TFH Volume: 27 Issue: 20 Archives

The Bang For The Buck Of Entry IBM i Servers

March 27, 2017 Timothy Prickett Morgan

In last Monday’s issue of The Four Hundred, I rounded up the feeds, speeds, and pricing of the new Power S812 Mini system that Big Blue started selling in the middle of March to IBM i shops with modest computing needs. We are talking one core running at just over 3 GHz and providing an aggregate of 9,880 units of performance on the Commercial Processing Workload (CPW) online transaction processing benchmark test used to gauge the oomph of Power Systems and their predecessors.

This ain’t a lot of computing in 2017, people. Just pointing that out. And I will …
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IBM i Shops Seeking More Services

March 27, 2017 Dan Burger

Many folks view managed services as a replacement for processes that company employees used to do. Like backing up data, for instance. Slow backups and nearly closed windows for planned downtime have more organizations looking at the managed service providers for improved efficiencies and the opportunity to add a disaster recovery plan that makes sense.

That used to be a big part of managed services, but the definition has greatly expanded in the past few years. As IT complexity has soared, there are many pieces in the IT puzzle that are missing or a bad fit in organizations that struggle …
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Guru: Sorting Options For CPYTOIMPF

March 27, 2017 Ted Holt

I hope that whoever came up with the idea for the Copy to Import File (CPYTOIMPF) command was well compensated. When I think of the time and effort that that command has saved me and countless others, I feel deep gratitude. The addition of the ORDERBY parameter increased the usefulness of CPYTOIMPF, and I’d like to share that with you.

CPYTOIMPF copies a single-format database file (table, physical file, view, or logical file) to a stream file or physical file in a format that is acceptable to another system or application. Probably the most common use of this command is …
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As I See It: The Politics of Self-Disclosure

March 27, 2017 Victor Rozek

It is quite possible that two of the most unexpected and consequential events of recent times had their origins with a student in Warsaw. Perhaps if he hadn’t been accepted to Cambridge University, the fates of two nations would not now be spinning off in unforeseen directions. But he was, and in Cambridge, the ripples of his fascination with psychometrics grew into an unintended tsunami. His name is Michal Kosinski, and there are a lot of people angry with him.

Psychometrics is the reality-based branch of psychology, at least in so far as it is data-driven. It is rooted in …
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IBM Jacks Up Hardware Maintenance Fees

March 27, 2017 Timothy Prickett Morgan

It happens every couple of years or so, and in fact, it has not happened in a couple of years so it looks like we were about due. We are talking about maintenance price hikes on a slew of IBM hardware, price hikes that are aimed mostly at stemming the gradual decline in maintenance revenues that IBM’s Global Services unit is seeing as its base of hardware contracts. In theory, such a price increase boosts the profits of its services arm, but it also helps cover some of the inflationary costs associated with providing hardware support and housing parts of …
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The Bang For The Buck Of Entry IBM i Servers

IBM i Shops Seeking More Services

Guru: Sorting Options For CPYTOIMPF

As I See It: The Politics of Self-Disclosure

IBM Jacks Up Hardware Maintenance Fees

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