• IBM and VCs Invest in EnterpriseDB

  March 31, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  EnterpriseDB, the commercial enterprise that is providing support and services for the open source PostgreSQL relational database management system, announced this week that it has received its third round of venture capital funding, including some dough from IBM. With Sun Microsystems having completed its $1 billion takeover of MySQL last month, it is a bit easier perhaps for the makers of PostgreSQL to get a little more love and attention from the other platform providers who want to support open source databases. Still, it may seem odd, with IBM having a full line of DB2 databases for mainframes

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• IGEL Touts the Green Effect of Thin Clients

  March 31, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  It may seem intuitively obvious that a shift from personal computers to thin client computers on the desktop should yield a significant savings in energy, but to be sure, you have to really dig into the costs and account for the differences between the two types of clients, but also apportion some energy consumption of the servers that feed the thin clients. German thin client maker IGEL Technology, like other small end user device makers, wants to use every angle it can to peddle its products, and to that end the company recently put together a comparative study that

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• AMR Says Governance and Compliance Are Big Software Businesses

  March 31, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  If government regulations did not exist, then the software business would have to create them to give itself a market into which to sell products. OK, so maybe the software business doesn’t really work that way, but it sure feels that way. And while no one likes paperwork–even when it is in an electronic format–or the federal, state, or local government snooping into their business, regulations and the need to have and document governance are now a factor of business in the 21st century. And, as it turns out, it is a big business for software companies, and by extension,

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• One Save File from More than One Library

  March 26, 2008 Hey, Ted

  I would like to place objects from several libraries in a save file. When I run a Save Library (SAVLIB) or Save Object (SAVOBJ) command that specifies more than one library, I receive message CPF3789: Only one library allowed with specified parameters. I really don’t want a bunch of save files. Is there another way? –Jackie A save file can contain other save files, so here’s a method you can try. To keep it simple, let’s say you want to save the contents of two libraries–MYLIB1 and MYLIB2–to one save file–SOMELIB/SOMESAVF. 1. Create a save file for each library. CRTSAVF

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• Performance Advice from a Mysterious Friend, Part 2

  March 26, 2008 Ted Holt

  On March 5 of this year, I told you that one of your fellow subscribers, who asked not to be identified, sent me some performance tips that he hoped you might find useful. This is the second of them. Here’s what he wrote: “Increase the journal receiver threshold to 6,500 MB.” So what does that mean? Let’s begin with the Create Journal Receiver command, CRTJRNRCV. This command has a THRESHOLD parameter that defaults to 1,500,000 KB, which is 1,500 MB. The threshold is the maximum size a journal receiver is allowed to reach before the system detaches the journal

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• Admin Alert: How System i Boxes Impersonate Each Other, Part 1

  March 26, 2008 Joe Hertvik

  There are three specific instances where System i administrator need to change the communications identity of an i5/OS box so that it impersonates another box and can take its place in the network. Unfortunately, there isn’t a readily available procedure to make sure that this process is easily accomplished. To help, this week and next I’m presenting a procedure for modifying a System i box to impersonate another machine. Why Bother To Impersonate? It’s handy to know how to modify a System i or iSeries box to impersonate another box in the following situations. When purchasing a new machine to

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• Lawson Debuts New Offerings at User Conference

  March 25, 2008 Alex Woodie

  The Lawson Software nation descended upon The Venetian resort in Las Vegas last week for the CUE 2008 annual user conference, where they were presented with hundreds of sessions to attend, and more than a few announcements. Among the notable products introduced at the show is a new Talent Management system that Lawson will deliver to S3 and M3 customers using the software as a service (SaaS) model, as well as the new Smart Office offering. Lawson also acquired a product lifecycle management (PLM) vendor. Like other ERP software vendors, Lawson recently has been improving the user interface, which is

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• Open Source Systems Management Works with i5/OS

  March 25, 2008 Alex Woodie

  System i shops looking for an open source alternative to the Big Four systems management software providers–BMC, CA, Hewlett-Packard, and IBM–may want to check out GroundWork Open Source, an upstart developer of open source software that already has several System i customers. Today, the company launched a new release of its eponymous GroundWork line, which adds more scalability, capacity, and an easier installation than previous releases. San Francisco-based GroundWork was founded four years ago to serve the growing market for commercial open source software. Like other commercial open source software developers, GroundWork relies on

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• IBM Places Mobile Computing, Composite Apps on UC Pedestal

  March 25, 2008 Dan Burger

  Using a flurry of announcements last week, IBM kept the spotlight on collaborative software, mobile computing, unified communications, and its Lotus software division. Mixed in with product achievements such as bringing desktop-style applications to mobile phones and adding on-demand video and IP telephony features to Lotus Sametime were predictions of how unified communications (UC) would reshape the business world and details of additional investments Big Blue is making in UC technology. To emphasize what he sees as product differentiation between unified communications coming from IBM compared to UC products on the Microsoft runway, Mike Rhodin, general manager of IBM Lotus

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• ProData Updates Database Utility

  March 25, 2008 Alex Woodie

  ProData Computer Services recently launched version 8 of Database Utility (DBU), its flagship DB2/400 database utility for programmers and power users. With DBU 8.0, System i programmers will enjoy using the tool in the latest Eclipse-based development environment, and will also benefit from several new search functions, commands, and output options. The capability to migrate DDS source to SQL will also be particularly useful for some DBU users. DBU is a popular and handy utility that makes it easy for programmers, administrators, and users to view and access any file in DB2/400 (sometimes actually referred to by its IBM-given

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