Timothy Prickett Morgan
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Maximum Availability Sues Vision Solutions Over Advertising Claims
June 7, 2010 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreHigh availability software maker Maximum Availability has filed a lawsuit against its rival in the high availability/disaster recovery space for iSeries, System i, and Power Systems servers, Vision Solutions, alleging that advertising materials used by Vision Solutions to peddle its various products contain false information that has done damage to Maximum Availability’s business.
Maximum Availability, which is based in Aukland, New Zealand, but which has operations in the United States, filed the lawsuit against Vision Solutions on December 7, 2009, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco. The lawsuit names Vision
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Hardware Spending to Lead the IT Recovery
June 7, 2010 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreWith so much bad news in the economy for so long, everyone is looking for a little good news. Well, the server business is perking up, and if you think server spending is a leading indicator of IT spending (as I do) and that IT spending is now a key component of all capital spending and therefore a pretty good indicator of how the economies of the world are doing (as I do), then maybe the Great Recession is receding. Maybe things are leveling off and perhaps there is some room for growth, allowing the IT economy in which we
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Hey! What Happened To My Last Used Dates
May 26, 2010 Hey, Joe
… Read moreAfter we upgraded our production system to new Power i hardware, the Last used date on all our system objects was reset to zeros. While this isn’t a major problem, it does mean that we are no longer able to identify obsolete objects and files on our system. If we can’t identify them, then we can’t remove them. Is there any way to get this information back?
–Bert
Thanks, Bert. Unfortunately, if you migrated your existing production partition to a new system and restored all the objects to that system, all your objects’ Last used dates are gone. Here’s how
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Distinctly Speeding Up DISTINCT
May 26, 2010 Ted Holt
… Read moreThe DISTINCT keyword is a great example of the power of the SQL SELECT statement. Add this powerful word to any SELECT command and voilà! Duplicate rows magically disappear. Comments from readers have alerted me to the fact that some people find use of this feature confusing. Here are a brief discussion of DISTINCT and a performance tip.
Given a table (physical file) of sales order information and a table of customer information, how do I go about finding the account numbers of customers who have orders in the database? We could try this:
select s.companyno, s.customerno from salesordh as
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Five Steps To Monitoring Your Server Log on IBM i
May 26, 2010 Pi Guang Ming
… Read moreIn today’s Web application environment, notices and error messages that appear in a Web server’s logging files can be easily lost or missed. This exposes you to missing important information that you may need to know.
The Web Log Monitor gives users the capability to monitor the contents of log files for any Web-related server, including the Integrated Web Application Server, Integrated Web Services Server, WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Portal Server, and IBM‘s HTTP Server.
Users can set rules for the Web Log Monitor. If a situation matches the rule parameters, the monitor sends a notification to:
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Catch the Wave: OCEAN Hosts 17th Annual User Group Meeting
May 24, 2010 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreThe OCEAN User Group of Southern California is putting the finishing touches on its 17th annual meeting, which sports a technical conference as well as a vendor expo. The one-day event will be held on July 16 at the National University in Costa Mesa, California.
The OCEAN meeting will be a full day, running from 7:30 in the morning til 4:30 in the afternoon, and training sessions from IBM midrange luminaries Jon Paris, Susan Gantner, Mike Pavlak, Jeff Olen, John Earl, Craig Pelkie, Paul Holm, Mike Rede, and Terry Larkin are on deck. You don’t have to be an OCEAN
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BluePhoenix and Veryant Partner Up for COBOL Modernization
May 24, 2010 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreSometimes you want to modernize a COBOL application running on an AS/400 or mainframe, and sometimes you want to move those COBOL applications to another platform. Sometimes, you want to do a little of both. And that is why Veryant, one of the makers of cross-platform COBOL compilers that is not part of the Micro Focus collective, has teamed up with BluePhoenix, which sells legacy application modernization tools for mainframe and i boxes.
Under a partnership agreement inked between BluePhoenix and Veryant announced last week, BluePhoenix will be able to resell Veryant’s isCOBOL compilers and runtimes. The goal
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Business Intelligence and Analytics Were Bright Spots Last Year
May 24, 2010 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreA lot of areas in the IT business were slammed last year, with double-digit revenue declines, but the market for business intelligence, analytics, and performance management (meaning the performance of the business, not the underlying systems) software was not one of them.
According to the bit and money counters at Gartner, these three interrelated software products accounted for $9.3 billion in combined revenues in 2009, up a modest 4.2 percent from the $8.9 billion companies brought in during 2008.
“Even though growth was nowhere near the levels of 2008, and by no means immune to the recession, BI showed
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IBM Offers Discounts on Education Pack Training Through August
May 24, 2010 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreIf you are looking to buy some training for your employees or for yourself in the coming months, IBM has a deal for you.
In announcement letter 310-176, IBM said that it would give customers who buy Education Packs to cover the cost of online training discounts between now and August 6. IBM sells training in Education Pack blocks ranging from a low of $2,500 to a high of $24,900, and under this deal, if you buy packs for online training, IBM will shave 10 percent off the cost of the packs. Under IBM’s current pricing scheme, it does
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IBM Slashes 5250 Enablement Prices, Other Power Systems Tweaks
May 24, 2010 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreIBM has wiggled and jiggled a few things in the Power Systems lineup that you should be aware of if you are actually in a mood to spend money, as some companies thankfully are.
I had to rub my eyes twice, and not just because of the huge amount of pollen in the air here in New York City, when I saw announcement letter 310-189, but because I could not believe my eyes. That’s because IBM utterly destroyed the pricing on the 5250 Enablement feature for the Power 550 servers using Power6 and Power6+ processors. Prior to the announcement