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Power Systems: The Feeds and Speeds

May 5, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

This week, IBM begins shipping the new Power6-based Power 570 and Power 595 servers that support the i, AIX, and Linux operating systems. And Big Blue is in the process of ramping up sales of the entry Power 520, which started selling in AIX and Linux edition in late January and which started shipping in i Editions on April 18, and midrange Power 550 servers, which also shipped earlier this year in an AIX and Linux Edition and which will hit the streets in an i Edition on May 23.

Of course, IBM is also shipping the JS12 and JS22

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

May 5, 2008 Neil Palmer

Editor’s note: IBM hosted its New Power Equation merger of the System i and System p server brands at the COMMON midrange user group meeting in Nashville, Tennessee, a little more than a month ago, and Neil Palmer, a long-time midrange expert and member of both COMMON and the Toronto User Group, prepared a statement, chock full of criticism and questions, to read to the top IBM brass. He didn’t get a chance to get the whole thing vocalized at the meeting, so we are giving him a chance to speak his mind, on your behalf, in The

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IBM Cuts CPU Prices on Power5 and Power5+ Servers

May 5, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

One of the great things about modern servers is their ability to have extra and latent capacity hidden away inside their processor complexes, just waiting to be activated in the event of an emergency spike in application usage or as part of a normal system upgrade to permanently add new software to the box. This capacity on demand approach to building systems has been around since the end of the dot-com boom in the RISC/Unix space, and it has been a great thing for companies with modest workload growth and a desire to avoid system upgrades.

But there is a

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IT Managers Are Under Pressure to Cut Costs, Says IDC

May 5, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Only a few weeks ago, a report issued by Gartner based on surveys of chief information officers and other executives in charge of IT spending suggested that budgets for computers and related software and services are holding up, more or less. The word from IDC for the IT sector in the United States only a month later is a little less sanguine.

Of course, IDC only did in-depth interviews with 27 IT shops as part of a recent presentation it put together, and while depth is always appreciated, breadth is necessary to determine a trend, too. That said, information is

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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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