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  • Managed Service Provider Picks Its Niche

    June 8, 2015 Dan Burger

    If you’re a traditional IBM midrange shop, the idea of managed services provided by a vendor may seem as unlikely as commuting to work in George Jetson’s flying car. But then how do you explain all the managed service providers lining up to do business in the IBM i community? They are all jockeying for position in anticipation of trend toward outsourcing pieces of IT and in some cases, all of IT. Focal Point Solutions Group is carving out a space of its own.

    Here’s a scenario that is not uncommon. An organization is running important applications on the IBM

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  • As I See It: Listen Up And Ignore Me

    June 8, 2015 Victor Rozek

    There’s an old chestnut that says you should hire the young while they still know it all. And what a bargain! Insecurity and confusion masked by arrogance and bravado, all at entry level prices. Who could resist? It’s the curse of the human condition that each generation must learn all things afresh. Unfortunately, ignorance coupled with limited experience offer a ready foundation for making poor career choices–decisions that can color a lifetime.

    And once mistakes codify into lifestyles, they become very hard to correct. By middle age, bad career choices manifest in resentment and regret. I know of no one

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  • Should We Just Call It Power i Now?

    June 8, 2015 Alex Woodie

    “What’s in a name?” Shakespeare wrote so eloquently hundreds of years ago. “That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet.” Words may be imperfect representations for the things we encounter in real life, but even the Bard realized that words nonetheless carry a certain power and have a certain life of their own. And when it comes to the midrange server platform that we all know and love, what we call it is a discussion all its own.

    The platform’s official name, per IBM, is “IBM i on IBM Power Systems.” This name

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  • Paging Cursors And Position To

    June 2, 2015 Paul Tuohy

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

    I had a reader email in relation to my article Paging Cursors. The article described a method for paging large lists using embedded SQL in RPG, and the reader was wondering if there was a way to position the list at a certain value. Of course there is!

    Please refer to the original article for all of the gruesome details but the basic concept is that you have a subprocedure that returns a “page” of rows from a result set. A page can be any number of

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  • Beware The Temporary Table

    June 2, 2015 Hey, Ted

    I am writing in response to your article Dynamic Lists in Static SQL Queries. At a recent NEUSG meeting, Tom McKinley of IBM warned us to avoid temporary tables, especially query chains of temporary tables, as they have no history for the optimizer. I like dynamic SQL. I would have left it alone.

    –Lynne

    I always enjoy hearing from Lynne because I know I will hear words of wisdom. Lynne raises a good point that I have intended for some time to address in this august publication.

    Kent Milligan, one of Tom McKinley’s colleagues at IBM’s DB2 for i

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  • EIM Identifier Naming

    June 2, 2015 Patrick Botz

    Enterprise Identity Mapping (EIM) is the technology that allows the IBM i to determine which user profile should be used to establish a connection for a person who has authenticated to an IBM i interface using non-IBM i credentials. EIM is easy to set up, but there is one thing you can do that will save you time and effort later.

    A quick overview of EIM will help explain the tip. EIM consists of three categories of information:

    1. EIM Identifiers representing people and entities (e.g., service userIDs) within the organization that have user IDs
    2. User Registry Definitions representing the various
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  • Power8 Iron Gets New I/O Options

    June 1, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    As part of the rollout of slightly faster processors for the entry Power8 processors and the fleshing out of the high-end of the Power Systems line a month ago, IBM rolled out a bunch of new peripheral features and a new set of peripheral expansion units that will allow for Power8 shops both high and low to expand the amount of PCI-Express 3.0 peripherals that companies can attach to their systems than is currently possible on these machines.

    Such I/O and storage expansion is important, given the ever-increasing amount of compute and memory that is being put into ever-smaller system

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  • Thoughts On The Power E850 And I/O Contraction

    June 1, 2015 Hey, TPM

    Sorry to be so late making my comment about your very good article concerning the Power E850 and IBM i. I agree with most of what you said in the article. I have had a couple of exciting conversations about the Power E850 with Mark Olson, who is an old friend from my Rochester days. The E850 brings back memories of when I worked for Rochester as the interface with Software Group and we were always two years behind on support for all the WebSphere products. It was all about the optics of being behind, not about the immediate need

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  • For OpenLegacy, Modernization Is All About the APIs

    June 1, 2015 Alex Woodie

    Modernization means different things to different people. For some in the IBM i space, being modern means adopting a model-view-controller architecture or having a Web user interface, while for others it may mean having a “mobile first” development strategy or using SQL in the database. For the folks at OpenLegacy, modernization means exposing existing business processes using the emerging lingua franca of network-powered computing: The API.

    While OpenLegacy is, ostensibly, a provider of open source legacy modernization tools for IBM i and z/OS shops (it’s right there in the name), the path to modernization that it prescribes is by

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  • Maxava Builds On IBM i Sustainability Efforts

    June 1, 2015 Dan Burger

    Corporate citizenship benefits the community. It helps create and maintain a healthy ecosystem for companies that are invested in the IBM i platform and the dedicated, career-oriented people with jobs that are tied to the system. Not everyone has to contribute to the community, but those that do improve the environment for everyone. Maxava, the New Zealand high availability and disaster recovery software vendor, is a shining example of a company actively supporting IBM i sustainability.

    This will be the fifth consecutive year Maxava has supported the IBM midrange community by offering grants to help fund user group activities

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