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Avnet Expands in the United Kingdom and Ireland with Horizon Buy

May 12, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Server and storage distributor Avnet has expanded its reach into Ireland and the United Kingdom by acquiring Irish systems reseller Horizon Technology Group.

Horizon Technology, through its various divisions, is a big player in the distribution of servers manufactured by IBM and Sun Microsystems. The company is public, and its stock trades on the Dublin and London stock exchanges. The company was founded in Ireland as a reseller of Sun Unix gear back in 1991, and in 1994, the company expanded its Sun reseller business into the much larger market of the United Kingdom. In the past several

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BluePhoenix Grows Sales and Profits on Legacy App Modernization

May 12, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Legacy application modernization tool maker BluePhoenix Solutions has finished out its first quarter of 2008, and despite any uncertainties in the economy in the United States, the company is riding the wave of legacy application projects that are helping dozens of tool vendors for IBM mainframe and AS/400 platforms make a decent living. In fact, it booked a record quarter.

BluePhoenix, which is based in Herzliya, Israel, was focused mainly on the mainframe market until last summer when it acquired ASNA, which has a set of tools that take RPG applications and move them to Windows and .NET using

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Accurate Program References

May 7, 2008 Ted Holt

I came across a situation recently that I thought some of you might find of interest. It has to do with program references (i.e., which objects a program uses) and conditional compilation. If you use a documentation package, whether homegrown or commercial, you may rely on program references without being aware of it.

Here is my situation. As part of a conversion project, I have an RPG program that uses conditional compilation directives to select one of two SQL commands, like this:

D zKey            s              3a
D zData           s              5a

 /free
     *inlr = *on;
 /if defined(SomeCondition)
     exec sql
        select key,

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Replace the Contents of a Physical File That Has Triggers

May 7, 2008 Hey, Ted

I need to copy the contents of a physical file from our production system to its counterpart in our development system, which is a separate logical partition. I have several ways to copy the file from the production system to the development system. However, error messages I get say that I cannot replace the data because the database file has triggers over it. Help!

–Tricia

You need to disable the triggers. Disabling triggers is most easily done if all of the triggers are active. Use Change Physical File (CHGPF) to disable the triggers.

CHGPFTRG FILE(MYLIB/MYFILE) TRG(*ALL) STATE(*DISABLED)

Then copy the

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Admin Alert: How to Recreate/Restore a System Distribution Directory

May 7, 2008 Joe Hertvik

In recent articles, I detailed how to change the communications identity of one i5/OS box so that it can impersonate another system and take its place on the network. However, I glossed over one important step: how to restore the i5/OS System Distribution Directory (SDD) from one machine to another. This week, I correct that error by showing you how to transfer an SDD from one machine to another.

What Is the SDD?

Although an SDD sounds like something you might catch when you’re not being too careful about the company you choose, the System Distribution Directory has been

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GDCM Seeks to ‘Defrag’ the Data Center for Higher Efficiency

May 6, 2008 Alex Woodie

Earth Week has come and gone, hopefully leaving behind a desire to consume less and generally be more “green.” For operators of large data centers, cutting electricity consumption can not only gain you environmental kudos, but it can also save millions of dollars a year. That’s the goal of a little-known software company called GDCM, which is currently ramping up North American sales of nlyte, a Windows application that enables users to model their use of electricity, cooling, network capacity, and space, and predict when they will run out.

The GDCM story begins several years ago in England, where

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GeneXus Brings Web 2.0 Home with Version X

May 6, 2008 Alex Woodie

System i shops that use the GeneXus development environment from Artech were given a clear path to Web 2.0 yesterday when the company announced the release to manufacturing of GeneXus X, the 10th version of the popular 4GL tool. Now that two and a half years of development and testing are over, organizations can start taking advantage of the software to develop new applications using the latest Web 2.0 technology, or even retrofit older apps with the new screen style.

We are in the midst of an explosion of interest in Web 2.0, a term that’s loosely applied to a

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Terminix Overcomes Hurdle to New B2B System, Thanks to LANSA

May 6, 2008 Alex Woodie

When executives at Terminix hatched a new plan to drum up business through third-party companies, it made the company’s IT department a little buggy at first. The plan called for the new partners to include Terminix’ fees in the bills they send out to customers, but manually integrating the various billing systems at play presented a potential problem, especially as the program ramps. Instead, Terminix found the needed level of automation in Composer, a new business process workflow tool from LANSA.

From its headquarters in Memphis, Tennessee, Terminix International has established a worldwide customer base for its termite, rodent,

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NSPI Launches CBU as a Service Offering

May 6, 2008 Alex Woodie

The IT consultancy NSPI recently announced “System i CBU as a Service,” a new offering that enables System i shops to park their low-priced Capacity Backup (CBU) System i servers in NSPI’s data center, where they will be synchronized with data from their primary server, and be kept ready for the customer to access in the event of a disaster.

From its headquarters in Roswell, Georgia, NSPI provides a variety of technical services for its customers, with specialties ranging from System i services, Microsoft, VMware, Hewlett-Packard, and Cisco Systems. The company also runs three data centers,

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Infor Gives Southern Distributor an A+ for ERP Selection

May 6, 2008 Alex Woodie

B&D Industrial, a mid size distributor of industrial equipment in the South, will standardize its business on ERP A+, an i OS-based application Infor, the software company announced last week. The new ERP system, which perhaps was better known by its previous owner, Daly.Commerce, will help B&D consolidate the customer, product, and financial information from its various businesses following recent acquisitions.

Based in Macon, Georgia, B&D Industrial provides industrial equipment and services to companies in several industries, including mining, manufacturing, and engineering. The outfit employs about 350 people in 40 facilities across Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and

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