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As I See It: The Other Motivator

August 13, 2012 Victor Rozek

With the Olympics having just concluded, a number of third-tier events will again fade into quadrennial oblivion. Sports like synchronized swimming, skeet shooting, and beach volleyball (in which scantly clad women frolic in the icy British rain) got their 15 minutes of exposure, if not fame, and will now be consigned to the devotions of small bands of loyalists. One such sport, parochially known as ping pong, has been upgraded to the more sober-sounding table tennis by serious practitioners who have transformed a basement pastime to a form of quick-twitch warfare.

I was curious about the sport because of a

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Go To Where The IT Jobs Are

August 13, 2012 Dan Burger

All things considered in the job market, most employers prefer to recruit locally rather than considering people from out of town or out of the region. And most people searching for work would prefer a local job rather than one that requires relocation. But when the local well runs dry, you need to look for places where opportunity is likely to knock.

According to the latest news from the career-minded folks at Dice, IT folks fishing for jobs will have better luck finding honey holes in the technology-fueled economies of California, Virginia, Texas, New York, and Florida. If you

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Reader Feedback On Big Blue Gives A Solid Installed Base Number

August 13, 2012 Hey, TPM

I wonder how, or if, IBM counts the thousands of used servers that have been removed from the original account, but are still working perfectly for smaller companies. These are often running vertical application software supported by IBM partners (or not). Perhaps half of our customer base is now operating on used Model 520s due to IBM’s pricing structure for new System i servers. Most don’t keep an IBM hardware maintenance contract.

Obviously these customers don’t matter much to IBM (they barely care about entry level sales of new servers). But they are still an active part of the ecosystem.

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IBM Rounds Out Flex Systems With Xeon E5 Iron

August 13, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Big Blue added new machines to the Flex System lineup last week, but don’t get too excited. They were not Power7-based machines, or better still Power7+ nodes, but just X86-based nodes for the “Project Troy” modular system that the company debuted in April that are based on the latest Xeon E5 processors for two-socket and four-socket servers that were announced in May by Intel.

The Xeon E5-2600s are geared down versions of the Xeon E5-2600s that came out in March, sporting one fewer QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) link between the processor sockets and therefore lower memory capacity and bandwidth between

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Magic Software Continues On The Comeback Trail

August 13, 2012 Dan Burger

IBM i development tool maker Magic Software Enterprises turned over some good-looking cards last week when it announced its first half of 2012 financial results. From a product standpoint, the company was most pleased with the extension of its mobile development offerings to include support for Apple iOS and Google Android platforms for both smartphones and tablets. But the emphasis was clearly on improved financial footing.

Revenues for the first half of 2012 increased 10 percent to $58.1 million compared to $52.9 million in the same period last year. Operating income for the same six month period increased 23 percent

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iBelieve Revival From looksoftware Heads Down To Wall Street

August 13, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

The iBelieve event is coming to the Big Apple, and if you are in the tri-state area on September 27, then looksoftware wants you to stop by Wall Street and sit in on its latest IBM i community event.

During my holiday two weeks ago, I went down to Wall Street where my wife works to have lunch with her and stopped by the Downtown Conference Centre run by Pace University on William Street, just a few blocks east of Ground Zero and a few blocks north of Wall Street. The shindig is perfect and looks like it might hold

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Worldwide IT Outsourcing Fattens Up 2012 Spending Pie

August 13, 2012 Jenny Thomas

When you slice a pie, you might save the biggest piece for yourself, or take just a sliver if you’re trying not to overindulge. In the predictions game, finding a glimmer of good news can also depend on how you slice up the overall picture.

The analysts at Gartner have taken another look at the worldwide IT spending pie for this year, and the slice that covers IT outsourcing looks like a good piece. According to a recent Gartner report, worldwide spending for IT outsourcing services is on pace to reach $251.7 billion in 2012, a 2.1 percent increase from

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Accessing Multiple DB2 Relational Databases In A Single Query

August 8, 2012 Michael Sansoterra

In my prior tip, I covered a new feature provided in the i7.1 technology refresh 4 update that allows a INSERT/SELECT statement to insert data into a local DB2 for i table from a query against a remote DB2 database. In this tip, I will cover a method that can be used to query multiple DB2 relational databases in a single statement.

Author’s Note: Incidentally, the remote DB2 database can be another member of the DB2 family besides DB2 for i. Check out my article on DB2 for Windows for more information.

As I mentioned in my last tip

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Composing An XML Document From Relational Data, Part 1

August 8, 2012 Hey, Mike

My boss asked me if I know of a cheap or free tool that can automatically export a DB2 (for i) table to an XML file. I told him that I could write a Java program pretty easily that could accomplish this for a specific table, but I’m not aware of any way to “generically” do it for any table.

For example:

select *
  from deleteme

TheKey   SomeText
     1   Row Number 1
     2   Row Number 2

That code should produce output something like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<deleteme>
 <row>
   <TheKey>1</TheKey>
   <SomeText>Row Number 1</SomeText>
 </row>
 <row>
   <TheKey>2</TheKey>
   <SomeText>Row Number 2</SomeText>

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Admin Alert: The Right Way To Delete User Profiles, Part 2

August 8, 2012 Joe Hertvik

Last issue, I introduced a two-part article discussing techniques for deleting user profiles. Part one focused on prepping a user profile for deletion. In part two this week, I discuss how to determine whether the user is a critical user and what to do about it, and I demonstrate three techniques for deleting users. After reading both articles, you will have a good template for creating an IBM i user deletion procedure in your organization.

The Five Steps Of User Deletion

Last issue, I introduced a template that determined the best way to deal with terminated IBM i users

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