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A Database By Any Other Name Is Still DB2/400–For Now

August 27, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Like many of you out there in i5/OS and OS/400 Land, the writers and gurus at IT Jungle refer to the integrated relational database that comes with these operating systems as “DB2/400.” IBM doesn’t like this, and contacted us recently, asking us to please call it by its correct name. If it were only that easy.

Which one? Every time the marketeers are done with it, we get yet another name that does not exactly roll off the tongue. IBM itself is not consistent in its documentation and its speech when using the AS/400-iSeries-System i names, much less product names

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IBM Buys Web Conferencing Firm to Bolster Sametime IM

August 27, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Hot on the heels of the launch of the new Notes/Domino 8 groupware and its associated Sametime 8 instant messaging extensions, IBM has reached into its bank account to acquire WebDialogs, a privately held service provider that specializes in Web conferencing services.

WebDialogs was founded in 1998, and is located in the Boston tech corridor in the town of Billerica, Massachusetts. The company’s Unyte+ conferencing software can be used to do Web-based voice conferencing as well as chat; the company also distributes a freebie service called Unyte Lyte for one-to-one conferencing. The latter product can be used in a standalone

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Java Is Catching Up to .NET for SOA Deployments

August 27, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Evans Data is one of the market research companies that focuses on what tools developers are using to produce applications. According to a recent survey of application developers, the use of Java in development projects using a services oriented architecture (SOA) approach is on the rise, but those using .NET is slumping.

Specifically, the Evans Data survey, which compares results with the recent poll to a similar poll of developers from six months ago, shows that those companies deploying SOA-style applications were choosing .NET 28 percent less frequently. In the current poll, 28 percent of developers said their SOA projects

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Sales and Profits Up at Jack Henry in Fiscal Q4

August 27, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Jack Henry & Associates, a hardware and software supplier to banks, credit unions, and other financial organizations that has a sizable presence in the i5/OS and OS/400 ecosystem, last week reported its financial results for its year end and fourth quarter of fiscal 2007. As has been the case for a number of years, Jack Henry continues to be a bright spot.

For the fiscal fourth quarter ended June 30, Jack Henry reported sales of $181.3 million, up 12 percent, with net income of $78.2 million, up 15 percent. Software license sales fell by 5 percent in the quarter,

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The Turnaround Continues at Magic Software

August 27, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Application development tool maker Magic Software continues to reap the benefits of the restructuring it underwent last year and a revamped product line. In its second quarter ended June 30, the Or Yehuda, Israel, software company reported sales of $16.8 million, up 11 percent from the year ago quarter, and better still, the company reported net income of $816,000, a swing into the black. In the second quarter of 2006, Magic Software lost $1.3 million.

Software sales in the second quarter came to $3.5 million, down 12 percent, while end user application sales came to $1.6 million, down 9 percent.

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SAP Gets Ready to Launch A1S Online Apps on September 19

August 27, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Imagine if you could use ERP software from an industry giant, but you never had to cope with the installation and maintenance of the systems involved in the use of those applications? SAP is sure hoping that medium-sized businesses the world over are looking to move to a different way of consuming software–one that uses the Internet for connectivity and that deploys software as a service. At least that is what all of the chatter is about concerning SAP’s “A1S” SaaS-style offering, which will be launched on September 19 for delivery perhaps in 2008.

The product that SAP will talk

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CA Extends Change Management to i5/OS

August 23, 2007 Alex Woodie

IT shops developing applications for multiple operating systems may want to consider CA for cross-platform change management. The Islandia, New York, company now provides an option for supporting the i5/OS server with CA Software Change Manager for Distributed (formerly CA Harvest), its flagship change management solution for multi-platform enterprises. The new option also opens System i customers to a range of CA’s other change and configuration management products.

CA has a long and successful history of developing change management solutions for Windows, Unix, and IBM mainframe platforms. The company initially introduced its flagship change management product, called Harvest, about 20

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If the Compiler Can’t Find the Mistake, Maybe You Can

August 22, 2007 Ted Holt

Programs should not break when people change them, yet they often do. Sometimes programs break when programmers modify only one of two things that have to stay in sync. Compilers can’t always catch such errors, but you often can.

For example, suppose that you are developing a program with a control break. Regardless of what language you are using, you will need a holding variable for each control field in order to test when a control field changes. Here’s an example of such a variable.

D SaveItemNo      s                   like(ItemNo)

ItemNo is a database field. SaveItemNo is defined to be like

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Commands with Generic Parameters

August 22, 2007 Hey, Ted

A while back you posted a tip regarding DLTF with a generic file name. It works great! I needed to copy a physical file and its related logical files to another library. I decided to prompt the CRTDUPOBJ command and was delighted to find that the OBJ parameter can specify a generic name! The file names were similar, with a slight difference in their suffix, so I was able to duplicate multiple objects with one command. Lesson learned: prompt a command once in a while and read all the parameters. Something may have been missed or added in a

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Troubleshooting NetServer File Copy Errors

August 22, 2007 Hey, Joe

I just authorized a user for read-write access to an iSeries NetServer file share in the QDLS file system on my system i machine. However, when he tries to copy a text file to that folder, he gets a Windows error saying ‘Cannot copy file: Access is denied. Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use.‘ I can write to the QDLS folder and he has the same authority that I do. Do you know what’s going on here?

–Bob

It’s been my experience that this error is

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