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IBM Kills Off Flex p260+ Node, Offers PureSystems Trade-In

March 7, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan

If you are one of the relatively few customers who bought Flex Systems modular servers from IBM based on its Power7 and Power7+ processors, you had better get the lead out if you need to add some iron to your systems.

In announcement letter 916-028, IBM said that it was going to be withdrawing the Flex System p260+ server nodes, which are based on Power7+ processors, from its catalog starting on November 18. A slew of networking features, including switches and adapters, are having the plug pulled on them on March 8, and so are memory and storage features

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Retrieving Data From All Members With SQL

March 1, 2016 Michael Sansoterra

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

Everyone knows that DB2 for i SQL doesn’t play well with legacy multi-member database files. The CREATE ALIAS statement allows SQL to access a particular member of a file. But what if you want to access all members in a file using SQL as though they were a single member? A reader recently inquired about this topic and further wanted to know if there was a built-in SQL function to return each row’s member name.

NOTE: For clarification, I’m not discussing members of a DB2 partitioned table.

Here

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Easy Printing From CL

March 1, 2016 Ted Holt

CL cannot write to printer files. This is understandable, since CL fits into the category of job control languages. Even though I’d never use CL to build an aged receivables report, there are times when it is advantageous for a CL program to generate a report (i.e., produce a spooled file), and here are two fairly easy ways to do that.

Suppose you have a CL program that runs three RPG programs in nightly batch processing. There are people in your organization who need to know whether these programs ran successfully or not. If you could build a short spooled

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The Three Sources Of RUNSQLSTM

March 1, 2016 Ted Holt

The Run SQL Statements (RUNSQLSTM) command executes a file of SQL and/or CL commands. If you’ve used this command, you probably know that RUNSQLSTM reads the commands from a source physical file member. But did you know that there are two other places from which it can read SQL commands?

First, the usual way. Here’s member LOADPLANTS in source physical file SCRIPTS.

CREATE TABLE PLANTS (ID DEC(3), LOCATION VARCHAR(24),
   PRIMARY KEY (ID));
INSERT INTO PLANTS VALUES
(  1,  'Lost Angeles'),
(  2,  'New Yolk'),
(  3,  'Waste Virginia');

To create the PLANTS table and initialize it with data, do this:

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Payday For The People Who Make The IBM i Go

February 29, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan

In our ongoing series on the people who run and program the IBM i platform and the industries where they work, we are now going to finally get to the meat of the issue: Payday for programming. Moola for managing. Greenbacks for greenscreens and for converting greenscreens to modern web and mobile interfaces. The reason why you get out of bed in the morning and go to your respective and respected work.

The data is pretty thin about salaries out there in IBM Midrange Land, but luckily for us Bob Langieri, president of Excel Technical Services and a long-time recruiter

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HelpSystems Spies Overseas Expansion With Tango/04 Buy

February 29, 2016 Alex Woodie

HelpSystems CEO Chris Heim told IT Jungle that his company’s acquisition of rival IBM i software maker Tango/04 Computing Group last week marks the beginning of an aggressive push into the overseas market. The deal for Tango/04 will jumpstart HelpSystems’ presence in Southern Europe and Latin America, but there’s a lot more room for expansion, he says.

While North America is far and away the biggest market for IBM i goods and services, the platform has always enjoyed strong overseas sales and has an international presence that is arguably bigger than it is in the United States. IBM makes about

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WebSmart For Node.js Beta Project Under Way

February 29, 2016 Dan Burger

When IBM i got support for Node.js eight months ago, it lit a fire. BCD Software threw a log on that fire last week by announcing its Web development environment WebSmart supports Node.js as well. It’s a beta project now, but if things go according to plan WebSmart for Node.js will be generally available in three months. Will the open source Node.js be as popular in the IBM midrange community as open source PHP? We will have to see how that plays out.

Node.js applications can be rendered on desktops, tablets and smartphones when BCD releases WebSmart Node.js.

IBM’s support

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Power Systems Fuel IBM Channel Growth, Says Avnet Exec

February 29, 2016 Dan Burger

In the past year, the IBM channel has experienced 25 percent growth on Power, according to an executive at Avnet, one of IBM’s dominant sales channel partners. Workloads attributed to business analytics, high performance business computing, and management of big data–all the areas that IBM predicted would make a difference–are driving the gains. Managed service providers are getting some of the credit, but on-premise upgrades for customers are in on this, too.

Richard Martinez’s business card identifies him as supplier business executive for IBM Power at Avnet, which along with Arrow Electronics, is one of IBM’s biggest business

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Where In The World Is IBM i?

February 29, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan

In case you did not notice it, there is a new year here in 2016 and Big Blue has spent what must have been a fortune putting a new mobile-tuned website together for itself. I am going to show my age a bit here, but mobile formats are fine for a phone, and on a web screen they might be slick and slippery, but they are also shouty and devoid of actual data. Call me a misplaced man of letters, but I like text.

Just for the hell of it, I went poking around the new IBM website to see

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PHP Crash Course For RPG Developers

February 23, 2016 Chris Ringer

Suppose your boss tasks you with grabbing and processing some XML from an HTTP request to create a new customer order. If you have a “deer in the headlights” expression on your face, don’t fear, you don’t have to punt this request over the cubicle wall to the web developers. Without weeks or months of training, you can build a PHP script to retrieve the XML data that RPG can parse.

What is PHP?

PHP is a full-featured scripting language that runs on a web server. Just type your PHP code in a text editor (even Notepad), save it on

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