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  • SQL PL–The FOR Loop

    November 1, 2016 Ted Holt

    SQL PL has four looping structures. The most useful one, to my way of thinking, is the FOR structure. It is different from–and more powerful than–the RPG FOR op code, and it’s easy to learn and use. Here’s how it works.

    FOR iterates over a read-only result set and terminates when there are no more rows to process. Think of a FOR loop as a read-only cursor without the messiness of OPEN, FETCH, and CLOSE. Let me illustrate with a stored procedure.

    create or replace Procedure Billing (in p_BillingCycle dec(3))
    for One_Customer as
       select c.AccountNumber
         from customers as c 
        where 
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  • Beyond Hello With Node.js

    November 1, 2016 Aaron Bartell

    In Why Node.js? we discussed Node.js and how to get up to speed with “hello world” from a program, the Node.js REPL (Read, Eval, Print, and Loop), and a web application. Now we will build on that knowledge by actually creating an application to show your team.

    A gent by the name of Rainer Ross recently posted a link to the IBM i Professionals LinkedIn group declaring the benefits of the new Webix framework. (Webix.com is freemium software. There are free versions and paid versions. Please adhere to the licensing.) Because of my comments on his post I received an

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  • IBM’s Power Systems Stalls A Bit As Power8 Wanes

    October 31, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    With the Power9 chips slated for some time in the second half of next year, and the Power8 systems not being upgraded with a formal Power8+ variant, it is not surprise to us that sales of Power Systems iron based on the Power8 chip that launched in April 2014 are waning. It is the nature of every product cycle to have its ramp, its peak, and its slide. The slide is just a way to extract profits, with the ease of sales and improving yields on chips compensating for the fact that Big Blue has to discount more to move

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  • VAI Pours Business Intelligence Into Midmarket ERP

    October 31, 2016 Dan Burger

    During the past several years, VAI has rerouted its ERP software roadmap with a modernization plan that included Web and mobile development, cloud-based managed services, and now business intelligence analytics. At the company’s user conference last week in New Orleans, it provided a peek at the BI component in S2K Version 6, which is in the hands of a few customers now and is expected to be generally available in Q1 2017.

    VAI’s S2K software is running core business applications in approximately 1,500 IBM midrange shops, primarily in the distribution, manufacturing, and retail industries. The privately owned and family operated

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  • The Time And Tech Are Right For Online Backups

    October 31, 2016 Dan Burger

    Logically, tape backups shouldn’t be as popular as they are. The process is cumbersome and hardly aligned with the accelerating pace of IT capabilities and business decision making. When you factor in the recovery time for most companies that rely on tape, the logic becomes twisted. Even with automation, shorter backup windows, multi-platform complexity, and regulatory compliance combine to push the question of whether tape is reasonable, in spite of its widespread popularity.

    The online, service-based, backup alternative has been in place for almost 30 years with many improvements during that time. Internet connectivity, CPU capacity, data compression, encryption, and

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  • As I See It: Paying To Play

    October 31, 2016 Victor Rozek

    It was Fitzgerald who is credited with making what is surely one of the more self-evident observations in history. Namely that “the rich are different from you and me.” To which Hemmingway supposedly replied, “yeah, they have more money.” It didn’t actually happen that way, but small matter. The exchange–more literary than conversational–stuck in the popular imagination.

    Different though they may be, the rich have the same essential needs as their less affluent brethren. Like the rest of us they crave connection, but that craving is informed by a fear of being taken advantage of. That, in brief, is the

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  • Questions Arise Over IBM’s New Cloud Backup for IBM i

    October 31, 2016 Alex Woodie

    IBM raised some eyebrows with the recent release of its Cloud Storage Solutions for i, which enables IBM i shops to back up and archive DB2 and IFS data to its SoftLayer cloud. Much of the initial feedback to IBM’s first native cloud solution for IBM i was positive. But some IBM business partners are already questioning whether the solution will be actually useful for customers as it now stands.

    Cloud Storage Solutions for i was a part of IBM’s big October 11 announcement for IBM i 7.3 Technology Refresh 1 (TR1) and 7.2 TR5. The software, which carries product

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  • Don’t Overlook These Network Auditing Improvements in IBM i 7.3

    October 24, 2016 Alex Woodie

    What is going across those network cables connecting your IBM i server to the outside world? It’s not always easy to tell, and IBM hasn’t exactly made it easy. But thanks to new security event types and exit points released earlier this year in IBM i 7.3, you can get deeper visibility into network traffic and make your company’s SIEM system work better with your IBM i along the way.

    The focus over the past few weeks has been on IBM i 7.3 Technology Refresh 1 and IBM i 7.2 TR5. There is a lot of good stuff in there,

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  • IBM Opens Up Coherent Protocols For Power Chips

    October 24, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    In case you did not get the memo, IBM is dead serious about promoting the Power architecture as a credible alternative to the Xeon architecture from Intel and the various upstarts that want to take a piece of the processing action in the datacenter. The OpenPower Foundation, formed a little more than three years ago, is the center of gravity for the Power push, but Big Blue has aspirations for some of its technology that go well beyond its own chips.

    That is why IBM is forming the OpenCAPI Consortium, a group of like-minded IT suppliers and customers who

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  • Cross-Platform Development Targets Code Management

    October 24, 2016 Dan Burger

    The IBM i platform has a reputation that is both good and bad. It is powerful, dependable, securable, manageable, but highly proprietary. Being proprietary means the system and the people who support it on often on their own island. That wasn’t a problem for many years and some shops can still live with that. For others, the “doesn’t play well with others” description doesn’t cut it any more. So IBM is working to change that.

    You probably noticed. Going from proprietary to open is not a quick fix. But compared to the days when almost everything in enterprise computing was

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