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  • End-Of-Year Odds And Ends

    December 12, 2012 Ted Holt

     

     

    Dear Esteemed Colleagues:

    We made it through another year! Thanks to you, along with our writers and advertisers, this august publication is 11 years old! Who’da thunk it? Let’s wind up 2012 with various and sundry items that you sent my way.

    –Ted


    Hey, Ted:

    I am using SQL to query an index, similar to what I do for a logical file. The system is responding with error SQL7011 (SOMEINDEX in SOMELIB not table, view, or physical file.) Could you please shed some light on why it is happening?

    –Jabir

    What you’re trying to do makes sense from

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  • BASS: Build A Spreadsheet

    December 12, 2012 Ted Holt

    Note: The code accompanying this article is available for download here. This code was updated on 12/22/14.

    Everybody needs a project–something to putter with in order to relieve stress and deal with the vicissitudes of life. I would like to tell you about a project that I’ve been working on for the past few months. I only wrote it for the fun of it, but it has already come in handy.

    It seems that not a week goes by without someone asking me to stop providing them a report as a PDF and give it to them in Excel

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  • Admin Alert: Auditing Your IBM i Software Maintenance Bills

    December 12, 2012 Joe Hertvik

    Dealing with IBM i third-party maintenance can be a pain. You buy a software package once, but wind up paying yearly maintenance bills for the life of the application, paying 15 percent or more of the original purchase price per year. And the vendor may increase the cost on a yearly basis. This week, I’ll discuss software maintenance fees and give you some tips on keeping your maintenance costs down.

    Basic IBM i Maintenance

    Third-party software maintenance is a necessary but expensive proposition for IBM i vendors. Software vendors need to charge yearly maintenance to provide cash flow for creating

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  • ARCAD Goes Unicode with ALM, Looks to Asia for Growth

    December 11, 2012 Alex Woodie

    ARCAD Software has achieved Unicode compliance with version 9 of its application lifecycle management (ALM) tools, thereby enabling the French company to address new markets for its IBM i software, particularly China and Japan. ARCAD says the new version is a major milestone for the product, and provides a foundation on which to build new capabilities in the future.

    Achieving Unicode compliance with ARCAD’s entire suite is a major milestone for the company, ARCAD CEO Philippe Magne tells IT Jungle. The effort took two years, and required changing 75 percent of the code that underlies the IBM i change

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  • Respect My Authority Swapper, Halcyon Says

    December 11, 2012 Alex Woodie

    Halcyon Software has added new features to its Authority Swapper product that will garner the respect of users in IBM i shops everywhere. Now, when an IBM i user swaps into a powerful user profile to accomplish a task, every screen in the session is diligently recorded by the product, providing an un-contestable trail of the user’s activity while they had the elevated authority.

    Halcyon unveiled the Authority Swapper two years ago to address concerns about users with elevated authority and the potential abuses that could stem from those powers.

    Instead of permanently granting users such special authorities as ALLOBJ

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  • SystemObjects Lets You Generate iPad Apps from IBM i

    December 11, 2012 Alex Woodie

    Here’s a prediction that’s easy to make: The surge of interest in smart phones and tablets that we saw in 2012 will continue into 2013 and beyond. With demand for mobile computing firmly in place, the rush is on for IBM i software vendors to create mobile interface development tools for IBM i. One IBM i software vendor that wants a piece of the mobile action is the French company SystemObjects, which recently launched a new mobile application development tool called SmartPad4i.

    SystemObjects built its reputation with an AS/400 version of the Delphi RAD tool called Delphi/400, and has

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  • IBM Flexes Its Power Systems Muscle with Wins at Overseas Banks

    December 11, 2012 Alex Woodie

    The IBM i platform has long been a favorite among midsize American banks and credit unions. But increasingly, IBM is doing a brisk business selling Power Systems servers to banks overseas. Since August, IBM has announced deals in India, the Philippines, Pakistan, Indonesia, and Ghana. Not all of these deals are IBM i deals, but Bank Ekonomi Raharja (BER) in Indonesia certainly is.

    BER is a longtime AS/400 customer that sought to modernize its banking platform following its acquisition by UK banking giant HSBC in 2009. The bank acquired two Power Systems servers, including a Model 770 and a Model

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  • Software License Audits and Penalties Are Up: True That

    December 11, 2012 Alex Woodie

    If you’ve been asked to “true up” with your software vendor for exceeding your application license allotment following an audit, you’re not alone. According to a recent IDC report commissioned by Flexera Software, software vendors are getting more aggressive and seeking more compensation from customers who use more software than they pay for.

    According to IDC’s report, titled “2012 Key Trends in Software Pricing and Licensing Survey,” more of what organizations spend on applications is coming in the form of “true up” penalties that they must pay to software vendors following an audit. How much more? By one account,

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  • Lavastorm Rains on Fraudster Parades

    December 11, 2012 Alex Woodie

    Fraud is big business. It’s tough to pin an exact number on the size of fraud. By one account, fraud commonly accounts for five percent of a company’s annual revenues, or an average of $160,000. Whatever the numbers might be, here’s one thing that’s certain: There is a growing need for companies to protect themselves through the use of fraud management systems (FMS), such as the new Lavastorm Fraud Manager recently released by the smart folks at Lavastorm Analytics.

    Detecting fraud has been one of the many things you could do with the Lavastorm Analytics Platform, which is sort

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  • Magic Teams Up with Samsung in Smartphone Pact

    December 11, 2012 Alex Woodie

    Magic Software last week announced it has hooked up with Samsung, the biggest maker of Android smartphones and tablets, in a bid to gain a share of the booming market for enterprise mobility solutions.

    Samsung’s Enterprise Alliance Program provides a way for software vendors and integrators to get assistance from Samsung in developing and bringing to market applications for the South Korean company’s successful Galaxy line of Android phones and tablets. There are four levels of membership in the program, including bronze, silver, gold, and platinum levels. Silver partners, such as Magic, gain an advantage in building “differentiated user

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