Timothy Prickett Morgan
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How Do I Record a PC5250 Macro?
October 20, 2010 Hey, Joe
… Read moreI have some PC5250 users who every month need to execute the same commands from their green screen sessions to launch queries, set configuration values, etc. How do I teach them to create macros so they can spend more time analyzing data and less time creating it?
–Bob
Macros are extremely easy to create on a PC5250 screen. Here’s how to do it using the Personal Communications program (PC5250) that comes with iSeries Access for Windows V5R4Mx.
PC5250 macro generation is controlled through four buttons on the PC5250 toolbar: Record, Stop, Play, and Quit. Here’s what these buttons
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Leave My Stream Files Alone, Please
October 20, 2010 Hey, Competent IBM i Professional
… Read moreRecently one of your fellow readers told me that her shop’s nightly job halted because one of the users had inadvertently dragged something from one network folder and dropped it into another one. Don’t you just hate it when little mistakes cause big problems? Here’s an easy way to help reduce the likelihood of such errors in the Integrated File System.
The Integrated File System (IFS) is the umbrella file system that allows IBM i to store many types of data. It is a directory-based system.
To create a directory, use any of three versions of the Create Directory command:
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Rowing with Your OAR
October 20, 2010 Jon Paris
… Read moreNote: The code referenced in this article is available for download here.
In my first Open Access for RPG (OAR) tip, I discussed the basic mechanics of an OAR handler from a conceptual perspective. In this tip, I am going to walk you through the implementation of a simple handler that generates XML files derived from the definition of the file specifying the handler. As you will see, its capabilities are very limited but it will introduce the basic coding principals. You’ll need to understand some of the details from my first OAR tip to follow this one.
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Europe, Asia, and Growth Markets Get AIX Power Leasing Deal–But Still No IBM i
October 18, 2010 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreRemember that Power Systems deferred leasing deal in North America that I told you about last month for HP-UX and AIX shops moving to big AIX iron? Well, the deal has been expanded to cover Europe, Asia, and a bunch of growth markets, but guess what? IBM is still not offering deferred leasing to i5/OS or IBM i shops moving up to new releases and iron.
Under the original deal, which I went through here, customers who move from Oracle, Hewlett-Packard, and presumably Fujitsu Unix iron to a Power 770, 780, or 795 machine can push the
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Oracle to Put New HP CEO on the Stand in TomorrowNow Lawsuit
October 18, 2010 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreThe soap opera between Oracle and Hewlett-Packard has taken another bizarre turn and now it looks like Oracle is going to drag Leo Apotheker, former CEO at SAP and recently named CEO at HP, up on the stand in its ongoing lawsuit against SAP concerning its former TomorrowNow unit.
In August, several months after Apotheker had been shown the door and two new co-CEOs had been running SAP for a while, SAP’s lawyers said that SAP accepted financial responsibility for the damage that might have been done by TomorrowNow, but balked at the idea that the damages were in excess
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Google Trends: IBM i Traffic Piddling Compared to iSeries
October 18, 2010 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreTwo years ago, I was monkeying around with word clouds to give a visual image of the magnitude of various server brands and technology job related searches. My point was to show the relative important of different platforms based on how many times people mention a brand or post a job for that platform. Last week, I ran across Google Trends, a Web analytical tool that the search giant gives away and pumped in some IBM i-related terms.
Google Trends plots real-time charts for search terms that you pump into it and shows their relative popularity in searches over
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Big Blue Chops DB2 Web Query, Jacks BRMS and Fax Server Prices
October 18, 2010 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreIBM last week slashed selected charges on its DB2 Web Query development kit support charges and jacked up prices on its Backup Restore and Media Services and integrated fax server for the IBM i platform.
The price changes, which you can see in announcement letter 310-270, were not across the board for DB2 Web Query, but were selective for various features and nonetheless consistent at a 50 percent chop on the price. IBM cut one year of support on the DB2 Web Query development kit to $116 and chopped the after license charge (the fee Big Blue slaps on
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IBM Ditches Apache Harmony Java for Oracle OpenJDK
October 18, 2010 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreLet’s get one thing straight. Well, two things, actually. One, it was a colossal blunder on the part of IBM and all of its software aspirations to have let the Java programming language and runtime fall into the hands of rival Oracle in the application development and database spaces. And two, no matter how much love Oracle professes for hardware and the Solaris operating system, the main reason that the software giant ponied up $5.6 billion net of Sun Microsystems cash on hand to acquire the beleaguered server makers was to get absolute control–or what passes for it in a
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IBM Launches Power7-Based Cloudy Stacks
October 18, 2010 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreLast summer, when IBM launched its first CloudBurst virtualized private cloud infrastructure stacks, they were built on its BladeCenter blade servers and used the company’s Xeon-based HS22 blades. Last week, as Big Blue updated the X64 variants of the CloudBurst stacks, it rolled out the first versions of the cloudy infrastructure based on Power7 processors. But instead of using its PS700 or PS701 blade servers, IBM chose the workhorse Power 750 server as the building block.
The CloudBurst setups, you will remember, are a pre-integrated stack of virtualized systems that include servers, storage, switches, virtualization hypervisors, management tools, and a
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The Hundred Thousand Plus on the Four Hundred
October 18, 2010 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreHow big and healthy is the base of customers for the IBM i operating system and its related Power Systems platform? Those are two questions that are very difficult to get answers to except in very special moments when some IBMer somewhere makes a slip of the tongue–or intentionally lets the data out to try to comfort the multitudes in AS/400 Land. Depending on how you want to look at it, the latest numbers tossed around by IBM can be chilling or comforting.
First, let’s get the number out there for the size of the AS/400-iSeries-System i-Power Systems running IBM