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  • Monitor for Specific Messages in RPG

    May 2, 2007 Hey, Ted

    I have a CL program that calls another CL program and monitors for specific escape messages. No big deal. I put multiple Monitor Message (MONMSG) commands after the CALL. Suppose I want to call the second CL program from an RPG program. How do I monitor for the different errors?

    –Ray

    OK, Ray, let’s set this up for the readers. Let’s suppose your program, which we’ll call SOMEPGM, can return escape messages MYM2101 and MYM2105. A CL caller monitors for those messages like this:

    CALL       PGM(SOMEPGM) PARM(&whatever) 
    MONMSG     MSGID(MYM2101)  EXEC(DO)
    /* do something */
    ENDDO
    MONMSG     MSGID(MYM2105)  EXEC(DO)
    /* do 
    …

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  • Overcome the Page Control Limitations of iSeries Access Printer Emulation Sessions

    May 2, 2007 Michael Sansoterra

    Over the years, iSeries Access virtual printer emulation sessions have been used to successfully print a variety of spool file reports from System i and AS/400 systems to a local PC printer. Regardless of the report’s page attributes (page orientation, lines per inch, characters per inch, number of columns, etc.), the printer emulator will often successfully and automatically correct the output and automatically adjust the spool file’s page settings to print successfully to a local printer. However, in other cases it seems like it takes quite a bit of tinkering to get various spool files to print correctly to a

    …

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  • Admin Alert: Dealing with i5 Critical Storage Errors,

    May 2, 2007 Joe Hertvik


    Part 2

    In the last issue, I discussed some tricks for monitoring your system to detect storage problems. Today, I want to shift the focus from determining when your disk storage is filling up to what you can do to increase available drive space. I’ll do this by providing a checklist of several different techniques you can perform to retrieve system storage space that you might have thought was lost forever.

    Finding the Right Cure for Your Storage Woes

    Disk drive capacity issues can cause system problems when i5 storage usage passes the 90 percent level. Performance degradation starts

    …

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  • MySQL Database Getting Closer Ties to the System i

    May 1, 2007 Alex Woodie

    The System i is about to get a second supported database. Last week at the MySQL user conference, IBM and MySQL announced plans for MySQL to offer professional support for the open source database running on i5/OS, and to enable DB2/400 to work as one of the database “engines” that plugs into MySQL. The plan, when completed, has the capability to bring thousands of new Web 2.0 applications to the System i, and loads of DB2/400 data–and business credibility–to the upstart MySQL database platform.

    For years, there has been one, and only one, database management system for the AS/400, iSeries,

    …

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  • Quadrant Updates Forms Package, Content Management System

    May 1, 2007 Alex Woodie

    Quadrant Software made two separate but related product announcements this week at the COMMON conference in Anaheim, California. The first concerns the unveiling of a new electronic payment module to Formtastic, the company’s forms management software for i5/OS. The second involves the addition of customizable workflow functionality to IntelliChief, its new Windows-based document and content management system, which is being aimed squarely at medium- to large-size System i shops, in addition to existing Formtastic users.

    With Formtastic version 5.4, Quadrant has added a new Electronic Payments Module that allows System i users to send money electronically using the Automated Clearing

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  • IBM Rolls Out LTO 4 Tape Drives and Libraries

    May 1, 2007 Alex Woodie

    IBM last week announced its first tape products built on the Linear Tape Open (LTO) generation 4 specification, including a new standalone drive, a new high-end drive featuring Fibre Channel interfaces, and four new or improved tape libraries providing scalability into the petabyte range. With the new LTO 4 spec, Big Blue is taking security quite seriously. IBM also announced a new virtual tape library.

    The LTO format has come on strong to become the top-selling tape drive format, besting the competing DLT, SDLT, and AIT enterprise formats. With 800 GB of native capacity per cartridge and data transfer rates

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  • Oracle Seeks Better Third-Party Integration with AIA Initiative

    May 1, 2007 Alex Woodie

    Oracle‘s vast customer base should find it easier to connect their Oracle applications to software from third-party vendors as a result of the new Application Integration Architecture (AIA), or “Project X,” initiative the software giant announced at its user conference two weeks ago. In reaching out to its partners, Oracle also unveiled ISV Solution Maps to help customers find products that have been certified to work with their Oracle applications.

    Oracle launched the AIA initiative to provide itself, as well as third-party ISVs, with another way of hooking into Oracle’s enterprise products, including E-Business Suite (EBS), PeopleSoft Enterprise, J.D.

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  • Bottomline Launches New ‘Proof of Delivery’ Product

    May 1, 2007 Alex Woodie

    J.D. Edwards EnterpriseOne shops may be interested in hearing about the latest product news out of Bottomline Technologies. At the recent Oracle Collaborate ’07 user conference in Las Vegas, the New England company unveiled a new product called Proof of Delivery and announced a new release of its Create!archive software.

    Bottomline Technologies, through its acquisition of Create!form International in 2003, has a solid business selling electronic document management solutions to J.D. Edwards shops. Before the acquisitions by PeopleSoft and Oracle, Create!form International had an exclusive deal to provide certified document management software to J.D. Edwards customers. There is no

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  • DataMirror Updates Transformation Server/ES

    May 1, 2007 Alex Woodie

    DataMirror last week launched a new release of Transformation Server Event Server (TS/ES), a special version of its data replication software designed to work with message queues used in enterprise application integration (EAI) and service oriented architecture (SOA) environments.

    DataMirror’s popular Transformation Server software has traditionally been used for extracting, transforming, and loading (ETL-ing) massive amounts of data from one relational database to another. In most cases, Transformation Server users are moving data from production DB2/400, DB2 UDB, Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, or Teradata databases running on i5/OS, Windows, Unix, or Linux servers to a secondary database used for

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  • HiT Software Updates Data Integration Tool

    May 1, 2007 Alex Woodie

    HiT Software is now shipping a new version of Allora, its flagship, XML-based data integration and synchronization software for DB2/400 and other major databases.

    With Allora version 5, HiT has introduced a new graphical module called Workflow Manager that is designed for creating, scheduling, and executing a group of database-to-XML transformation and related XML file management tasks.

    Workflow Manager includes a design component for adding tasks, setting parameters, and organizing tasks in the execution order. At runtime, a tab in the Workflow Manager screen shows details about the performance of the transformation workflow.

    HiT says the combination of its graphical

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