• Asia/Pacific Region Bolsters Disk Array Sales in Q3

  December 10, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  The booming economies in the Asia/Pacific region are doing their part to help push up sales of external disk arrays, according to recent market statistics compiled by the analysts at Gartner, which just announced the stats for sales in the second quarter of 2007. On a worldwide basis, sales of external disk arrays in the third quarter rose by 3.4 percent to $3.86 billion, essentially mirroring the 3.3 percent growth, to $3.7 billion, that the industry attained during the second quarter of the year. In the third quarter, growth was largest in the Asia/Pacific region, up 22.7 percent compared

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• Create Multiple Directory Levels in One Swell Foop

  December 5, 2007 Hey, Ted

  Maybe I’m getting old, but I seem to remember being able to create several levels of directory structure with one command. I currently have such a need, in an application that creates XML files in the IFS. Yet CL’s MAKE DIRECTORY (MKDIR) command fails with error message CPFA0A9. Am I imaging things, or has something changed? –Lynn My guess is that you’re remembering MS-DOS’s md command. The following example contains a command that creates from one to five directories as needed. C:>md salesreports20071RegionC CL’s MKDIR command can only create one directory level at a time. However, Qshell’s mkdir command can

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• Update Only One of Duplicate Records

  December 5, 2007 Hey, Ted

  We have a file that has no unique key. This means that we sometimes get duplicate records in the file. This does not cause us problems in RPG programs because we can read a record, make changes to it, and update it, whether we’re using native I/O or an SQL cursor. However, having duplicate rows is a problem when we use SQL outside of programs. If two or more records are identical, there is no way to code a WHERE clause that will select only one record. Or is there? –David It is ugly, but possible, David. Assume table MYDATA,

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• Admin Alert: Getting Started with Trial Capacity on Demand, Part 1

  December 5, 2007 Joe Hertvik

  I recently activated a trial Capacity Upgrade on Demand (CoD) processor to increase my processing power on a System i 550 box. If you’re considering activating additional processors on your system, this week and next I’ll trace the steps I took to decide on activating another processor and how I got the process moving. Although there are a few pitfalls to avoid, adding extra processors to your machine isn’t that difficult. What is CoD? Capacity on Demand (CoD) is IBM‘s way of ensuring that you can quickly add extra capacity to later model System i servers, including models 550,

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• Profound Logic Gives Web Access to DB2/400 with iData

  December 4, 2007 Alex Woodie

  Ever wished you could access and edit your DB2/400 records directly from a Web browser? If so, perhaps you should check out iData, a new tool recently introduced by Profound Logic. The use of AJAX and other Web 2.0 techniques provides an extremely fast and intuitive way to access the database, according to Profound. And while the iData beta is focused primarily on database editing, it will soon expand to include other capabilities, such as querying and reporting, Web form creation, and Web application development. As one of the promising providers of third-party application development and modernization tools for

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• Sametime, But a Different Place; IBM Tries to Top Microsoft

  December 4, 2007 Dan Burger

  For those of you who enjoy watching and participating in the IBM vs. Microsoft tussle for supremacy in unified communications and collaborative software, make a note of the latest IBM Lotus Sametime products hitting the streets this week. They are Sametime Standard 8 and Sametime Entry. Each product offers features that many small to mid size companies will find important for comparison shopping, but not likely to cause anyone to place an order tomorrow. Lotus Sametime Standard follows the product line established by what was formerly known simply as Sametime. The version known as Sametime Entry has, as you might

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• Touchtone Boosts Communication in i5/OS CRM

  December 4, 2007 Alex Woodie

  For many businesses, customer contact is managed and executed through e-mail systems like IBM Lotus Notes and Microsoft Outlook. When these businesses seek to upgrade to a CRM system to increase the effectiveness of their customer contacts, it behooves them to work with these e-mail systems in close concert. That’s largely what Touchtone has done with the latest release of its i5/OS CRM system, Wintouch eCRM version 7.0, which will also soon gain VoIP support. Wintouch eCRM is a suite of interconnected modules designed to help System i shops better manage several aspects of their businesses, including customer service, sales,

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• NGS Delivers Prebuilt BI for Healthcare

  December 4, 2007 Alex Woodie

  New Generation Software (NGS) has delivered yet another addition to its Decision Assist line of prebuilt business intelligence (BI) applications for various industries. With Decision Assist–Healthcare, NGS is enabling hospitals and other healthcare organizations that rely upon the System i server to quickly set up dashboards, portals, multidimensional models, and other elements of a BI solution that would normally take a considerable amount of development. While the market for ERP software is not expected to increase as quickly in 2008 as it did in previous years, there are some IT industry pockets that are forecasted to improve. BI and CRM

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• SafeData Launches Telecom Recovery Service

  December 4, 2007 Alex Woodie

  For two-and-a-half years, SafeData has provided a service to help customers get their System i applications back online during and after disasters. Last week, the Rhode Island company launched a new hosted service that aims to keep the calls coming in, even when their primary phone system goes down. While much emphasis has been placed on building resiliency into servers through disaster recovery (DR) and high availability (HA) solutions, never overlook the importance of the phone system to conducting business. After all, if customer service representatives can’t field phone calls from customers, a percentage of transactions will be lost. SafeData

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• Patch Available for Lotus Notes Security Flaw

  December 4, 2007 Alex Woodie

  IBM is helping to distribute a patch for a security vulnerability discovered in a Lotus Notes file viewer that could allow an attacker to take full control of an affected computer. IBM says the flaw, which was disclosed last week by Core Security Technologies, only affects the Lotus Notes client, and not the Domino server. A patch is available for Notes version 7 and 8. Sebastián Muñiz from the Core Impact Exploit Writers Team (EWT) at CorernSecurity Technologies is credited with discovering a buffer overflow vulnerability in a third-party file viewer that’s used to open Lotus 1-2-3 e-mail attachments.

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