• Power 570 and 595 Servers to Get Hot Add and Repair for CPUs

  May 5, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Here’s something that every computer should have today–and probably will at some point in the not-too-distant future. This Tuesday, the high-end, Power6-based Power 570 and Power 595 servers start to ship, but one technology that allows for the hot addition and repair of server motherboards–what IBM calls processor books–without having to power down the systems is still slated for later this year. According to a statement of direction from Big Blue, a future firmware upgrade for the Power 595 will allow for a Power6 processor book to be added to the machine without powering down the server. In the past,

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• SafeData Praises Vaulting with Recovery Services

  May 5, 2008 Dan Burger

  Understanding your risk and controlling what you can is the best defense. No matter what the risk, this is sound advice. What are the risks in your IT department? Haphazard growth, lack of focus and coherent planning, and investment avoidance are just a few points that indicate a lack of interest in controlling risk. What can you do to have some control over risk? Dealing with system recovery after your system has failed is the subject of a just-published white paper by SafeData, a Rhode Island-based business that hosts high availability and disaster recovery services offering managed services as

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• SAP Profits Take a Whack as Business ByDesign Ramp Slowed

  May 5, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  The weak greenback has been a boon of sorts to IT companies based in the United States that export a lot of hard and soft wares to foreign companies, but it is no fun at all for companies headquartered outside the United States that do a lot of business there. Such is the case with ERP software giant SAP, which last week said its net earnings took an 22 percent dive to €242 million on sales of €2.46 billion, actually up 14 percent, in the first quarter ended March 30. SAP’s profits were hit not just by the dollar-euro

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• JDA Software Has Its Best First Quarter Ever

  May 5, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  While plenty of IT firms are feeling the pinch in the past two quarters as they try to push products in the United States, this is not the case for all software companies. In fact, retail and supply chain management software maker JDA Software Group just finished the best first quarter of software license sales in its 30-year history. However, the company’s net earnings fell a tiny bit, and for once–and probably thanks to a lot of worse news out there–Wall Street seemed to take it in stride and cut JDA some slack. In the first quarter ended March 31,

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• Multiformat SQL Data Sets

  April 30, 2008 Hey, Ted

  DDS-defined logical files can have multiple record formats, each one of them coming from different physical files of different types of data. I would like to do the same sort of thing in SQL. That is, I want to retrieve all the records from one file followed by all the records from a second file, grouped by one or more common key fields. This is not a join, and it doesn’t seem like a union either, because the two data sets are so different. Am I trying to do the impossible? –David What you’re doing may be unusual, but it’s

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• Build Pivot Tables over DB2 Data

  April 30, 2008 Hey, Ted

  If you already know about these, then just hit the ol’ delete key on the message. I learned how to do this today. SQL is great for going “down the page.” It’s when they want data summed across that it gets to be a real kludge! Pivot tables are the answer. It started with your article Load a Spreadsheet from a DB2/400 Database. I got it working! Sweet! Miracles never cease! Thanks a bunch! Once the data is loaded into the spreadsheet via the SQL statement, make sure the column headings have decent labels. Open the Data menu and

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• Solve a Client Access Mystery, Win a No Prize

  April 30, 2008 Hey, Joe

  I have searched every configuration I know of on our 9406-720 (running OS/400 V4R4), but I cannot find what is limiting the total number of Client Access 5250 sessions running on my machine. No matter what, the machine will only accept about 70 sessions. I’ve had to cut out multiple user sessions in order to allow everyone a single session. Any ideas on where the limit is coming from? –Rick It’s like Rubik’s Cube for the iSeries… with No Prize Rick sent his question in this week and so far I haven’t been able to come up with an answer.

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• inFORM Helps Save the Earth with Updates to i-Based Document Management

  April 30, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Today is Earth Day, and that means you’re supposed to think about ways to save the environment from the world’s most destructive force: man. One relatively painless method is eliminating the use of paper in favor of electronic documents, and to do that, you need an electronic document management software solution. One company developing native System i (i, i5/OS, OS/400) document management software, inFORM Decisions, recently updated its suite of products to in hopes of helping customers stay in the green. Based in the Southern California burg of Rancho Santa Margarita, inFORM Decisions is a small company that has

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• PowerVM: The i Hypervisor Is Not Hidden Anymore

  April 30, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  If you want to blame someone, go ahead and blame people like me. Or, if it makes you feel any better, just blame me alone. For years, while I have praised the integrated nature of the AS/400 and its progeny, I have railed against the practice that IBM has had of bundling most of its software features on the platform and lumping it all together with a big, fat, single, hardware-software price tag that would give the wealthiest SMB shop a big sticker shock. Perhaps big enough to scare them off, even if a complete Windows stack cost the same

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• Vision Moves Product and Business Plans Forward

  April 29, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Officials at Vision Solutions, the largest provider of high availability software for IBM Power Systems servers, shared some details of their product plans during an interview with IT Jungle last week. Despite the challenges of molding a cohesive business out of three previously separate entities, executives say customers have stuck with Vision and are bullish on the company and its capability to continue developing its products. The last year has been quite eventful for Vision, the Southern California company that cornered the market for i5/OS high availability solutions last June with its acquisition of rival Lakeview Technologies. In addition

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