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IBM Goes Stateless and Cooler with iDataPlex Servers

May 12, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

The evolution from tower to rack to blade to future servers continues apace, and IBM is cooking up a new line of custom-built servers called the iDataPlex that it hopes will make it the king of the so-called Web 2.0 hill. While the details on the iDataPlex server line, which will begin shipping in June, are sketchy, IBM is talking generally about the product and throwing around some pictures to get people interested in what is coming down the pike.

The iDataPlex offering is being billed as a complete hardware, software, and services stack that is more energy efficient than

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Reader Feedback on There’s No i in Future, But Is There a Future in i?

May 12, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Well, as you might expect, Neil Palmer’s story last week, There’s No i in Future, But Is There a Future in i?, touched off some heated conversation last week about the future of the i platform.

Contrary to one item of feedback that I saw posted on the Midrange-L forum, IT Jungle did not just publish Palmer’s comments to create some sort of artificial controversy. Ever since the late 1990s, IBM created controversy around the AS/400 platform by its own actions and inactions, and all we did was give Palmer a chance to voice his concerns about the future

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Live Migration Will Make Virtualization Mainstream

May 12, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

The ability to teleport running applications around the network–what most vendors are calling live migration these days, but which comes in various names and server virtualization flavors–is probably one of the coolest technologies to come along in the data center in quite some time. And it may turn out to be the technology that pushes server virtualization through its tipping point, finally making such virtualization truly mainstream.

The ability to virtualize servers with a hypervisor and then get multiple (and sometimes incompatible) operating systems to share a single box was useful for server consolidation (getting rid of some boxes) and

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IBM and HP Do SAP ERP Bundles for SMBs

May 12, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

While application software giant SAP has made a lot of noise in recent months before and after the launch of its “A1S” Business ByDesign suite of online, SaaS-style applications, that software ramp is taking longer than expected and therefore SAP needs to double down with its existing licensed software products to attack the small and medium business space. And to do that well, SAP needs to rely on its key platform partners, particularly IBM and Hewlett-Packard.

Last week, at SAP’s Sapphire customer event in Orlando, Florida, the company announced bundling deals with both IBM and HP that will see

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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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