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  • IBM Gets EMEA Integrators And ISVs To Push Power Systems

    January 20, 2014 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    IBM’s Europe, Middle East, and Africa operations wants to peddle more Power iron, and it is working with the reseller and software application vendor community to give business partners and systems integrators a piece of the action if they work with solution providers to close deals.

    Specifically, in announcement letter ZA14-1004, the 2014 Power ISV Solution Connection Program is giving said business partner and system integrator companies rebates that range from $500 to $3,000. Here is what the rebate schedule looks like:

    As you can see, the bigger the box, the bigger the rebate. Moreover, you will notice that

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  • SAP Credits Cloud, HANA For A Terrific Year

    January 20, 2014 Dan Burger

    With celebratory back-slapping for its fast-growing cloud business, SAP delivered good news during its preliminary Q4 and 2013 year financial report.

    Based on the unaudited numbers, the company increased its annual software and cloud subscription revenue by 10 percent to €5.21 billion. The complete software and software-related service revenue grew 11 percent to €13.94 billion. By SAP’s reckoning, which seems a little over zealous, this marks the fourth year in a row that SAP has posted double-digit growth.

    Overall, SAP software revenue slipped 2 percent to €1.9 billion in Q4 compared to the prior year’s quarter. Those decline is driven

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  • IBM Rules The Patent Roost For 21 Years Straight

    January 20, 2014 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    If patents were money, the U.S. Patent and Trade Office would be rolling in it. But wait. . . . Patents are money, in a way, and they are just as surreal and real as Bitcoin. You make some intellectual investment and you get the right to commercialize an invention and prevent others from doing so.

    Last year, the USPTO issued a whopping 277,835 utility patents, a record number for the U.S. government. Utility patents cover machines or processes that are electrical, mechanical, or physical in nature, while design patents cover the shape of objects and their ornamentation. For many

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  • IBM Cuts Flash Copy Tags For Storwize V5000

    January 20, 2014 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    The midrange Storwize V5000 disk and flash arrays were just announced last November, aimed at small and midrange shops who need more than a V3700 but don’t need a full-on V7000. And IBM is already tweaking pricing on some of its features.

    In particular, in announcement letter 314-002, you can see that IBM has cut tags on nine different feature codes relating to the Storwize software for this V5000 machine. IBM doesn’t ever tell you the description of the features with the price changes, which is maddening. But that’s why you have me. So, here is the chart of

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  • Where Did My Faulting Guidelines Go?

    January 15, 2014 Doug Mewmaw

    I remember when I first started in the industry how difficult performance management was, especially in the area of memory. The good news was IBM provided clear defined service levels in regards to memory pools.

    I’m not sure what year I discovered the guidelines, maybe in the 1980s, but I do remember that the published guidelines were so easy. In fact, I can still see the faded yellow sticky note on my desk with the following guidelines.

    After managing the box for years and attending numerous performance sessions and the like, I discovered the guidelines were not only not talked

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  • Dynamic Compound Statements In DB2 For i

    January 15, 2014 Michael Sansoterra

    Dynamic compound statements are sure to be one of the most oft used new SQL features in IBM i 7.1. In general, this feature allows developers to execute a complex set of SQL statements that include variable use, error handling, and conditional logic on the fly without creating a permanent SQL routine such as a function or stored procedure.

    Dynamic compound statements makes DB2 similar to other database platforms like SQL Server where SQL scripts can be written and executed on the fly. This feature comes in DB2 for i group PTF level 26, so make sure your database PTFs

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  • Admin Alert: Four Ways To Move An IBM i Partition, Part 2

    January 15, 2014 Joe Hertvik

    In December, I began discussing four different approaches for moving an IBM i partition from an existing machine to a new location and the different tasks needed for each technique. I talked about using traditional system back-up and restore migration techniques last issue. This issue, I’ll focus on using high availability (HA) software to migrate a partition.

    Four Ways To Move An IBM i

    To review, there are four techniques for moving an IBM i partition to a different machine:

    1. Restore the partition in place or to a new location using the same system name. This is a traditional restore
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  • Six IBM i Predictions for 2014

    January 14, 2014 Alex Woodie

    Hello, and welcome to 2014! The new year began for the IBM i community in just about the same place it began 2013: With a slightly smaller customer base running systems that are just a little bit older. But do not despair! If owning the world’s most stable and predictable business computer doesn’t send you into a fit of rapturous joy, then perhaps these predictions on IBM i products and technologies for the coming year will.

    Prediction No. 1: IBM Delivers ‘Power’ Boost, World Shrugs

    It’s not like we had to go out on a limb for this, seeing as

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  • Set Your RPG Apps Free with ODF, looksoftware Says

    January 14, 2014 Alex Woodie

    RPG developers will be able to create new Web-based GUIs using IBM‘s Rational Open Access: RPG Edition (ROA) technology without touching a lick of DDS thanks to the new Open Display File (ODF) technology unveiled last month by looksoftware. The new technology, which will become available later this month, is standards-based, and essentially takes the development in ROA to the next level, the company says.

    Since IBM unveiled the ROA technology about four years ago, it has seen some use. Like any new technology, it has taken a while for the IBM i faithful to consider it a

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  • GoAnywhere: Linoma’s Anti-Dropbox

    January 14, 2014 Alex Woodie

    It’s hard not to like Dropbox. You simply drag your files to the pretty blue icon on your desktop and voila! They’re instantly accessible from multiple devices–in fact, any Web browser in the world! The only problem: Dropbox isn’t that secure and has a history of security problems. For a business that takes security seriously, a proper managed file transfer (MFT) solution is a much better choice for moving files. Last week, MFT vendor Linoma Software updated its GoAnywhere product to give it some of the ease-of-use features that Dropbox is known for.

    It’s not that Dropbox can’t be secure.

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