• Maxava Says HA Cloud Business Is Booming

  November 19, 2012 Alex Woodie

  The hosted high availability (HA) software business is taking off in a big way for Maxava. The company claims to have between 150 and 200 customers utilizing its software through the cloud, and that cloud deals now account for half of its sales pipeline. This led the company to lay claim earlier this month to being the number one provider of cloud-based HA software in the IBM i market. IT Jungle spoke with Maxava’s senior vice president Simon O’Sullivan last week to give him a chance to back up the big claims Maxava was making about its presence in

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• LANSA Launches LongRange University

  November 15, 2012 Alex Woodie

  LANSA last week announced LongRange University, a series of free online videos aimed at helping customers learn how to make the most effective use of LongRange, the IBM i-based mobile application development tool that it launched earlier this year. LongRange enables IBM i developers to use their RPG, COBOL, and CL skills to develop mobile applications that run natively on iOS and Android. The software–which consists of a server component for IBM i, a development studio that lives in Windows, and a mobile client device–works by transforming DDS display files residing in IBM i programs into graphical displays that are

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• IBM Mothballs QLogic InfiniBand Switches, Power Systems Drives

  November 15, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  For many years, IBM didn’t have its own network and storage switching business, and it OEMed or resold products from others, including gear from Cisco Systems, Brocade Communications, Voltaire (which was eaten by Mellanox Technologies two years ago), Juniper, and Blade Network Technologies. Since that time, Cisco has jumped into the server biz, IBM bought BNT, and Intel bought the InfiniBand biz from QLogic (among many other deals that did not directly affect Big Blue). Now, IBM is paring back on its catalog a bit, and it looks like QLogic is being shown the door on Power

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• Converting CASE in CL

  November 14, 2012 Bob Cozzi

  When I write CL, I long for some of the ease-of-use features IBM added over the last 10 years to RPG IV. Simple things like %XLATE or %SCAN or %EDITC would be nice. For example, a client of mine had a CL program that required several parameters, one of which was a user ID. However, the non-IBM i platform on which that information was entered did not automatically convert lowercase letters to all uppercase. When the program would try to verify the user profile, it would almost always fail. Initially my client wanted to use one of the legacy APIs

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• Use SQL To Update A Sequence Number

  November 14, 2012 Hey, Ted

  Is it possible to use a single SQL statement to assign an ascending sequence number to a column in a table? I’d like the sequence number to start at 10 and increment by 10 as every row is updated so that the number column in the updated rows would be 10, 20, 30, etc. –Doug I know a way, Doug. However, let me say up front that I’ve only played with this. That is, I’ve never used it in a production environment. I can’t speak to how practical it might be or what you might need to watch out for.

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• Admin Alert: A Checklist For Performing IBM i Planned Maintenance

  November 14, 2012 Joe Hertvik

  Taking down an IBM i system for planned system maintenance involves more than just performing the maintenance itself. To keep processing running without issue, you need to ensure that the machine ends cleanly before maintenance begins and that it restarts smoothly after maintenance completes. To that end, here’s a starter checklist for how to take down and restart an IBM i machine during planned system maintenance. The Phases Of System Maintenance When planning IBM i system maintenance, it’s helpful to divide the maintenance up into three sets of tasks that you must successfully complete. These task sets are: Pre-maintenance tasks

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• ASNA Unveils Mobile RPG Dev Tool

  November 13, 2012 Alex Woodie

  ASNA last week announced Mobile RPG, a new tool that will enable RPG programmers to develop new mobile applications in the language they know best: RPG. By combining traditional DDS display file technology with an Open Access handler, Mobile RPG lets programmers use traditional green screen development techniques to create new HTML mobile apps that run in the Web browsers of iOS, Android, and Windows Phone devices. It’s slated to ship early next year. Mobile RPG is designed to create small apps with basic user interfaces that are targeted at simple tasks, such as an employee clocking out or changing

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• Big IBM i Data Pumped Into Vectorwise

  November 13, 2012 Alex Woodie

  HiT Software and Attunity, two vendors that compete in the market for database replication and change data capture (CDC) software, recently unveiled new connectors that feed data from IBM i servers and other sources into Vectorwise, the relational database from Actian (formerly Ingres) that is gaining traction in the market for “big data” analytical tools. Vectorwise is a 64-bit relational database management system for Windows and Linux that was designed specifically to process analytical workloads. The product, which grew out of the MonetDB/X100 research project by the Dutch National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science, gains speed benefits

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• File Integrity Monitoring Comes to IBM i

  November 13, 2012 Alex Woodie

  Keeping a close eye on your IBM i server, including its configuration files, database files, and user activities, isn’t just a good idea. In some cases, it may be the law. Depending on which industry you work in and whether you work for a public company, file integrity monitoring, or FIM, may be in your future. Here are two tools that may fit the bill for your newfound FIM needs. Townsend Security unveiled FIM functionality earlier this year in Alliance LogAgent, an IBM i tool that monitors various journals and logs for evidence of unauthorized changes, and then translates those

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• Surround Tech Throttles .NET Code Generator

  November 13, 2012 Alex Woodie

  Developers will be able to generate completed .NET, Web, and mobile interfaces to IBM i apps more quickly using the latest release of Surround Technologies‘ Accelerator for .NET solution. In addition to cutting down on the number of configuration steps in the product’s wizard, Surround Tech has revamped and streamlined the code generation component, leading to a two-pronged productivity boost in Accelerator for .NET version 3.7, which was unveiled last week. Accelerator for .NET helps developers to create modern Windows, Web, and mobile interfaces for new or existing applications running on IBM i, Windows, or Microsoft‘s Azure cloud.

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