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  • Advice For IBM i Shops: Balance The Old With The New

    June 27, 2016 Dan Burger

    Most C-level managers realize that progress is impossible without change. Yet making changes can be so damn difficult. Realizing that there has to be some changes made is a good start, but it’s taking that next step when companies actually achieve progress that leads to long-term success. And in the middle of it all is IT. How do companies with legacy IT systems change to keep up with progress?

    “One of the considerations that I feel is important is longevity,” says Steven Wolk, chief technology officer at the appliance and electronics chain store PC Richard & Son. “We’re used to

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  • Fresche Partner Plan Aims At Expanded Reach

    June 27, 2016 Dan Burger

    Just two weeks ago, the company now known as Fresche (formerly Fresche Legacy) announced it was purchasing Quadrant Software and its key IBM i application modernization subsidiary BCD Software. The combination of BCD and Fresche’s previous acquisition of looksoftware puts a smorgasbord of modernization choices on the Fresche menu, including an instrumental application analysis tool. The latest news from Fresche is the rollout of a global partner program.

    The company hopes to attract a mix of IBM i independent software vendors (ISVs), value added resellers (VARs), independent consultants, and system integrators to its newly minted Power Partner Program. It

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  • Mad Dog 21/21: Jimmy Choo Hill

    June 27, 2016 Hesh Wiener

    In the American West during the last quarter of the 19th century, quite a few people died with their boots on, thereby ending up in Boot Hill. These days, few people die in a saddle. Some die in gunfights. Plenty die at their desks, the way Bat Masterson did in 1921. A boneyard whose occupants expired at work wouldn’t be called Boot Hill anyway. Instead, particularly if it catered to the computer business with its many women executives, it would be named Jimmy Choo Hill.

    Boot Hill: Quite a few graveyards were named Boot Hill; the one in Tombstone

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  • Flynet Pivots To Catch IBM i Web Business In U.S.

    June 27, 2016 Alex Woodie

    There’s scarcely any new project for the IBM i these days that doesn’t involve the Web in some way, shape, or form. Mobile front-ends, application modernization, Web services–heck, even the lowly terminal emulator has become a Web app these days. One IBM i software vendor that is positioned to capitalize on this trend is Flynet, which sells a single product that can address multiple Web initiatives for IBM i shops.

    You may have never heard of Flynet, but the company, which is based in the United Kingdom, is by no means new to this sector. In fact, Flynet has

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  • The AS/400 At 28: A HENRY, Not A DINK

    June 20, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    A lot of people get credit for the work that went into creating IBM midrange systems over the decades, and rightfully so since the creation of such machinery, including the hardware and the software, takes many hundreds or thousands of individuals with each successive generation. It is appropriate to think about them as the AS/400, the forebear of the current Power Systems IBM i system, turns 28.

    That is a long time in a human life, and an even longer time in computer history, where a generation has spanned from 12 to 24 months instead of decades. The funny bit

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  • Windows Explorer DOS Attacks On IBM i 7.3

    June 20, 2016 Alex Woodie

    If you have noticed that Windows Explorer seems to be running especially slow when mapped to your IBM i server, you are not alone. Over the past month, there have been several reports of what appear to be limited denial of service (DOS) attacks against servers running IBM i 7.3. This issue stems from a change in protocols for mapped drives that IBM made with the new operating system, but it appears that Microsoft is on the hook for the fix.

    IBM issued a Technote about a month ago to describe the problem and to offer various workarounds. The problem

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  • Analytical Expectations And Misconceptions Of IBM i

    June 20, 2016 Dan Burger

    Often we recognize we had expectations about the same time as we recognize those expectations have not been met. The IBM midrange computer, a combination of the IBM i operating system running on Power Systems hardware, exceeds the expectations of a high percentage of organizations that rely on it. Reliability, scalability, and securability are its hallmarks. However, some would describe its analytical capabilities as a weakness. Transactional-based business computers, like this one, are limited in what they can do.

    Are they analytically challenged? That depends on your expectations.

    The type of analytics most IBM i shops are interested in are

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  • As I See It: Rediscovering The Big Fresh

    June 20, 2016 Victor Rozek

    Exercise has always been my salvation. Over the years the jobs I’ve held varied in challenge and satisfaction. But whether the work turned out to be exceptionally demanding or excruciatingly dull, exercise was my deliverance. It was a curative constant guaranteed to soften the stress and alleviate the boredom.

    And on those occasions when my youthful righteousness spilled over and I felt compelled to lecture my manager, exercise served as the antidote to the inappropriate expression of strong feelings. After all, there’s only so much emoting welcome in the workplace. Laughter is one thing; frustration, ah, no. Sadness or anger,

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  • Remain Software Pursues 2E Users, Expands Asian Partnerships

    June 20, 2016 Dan Burger

    Loyalty to IBM‘s midrange computer systems is a strong bond for many companies. Those with CA 2E application development environments are a great example. 2E, originally known as Synon, was one of the most successful fourth-generation language (4GL) development environments on the platform and that community continues to number in the thousands. Like other IBM midrange shops, they are concerned with application development, maintenance, and modernization.

    Last week, Remain Software released a CA 2E interface for its IBM i Application Lifecycle Management tool, TD/OMS. The new release supports management of business applications built with the CA 2E case tool

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  • The Basics Of XML-SAX

    June 14, 2016 Jon Paris

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

    In XML-INTO And Optional Elements, I showed a reader how he could use XML-INTO to parse an XML document that effectively contained one of two completely different payloads. As I noted in that article, for this type of “does the document contain X” processing, XML-SAX can be a better choice than XML-INTO. That is the task that I’m going to demonstrate in this tip.

    In his email, the reader mentioned that his original intent had been to simply identify the type of payload (Report or Event) and

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