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SAP Shows Prototype X64-Linux-ERP Bundles

March 10, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

In its ongoing effort to attack the midrange market with its ERP software, German software giant SAP was last week showing off a prototype bundle of one of its software stacks riding atop Linux on servers based on Intel‘s X64 Xeon processors. The event for the prototype sneak peek was CeBIT, the annual IT extravaganza–and the largest IT trade show in the world, by the way–which is held in Hannover, Germany.

The bundle includes SAP’s Business All-in-One ERP stack, a variant of its flagship mySAP software aimed at midrange companies that are a bit less complex than the multinational

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AIIM Survey Shows Companies Starting to Wrestle with Document Chaos

March 10, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

The first step toward solving any problem is, as we all know, admitting that there is a problem in the first place. The proliferation of various forms of structured and unstructured information and the persistence of paper-based documents has made a mess of things. But according to a recent survey of companies performed by AIIM, an association of vendors and users in the electronic content management space, companies are finally starting to wake up and smell the ECM software.

AIIM used to be known as the Association for Information and Image Management, but has evolved into one of those

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IBM Slashes Prices on Blade Server I/O Virtualization Software

March 10, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Last fall, IBM announced a new bit of systems software for its BladeCenter blade servers that virtualizes the Ethernet network and Fibre Channel storage area network addressing schemes built into adapter hardware in servers. This software, called Open Fabric Manager, takes hardware virtualization one more necessary step forward. But the software is new and it is not necessarily cheap. And so IBM is testing its pricing with a discount promotion.

As I explained last fall when Open Fabric Manager was announced, the software, which runs inside the service processor in the BladeCenter chassis, allows for the hard-coded Media Access Control

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ACOM Updates EZ Content Manager

March 7, 2008 Alex Woodie

ACOM Solutions has updated its Windows-based document archive for System i servers, called EZ Content Manager, with enhancements geared toward making the product faster and easier to use for both systems administrators and regular users.

ACOM launched EZContent Manager nearly two years ago as a low-cost and easy-to-use content management system. The product offers a SQL Server-based repository that holds documents from multiple systems, index and search capabilities, and a Web-based interface that allows users to pull up documents, in addition to other features.

With EZContent Manager version 3.3, the company has worked to streamline the processes of simultaneously accessing,

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Performance Advice from a Mysterious Friend

March 5, 2008 Dear Professional

One of your fellow subscribers sent me some performance tips that he says have made enormous performance improvements for his customers. He asked me to share them with you. Here’s the first one:

Change system value QDBFSTCCOL (Database file statistics collection) to *NONE during the day. Change the value to *ALL during non-peak times.

System value QDBFSTCCOL is shipped with a value of *ALL. The database statistics job is always running. Setting the system value to *NONE suspends the collector job. When you change the system value to *ALL, the collector job wakes up and any outstanding statistic requests are

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Don’t Let SQL Name Your Baby, Take 2

March 5, 2008 Hey, Ted

Don’t Let SQL Name Your Baby gave some good advice on tackling the problems created by column names longer than 10 characters. Table names of more than 10 characters can also cause problems, especially if you need to add the same table on multiple systems. Plus, if you want to do updates in an RPG program, it’s nice to have a record format name different from the table name.

–Tim

Tim points out another discrepancy between the System i’s QSYS.LIB file system and relational databases that run on other systems. Using SQL, you can create a table with a very

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Admin Alert: When System i Ethernet Cards Stop Broadcasting

March 5, 2008 Joe Hertvik

Twice recently my shop ran into an interesting problem with System i Ethernet cards. We were migrating Ethernet line descriptions from one system to another and even though the source system was in restricted mode, the target Ethernet card refused to work correctly until the source system card was unplugged from the network. Here’s what happened and what it teaches us about how System i Ethernet cards work.

Why Migrate Line Descriptions?

Because this situation deals with conflicts caused by migrating configurations, let’s first look at why people migrate Ethernet line descriptions between systems. I can think of three separate

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Centerfield Adds More Smarts to Database Performance Suite

March 4, 2008 Alex Woodie

Getting the most performance out of your System i server should be easier when using the new release of Centerfield Technology‘s suite of SQL and DB2 optimization software. With HomeRun version 6.1, Centerfield has added more intelligence and flexibility to HomeRun’s autonomic database maintenance component, called AutoDBA, which should result in faster implementation of database index optimization. The company has also taken steps to minimize the performance impact of the HomeRun suite itself.

In 2006, CenterField consolidated its various database performance and security products into a single suite called HomeRun. The move primarily served to make it easier and

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Aura Equipments Pushes i5/OS-Excel Integration

March 4, 2008 Alex Woodie

Aura Equipments, the French developer of i5/OS software utilities, has repackaged its i5/OS-Excel integration tool to make it more affordable. Launcher 400 Excel, as the product is called, allows Excel spreadsheets to be automatically updated with data from System i servers, providing a productivity boon to Excel junkies who would otherwise be rekeying data or playing with Query. Previously, the product was only available as part of a bigger, more expensive suite of products.

There are more than 500 million users of Excel around the world, according to Microsoft, making it the most successful business intelligence tool of

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Innovatum Adds Biometric Authentication to Improve Compliance ‘Auditability’

March 4, 2008 Dan Burger

Regulations that affect the collection, storage, and retrieval of electronic data records have hit IT departments like a snow storm in Miami Beach. IT managers have been shivering ever since mandates such as Sarbanes Oxley, Gramm-Leach-Bliley, HIPAA, and the FDA’s 21 CFR part 11, plus a blizzard of other industry-specific compliance rules have entered their domain. Early efforts to make the grade were manual labor intensive. To get out from under that heavy load, organizations looked to technology for automated solutions. Innovatum, with its data monitoring software, has been in the thick of it.

Coupled with the cold blast

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