• Jack Henry Sees Steady Improvement In Fiscal Q3

  June 4, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Banking software and services provider Jack Henry says that as far as it can tell, the economy continues to mend among the small and midrange banks that are its dominant customers. Many of Jack Henry’s customers are users of Power Systems running the IBM i operating system, so that is good news. In the third quarter of fiscal 2012 ended in March (why do companies unnecessarily have fiscal years that don’t match calendar years?), the company’s software licensing revenues were up 15 percent, to just a hair over $15 million. Hardware sales, which have been on a downward trend for

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• The Magic Continues In The First Quarter For Magic Software

  June 4, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Magic Software Enterprises turned in its best year ever in 2011, and the momentum is continuing in the first quarter of this year. In the quarter ended in March, Magic Software brought in just over $30 million in revenues, a 17.9 percent increase over the year-ago period. Gross profits rose by 27 percent, to $13.1 million, and even though research and development costs rose by a factor of 2.5 to $906,000 and other costs were on the rise, too, net income at Magic Software shot up even faster, by 31.7 percent to $4.2 million. Guy Bernstein, CEO at the company,

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• As I See It: Pocket Litter

  June 1, 2012 Victor Rozek

  For those in the “pocket litter” collection business, things are looking up. They’ve got a project with a $2 billion budget, courtesy of us the taxpayers, and a whopping 10,000 contractors who, as we speak, are building an ugly but exceedingly spacious data center to be filled with high tech toys. And, overruns will not be a problem. If you’re a supercomputer maker, server provider, or manufacturer of storage devices and count the NSA among your customers, these are equally heady times. You’re probably ecstatic, hyperventilating with anticipation. You’re going to sell a lot of hardware, and overruns are almost

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• Preparing To Install IBM’s RUNSQL Command

  May 30, 2012 Rob Berendt

  I’ve often needed to run a SQL statement from within a CL program. I knew I could by calling a RPG program with SQL embedded in it, or by executing RUNSQLSTM, but I really didn’t want to go to that much trouble to run one simple SQL statement. IBM has given you a way to run an SQL command within a CL procedure if you’re running IBM i 6.1 or 7.1. It’s a new CL command called RUNSQL. For 7.1, you must order level 14 or higher of DB2 PTF Group SF99701. For 6.1, order level 25 or higher of

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• Eliminate The Legitimate Use Of GOTO

  May 30, 2012 Ted Holt

  Today I want to share with you some of the ugliest RPG code I’ve ever seen. It is to me the programming-language equivalent of Quasimodo, the hunchback of Notre Dame, and I am its progenitor. Then I will tell you why I wrote this code, and why, despite its ugliness, the code was correct. Last, I will tell you how to “prettify” it. The ugly code of which I speak is in a template source code member for file maintenance programs. It is similar in structure to this example: P MoveItem b D pi D inItemID 6a const D inWhsID

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• Three Ways To Fix NetServer Access Problems

  May 30, 2012 Hey, Joe

  I tried mapping a Windows drive letter to the root folder (/) of my Integrated File System (IFS) by using an IBM i NetServer file share. But I can’t get the drive to map. My cubicle buddy can map her drive. Why can’t I map my drive? –Phil Just as your IBM i user profile can be disabled from signing on to the system after a set number of incorrect sign-on attempts, the system can also automatically disable your user profile from IBM i NetServer access after you exceed the maximum number of sign-on attempts when trying to access a

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• mPainter Gets HTML5 Support

  May 22, 2012 Alex Woodie

  mPainter, the GUI customization tool that’s part of mrc‘s mPower suite, has been overhauled to support the Web’s latest HTML5 standard. Along with HTML5 support, mPainter gains a host of other new features designed to make it easier to spruce up the look of the automatically generated, Java-based mPower programs. mPainter plays an important role in the mPower suite. The Web-based product is used to tweak and alter the Java servlet-based GUIs that are automatically generated by mPower, such as by adding graphics, company logos, maps, drop-down boxes, popups, hover boxes, lists, or other visual elements that the customer

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• EMC Unveils New VMAX, IBM i Support for FAST Technology

  May 22, 2012 Alex Woodie

  EMC yesterday announced that it now supports IBM i with its FAST VP (Fully Automated Storage Tiering for Virtual Pools) technology, which enables data inside EMC arrays to be automatically moved between traditional disk and solid state disk (SSD) for the best bang for the storage buck. Among the many other announcements made at the annual EMC World extravaganza was the Symmetrix VMAX 40k, a hulking beast of a SAN that immediately becomes the largest and fastest disk array in the world. As data ages, it typically becomes less valuable to an organization. Because of this, organizations have historically moved

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• NGS Unveils BI Development Kit for Under $500

  May 22, 2012 Dan Burger

  Business intelligence on IBM i goes beyond DB2 Web Query or Cognos and it goes well beyond the most commonly used reporting tool, the old Query/400. If that’s all you know about BI on i, then you need to know about New Generation Software (NGS), which used the recent COMMON conference as a springboard to announce a new BI software development tool that costs less than $500. NGS has marketed its products as the more affordable option to IBM software and is eager to demonstrate a better return on investment, which the company suspects will jump start business intelligence deployments.

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• SkyView Launches Security Compliance Reporting Service

  May 22, 2012 Alex Woodie

  Companies that are struggling to find the resources to meet their security and compliance reporting requirements may be interested in a new managed services offering unveiled yesterday by SkyView Partners. As part of the Managed Services for Compliance Reporting (MSCR) solution, SkyView will do much of the hard work associated with maintaining security policies, addressing exceptions, and managing compliance for IBM i and AIX servers on an on-going basis. When a company faces a new regulation such as PCI or the Hi Tech Act for the first time, there’s usually a big push on the part of the IT

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