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Oracle Firing on All Cylinders Again in Fiscal Q4

July 7, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

While database, application software, and middleware software provider Oracle missed the growth expectations that Wall Street had in its fiscal third quarter ended in February, the company seems to have more than made up for it with a strong finish in the fourth quarter ended in May. Oracle’s sales rose by 24 percent to $7.24 billion, and even at constant currency, the company’s global sales rose by 18 percent. This is real growth, and the kind of growth that Oracle was after when it did what seemed like a zillion acquisitions over the past couple of years.

For the three

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IBM’s AS/400 20th Birthday Party Pictures

July 7, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

When I was but a young cub reporter way back when (OK, in the late 1980s), I remember how Big Blue threw a party. Every year, members of the IT trade press in the New York area, even those who wrote for relatively tiny newsletters such as The Four Hundred, were invited to an annual Christmas bash hosted at the Plaza Hotel. Being a country bumpkin, I had never been to such a glamorous place, and I was impressed by the spread of food and booze that IBM put together to people who it would probably rather round up

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Initial Uptake of JS12 Blades for i Platform Seems Good

July 7, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Because IBM is in a quiet period before it announces its financial results for the second quarter, its executives can’t say much specific without getting into hot water with the Securities and Exchange Commission. But I was yaking on the phone with Scott Handy, vice president of marketing and strategy for IBM’s Power Systems division, just before IT Jungle went on vacation, and he gave me some early indicators of the popularity of Power6-based blade servers running the i 6.1 operating system.

Specifically, Handy said that ISVs and resellers were banging on IBM’s door to get their hands on JS12

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Keeping Time with NTP

June 25, 2008 Tom Van Looy

The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is a protocol for synchronizing the clocks of computer systems over packet-switched, variable-latency data networks. NTP uses UDP port 123 as its transport layer. It is designed particularly to resist the effects of variable latency (jitter buffer).

The Network Time Protocol (NTP) version 3 is described in RFC1305 and the Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP) version 4 is described in RFC2030. NTP is not related to the much simpler daytime RFC867 and time RFC868 protocols.

NTP client/server on i5/OS

You can validate the current time with the command DSPSYSVAL QDATETIME. The NTP server on

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What Happened to My Key?

June 25, 2008 Hey, Ted

We use SQL’s CREATE TABLE command to make each user his own copy of a file. Although the original file is keyed, the copy is not. Do you have any ideas on how to keep the key?

–Mary Jo

Mary Jo provided the following commands by way of example:

create table Temp as
  (select * from PATTERN) with no data 

rename table Temp to FileForJoeSmith

So, what’s Mary Jo to do?

The first thought I had was to create the index by hand, like this:

create unique index FileForJoeSmithIndex1
   on FileForJoeSmith (SomeField)

But that was not a solution to the

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Stopping Your System i from Starting Up

June 25, 2008 Hey, Joe

I’m performing an i5/OS upgrade this weekend, but I first want to save my system by performing an Option 21 save (Entire system) off the GO SAVE menu. To save time, I don’t want to automatically restart the system after the backup completes. How do I stop my system from automatically restarting?

–Bruce

The bad news is that there isn’t a parameter that stops an Option 21 save from restarting an i5/OS system after your save completes. The good news is that you don’t need one. It’s simple to keep your system in a restricted state after a backup. All

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DRV Cleans Up i OS Spool Files with ReportFlex

June 24, 2008 Alex Woodie

Making sense of i OS spooled file output can be an exercise in technical aptitude and patience. Lines wrap, words overlap, and obscure abbreviations can make trying to read a report a challenge. To address this situation, DRV Technologies, a developer of electronic forms and spool file distribution tools for i system, recently introduced a new product called ReportFlex that acts as a converter to make native spooled file output more readable to the average person.

You probably know DRV Technologies best for SpoolFlex, the spool file distribution tool used by hundreds of i, i5/OS, and OS/400 shops. SpoolFlex

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Agilysys Introduces New Software for Hotels

June 24, 2008 Alex Woodie

In addition to putting itself up for sale last week, Agilysys introduced three new software applications aimed at driving more efficiency into hospitality operations. A new release of its i OS-based Lodging Management System (LMS) introduces a GUI, among other features, while the first beta site for Guest 360, a new product designed to augment LMS, was also announced. Lastly, Agilysys unveiled Hospitality Analytics, which introduces online analytical processing (OLAP) capabilities for use with procurement and POS offerings.

i OS-based business applications from Agilysys have been used to manage some of the largest resorts on the planet, including the new

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Subversion SCM Tool Becomes More Robust with Version 1.5

June 24, 2008 Alex Woodie

It will be easier for software development teams that use the Subversion open source software configuration management (SCM) product to keep track of their projects with Subversion 1.5, which was released last week. CollabNet, the online community that backs development of Subversion, says new features like merge tracking, interactive conflict resolution, and improved read performance make Subversion 1.5 the most significant release in the last four years.

Subversion began in 2000 as a project to develop an open source version control and SCM tool to speed development and reduce cost and complexity for distributed groups of programmers. CollabNet, the

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Cast Iron Simplifies NetSuite Integration with Appliance

June 24, 2008 Alex Woodie

Simplicity is the number-one benefit of software as a service (SaaS) applications, like the popular NetSuite ERP offering. However, when users need to integrate their old applications with their new SaaS stuff, it can require complex coding, thereby hurting the SaaS value proposition. Cast Iron Systems today announced a new integration appliance that promises to alleviate the pain of connecting NetSuite installations with other SaaS apps or on-premise software, such as JD Edwards and Salesforce.

Organizations that don’t want to deal with the complexity of low-level API programming to combine two or more applications can turn to Cast Iron

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