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March 17, 2008 Hey, TPM

I just wanted to thank you for the information you are providing in your newsletters. I look forward to them. I keep waiting for news of a native graphical connection from RPG to the browser and am glad to see that question asked of IBM managers from time to time.

I understand from Kurt Rump at the Rochester Briefing Center that they have some research projects in Rochester that are looking into this. Hopefully that will eventually make it into the real world. My question to him was if they were splitting up the organization to address the needs large

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TFH Flashback: Assault, Battery Not Included

March 17, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Note: This article was originally printed in the October 1994 edition of The Four Hundred, as IBM was readying PowerPC-based AS/400s and Hewlett-Packard already had power RISC servers in the midrange.

Military forces, espionage agencies and computer companies have something in common: They like to use code names for projects, particularly secret projects. The monikers lend mystery, dignity, and importance to a risky yet often worthwhile undertaking. For instance, IBM called its AS/400 development project Silverlake, after the giant pond north of the Mayo Clinic in downtown Rochester, Minnesota. In retrospect, this was probably a better name to borrow

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IBM Rejiggers System i and BladeCenter Deal One More Time

March 17, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

If at first you don’t exceed your sales targets, try, try again. IBM last week once again tweaked a deal it announced in October 2007 that gave customers buying specific System i configurations a freebie BladeCenter H chassis and two HS21 blade servers, which use Intel‘s Xeon processors.

In the original deal, customers in the United States who spent at least $150,000 and those in Canada who spent at least $220,000 on a new System i 520, 525, 550, 570, or 595 with at least two iSCSI PCI-X features installed (for linking to blade servers received the BladeCenter chassis)

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AMR Says Companies Spend Big on SOA Software

March 17, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

IT vendors haven’t had something so exciting to salivate over and rub their hands about since the advent of Java more than a decade ago. Every new layer of abstraction in the information technology sprawl always leads to more flexibility, but it usually also comes at a price: more iron, and more software and services expenses. The question that IT vendors are wondering about now is will service oriented architecture, a means of leaving legacy applications and databases in place and then extending them with a new abstraction layer of services, be the money pot they all act like it

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Mainline and BPO Partner to Offer Managed Hosting and Co-Location

March 17, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Mainline Information Systems, the Tallahassee, Florida, reseller of the entire portfolio of IBM servers and storage, said last week that it has partnered with BPO Management Services, a business process outsourcing service provider located in Anaheim, California, to offer managed hosting and co-location services to BPO’s customers.

BPO Management Services is, as its name suggests, a company that provides outsourced back-office computing functions such as human resources, content management, and finance and accounting; the BP part of BPO presumably means shifting your company from what it is currently doing on your own platforms and re-engineering your processes to

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Detect Host OS and Client Version Levels within Client Software

March 12, 2008 Michael Sansoterra

Sometimes when coding a Windows client/server application it can be a bit pesky dealing with the problem of knowing everything about the operating environment. In the System i and AS/400 world, factors like the host i5/OS version and release, and the iSeries Access (now called System i Access) version and fix pack level, can determine whether or not your software can run correctly. In the “IBM AS/400 iSeries Access for Windows ActiveX Object” library, IBM has given developers the tools to programmatically detect this information and thereby circumvent potential problems for environments that are not at the correct software level.

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More About SQL Correlation Names

March 12, 2008 Hey, Ted

I hope my question is an easy one to answer. I have a file that stores the location of inventory in a warehouse. Location consists of a row (an aisle), column, and level. Why will an SQL UPDATE let me change the column and level, but not the row?

–Scott

You can update the column like this:

update qtemp/inventory 
   set column=4        
 where item = 'SL-701'

But updating the row gives you error SQL0104. (Token 4 was not valid. Valid tokens: ( : DAY CAST CHAR DATE DAYS HOUOUR LEFT TIME TRIM YEAR COUNT MONTH.)

update qtemp/inventory 
   set row=4           
 where item

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Admin Alert: A Much Quicker Way to Move System i Objects Between Partitions

March 12, 2008 Joe Hertvik

In a recent article, I detailed how to use common i5/OS commands to easily transfer System i objects between partitions. After publication, several readers wrote to say that if you have a working SNADS network between your target and source partitions, transferring objects is incredibly easy if you just use the commands that come with IBM‘s free ObjectConnect licensed program. And you know something, they’re right! ObjectConnect is easier.

This week, I’ll review what ObjectConnect does for i5/OS object movement between systems, how to make sure that you have it installed on your machine, and how to use

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Help/Systems Gives SEQUEL a Web Makeover

March 12, 2008 Alex Woodie

A business intelligence system can have access to hundreds of terabytes of data, but if a user can’t find what she needs in a timely manner, the system has failed. To speed the absorption of BI data, many companies today are turning to graphical dashboards, which boil large amounts of data down into easy-to-comprehend graphics. Last week, Help Systems announced it has joined the ranks of the Web-based graphical dashboard vendors with a new release of its SEQUEL Web Interface offering.

Help/Systems has been in the business intelligence business since it purchased Advanced Systems Concepts nearly a year and a

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Solidcore Supports i5/OS with Real-Time Change Control

March 11, 2008 Alex Woodie

Solidcore Systems is now supporting the System i server with its collection of real-time change control and PCI compliance software, the company confirmed last week. While a formal announcement with IBM is weeks away, System i shops today can use Solidcore’s products to continuously monitor changes to their i5/OS servers, boost security, and help automate PCI compliance.

While it’s true that outside threats can impact the security and availability of your IT services, the fact is that the weather and Eastern European hackers can’t hold a candle to the level of damage that Bob the Midnight Operator can wreak on

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