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  • IBM to Recycle Silicon Wafers for Solar Cells

    November 5, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    IBM is probably best known for its enterprise-class servers and related systems software, but the company is obviously a pretty big player in the chip industry with its various Power and PowerPC chips. IBM’s techies in Burlington, Vermont, where IBM still makes a lot of chips, have been scratching their heads about what to do with defective silicon wafers, which are the inevitable result of any chip-making process, and have come up with a novel idea: recycle them for use in solar cells.

    An engineer named Eric White from the Burlington factory, which is located there because the Watson family

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  • The System i Still Owns the SAP BI Data Mart Benchmark

    November 5, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    It’s lonely at the top, apparently. In recent posting in her blog on IBM’s developerWorks site, Elisabeth Stahl, who is the program manager of performance marketing for Systems and Technology Group, was lamenting that no one else in the IT industry had yet done a test on SAP‘s BI Data Mart benchmark test as the System i platform was getting another machine tested on it.

    “When I hike, I love to get to the top of the mountain,” Stahl writes. “Then it’s time to break out the peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and enjoy the view. But I do

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  • IBM to Pump $1.5 Billion into Security Products, Services

    November 5, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    For years, IBM has been focusing on creating more flexible and virtual computing environments and has sunk billions of dollars in research and development into these areas. If last week’s announcements were any indication, then Big Blue will be focusing rather heavily on security and risk management in 2008.

    As part of a broad array of product plans that IBM put together last week in the wake of its acquisition of Watchfire this year (for an undisclosed sum, but the rumor mill has suggested it was around $100 million) and Internet Security Systems in 2006 for $1.3 billion, the company

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  • IT Vendor Market Cap Follies

    November 5, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    The world is a funny place. Funny in terms of “ha ha” as well as in funny as “downright strange.” Someone sent me an email last week, laughing because the market capitalization of Apple Computer had surpassed that of IBM.

    Market cap–the value of all of the shares outstanding in public companies as reckoned by the price of shares on Wall Street–is as good a measure as any about what the world thinks of that company. But considering the amount of flim-flam and nonsense in people’s reasons for valuing companies–well, at least some of the time–maybe market cap goes

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  • BluePhoenix Rides Legacy Modernization to Another Successful Quarter

    November 5, 2007 Dan Burger

    Legacy modernization software vendor BluePhoenix Solutions turned in record financial results for its third quarter ended September 30.

    During the third quarter, BluePhoenix completed the acquisition of ASNA, one of the leading application modernization vendors in the System i market. Prior to the ASNA deal, BluePhoenix concentrated its efforts in the mainframe arena.

    The company’s had revenues of $23 million in the third quarter, which was an increase of 34 percent compared to $17.1 million in the third quarter of 2006. Revenues from the most recent quarter were also 9.4 percent higher than the $21 million in revenues that

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  • The Latest i5/OS V5R4 PTFs: What Is Going On?

    November 5, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    Our faithful i5/OS and OS/400 PTF guru, Doug Bidwell of DLB Associates, has been putting together his PTF Guide for a decade now. (Hard to believe, isn’t it Doug?) His PTF Guide has been associated with my AS/400-based newsletters across many different companies through all that time, and I would like to thank him for the service that he performs each week to consolidate the information concerning the PTFs down into something that can help a system administrator figure out what to do.

    Two weekends ago, as Bidwell was putting together the System i PTF Guide Volume 9 Number

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  • Use PHP to Bring i5/OS Resources to the Web

    October 31, 2007 Erwin Earley

    This is our third article in the PHP in i5/OS series. In previous articles we have provided an overview of PHP on System i as well as the basic syntax of the language. This article provides an overview of the API toolkit, and a collection of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that facilitate PHP programs accessing and working with i5/OS objects.

    Web Development and Deployment Stacks–LAMP

    To begin our discussion let’s first look at the Web development and deployment stack that incorporation of PHP provides to i5/OS. In the past you have probably encountered the LAMP stack – a Web development/deployment

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  • Wrapping Free Form Text

    October 31, 2007 Michael Sansoterra


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

    One common integration problem encountered by those building client/server or Web-based interfaces to a legacy green-screen application is mapping a free form text field into a fixed width field. This tip presents a code segment I wrote to solve this problem.

    For example, say you have the following DDS defined legacy table called ORDCOMT that is designed to store the comments for a customer order:

    Column

    Data
    Type

    Description

    ORDID

    7P,0

    Order Id

    CMTSEQ

    3P,0

    Comment
    Sequence

    CMTTXT

    25A

    Comment
    Text

    In the legacy application, a customer service

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  • Admin Alert: Limiting System i User Sign-ons the Smart Way

    October 31, 2007 Joe Hertvik

    In certain scenarios, you may want to limit certain users from starting more than one i5/OS session at a time. While the System i provides a method for limiting all users from starting multiple sessions, it’s not widely understood how to limit individual users from starting multiple sessions. This week, I’ll examine how to limit individual i5/OS user sign-ons and I’ll show you how to use it to your advantage.

    The Art of Limiting Multiple Sign-ons

    The Limit device sessions system value (QLMTDEVSSN) will generally control whether your users can start more than one user session at a

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  • Zend Plans Treats, Tricks for System i Programmers

    October 30, 2007 Alex Woodie

    Halloween is tomorrow night, and for all you System i types planning on dressing up as something really frightening this year–such as a ghost, a goblin, or a PHP programmer–Zend Technologies has a few tricks and treats in store for you. For starters, you’ll get new features around the MySQL and SQL Server databases, and WYSIWYG functionality. You also gain the capability to install Zend Core for i5/OS directly from Windows. Now if that doesn’t scare you, nothing will.

    For some time now, Zend has been working on the upcoming version 2.5 release of Zend Core, as well as

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