality
Before I illustrate the technique, let’s be sure we understand this idea of allowing the user to perceive the data as he wants to. Suppose a table (physical file) of invoices includes the date that an invoice is
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Storage Software Sales Recover Well in 2010
April 11, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreAs is the case in the system market, you need hardware sales to drive software sales in the storage racket, and most of the profit is in the software, not the hardware, but a lot of the revenue is still in the hardware. You need both to be in business.
The analysts at Gartner gave us a sense of how storage disk array market did in 2010. And now it is IDC‘s turn to talk about the sophisticated file system, archiving, mirroring and replication, and other storage software that vendors sell to ride atop servers and storage arrays.
IDC
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Taiwan Gets Its Own Power Systems Lab
April 11, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreThe name is International Business Machines, these days that means riding the second wave of globalization. In the first wave after World War II, companies from different parts of the globe busted open new markets and sold their products in far-away countries. In the second wave, which we have been living through for the past decade, companies have global supply chains and workforces and they move jobs where they can be done the cheapest or where they need to be for political reasons.
And so it is that IBM is opening up its very first Power Systems laboratory in the
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Reader Feedback on AS/400 i Mystery Solved–Again?
April 11, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreI agree with the conclusion of the article, AS/400 i Mystery Solved–Again? by Pat Botz.
It was:
So, why is the AS/400 market declining and perceived as old technology? I believe, literally, that because it was so far ahead of its time that many of the shops using it were unable to understand how to integrate the system with the changing environment around it. This led to the misconception of old technology and the need to move on to “newer” more “flexible” systems.
The IBM i Manifest is a group of IBM partners, independent software vendors, consultants and customers joined
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ITG Says IBM i + DB2 for i Still Offers Lowest TCO
April 11, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreAs The Four Hundred previously reported, a new vice president, Colin Parris, has taken the reins as business line manager for the Power Systems line of servers. And one of the things that IBM has done as Parris took control is have its stable of consultants who do price/performance and other kinds of analysis for Power Systems go out and update their reports to reflect the new Power7 iron and related operating systems that debuted last year.
You can see a list of the updated Power Systems reports here. International Technology Group, the Los Altos, California, consultancy that
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IBM’s Power-Based SmartClouds on the Horizon
April 11, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreIf you have been waiting, like I have, for IBM to get Power-based infrastructure clouds to market, it looks like you are going to have to wait a little while longer but no later than the end of this year. The Global Technology Services division of Big Blue’s Global Services giant, which accounts for more than half of the IT giants sales these days, fluffed up the Smart Business Cloud Enterprise last week, IBM’s first true infrastructure cloud.
The Smart Business Cloud – Enterprise, as IBM’s first true infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud is called, is based on the
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Rocket Software Bulks Up i Biz with Aldon Acquisition
April 7, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreOver the past couple of years, Rocket Software has quietly built up a tidy business related to the OS/400 and i, thanks to its acquisitions of application modernization tool maker Seagull Software and terminal emulation software maker BlueZone. With the addition of Aldon, which Rocket Software acquired on March 22 just as IT Jungle was going on hiatus, the software conglomerate is adding application lifecycle management to its IBM i toolbox.
Aldon goes way back in the IBM midrange, all the way back to 1979, in fact, when Albert Magid and Don Parr, founded it as a services company focusing
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Admin Alert: Must Your Rack Be IBM Black?
April 6, 2011 Joe Hertvik
… Read moreNothing is more ubiquitous in Power i shops than IBM 7014 black racks and Power Distribution Units (PDUs) that house and power most i/OS systems. Starting around $4,000 list for a base rack, most IBM shops routinely buy IBM racks and PDUs because they are standard for a Power i system. But do you realize there’s another option for racking your Power i system that could save you money?
How Much Does That Black Rack Really Cost?
IBM 7014 racks and Power Distribution Units (PDUs) are so common in iSeries, System i, and Power i shops that no one thinks
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Today’s Horoscope
April 6, 2011 Ashley Phix
… Read moreToday is April 6, 2011. Venus is in Cancer and Mars is in Leukemia. The sun is ascending faster than the U.S. national debt, and descending faster than the value of the U.S. dollar. The moon is a harsh mistress. See what the stars have to say to you today.
Aries (March 21 – April 19): Work to improve the quality of comments in source code. What? is good, but Why? is even more important.
Taurus (April 20 – May 20): Master an unfamiliar feature of SQL today.
Gemini (May 21 – June 20): Instead of cloning a program, consider
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Taking RSE to Task
April 6, 2011 Paul Tuohy
… Read moreRecently, I have been working on a modernization project with a client. Part of this project has involved me scanning and analyzing a number of legacy programs looking for patterns, commonalities, and such.
In this article, I want to highlight a feature of RSE (Remote System Explorer) that has proved very helpful in the above process: Tasks and Bookmarks.
Tasks and bookmarks provide an easy mechanism for defining tasks and, if required, placing a corresponding “marker” in a source member. In the past, you might have done this by printing off a source listing, highlighting some lines of code with