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  • IBM i 7.3: High Time For High Security

    April 25, 2016 Dan Burger

    How important is data confidentiality to you? On a scale of one to 10, it should be the only double-digit number you can choose. The risks for those unable to control and protect their information are far greater than ever before. The same thing will be said each year into the foreseeable future. So when looking for innovative ways to protect information, IBM acted by adding a tool called authority collection to the new i 7.3 release.

    Call it a tool, a utility, or a capability authority collection is now built into the latest OS. The simplest explanation is that

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  • New Financials At IBM Can’t Mask Growth Issues

    April 25, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    It is easy to say that the IBM we know today, or more precisely are trying to get to know as it undergoes its changes, is far different from the one that we were trying to understand two decades ago as it was going through another tumultuous transformation. The Big Blue from the middle 1990s was a systems company before and after that change, but it is harder to see the International Business Machines skeleton inside the new Big Blue.

    But if you dig around, that core systems business is still there, even after IBM has completely reclassified its financials

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  • Keep An i On Open Source

    April 25, 2016 Dan Burger

    The marriage of open source and IBM i reminds me of a marriage statistic that recently came to my attention: Approximately $6 billion in revenue is lost by American businesses as a result of decreased worker productivity linked to marriage hardship. Employees in a happy marriage, in contrast, tend to increase a company’s bottom line. From what I have seen of IBM i advocates in relationships with open source, happiness seems to abound.

    Cross-trained RPG developers boasting open source language skills aren’t exactly common, but their numbers are increasing as IBM i shops with modernization intentions follow through on plans

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  • IBM i Scalability Stays The Same With 7.3

    April 25, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    All operating systems are not created equal, at least not when it comes to NUMA scalability. For a long time now, the IBM i operating system has trailed the scalability of its peers, AIX and Linux, on Power processors when it comes to spanning the large number of cores and threads that IBM forges into its Power machinery.

    Back in the dawn of time, and many of you were there with me, it was a very exciting thing to even be able to have a two-processor, two-thread machine like the AS/400-D80, which made its debut in April 1991 and which

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  • Surge of Services in DB2 for i, Part 2

    April 19, 2016 Michael Sansoterra

    Continuing where we left off in Part 1, a slew of new IBM i services (and enhancements to existing services) were released in IBM i 7.2 TR3 and IBM i 7.1 TR11. This article continues to detail some of the important new services.

    As always, keep in mind that just an overview is given here and that the developerWorks documentation or IBM i Services in the Knowledge Center should be consulted in order to understand the full capability of each service.

    SYSTOOLS.GROUP_PTF_DETAILS

    This view runs a real-time query against the IBM Preventative Service Planning (PSP) website and can indicate

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  • View Scheduled Jobs with Excel

    April 19, 2016 Ted Holt

    At the recent RPG & DB2 Summit in Dallas, I presented a session that dealt with the use of SQL in CL. One of my examples used the SCHEDULED_JOB_INFO view to retrieve scheduled jobs from the IBM i job scheduler. After the talk, one of the attendees gave me a great idea, and I’ve just got to pass it along to you.

    SCHEDULED_JOB_INFO returns the same information that you can see with the Work with Job Schedule Entries (WRKJOBSCDE) command. It’s one of the IBM i Services. The gentleman told me that he and others in his shop had been

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  • Refacing Your Database, Part 2

    April 19, 2016 Paul Tuohy

    The whole purpose of refacing our database is to give proper names to tables and columns. So we have to spend some time ensuring that our names are right. In this article, the second in a series of three, we continue the refacing process by analyzing and correcting our new naming.

    In my first article, we had reached the stage where we had extracted table and column definitions into our two conversion tables (TABLE_TRANSLATION and COLUMN_TRANSLATION), as shown below:

    Analyzing the Names

    Since the new column names were generated from the text descriptions of the original fields, there is

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  • Sundry April Power Systems Announcements

    April 18, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    As we reported last week in discussing IBM‘s Power processor roadmap for the next five-plus years, there is not going to be a Power8+ revamp of existing Power Systems machines. Instead, IBM has rejiggered the Power8 chip to create a variant aimed at supercomputing and deep learning workloads that allows for high-speed NVLink coupling between Nvidia “Pascal” Tesla GPU coprocessors and the Power8 chip.

    That means there is no performance boost or list price cut (or both) that is normally expected and delivered with a “plus” variant of the Power chips. But as we expected, IBM has made a

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  • IBM i Strategy And Roadmap Loses Business Focus

    April 18, 2016 Dan Burger

    A white paper is supposed to help readers understand challenges and provide an objective discussion of problems and solutions. It should not be a thinly disguised image enhancement device. Do that once and it rains on all your subsequent white papers. We all would like to see IBM sell more IBM i servers. But after reading the latest white paper on IBM i, it misses the mark of a real white paper.

    Let me start by giving you a link where you can download this document titled the IBM i Strategy and Roadmap. I recommend everyone read it. It

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  • DB2 Web Query For i Now Supports External Databases

    April 18, 2016 Alex Woodie

    New OLAP and temporal data capabilities in DB2 headlined the launch of IBM i 7.3. But those weren’t the only analytic functions delivered last week by IBM. Tucked inside the announcements was a new release of DB2 Web Query for i that will make it easier to bring data from outside databases into an IBM i-based data warehouse.

    IBM is including new data adapters with DB2 Web Query for i Standard Edition version 2.2 that support PostgreSQL, MariaDB, and MySQL. The new release also includes support for generic Type 4 JDBC drivers, which will make it easier to get

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