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  • Journal Forensics 101

    March 6, 2013 Steven Wolk

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

    A good friend of mine, who also happens to be president of our local user’s group, had been encouraging me to present a session at one of their meetings. I resisted for some time, but finally decided this was an exciting prospect. The topic I would choose became clear to me almost immediately. We use journaling in my shop for so many purposes that we simply couldn’t survive without it. I’ve always been very interested in journaling, especially in applications of the technology to forensics and recovery.

    It’s

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  • When Who Did What

    March 6, 2013 Ted Holt

    When you create a new database table (physical file), you should include those columns (fields) that are fully functionally dependent on the key fields. I would like to mention some additional columns that you might like to include also.

    The columns to which I refer are ones that store creation and change data. For example, you may want to be able to tell who inserted a row (added a record) and who last changed it. Such information may allow you to give a quick answer to a user’s conundrum.

    Look at this simple CREATE TABLE statement. Notice the last six

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  • Admin Alert: A Checklist For Moving Power i Partitions To A Different Location

    March 6, 2013 Joe Hertvik

    With corporate buy-outs, company spin-offs, and moving Power i servers to a centralized data center or a managed server provider, many shops are finding that they need to move their Power i partitions to a different network or a cloud provider. To that end, here’s a checklist I put together to help ensure that your Power i partitions can function without issue in a new environment.

    Why We Move

    There are many reasons you might need a playbook for moving a Power i partition from one location and network to another. Some of the more common situations include:

    • Company sale
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  • BCD Waves its Modernization Wand with Presto 4.5

    March 5, 2013 Alex Woodie

    Creating custom Web interfaces from existing 5250 screens should be a little bit easier when using the latest release of Business Computer Design Int’l. Presto. With version 4.5, Web 2.0 elements such as drop down boxes can be added quickly through a drag-and-drop motion in its GUI editor. Other enhancements to the product include faster response times, support for charts in iOS devices, and better subfile rendering.

    Presto is an on-the-fly GUI generator for green-screen interfaces that debuted in 2008. The software works by intercepting the 5250 data streams associated with IBM i application and system screens, generating HTML versions

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  • McAfee Works with Raz-Lee to Monitor DB2 for i

    March 5, 2013 Alex Woodie

    The IBM i pros at Raz-Lee Security are working with counterparts at security giant McAfee to integrate portions of Raz-Lee’s iSecurity suite with McAfee’s enterprise security solutions–specifically, its Database Activity Monitor (DAM) solution. The work will extend DAM to include DB2 for IBM i monitoring capabilities that are not currently offered by McAfee.

    McAfee offers a range of database-related solutions for enterprise customers running relational database management systems, such as DB2 for LUW, Oracle, SQL Server, and MySQL. This includes Vulnerability Manager, which scans databases for more than 45,000 known threats; Virtual Patching, which detects and prevents intrusions at the

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  • Bytware Becomes More Friendly to LPM with Messenger Product

    March 5, 2013 Alex Woodie

    Bytware has introduced a new version of its Messenger suite of systems management tools that is more compatible with Live Partition Mobility (LPM), the new virtualization technology that IBM introduced last year. With Messenger 8, Bytware has introduced a new licensing scheme that is better able to track where the software is actually running, and therefore whether the customer has exceeded his license allotment.

    LPM is an important new piece of virtualization technology that IBM debuted last spring with IBM i 7.1 Technology Refresh (TR) 4. The PowerVM feature allows organizations to move IBM i logical partitions (LPARs) around without

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  • Townsend Adopts KMIP for License Key Interoperability

    March 5, 2013 Alex Woodie

    Townsend Security is close to shipping a new version of Alliance Key Manager that includes support for Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP), a new standard designed to provide a single method for accessing and managing encryption keys. KMIP support is important for building uniformity into encryption routines. But its usefulness in IBM i environments is limited at this point.

    KMIP was first thought up several years ago by a group of security software vendors to provide a standard interface for connecting the encryption key management and generation programs with the encryption routines that consume encryption keys in critical business systems.

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  • Spinnaker Nabs Former Rimini Executive

    March 5, 2013 Alex Woodie

    In the third-party maintenance business, we’re accustomed to hearing about Oracle and SAP losing maintenance and support business to the third-party providers. Today, Spinnaker Support is expected to announce that it has hired a key executive away from its primary competitor, Rimini Street.

    Nigel Pullan is an ERP industry veteran with more than 30 years of experience with various companies, including 10 years at JD Edwards, where he was senior vice president and general manager for its EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) operations. Pullan was also at TomorrowNow, the now-defunct pioneer in third-party maintenance services founded by Seth

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  • ARCTOOLS Gains JD Edwards Validations

    March 5, 2013 Alex Woodie

    JD Edwards shops upgrading to World A9.3 or EnterpriseOne versions 9.0 and 9.1 can feel good about purging unwanted data from their systems using DCSoftware‘s ARCTOOLS utility now that Oracle has validated the product on those particular ERP systems.

    ARCTOOLS helps automate the process of identifying old data in production databases, and moving it into a long term archive. The software works with DB2 for i, SQL Server, and Oracle databases, and allows users to schedule when purge jobs should run, and allows users to “throttle” them back to avoid impacting production systems. DCSoftware counts more than 300 JD

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  • Lieberman Goes Super Secret with Privileged Passwords

    March 5, 2013 Alex Woodie

    In old war movies, you’ve probably seen how, before launching a nuclear missile, the captain and his first lieutenant must turn their keys simultaneously for the launch to work. This is actually a security practice instituted by the United States Air Force and other military organizations that’s called the “two man rule.” Last week, security software vendor Lieberman Software launched a version of the two man rule to control the passwords for privileged user profiles.

    Lieberman’s flagship product, called Enterprise Random Password Manager (EPRM), is a security utility designed to discover, secure, track, and audit the use of privileged user

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