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  • Get IBM i Work Management And Security Skills In Under A Week

    May 7, 2012 Jenny Thomas

    Just because the IBM i has been around awhile doesn’t mean there aren’t new operators coming to the platform in need of education on how to better utilize its power. And it’s probably safe to assume there are even a few experienced operators out there who could use a brush-up on the basics.

    In today’s workplace, where budgets are tight and headcounts are small, employees often have to dive in and learn on the job. So when time and money can be made available for training, companies want to know their employees are coming back with skills that can be

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  • IBM i 7.1 Tech Refresh Sports Live Partition Mobility

    April 30, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    As The Four Hundred told you months ago, IBM was indeed working on a Technology Refresh update for its IBM i operating system for the spring and this update does indeed include live partition mobility, bringing the IBM i platform up to the same level of logical partition live migration that AIX and Linux on Power have had for years. The Tech Refresh also includes a number of other enhancements to the integrated DB2 for i database, a repackaging of the DB2 Web Query tool, and a number of other tweaks and changes.

    The Technology Refresh mechanism that Big

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  • IBM Peddles Discounted, Linux-Only Power Iron

    April 30, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    IBM is getting nervous about the price disparity between Power and X86 servers again and wants to expand the total addressable market for its Power machinery. And to those ends, Big Blue has gussied up some Power machines in tuxedos to match their Penguin-powered operating system. These new PowerLinux machines have lower hardware prices than the same iron when configured to run either IBM i or AIX and, says IBM, can meet or beat two-socket X86 servers running Linux.

    The one thing the two new PowerLinux machines cannot do–their firmware forbids it, according to Scott Handy, vice president of PowerLinux

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  • The ‘New’ Infor Keeps Commitment To IBM i Customers

    April 30, 2012 Alex Woodie

    As the largest provider of IBM i-based ERP applications, Infor is a critical component of the midrange community. Now that Lawson has been integrated into the company, Infor has 19,000 paying customers running software on IBM i, i5/OS, and OS/400. And while some in the industry have criticized Infor’s support of the platform, its actions as a whole–and, in particular, comments by Infor executives and product roadmaps shared at last week’s Inforum 2012 conference–demonstrate a firm commitment to the IBM i platform and IBM i customers.

    There are some ISVs in the midrange marketplace that seem allergic to anything IBM

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  • As I See It: Spooky Action at Great Distance

    April 30, 2012 Victor Rozek

    From Alaska to Chile, Norway to New Zealand, 65 random number generators (RNGs) were going about their business generating random numbers. Then the unexplainable happened. But more about that later. The RNGs are part of a larger scientific effort called the Global Coherence Initiative (GCI), a research project that uses a vast array of magnetic field detectors to monitor fluctuations in the earth’s geomagnetic fields. They also measure pulsations and resonances in the ionosphere–the portion of the atmosphere extending approximately 30 to 250 miles above the Earth–associated with what scientists call “excitations.”

    Picking up good vibrations and monitoring excitations. .

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  • Power Iron Gets New Storage And Networking

    April 30, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    April showers have tended to bring April AS/400 announcements of one sort or another, and here we are again in another April and indeed IBM is making enhancements to its midrange platform in the areas of networking and storage.

    Some of the new features in announcement letter 112-069 will work in conjunction with the IBM i operating system, while some will not–even if you are using the Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) as the driver stack between PowerVM logical partitions running IBM i and the new iron. I’ll walk you through all the new features so you know which ones to

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  • Reader Feedback On Third Party’s A Charm For JDE Maintenance Contracts

    April 30, 2012 Hey, Dan

    There’s another issue with going to third-party maintenance for JDE World: operating system upgrades.

    We looked at dropping World A7.3 maintenance a few years ago. We found out, however, that if we ever wanted to upgrade from i5/OS V5R4 to IBM i 6.1, we needed Oracle to provide us with the proper updated objects so we could run on the new OS. Oracle/JDE was only willing to do that if we stayed on maintenance. And oh, by the way, there is a significant penalty if you get off maintenance and get back on again.

    So from my point of view,

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  • IBM Boosts Share Buybacks And Dividend

    April 30, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    This was about as predictable as tomorrow’s sunrise. IBM‘s top brass are feeling so good about its financial prospects this year that it has once again raised its dividend and asked for and received approval from Big Blue’s board of directors to spend huge piles of cash buying back stock.

    In a statement last week, new president and CEO, Ginni Rometty, said the board has approved another $7 billion to be spent on share buybacks, adding to an existing authorization from last year that still had $5.7 billion left in the kitty.

    “We continue in our commitment to deliver

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  • IBM Finds Signs Of Talented Youth At AITP

    April 30, 2012 Dan Burger

    There was something happening here. Aaron Bartell has presented dozens, maybe hundreds, of technical sessions on the local user group circuit and at the notable IBM i conferences like COMMON, DevCon, and the RPG & DB2 Summit. His audiences are diverse, but one thing they aren’t is young. As he looked out at the attendees of his most recent session, he was struck by the change in landscape. Everyone was young.

    Bartell was presenting a session called “Introduction to Android Development for RPG Programmers” in a classroom of about 40 interested college students at the AITP National

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  • Fax Incentive Program Offered By Quadrant Software

    April 30, 2012 Dan Burger

    Backing up its launch of fax over IP (FoIP) software earlier this month, Quadrant Software has introduced a Quadrant FastFax customer trade-up program that provides a path for companies to migrate from its existing hardware/software combination to QuadraDocV virtual FoIP software. Companies that are staying with the traditional fax hardware setup will find a trade-in discount program as well.

    The benefit of moving from hardware-based fax is the elimination of hardware management and maintenance and the canceling of subscriptions for analog phone lines. FoIP software runs within a VMware virtual machine. It provides the same fax capabilities as Quadrant’s hardware-based

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