• Clamoring For Attention

  July 21, 2015 Ted Holt

  You know how to send a message to the system operator message queue. Here’s some code you can use when you need that message to stand out. Here’s the CL code. dcl &Message *char 434 dcl &Line1 *char 74 stg(*defined) defvar(&Message 1) dcl &Line2 *char 72 stg(*defined) defvar(&Message 75) dcl &Line3 *char 72 stg(*defined) defvar(&Message 147) dcl &Line4 *char 72 stg(*defined) defvar(&Message 219) dcl &Line5 *char 72 stg(*defined) defvar(&Message 291) dcl &Line6 *char 72 stg(*defined) defvar(&Message 363) ChgVar &Line1 ' **************************************+ *********************************' ChgVar &Line2 '*' ChgVar &Line3 '* Test message -- please ignore. ' ChgVar &Line4 '* More important information'

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• How Much Temporary Storage Is In Use And Who Is Using It?

  July 21, 2015 Pete Massiello

  I recently visited the site of a company that had a problem of increasing disk utilization. The staff had run all the GO DISKTASK reports and nothing seemed to be getting bigger. Unfortunately, there hasn’t been an easy way of finding who is using temporary storage. Displaying the amount of used temporary storage was so obscure that most System Administrators had no idea where to look. Let me show you how to see: (1) the amount of temporary storage that is being used; and (2) the jobs are using the most. Temporary storage is mostly associated with jobs on your

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• IBM i 6.1 Upgrades: What’s In Your Box?

  July 15, 2015 Dan Burger

  With IBM’s official end of support for the IBM i 6.1 operating system coming up at the end of September, it’s natural to wonder what effect this will have on the IBM i community. It’s not exactly a long walk off a short pier for those organizations using 6.1 as their primary OS. The upgrade is uncomplicated. IBM has an extended support plan for the undecided. But what about the unsupported? The winding down of 6.1 is certainly not going to stir up things like when this release was the freshest rose in the garden and support for V5R4 was

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• Robot Job Scheduler Gets a Fresh New Look

  July 15, 2015 Alex Woodie

  In the world of Web design, a user interface built with a “responsive design” is equally at home on a smartphone as a Windows PC. HelpSystems took responsive design to heart with the latest update to Robot SCHEDULE, which now features a Web-based user interface that will give customers deeper insight into how jobs are running on the IBM i server. With the new interface, Robot SCHEDULE users will be able to see IBM i jobs as they’re running, and interact with them through a mobile device. If a problem crops up with a job, the interface will notify them

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• Faction Offers IBM i Hosting In Cloud Marketplace

  July 15, 2015 Alex Woodie

  Faction, one of the largest owners of cloud data centers that you’ve probably never heard of, is getting into the IBM i hosting business through a partnership with Data Storage Corp. While Faction doesn’t intend on shifting its focus very far from its core business of hosting VMware environments, adding IBM i to the mix will be beneficial. Faction supplies tens of thousands of virtual machines to its business clients via eight cloud “nodes” running in data centers in the US and the UK It’s one of the top five providers of VMware based clouds, and is listed on

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• Trial Date Set in Oracle vs. Rimini

  July 15, 2015 Alex Woodie

  Rimini Street and Oracle are prepping for a September trial that should help conclude the five-year legal battle over Rimini’s third-party ERP maintenance business. However, the clock is just starting on a fresh lawsuit Rimini filed against Oracle in which it hopes to clarify the legality of its new business model. Despite the legal murkiness, both Rimini and its top competitor, Spinnaker Support, report brisk sales. The trial in Oracle vs. Rimini that’s slated to begin in about two months should decide whether Rimini stole Oracle’s copyrighted material relating to its JD Edwards and Siebel applications and, if so,

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• Infor Delivers IBM i-Based Cloud ERP for Automakers, M3 Update

  July 15, 2015 Alex Woodie

  In June Infor delivered two products that are relevant to its IBM i installed base, including the 13.3 release of its M3 ERP suite and a new IBM i-based offering called AutoRelease Cloud. The new cloud version of AutoRelease, which is based on an iSeries-based product once used by more than 100 companies in the automotive business, includes software from Infor’s business partner InterForm A/S. Infor has been trying to get customers to upgrade from older versions of CRM AutoRelease for the better part of 10 years. Four years ago, the company had about 130 customers running the i5/OS-based

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• Manufacturing Automation At A ‘Crossroads’ For IBM i Shops

  July 13, 2015 Alex Woodie

  Manufacturers across the country rely heavily on their MRP or ERP systems to automate the handling of resources. That’s what the “R” stands for, after all. But it turns out that MRP and ERP systems leave a whole lot to be desired when it actually comes to managing resources–including raw materials and labor–on the shop floor. That’s where companies like Crossroads RMC and its manufacturing execution system (MES) comes into play. Crossroads RMC was founded more than 20 years ago to develop automation solutions for the factory floor. The Lisle, Illinois, company originally developed its Crossroads MES solution in the

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• IBM’s Migration Plan To PurePower Systems

  July 13, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  More than anything else, IBM is a systems company, and it always has been. We could argue about whether or not Big Blue should have ever exited the application software business, as it started to do in the late 1980s and finished off doing in the early 1990s, but I don’t think there would be much of an argument that IBM has been and should continue to be a supplier of full systems of servers, storage, networking, and systems software like operating systems, middleware, and databases. Thankfully, even IBM does not seem to be of two minds about this, as

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• LANSA Guides Mobile, Portal, Integration Project To Success

  July 13, 2015 Dan Burger

  The proving ground for significant IT projects is far less about speed than it is about endurance. And when you can hear about a project that was completed, it’s so much more interesting than listening to a sales pitch for technology that can take you someplace that no one has yet to travel and may be a place no sane person wants to go. Tried and tested beats new and full of promise for a lot of people despite the drumbeating that is designed to defeat anything that adheres to a slow-growth philosophy. This story is about a six-year-old project.

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