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Used Software Scores A Legal Victory In Europe

July 16, 2012 Alex Woodie

Do you have the right to resell your “used” software to other people? If you live in the European Union, you do, thanks to a court ruling earlier this month in the case of UsedSoft v. Oracle. If you live in the United States, the law still favors software makers. However, the EU ruling could pave the way for changes in the U.S.

UsedSoft is a German company that buys excess licenses from people or organizations that don’t need them, and resells them to those who do, at prices up to 50 percent lower than “new” licenses from the

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Mad Dog 21/21: Up Close And Personal

July 16, 2012 Hesh Wiener

When Google unveiled the Nexus 7 tablet computer in June, it couldn’t make calls over a cellular phone network but it could beam financial transactions about a half-inch. The Nexus 7 has a secure data radio based on Near Field Communication (NFC) technology. Nowadays NFC is in a growing number of mobile devices, but that’s not all. NFC makes transit passes like London’s Oysters smart. It is baked into some debit and credit cards. And you can make your very own NFC devices for a buck a pop. They can do some neat tricks.

There’s a lot more to NFC

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One More Power Systems Roadmap For The Road

July 16, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

In last week’s issue of The Four Hundred, I walked you through some Power processor and systems roadmaps that I was able to find out there on the Intertubes, as well as some specifics about the forthcoming Power7+ processors, which are due to come to market between now and the end of the year. I accidentally left one of the roadmaps I stumbled upon out of last week’s story. And it is an important one.

So this week, I will show it to you. Check it out:

For Power Systems shops, the fact that there is Power8 and Power9

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Continued Caution Sways 2012 Worldwide Spending Re-Forecast

July 16, 2012 Jenny Thomas

The analysts at Gartner continue to re-evaluate their worldwide IT spending predictions for 2012, and while the news is still better than last year, it’s not the economic recovery and bump in IT spending that we’ve all been hoping for.

“While the challenges facing global economic growth persist–the eurozone crisis, weaker U.S. recovery, a slowdown in China–the outlook has at least stabilized,” said Richard Gordon, research vice president at Gartner, in a statement covering the latest IT spending update. “There has been little change in either business confidence or consumer sentiment in the past quarter, so the short-term outlook is

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IBM Launches Single-Socket PowerLinux Server, Tweaks Power Systems I/O

July 16, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Big Blue is fleshing out its PowerLinux line of Linux-only servers, and last week put out a variant of the Power 730 box with a single socket and a lower price tag than the current two-socket boxes that were announced back in April along with a PowerLinux version of a two-socket Flex System node.

Last week, in announcement letter 112-119, you will see that the PowerLinux 7R1 is a single-socket server in a 2U rack-mounted server chassis. You get precisely one processor option: an eight-core Power7 chip running at 3.55 GHz with all of its cores activated to accept

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Scott Klement Joins Profound Logic Staff

July 16, 2012 Dan Burger

Like the Dos Equis beer commercials featuring “the most interesting man in the world,” Scott Klement just might be “the most interesting man in the RPG world.” At the end of the beer commercials, the star always says, “Stay thirsty, my friends.” I picture Klement wrapping up his COMMON conference sessions or webinars by saying “Stay thirsty, my RPG friends.” Makes sense given his personal thirst for RPG.

That thirst for expanding his knowledge and experience has led him to joining the staff of Profound Logic, the IBM i application development and modernization tool vendor based in Dayton, Ohio.

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Ultrium Tape Drive Makers Ready LTO 6 Units

July 16, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

The Linear Tape Out (LTO) Consortium managed by IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and Quantum started selling LTO 6 licenses last June, and now the first tape drives based on the spec are about to hit the market.

According to a statement put out by the consortium, the first LTO 6 drives will hit the market in August, with the ability to store up to 6.25 TB of compressed data on a cartridge, double of the LTO 5 cartridge, with data transfer rates of up to 400 MB/sec on compressed data, a 42.9 per cent boost over LTO 5. If you

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SAP Pre-Announces Record Q2 Revenues

July 16, 2012 Dan Burger

Infor with its shopping list of IBM i-centric ERP businesses earns more than SAP in this niche. Thanks to its JD Edwards business, so does Oracle. But SAP is still the biggest of those fish in the ocean, it has thousands of IBM i installations, and its quarterly financial reports are eagerly awaited by the stock market mongers. And once again, SAP is eager to show off its record catch.

Let’s begin by noting this was the company’s best revenue-generating Q2 in history. A currency-adjusted 19 percent gain in software revenues put a snap in SAP’s step to the

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DB2 For i XMLTABLE, Part 2: Using Namespaces And IFS XML Files

July 11, 2012 Michael Sansoterra

In Part 1 of this series, I introduced the DB2 for i developer’s newest friend, the XML “slicer and dicer” table function: XMLTABLE. XMLTABLE is powerful because it can read an XML document and convert its content to a tabular format that can participate in a query with relational data.

The developer has to specify the mapping between the XML data and the intended tabular format by using XPath expressions that instruct XMLTABLE how to map the data from XML into rows and columns. In this article, I’d like to cover two additional topics: parsing XML documents containing namespaces, and

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RPG Subprocedure Error-Handling with APIs

July 11, 2012 Ted Holt

In the May 2, 2012, edition of this august publication, I shared how Brian Rusch’s shop uses an API to forward escape messages up the call stack in CL programs. The Resend Escape Message (QMHRSNEM) API works just as well in RPG subprocedures. Here’s how it’s easily done.

First, you need a prototype for QMHRSNEM, and you must define the first two parameters.

D ResendEscapeMsg...
D                 pr                  extpgm('QMHRSNEM')
D   MessageKey                   4a   const
D   ErrorCode                   10i 0 const

You can define the remaining parameters if you want, but make sure you mark them OPTIONS(*NOPASS). If you like, place the prototype in

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