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  • The IBM i Community Is Eying the MSP Option

    July 15, 2013 Dan Burger

    The successes of companies that are pioneers in the adoption of managed services–what some call hosting and others call cloud computing–will encourage others to follow. There just haven’t been all that many successes so far. At least not in the IBM midrange community, and especially if you separate the disaster recovery and high availability business from companies who would put their production server in the cloud.

    I think the successes in the DR and HA environments are terrific, and they do encourage others to follow that lead. But that is still a long way from loading day-to-day, mission critical enterprise

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  • IBM To Peddle Software And Systems Training Through Partners

    July 15, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    Big Blue is getting out of selling education and training services to customers for its Software Group and Systems and Technology Group, and shifting to an indirect sales model through a new training channel that it has set up.

    Steve Mills, who is in charge of the converged Software and Systems Group (which even IBM doesn’t talk about as a single entity for the most part), snuck out a blog post on the new education and training channel program on June 27, but the effort was not formally announced until July 12.

    “This is an important initiative, one which we

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  • Some More Wheeling And Dealing On Power Systems, Networking

    July 15, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    My intuition keeps telling me that IBM should be doing something dramatic in terms of packaging or pricing or promotions to try to boost sales of Power Systems, but Big Blue keeps on keeping on, as if there is nothing it can do to stop the slide in sales of Power-based servers it has experienced in the past several months.

    Instead, IBM keeps doing little itty bitty deals that save a few pennies on the dollar for customers who are upgrading their systems. The dealing seems to be most intense outside of the United States and Canada, and the most

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  • June Brings Jobs To The IT Market

    July 15, 2013 Jenny Thomas

    Summer is here, temperatures are rising, and jobs are in the air. That’s right, jobs. The analysts at Janco Associates have released their monthly report on IT job market trends, and the news is, dare I say it, encouraging.

    The June numbers showed 9,900 IT jobs were added in the United States in June, finally surpassing January’s 9,800 jobs, which had been the best month for IT job creating in the country so far this year.

    The numbers for IT jobs created in the United States for IT professionals in 2013 have been all over the place. January got us

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  • Leaders, Followers, and Product Development

    July 15, 2013 Dan Burger

    While writing the article about the current scene in the IBM i market as told to me by Stan Staszak, the director of Power Systems solutions at Sirius Computer Solutions, which appears elsewhere in today’s edition of The Four Hundred, I was reminded of something that Steve Will, chief architect of the IBM i, told me when we talked about his view of the IBM i back in April at the COMMON Annual Meeting and Exposition in Austin, Texas.

    His comment was that he often works with companies doing the newest implementations and that “in development, it almost

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  • Two Decades Later, Microsoft Looks Like Big Blue Of Days Gone By

    July 15, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    An expected and sweeping reorganization at Microsoft last week probably has more than a few IBMers and IBM watchers having not only flashbacks, but also getting a good chuckle as CEO Steve Ballmer is facing his own John Akers moment.

    So many incumbents in the IT racket have missed the boat on hyperscale web technology to drive search and other application services as well as the transition from PCs to smartphones and tablets as endpoint devices that it is laughable to single Microsoft out for scorn. But the fact remains that Microsoft has spent untold billions trying to build a

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  • Presenting Vertical Data Horizontally

    July 10, 2013 Victor Pisman

    Presenting “vertical” data in a “horizontal” format is a challenging task in data management. Here is one method you can use to make SQL carry out this type of transformation.

    Consider table CUSTGRP, which has two fields: a customer ID and a group code. Notice that one customer can have multiple group codes.




    ID

    ID

    GROUP

    100

    C

    100

    F

    100

    D

    200

    A

    200

    E

    200

    D

    500

    G

    700

    B

    700

    D

    Here’s one way to

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  • First Normal Form On The Fly

    July 10, 2013 Ted Holt

    Converting normalized data into a repeating group is a common requirement, and we have discussed that topic several times in Four Hundred Guru, even in this issue. Sometimes the need arises to convert data in the other direction, i.e., to convert a repeating group to a normalized form. This is a handy technique to know, and it’s easy.

    Suppose you’ve been given a spreadsheet with 13 columns of data. The first column is an item number. The next 12 columns are replacement costs for each month. You’ve been asked to load the data into a normalized table (physical

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  • Admin Alert: Major And Minor IBM i Power System Upgrades

    July 10, 2013 Joe Hertvik

    When upgrading your current IBM i hardware, you may have more choices than you think. With the incredible capacity built into late model System i and Power systems, you may be able to perform a minor upgrade on existing hardware, rather than moving to the latest Power 7+ machines. Here are some tips on how you might be able to stretch your existing hardware rather than buying a new machine.

    What Can You Do?

    If you sized your current machine correctly, you may have more than enough excess capacity to stay with the existing hardware for a few more years.

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  • LANSA Product Takes On Greater Role in Data Sync Initiative

    July 9, 2013 Alex Woodie

    When LANSA launched its Data Sync Direct product years ago, the plan was to use it to pull product-related data from various data sources, such as DB2/400, so it can be merged into the global data synchronization network (GDSN). Over time, as the GDSN has expanded its reach, LANSA’s DSD has evolved, as well. In fact, for some DSD users, the product now serves as the original source of product data, or a product information management (PIM) application.

    The trend toward omnichannel retailing is having a major impact on the GDSN exchanges, such as 1WorldSync, which is the primary data

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