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  • New Efficiency Goals Set by Climate Savers Computing Initiative

    June 18, 2007 Alex Woodie

    Intel and Google last week joined dozens of other top tech companies and competitors in the creation of the Climate Savers Computing Initiative, a new organization dedicated to making PCs and servers more energy efficient and, hopefully, better for the environment.

    They were joined by Microsoft, IBM, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and about 35 other technology vendors in founding the Climate Savers Computing Initiative. The group and its goals are modeled after the World Wildlife Fund’s Climate Savers program.

    The group’s initial goal is to encourage computer and component manufacturers to build products that meet or surpass

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  • Disk Array Sales Still Humming Along, Says IDC

    June 18, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    Few things in the world exhibit such perfect elasticity of price and demand as the appetite that corporations have had over the past 50 years for disk storage. As disk technology has progressed and the cost of a unit of capacity has come down dramatically, this has fueled an even larger demand for capacity. This has remained so in the first quarter of 2007, according to statistics compiled by IDC.

    Sales worldwide of external disk arrays rose by 5.9 percent in the first quarter to $4.3 billion. Total disk array sales, which includes internal arrays that are popular for

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  • Azul Systems Upgrades Java Appliances

    June 18, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    Java co-processor appliance maker Azul Systems has made good on its promise to roll out more scalable Java appliances this year based on its “Vega 2” 48-core processor for hosting Java Virtual Machines.

    Last December, Azul launched the Vega 2 chip, which had twice as many cores per chip as its predecessor, the Vega 1, and therefore can do about twice as much Java work. The two Compute Appliance machines launched back in December had two or four Vega 2 chips, which supported either 96 cores (the model 3210) or 192 cores (the model 3220). At the time, Azul said

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  • ‘Catch the Wave’ OCEAN Tech Conference Returns to SoCal

    June 18, 2007 Dan Burger

    One of the largest and most active local user groups in the United States, the OCEAN User Group of Southern California, is hosting its annual “Catch the Wave” technical conference Monday, July 16. The event focuses on the IBM System i, iSeries, and AS/400 platform as well as the i5/OS and OS/400 operating systems.

    The one-day event will feature 30 educational sessions, which are divided into six tracks comprised of five sessions. Attendees can choose to remain in one track for the entire five sessions or pick sessions from any number of tracks. The following tracks are on the

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  • Fix Decimal Data Errors

    June 13, 2007 Bruce Guetzkow

    Note: The code accompanying this article is available for download here, and it has been updated since it originally ran [Updated 06/13/07]

    I have seen requests many times in the forums from programmers asking how best to handle data with invalid decimal data. Typically this type of error is first discovered when a program ends abnormally. I have found this problem occurs most often with data received from outside sources: customers and vendors. Many times this data comes from systems other than a System i. I’ve developed a command to identify and (optionally) “fix” errant data.

    What’s in a

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  • Joining on Mismatched Values

    June 13, 2007 Hey, Ted

    Like many shops, we have a mixture of database files that we have acquired from different sources due to mergers and acquisitions over the years. Getting things to match up is challenging, to put it mildly. I have two files that contain warehouse code fields, but the codes do not match exactly. In one file, a certain warehouse is indicated by the letter T. In the other file, the same warehouse is the character 1 (one). All other warehouses have the same codes in both files.

    I need to join these files, but I don’t know what to do about

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  • Admin Alert: Alternative Ways to Print PC5250 Screens

    June 13, 2007 Joe Hertvik

    Most PC5250 green-screen users like using the Print Screen icon for sending screen shots to networked printers. However, there are two lesser-known PC5250 screen capture functions that can send screen shots to i5/OS output queues or to collect screen shots and print them as a group to a Windows networked printer, rather than printing each shot individually as they do when using Print Screen.

    This week, I’ll look at two alternatives to PC5250’s Print Screen icon and the benefits they provide to your shop. While clicking on Print Screen is fairly easy for the users, these other alternatives offer

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  • IBM Rejiggers BladeCenter for SMBs

    June 13, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    If you want to sell servers to small and medium businesses, here is a very simple rule of thumb: Engineer a box that plugs into a normal wall outlet, like a PC does, and they will proliferate like mushrooms in a musty cave. Try to sell a sophisticated 220-volt blade server chassis to these customers, and SMB shops will balk and therefore not receive the many benefits of the blade server architecture.

    With a new BladeCenter-S chassis that IBM previewed today and that it plans to start selling in the fourth quarter, the company hopes to change the dynamics of

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  • IBM Rejiggers BladeCenter for SMBs

    June 13, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    If you want to sell servers to small and medium businesses, here is a very simple rule of thumb: Engineer a box that plugs into a normal wall outlet, like a PC does, and they will proliferate like mushrooms in a musty cave. Try to sell a sophisticated 220-volt blade server chassis to these customers, and SMB shops will balk and therefore not receive the many benefits of the blade server architecture.

    With a new BladeCenter-S chassis that IBM previewed today and that it plans to start selling in the fourth quarter, the company hopes to change the dynamics of

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  • IBM Rejiggers BladeCenter for SMBs

    June 13, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    If you want to sell servers to small and medium businesses, here is a very simple rule of thumb: Engineer a box that plugs into a normal wall outlet, like a PC does, and they will proliferate like mushrooms in a musty cave. Try to sell a sophisticated 220-volt blade server chassis to these customers, and SMB shops will balk and therefore not receive the many benefits of the blade server architecture.

    With a new BladeCenter-S chassis that IBM previewed today and that it plans to start selling in the fourth quarter, the company hopes to change the dynamics of

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