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IBM Virtualizes I/O in BladeCenter Servers

December 3, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

The problem with most physical objects, like the gear in a data center, is that it is not malleable. Over time, successive pieces of this infrastructure has been virtualized to make it easier and faster to reconfigure it for different uses, starting with main memory four decades ago and culminating in the wholesale virtualization of entire server stacks over the last decade using virtual machine hypervisors. The problem is, even in a virtualized server environment, those pesky links to networks and storage in the outside world remain physical.

Which is why Hewlett-Packard announced a virtual switch and storage area networking

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Former Microsoft COO Joins the Vision Solutions Board

December 3, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

High availability and disaster recovery software maker Vision Solutions has built itself into the dominant position in the System i market through acquisitions in the past year, thanks to private equity from Thoma Cressey Bravo. And having done that, the company’s owners and managers are trying to get the best minds to chart the company’s future.

To that end, Vision Solutions was obviously quite pleased to announce last week that it has landed a well-known, top former executive from Microsoft, Bob Herbold, to its board of directors.

Herbold is the perfect executive for just about any board of

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Climate Savers Launches ‘Green’ Computer Catalog

December 3, 2007 Alex Woodie

Having trouble finding a new server or desktop PC that takes it easy on the juice and minimizes the impact on global warming? Then you might want to check out a new online product catalog launched this week by Climate Savers Computing Initiative that provides a list of IT equipment that meets the group’s efficiency guidelines.

Climate Savers was created this summer by a consortium of vendors, including Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard, with the goal of reducing computers’ electricity consumption by 50 percent by 2010. It also hopes to encourage computer and component manufacturers to build products that meet new

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Lawson Partners for Expansion in the Hot Brazilian Market

December 3, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

The Brazilian economy runs hot and sometimes cold, and right now, it is hot, hot, hot. Whenever IT vendors talk about where they are growing at double digits, Brazil is in the list, right along with Russia, India, and China. And that is why ERP software vendor Lawson Software is fired up to be working with a new distribution partner for its M3 suite in Brazil.

That partner, Consultix Consultoria Assessoria, has been hired to provide sales, implementation, training, maintenance, and other consulting services for Lawson M3 customers in Brazil. Initially, Consultix will focus on peddling the M3 suite,

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System i Developers and .NET 2.0, Part 2: Web Development Using ASP.NET AJAX

November 28, 2007 Michael Sansoterra

Note: The code accompanying this article is available for download here.

In System i Developers and .NET 2.0: ASP.NET and the Declarative Programming Model, which is Part 1 of this series, I did a jet tour of the basics of .NET 2.0 and tried to present compelling reasons why System i programmers might want to learn it. Among the listed reasons to learn .NET are popularity (with a large supporting community), versatility and the ability to integrate with the AS/400 and System i world. Part 1 also presented a step-by-step scenario on how to create a basic ASP.NET

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ON vs. ON

November 28, 2007 Hey, Professional

In ON vs. WHERE, I demonstrated that an outer join yields different results depending on whether you place a selection expression in the ON clause or the WHERE clause for a secondary file. Now I want to follow up on that tip by looking at the difference between the ON and WHERE clauses for a primary table.

Here’s the invoicing data I used in the previous tip. We have header information:

SELECT H.* FROM INVHDR AS H

Invoice  Company   Customer      Date
47566      1           44     2004-05-03
47567      2            5     2004-05-03
47568      1        10001     2004-05-03
47569      7          777     2004-05-03
47570      7

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Admin Alert: Basic Tools for the System i Admin Tool Chest

November 28, 2007 Joe Hertvik

Like it or not, iSeries, i5, and System i administrators usually have to write small Control Language (CL) programs to help them manage their systems. To make this task easier, I frequently use several common programming and IBM-sponsored techniques to perform different functions. This week, I’ll look at three basic programming and administrative tools for CL programming and demonstrate how they can benefit you when creating operational programs.

Tool #1: Sending Status Messages When a User is Running a Program

When you’re writing long-running code that has to be run interactively, it helps to flash status messages at the bottom

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NetManage Fixes Printing, Performance Issues in Web-Based Emulation

November 27, 2007 Alex Woodie

NetManage addressed nagging performance and printing issues in its Web-to-host product line this month with the release of OnWeb for iSeries version 7.2.5. On the performance front, support for AJAX will dramatically boost the screen response time of customers that have elected to move their emulators to the Web. And a new feature called “iPrint” will finally give OnWeb for iSeries customers the capability to print PDF documents on local printers without resorting to messy modifications and custom development.

On November 15, NetManage refreshed its entire product line with the delivery of OnWeb Server and OnWeb for iSeries version 7.2.5,

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Verastream Streamlines Host Access for Hospital Billing Specialist

November 27, 2007 Alex Woodie

Collecting insurance payment information from hospital computer systems was often a tedious and time-consuming process for Medical Reimbursements of America (MRA). When the company could convince the hospital’s IT staff to run some reports, things went smoothly. But in many cases, MRA representatives sitting behind terminal emulators had to navigate through hundreds or thousands of screens to gather the necessary information. That began to change 11 months ago, when MRA installed the Verastream Host Integration product from Attachmate, which automated much of this work.

The billing departments of most hospitals are well equipped to deal with standard patient accounts,

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Help/Systems Extends Robot to Linux Servers

November 27, 2007 Alex Woodie

System i shops that rely on Help/Systems‘ Robot systems management tools recently obtained the capability to manage several aspects of their Linux servers, when the software company announced support for Linux servers with Robot/CLIENT, its open systems extension to the System i-focused Robot world. Help/Systems also unveiled a new release of the Robot Browser Interface, a product that puts an HTML view on top of several popular Robot products, including the job scheduler and the message management and alerting tool.

For years, Help/Systems has sold Robot/CLIENT, a product that enabled its customers to control certain aspects of Unix and

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