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  • Tokenization Without Technical Expertise? Townsend Says It’s Here

    September 28, 2016 Alex Woodie

    Tokenization has emerged as a favorite technique for protecting sensitive data without the heavy performance, storage, and productivity hit that encryption entails. However, implementing a tokenization solution has typically required advanced development expertise, at least on the IBM i platform. Now Townsend Security has introduced a new IBM i-based tokenization solution that it says delivers the benefits of tokenization without involving programmers.

    Tokenization is an advanced form of encryption that’s gaining traction among banks, retailers, and payment gateways. The technique works by replacing the value of sensitive database fields, such as a credit card numbers, with randomly generated index keys,

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  • PHP and IBM i: Ten Years of Magic

    September 28, 2016 Amy Anderson

    The online world recently celebrated the 25th anniversary of the World Wide Web. Young adults entering the workforce today have never known life without it. But for those who were working on green screen terminals in the mid-1990s and saw for the first time what a modem-connected PC could deliver, the World Wide Web was indistinguishable from magic.

    And the ability to deliver magic exploded with the emergence of a development language originally called PHP/FI. Originally created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994, PHP stood for personal home pages and form interpreter. It gave a new class of developers, called webmasters,

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  • Raz-Lee Touts DB-Gate User Stories

    September 28, 2016 Alex Woodie

    What would you do if you were able to connect your DB2 for i database directly into another database, like SQL Server or Oracle 12c? That would probably open up all kinds of impactful use cases to support your business objectives without resorting to tiresome file transfers or expensive middleware. That’s exactly what Raz-Lee Security discovered customers were doing with its newly released database connector, called DB-Gate.

    In today’s data-dominated world, one would think that big relational database vendors like IBM, Oracle, and Microsoft would have solved the data connectivity issue a long time ago. After all, relational

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  • RPG Talks To Watson

    September 27, 2016 Paul Tuohy

     

     

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

    Yes, RPG can talk to Watson. No special software required, nothing to install, nothing to configure. You just need to be on V7R1, have the ability to use embedded SQL and write just a few lines of code–none of which are complicated. To see how it works, all you have to do is copy/paste the display file and RPG code in this article, compile and call.

    On the off chance that you don’t know what Watson is, Watson is the IBM computer that, in 2011, competed

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  • A Brief Introduction To The SQL Procedures Language

    September 27, 2016 Ted Holt

    The SQL Procedures Language, or SQL PL, is a proprietary procedural language that IBM designed to work with the DB2 family of database management systems. I believe that it’s a good idea for anyone who works with DB2 to learn SQL PL. If you know RPG, CL, or COBOL, you’ll find it easy to learn.

    SQL PL is available for all the DB2s. Knowledge of SQL PL that you acquire by working with DB2 for i applies in large part to the mainframe and LUW (Linux-Unix-Windows) versions. You can use SQL PL to create stored procedures, functions, and triggers. You

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  • How To Replace MOVE And MOVEL With Subprocedures

    September 27, 2016 Ted Holt

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

    Google “what shall we do about” and you’ll find a lot of issues that people are concerned about. Now that RPG has gone fully free-form, the question of concern for RPG programmers is “what shall we do about MOVE and MOVEL?” Faithful reader Mark sent me a solution he used in his shop and gave me permission to pass it along in case it may be of help to you.

    I can think of two ways to replace MOVE and MOVEL with free-form code. The first is to

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  • IBM i Finds A Place At Edge Conference

    September 26, 2016 Dan Burger

    The IBM i community was born and raised with platform-specific tendencies. That was the way of the IBM IT world for many years. It’s not the way anymore. The strategy for IBM Power Systems, running i and AIX, is much more open. It’s OpenPower and OpenStack oriented. Its roadmap has cloud and cognitive computing highlighted. The IBM Edge conference last week left no doubt about that. So what’s left for i?

    Power Systems general manager Doug Balog says there’s plenty. IBM continues to invest in IBM i, Balog says, using the stream of OS releases 7.1, 7.2, and 7.3 as

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  • With Avnet Deal, Tech Data Spans From Glass House To Your House

    September 26, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    And then there were three. For the past several years, the two dominant master resellers of Power-based systems–that would be Avnet and Arrow Electronics–who also sell a whole lot of other kinds of IT gear into datacenters, got a little competition from Tech Data and Ingram Micro joined the fray and started peddling Power gear and related storage.

    Rather than compete with Avnet, Tech Data decided to shell out a whole lot of money to buy its Technology Solutions division, thus vaulting itself into a better competitive position in the IT distribution business relative to Arrow and making it

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  • Living With VIOS and Other Tips From A Power Champion

    September 26, 2016 Alex Woodie

    Nobody likes VIOS, not even AIX administrators, admits Anthony English, an AIX expert who was named an IBM Champion for Power earlier this year. But with the proper mindset, a good coach, and a few key pieces of knowledge, even career IBM i professionals can learn to get along with the Virtual I/O Server.

    There isn’t much clarity surrounding VIOS in the IBM i community. Many IBM i professionals who have spent their entire careers managing disks and storage the old-fashioned way in the IBM i operating system get flummoxed when presented an AIX-based VIOS screen. VIOS is weird and

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  • Mad Dog 21/21: From Hegel To Google

    September 26, 2016 Hesh Wiener

    The renowned philosopher Georg Hegel, whose life coincided with the Industrial Revolution, analyzed social change and the resultant conflict of old and new. His ideas galvanized Karl Marx, 50 years his junior. Two centuries after his birth, Hegel’s wisdom guided Silicon Valley’s sensational inventors.

    At its best, our economy is nourished by a hearty Hegelian stew of technologies seasoned with a dash of Ninotchka. At its worst, we try to feed on an Apple duly but dully managed by former ibmocrat Tim Cook as we listen to a hoarse Yahoo.

    Georg Hegel: German philosopher whose

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