TFH Volume: 27 Issue: 22 Archives

MSPs Get Monthly IBM i Pricing; Why Not Everyone?

April 3, 2017 Timothy Prickett Morgan

On one of the problems with cloud computing, from the point of view of the people building the clouds, is that they can provide per-user or per-hour utility style pricing to their customers for hardware and system software, but they have to pay for perpetual licenses to software and buy the hardware to provide that service. They have to get a lot of capital and shell it out before they can even begin to take in the first dollar.

Over the past several years, IBM has offered managed service providers – really more hosting companies than true cloud capacity vendors …
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Time To Get Your 2FA On, IBM i Admins

April 3, 2017 Alex Woodie

System administrators working in regulated industries will soon be required to sign-in to servers using two-factor authentication (2FA), according to the latest PCI requirement. The industry regulation will impact administrators working with all types of computer systems, and will likely be enforced in late 2017 or early 2018, security experts say.

In prior versions of the Payment Cardholder Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), only remote administrators were required to use 2FA, which bolsters the security of the sign-on process by requiring users to show “something you know,” like a password, as well as “something you have,” like a hardware …
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Guru: The XML Composition Conundrum of XMLNAMESPACES or XMLATTRIBUTES

April 3, 2017 Michael Sansoterra

Hey, Mike:

After reading the IT Jungle Guru tips on DB2 XML Composition (see Related Stories below), I’ve been able to build XML from relational data. I have everything working but now I need to enclose all data in a “Document” tag after the XML declaration like the example here:
```
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Document xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
xmlns="http://MyCompany.com" 
xsi:schemaLocation="http://MyCompany.com validate.xsd">
```
I tried using XMLNAMESPACES but can’t get it to produce the “xsi:schemaLocation” tag. How can I construct the document tag I need?

–N.C.

The problem here is that the xsi:schemaLocation in your example is not a namespace, but …
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Mad Dog 21/21: iBird In The Hand Or iToo In The Bush

April 3, 2017 Hesh Wiener

IBM i shops seem to be pretty content with their systems. Profiles of the installed base, such as that recently published by HelpSystems, show a mix of old and new equipment with an impressive span of performance. For users, the stability of the base is sign that owners of the systems are satisfied. But for IBM, ISVs and other suppliers, an i that is not evolving is a dead duck. Suppliers to the IBM i market want the platform to become a phoenix, a fresh system rising from the ashes of aging predecessors.

In the past month, we …
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SystemObjects SmartPad4i Mobilizes RDi

April 3, 2017 Dan Burger

As more companies find their way into the RDi development environment, more ISVs realize plug-ins to RDi are in demand. SystemObjects just joined the list by offering an RDi plug-in to its Web and mobile application development tool known as SmartPad4i. For situations where Web development skills are still evolving, SystemObjects is offering a route that bypasses the Java and HTML learning curve. And there are always RPG and COBOL programmers who don’t mind that detour.

SmartPad4i is not new. But the plug-in to RDi and the built-in capability to create HTML files are interesting enhancements. IBM i developers with …
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MSPs Get Monthly IBM i Pricing; Why Not Everyone?

Time To Get Your 2FA On, IBM i Admins

Guru: The XML Composition Conundrum of XMLNAMESPACES or XMLATTRIBUTES

Mad Dog 21/21: iBird In The Hand Or iToo In The Bush

SystemObjects SmartPad4i Mobilizes RDi

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