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ARCAD ‘DROPS’ Deployment Management Into DevOps Pack

June 1, 2016 Dan Burger

If you could improve your application and systems software management, what would be the overall effect on your organization be? Greater efficiency and higher productivity come to mind. And the ripple effect touches nearly every employee, customer and business partner. In organizations that depend on the IBM i running on Power Systems, the focus typically begins on the system and on technical components. For the greater good, a multi-platform approach that focuses on functions is the better choice.

Application development is the backbone of many IBM midrange shops and managing that function has led to greater efficiencies through the planning,

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Don’t Be the Eeyore of Digital Progress, OpenLegacy Says

June 1, 2016 Alex Woodie

The Internet continues to present powerful and compelling new capabilities that many organizations are leveraging to their advantage. But all too often, the tantalizing digital future remains out of reach for IBM i and mainframe shops due to the difficulty–either real or imagined–of engineering those new capabilities to work with legacy systems. Helping organizations overcome those challenges is one of the goals that OpenLegacy has set for itself.

OpenLegacy CTO Hans Otharsson has spent most of his career working with enterprise systems, including banking systems running on IBM i servers and mainframes, and knows firsthand the massive amount of ingenuity,

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Watch Your Data While Stepping Out With RDi Debug

May 31, 2016 Susan Gantner

In this latest in my series of tips on using the RDi debugger, I’ll talk about one of my favorite debug features–the Monitors view–and we’ll explore not just one or two, but four different options for stepping through program code a statement at a time.

Stepping Out

Just like with the green screen debugger, you can step through code a statement at a time. Figure 1 shows the various debug tool bar icons with those related to stepping through your code highlighted. The most commonly used options are the two arrows in the middle: “Step Into (F5)” and “Step Over

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Global Temporary Tables And Host Variables, Take 2

May 31, 2016 Ted Holt

In Global Temporary Tables and Host Variables, I complained that DECLARE GLOBAL TEMPORARY TABLE does not permit me to use host variables. I presented two ways to circumvent the problem. Today I revisit the topic to show another way that was not available six years ago.

First, create some global variables.

   create variable somelib.gv_Company   dec(3);
   create variable somelib.gv_Customer  dec(5);

Then use those global variables in your program.

exec sql
   set gv_Company  = :inCompany;
exec sql
   set gv_Customer = :inCustomer;
exec sql
   declare global temporary table Temp1 as
       (select *
          from sales
         where companyno  = gv_Company
           and customerno = gv_Customer)

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LAG And LEAD Functions In DB2 for i 7.3

May 31, 2016 Michael Sansoterra

Database devs, you can kiss many of your cursors goodbye, because DB2 for i has two sweet new functions named LAG and LEAD that will allow you to extract a column value from a different row within the result set (relative to the current row) without programmatically looping through each row.

From the current row, LAG instructs DB2 to look backward in the result set a specified number of rows and retrieve a value. LEAD allows DB2 to look ahead to a specified row beyond the current row and extract a value. In DB2 parlance, these new functions belong to

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Clearlake Sees Vision Deal As M&A Platform In IBM i Land

May 23, 2016 Alex Woodie

Clearlake Sees Vision Deal As M&A Platform In IBM i Land

Vision Solutions, the dominant player in the market for IBM i high availability software, is being sold by Thoma Bravo to Clearlake Capital Group. The transaction, which is expected to be completed by the end of June, will give Clearlake a platform for pursuing more acquisitions in the IBM i ecosystem, a spokesperson with the company told IT Jungle.

Thoma Cressey, as the San Francisco-based private equity firm was then known, obtained Vision Solutions with its acquisition of Idion Technology Holdings way back in September 2006

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IBM i Execs Put Database On The Map

May 23, 2016 Dan Burger

The IBM i roadmap goes nowhere without DB2 for i. It’s the database that drives the bus. With each release of the IBM i operating system and each of the Technology Refreshes that come between the releases, we find database enhancements prominent. And this isn’t going to change. At least for the foreseeable future, it’s a data-centric world.

It’s not fair to say IBM i innovation is nothing but database. There’s a lot going on in other areas, but the success of the system has always been the integrated database and the future success of the system will absolutely depend

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IBM Wheels And Deals To Get IBM i Shops Current

May 23, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan

We have been complaining a bit that IBM did not deliver new Power8+ processors and an expected bump in price/performance and lower prices as well to help stimulate the IBM i segment of the Power Systems business. But lo and behold, IBM is finally coming around to the idea that it has to actually do something to entice customers on old releases to move to the latest Power8 iron and to get their licensed program products and operating system on Software Maintenance.

The latest deal, called the IBM i License Transfer Promo, was unveiled at the COMMON conference last week

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As I See It: The Other Intelligent Design

May 23, 2016 Victor Rozek

When you are 25 years old, a quarter century sounds very much like a lifetime, but it’s probably less time than the Kardashians collectively spend admiring themselves in the mirror. Still, in the time it took another generation to come of age and embark on their career paths, the law of cause and effect as it pertains to the job market was turned on its head: working people had become all but irrelevant to the creation of wealth.

Nowhere is that more evident than in IT. While manufacturing has long since resigned from the nuisance of hiring Americans in favor

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ProData Gets Graphic, Releases DBU for RDi

May 23, 2016 Dan Burger

IBM midrange shops with active development environments are taking an interest in modernization projects. And along with that, comes graphical development tools like Rational Developer for i, commonly referred to as RDi. As more companies find RDi useful, more ISVs realize plug-ins to RDi are in demand. ProData Computer Services just joined the list by offering an RDi plug-in to its popular data access utility called DBU.

DBU RDi offers developers direct access to database files in graphical form and the capability to execute DBU functions from within the RDi Remote Systems Explorer (RSE) panel. In addition to the DB2

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