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Dealing With Library Lists In RSE/RDP

January 23, 2013 Susan Gantner

I’m happy to say that I’m hearing from more and more people who are beginning to finally break away from SEU to use Remote Systems Explorer (RSE) in Rational Developer for Power Systems (RDP). Perhaps the fact that IBM finally stopped updating SEU for new language features as of V7.1 has caused more shops to consider the move.

I heard from one newbie RSE user the other day with fairly common issue; he wanted to know how to deal with library lists in the RSE environment? In his case, he has a few different library lists due to various packages

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Easily Create Help Text For Commands

January 23, 2013 Ted Holt

Extending IBM i by writing one’s own commands is empowering and gratifying, but a command without help text is like scrambled eggs without salsa. Fortunately, generating help text for a command is easy, thanks to a technique I learned from a very talented programmer named Chris Wages. Let me show you how it’s done.

First, you must have a command, of course. Here’s the source code for command DOIT.

CMD        PROMPT('Do it')

PARM       KWD(HOW) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(7) RSTD(*YES) +
             DFT(*WELL) +
             VALUES(*WELL *BETTER *BEST) +
             EXPR(*YES) +
             PROMPT('How should I do it?')

PARM       KWD(WHEN) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(8) RSTD(*YES) +
             DFT(*MORNING) +
             VALUES(*MORNING

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Stopping Unauthorized Users From FTPing To Your IBM i

January 23, 2013 Hey, Joe

My programmers keep setting up automatic FTP downloads from the network using the wrong user profile. For security reasons, they are only supposed to use a special FTP download user profile, but they keep using their own profiles and I have no way to stop this. How can I lock down FTP so that they can only use an authorized user FTP profile for their client FTP sessions?

–Bob

You can easily use an FTP exit point to prevent unauthorized users from starting an FTP session on your IBM i partition.

An IBM i exit point is a specific point

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Micro Focus Refreshes RUMBA Emulator, Delivers iPad Client

January 23, 2013 Alex Woodie

Micro Focus last week unveiled its latest iteration of the RUMBA terminal emulation suite, which is heavily used by IBM i shops around the world. RUMBA 9.0 introduces a new way to modernize 5250 and 3270 green-screen interfaces into GUI equivalents. The company also introduced three new clients as part of its “RUMBA+” brand, including Windows, Web, and iPad interfaces. Android and Microsoft Surface clients are expected in a few months, company officials say.

With RUMBA 9.0 and RUMBA+, Micro Focus is giving customers new tools to modernize their 5250 and 3270 green screens into richer and easier-to-use graphical interfaces.

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New Java Vulnerabilities No Threat To IBM i

January 23, 2013 Alex Woodie

The Java vulnerabilities that hackers have been exploiting on computers around the world do not exist on the implementation of Java that IBM runs on its IBM i platform, IBM officials confirmed last week.

“IBM has confirmed that the IBM Java Software Development Kit (SDK) and IBM Java Runtime Environment (JRE) are not vulnerable to this reported exploit,” spokesperson Kristin Bryson, of IBM’s Systems and Technology Group, told IT Jungle via email. “The IBM version of Java (which is used on IBM i) has been tested for this issue and it is not in the IBM version of Java.”

The

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ASNA Gives Legacy AVR Customers an Extension

January 22, 2013 Alex Woodie

Having customers on a legacy product will make you do funny things. For IBM, it meant bowing to pressure and keeping i5/OS V5R4 around for seven years. Microsoft almost doubled that with Windows XP, which will be 13 years old when support ends next year. ASNA also has a legacy customer base that’s dependent on Windows XP-era technology, but a recent update will give them some breathing room as they modernize their systems.

ASNA recently shipped the first new version of ASNA Visual RPG (AVR) in many years. AVR, of course, is ASNA’s flagship product that allows programmers to

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New HiT Software Moves Data To Google App Engine

January 22, 2013 Alex Woodie

HiT Software last week unveiled a new version of its data replication software that’s designed to keep customers’ Google cloud apps in synch with their on premise relational databases. DBMoto Cloud G Edition automatically pushes data from any backend database, such as DB2/400, into the Google App Engine Datastore using the Internet giant’s Web service APIs, providing another way for companies to present their valuable data to new Web and mobile apps.

Google App Engine (GAE) is a platform as a service (PaaS) cloud offering that Google first rolled out as a beta in 2008 and as a fully supported

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New BVS Tools Hook IBM i to Google Apps

January 22, 2013 Alex Woodie

BVS Tools has rolled out a collection of new software called GreenTools for Google Apps (G4G) that enable users to connect various Google Apps with data and applications residing on IBM i servers. Two G4G apps, including G4GGCP and G4GGCAL, connect IBM i data with Google Cloud Print and Google Calendars through Google’s APIs, and more apps are on the way.

Today’s IT environments have become extremely heterogeneous, and demand extreme flexibility on the part of IT experts and users. In the old days, IT pros may have felt a sense of accomplishment at having hooked an IBM i application

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Manhattan Associates Goes In-Store for ‘Omni-Channel’ Solution

January 22, 2013 Alex Woodie

In the supply chain management world, Manhattan Associates is synonymous with warehouse management systems. The company built a solid reputation on the back of its IBM i-based WMS, which is still used by many of the nation’s biggest retail chains. Last week, the company revealed it’s been working quietly for two years to build an “omni-channel” software package that will allow individual stores to fulfill Internet orders–that is, to function like mini warehouses.

The term “omni-channel” was ubiquitous at last week’s annual National Retail Federation (NRF) conference in New York, like white on rice. You could not read any news

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Manufacturer Augments IBM i ERP with Cognos Express

January 22, 2013 Alex Woodie

When Mestek, a metal manufacturing conglomerate based in Massachusetts, needed to streamline its financial reporting process, it faced two choices: either replace its highly customized IBM i ERP system with a new ERP system with integrated analytics, or augment its investment in IBM i with an add-on reporting tool. Faced with the risks and costs of the first choice, the company chose to augment with IBM‘s Cognos Express.

Mestek and its numerous subsidiaries manufacture a variety of products in the areas of heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC), metal-forming, and architectural products. The privately owned company employs 1,800 people in

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