• IBM Goes BYOD With VDI

  July 9, 2012 Alex Woodie

  As business computing workloads are being moved from on-premise locations into the “cloud,” it begs the question: What happens to the personal computing environments that people rely on to access legacy client/server applications? Many cloud apps can be accessed directly from a Web browser, but some apps still require a full client running under a Windows or Linux operating system. In June, IBM announced a new virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution aimed at bridging the gap between client/server apps and the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) revolution. Organizations today face a two-pronged challenge of meeting the modern BYOD mandate while simultaneously keeping a

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• IBM Lets You Take PureSystems For A Spin On SmartCloud

  July 9, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  The new PureSystem modular and hybrid systems from IBM are both familiar and different at the same time, and will require a little tire kicking before customers are comfortable making the switch from standalone machines to converged boxes. That’s why IBM is offering trial capacity for 90 days to customers who want to take PureSystems out for a spin. The offer, which you can sign up for here at IBM’s developerWorks development web site, was quietly announced on June 1 as a beta program and is available in 59 countries around the world spanning all geographies. The PureSystems are back-ending

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• Avnet Eats The Rest Of Magirus

  July 9, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  The big keep on getting bigger, and now master reseller Avnet has ponied up an undisclosed sum to acquire Magirus Group, an IT distributor based in Stuttgart, Germany. Magirus has operations across Western Europe and is in every country except Ireland, Finland, and Norway; the company also has operations in the Middle East, centered in Dubai. The company was founded in 1981 and back in October 2007 when Avnet acquired the IBM and Hewlett-Packard systems distribution business from Magirus, the company had sales in the range of €700 million (about $996 million) and had over 600 employees; the IBM

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• IT Spending Creeps Up A Tiny Bit In North America

  July 9, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  The good news is that IT budgets are on the rise in the United States and Canada, according to a recent poll of IT shops performed by Computer Economics. The bad news is that the growth is not very much and is only a tiny bit more than was seen in 2011. Computer Economics just finished up talking to more than 200 IT departments in North America for its IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks 2012/2013 study, which was just released and which is based on the twice yearly survey that the company does across small, midrange, and large enterprises.

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• The Job Market’s Irresistible Attractions

  July 9, 2012 Dan Burger

  Big recruiting companies, like Dice, keep themselves in the news by continually collecting information from their clients–companies on the search for skilled employees and talented individuals looking for work–and then packaging that data for the media. It’s one of the key elements of content marketing, and Dice is very good at it. When jobs are your business, and so many people want a job or a different job, your information is in demand, especially if the information pertains to hiring trends (sorry, not this month) or the most sought after skills. (Bingo!) If you have these skills, you might

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• PHP Web Development Gets RPG Summit Spotlight

  July 9, 2012 Dan Burger

  When PHP, the Web application development language of millions, was brought into the IBM i community, there was a gag reaction. Not surprising because developers had just recently Java forced down their collective throats during the memorable “Learn Java or learn to flip burgers” era. But as it turned out, PHP has been much easier for RPG developers to swallow and its popularity has continued to grow. “I think the advent of PHP has had a far greater impact in many ways than anything else (even Java) has done,” says Jon Paris, an RPG and IBM i advocate, author, instructor,

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• HiT Software Takes DBMoto To the Cloud

  July 6, 2012 Alex Woodie

  HiT Software last week unveiled a cloud version of DBMoto, its data replication and change data capture (CDC) software. The new product uses Web services to keep disconnected databases refreshed or in sync with other databases, using the cloud for transport. DB2/400 is supported by the software, as are 20 other databases. Organizations are increasingly adopting cloud-based applications to address their data processing needs, particularly in areas such as CRM, sales force automation, human resources, and reporting and analytics. However, the cloud model has introduced new challenges for customers who run the most critical ERP and financial applications on their

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• Protect Your Intellectual Property: Obfuscate DB2 For i Source Code

  June 27, 2012 Michael Sansoterra

  Every “old timer” IBM i developer knows about the compiler option to include or exclude source statements within an OPM or ILE program. The CL compilers even have an option to allow CL source to be retrieved from the Retrieve CL Source (RTVCLSRC) command. While high-level language programmers can decide whether or not to include source statements with their objects, DB2 SQL developers had no such option because anyone could use a tool like iNavigator to retrieve the SQL source. Thanks to the IBM i 7.1 technology refresh 4 update, SQL developers now have the option to obfuscate their

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• Another Way To Skin A Generic Cat

  June 27, 2012 Hey, Ted

  I am writing in response to your recent article, Add Powerful Generic Processing to Your Applications, regarding generic processing. I have another, simpler technique that you should share with my fellow readers of Four Hundred Guru. –D D’s technique is to use the Remove Link (RMVLNK) command. Here’s the example he (she?) gave me: RMVLNK OBJLNK('/qsys.lib/dug*.devd') This command deletes device descriptions with names that begin with DUG. Notice that RMVLNK requires objects to be specified in the IFS naming convention. You may use RMVLNK or its two aliases, DEL and ERASE, for objects other than libraries. For libraries,

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• Admin Alert: Finding TCP/IP Interface History And More On The NetServer GO Nets Installation Library

  June 27, 2012 Joe Hertvik

  For this week’s column, here’s some interesting information I found about discovering the history of your TCP/IP interfaces and how to retrieve the QUSRTOOL library for installing the IBM i NetServer GO NETS menu discussed in last week’s column. Displaying The History Of Your IBM i TCP/IP Interfaces If you’re on i 6.1 or above, here’s an easy way to determine when and how your TCP/IP interfaces were last started or stopped. You can do this by looking at the job log history of the TCP/IP control job, QTCPWRK (formerly named QTCPIP in V5R4Mx and below). Whenever TCP/IP

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