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Syncsort Acquires Townsend’s IBM i Encryption Software

May 21, 2018 Alex Woodie

Syncsort has acquired the bulk of Townsend Security’s products in a bid to bolster its burgeoning suite of security software for IBM i. The big get for Syncsort (formerly Vision Solutions) is AES/400, Townsend’s well-respected database encryption software for the IBM i platform. Meanwhile, Townsend Security will continue developing and selling encryption key management software for open systems and cloud platforms.

When it comes to database encryption on the IBM i server, there are few options. There are various encryption solutions available from IBM, including Cryptographic Services, which is the mainstream offering today. But when it comes to third-party …
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Past And Future Collide At PowerUp 18

May 21, 2018 Alex Woodie

COMMON kicked off its first inaugural PowerUp conference Sunday in San Antonio, Texas, where an estimated 1,000 attendees are gathered to learn about the Power Systems platform and share their knowledge with other users. The IBM i server’s 30 years of reliable service was a big topic of discussion, but IBM executives Steve Sibley and Stefanie Chiras were determined to talk about Power’s AI future.

Any platform that lives to be 30 years old in this day and age is doing something right. While today’s IBM i server is not the same beast as the first AS/400 that came out …
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Guru: How To Override Query Options

May 21, 2018 Ted Holt

QAQQINI is a physical file with which you can control certain behaviors of the DB2 for i query engine. For a list of the query options that you can change, visit the IBM Knowledge Center. Normally you don’t have to use it, as the engineers of IBM have done a great job designing an optimizer that does a great job.

At times you may want to change a query attribute for a certain job. There is no need to build many QAQQINI files to handle all possibilities. Instead, you can temporarily override query attributes within a job. DB2 for …
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Big Blue Gives IBM i Shops A Special 30th Birthday Bash Box

May 21, 2018 Dan Burger

Big Blue is in the middle of celebrating three decades of the IBM i platform, and the company has unveiled a special birthday box that commemorates the occasion. It’s essentially a Solutions Edition package with some extra bells and whistles. For those unfamiliar with the Solutions Editions, they are pre-configured systems with a choice of IBM and ISV software discounts applied. Those discounts would be unavailable when buying the systems or the software individually.

The IBM i 30th Edition offering is based on IBM i Solution Edition Power9 Model S914, a P05 tier box, with four cores. All of the …
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Inside IBM’s SAP HANA On Power Playbook

May 21, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan

The Power Systems line is in transition right now, making the jump from Power8 to Power9 processors, and yet the company wants to continue selling applications without having customers wait for the newer chip to be available across the entire Power Systems portfolio. This is a particular problem when it comes to the HANA in-memory database on Power Systems, which IBM is eager to sell given the higher memory capacity and bandwidth that Power9 offers compared to the Xeon processors from Intel.

To help business partners that are peddling SAP suites on Power, which includes the IBM i platform, in …
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Syncsort Acquires Townsend’s IBM i Encryption Software

Past And Future Collide At PowerUp 18

Guru: How To Override Query Options

Big Blue Gives IBM i Shops A Special 30th Birthday Bash Box

Inside IBM’s SAP HANA On Power Playbook

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