Timothy Prickett Morgan
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Synchronize Your Outlook Calendar with DB2 for i ERP Data
February 2, 2011 Hey, Mike
… Read moreWe would like to merge the Resource Assigned Calendar from our JDE Service Management software with the Outlook Calendar so that we only need to look in one place. We also want to receive an email from Outlook and create a case.
How can we approach this?
–Robert
Hi, Robert:
As always, there is more than one way to skin a cat, and this calendar synchronization task is no exception.
The approach I will be taking to solve this problem is to allow an Outlook client to monitor the ERP system’s calendar table using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) coding.
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Cloudy Infrastructure the Top CIO Priority in 2011
January 31, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreIf you thought the terms “e-business” and “on-demand” and “converged infrastructure” were tiresome, then “cloud computing” might just give you a stroke. Like the term or not, companies are keen on having more flexible IT infrastructure with utility-style pricing. And every survey that anyone is doing these days is showing it.
Just like the home personal computing wave transformed all of business desktop computing to graphical environments–and made Microsoft the undisputed king of the desktop and a shoe-in for the data center–applet-style applications for smartphones (I hesitate to call them applications) and server virtualization are making CEOs and end users
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Maxava Upgraded to Premium Business Partner Status by IBM
January 31, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreHigh availability software vendor Maxava announced last week that IBM has bestowed upon it the status of a premier business partner, an upgrade from the previous business partner status that it had previously.
This may not sound like a big deal to those of us on the outside of the IBM midrange partner community, but that elevation will make a substantial difference in Maxava’s business going forward.
As an advanced partner, Maxava was already privy to event and campaign support funding and had access to IBM’s internal business intelligence markets for the areas where it has products to peddle alongside
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IBM at 100: Let the (Psycho) Analysis Begin
January 31, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreIBM is getting so old that it seems to have forgotten its own birthday. But last week, the company launched a new Web site called IBM at 100 to celebrate its centennial as a company.
Technically speaking, the Computing Tabulating Recording Company, or CTR, was founded on June 16, 1911, in Endicott, New York, and this is the centennial that Big Blue is arbitrarily celebrating. A credible case can be made for making 1996 IBM’s centennial year, since that was 100 years after Herman Hollerith, who invented a tabulating machine driven by punch cards, set up the Tabulating Machine Company.
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AS/400 to i Mystery Solved
January 31, 2011 Hey, TPM
… Read moreI finally figured out why the AS/400 does not thrive in today’s marketplace–why it has declined slowly over time.
While everyone that works on the AS/400 loves it, what they really love is the AS/400 of 10, 15, and 20 years ago. If most of the veterans on the AS/400 do not know or care to use newer features of RPGLE (service programs, subprocedures, free-format, and so forth) or CLLE (activation groups), how could we ever hope to get others to know/love the platform? All others see is 20-plus year old technology.
–Dan
Hi, Dan:
I think you are right.
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Palmisano Rakes in $9 Million for IBM’s 2010 Performance
January 31, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreIt is not only good to be the king, but also profitable. Sam Palmisano, who holds the three jobs of president, chief executive officer, and chairman at IBM raked in the dough in 2010 as the company turned in what Wall Street and its top brass believes was a great year.
IBM i shops, who no doubt still call themselves AS/400 customers, probably have a slightly different view of the year, having seen a lot of focus on Smarter Planet and Power Systems running AIX and not enough action on the i front to make them happy. It is hard
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Notes/Domino: Less Platform Talk, More Programming Action
January 31, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreThe annual Lotusphere shindig kicked off in Orlando, Florida, yesterday and will run until Thursday this week. While IBM will no doubt talk about all the new widgets and gadgets it is cooking up as part of its “Project Vulcan” and “Project Concord” development efforts, which were first divulged in 2010, I don’t expect the people from Big Blue’s Lotus division to talk all that much about server platforms.
That’s a shame, given how Oracle, the Acadia Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) partnership from Cisco Systems, EMC, and VMware, and the Frontline partnership between Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft
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Why Can’t I Move System Memory Between Partition?
January 26, 2011 Hey, Joe
… Read moreI’m using the Web interface on my Hardware Management Console (HMC) to move memory between my Power i partitions, and it keeps timing out before completing the move. What’s going on and why can’t I move memory between my partitions?
–Sven
There are a number of reasons for moving memory between i/OS partitions. I’ve frequently moved memory and CPU from one partition to another during an upgrade, to help speed the process along faster. A few years ago, I also set up an HMC to automatically shift memory from our development box to our production system and back again during
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Don’t Let Users Wreck Their Joins
January 26, 2011 Ted Holt
… Read moreYou’re swamped with work, and here comes Harold in Accounts Receivable yet again for help with some query he threw together that doesn’t work correctly. Harold’s not a bad guy–his wife, his kids, and his dog adore him. He just doesn’t understand computer stuff. Here’s a way you can help him help you.
Harold’s problem is that he doesn’t understand how to join files properly. What you need is a way to store join field information on the system. That is, you need a way to store the fact that file A and file B join over field C and
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A Reusable Routine for Doubly-Linked Lists, Part 2
January 26, 2011 Miguel Ortiz Martín and Ted Holt
… Read moreNote: The code accompanying this article is available for download here.
In Part 1 of this series, we introduced several concepts, such as managing external storage and defining comparator procedures, that are required for defining a reusable routine for managing doubly-linked lists.
In this second part, we:
- Detail the procedures that create, delete, and manipulate reusable doubly-linked lists.
- Tell you about the source code and how to create a service program.
- Show you an example of how to use the doubly-linked list service program in your applications.
Creating and Destroying a List
Let’s begin with a list of the