• Mad Dog 21/21: Gun-bae, Google, And Thanks For All The Tuna

  May 7, 2012 Hesh Wiener

  In late April, Google started selling the Galaxy Nexus GSM mobile phone from its Play Store, the website that dispenses Android applications. The Nexus is a developers’ phone. When it first became officially available in the United States last November in a CDMA variation sold exclusively through Verizon it was aimed at app developers who wanted an Android 4 platform. But then Google realized that it had overlooked another market, and a very important one at that: web creators. Now Google and its manufacturing partner Samsung are scrambling to educate site builders about the promise of yakju and takju on

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• Software Change Management Migrations Are Not Impossible

  May 7, 2012 Dan Burger

  Tossing out enterprise grade software–even if it is inadequate or too damn expensive–is never a decision to be taken lightly. Good decision making depends on good information gathering and solid planning. In IBM i shops where application development has been a vital function for many years, change management software has been essential to the creation of quality industrial-strength code. But like any other software, software change management tools are not always a good fit or automatically conducive to a pleasant vendor/customer relationship. A term you don’t hear a lot about outside of personal conversations is company lockdown or sometimes called

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• Two Ask TPM Questions: Real IBM i Clouds And Apple Buying IBM i

  May 7, 2012 Hey, TPM

  In AWS/400: Amazon Builds An AS/400-oid Cloud, you wrote: I really do wish IBM would realize that IBM i is already a platform cloud of sorts, just waiting for it to be deployed on its SmartCloud so customers can get access to it and use it on a pay-per-use basis. If not, maybe we can get Amazon to roll in a few thousand Power System nodes and make use of DB2 Multisystem and other features to have Amazon build a truly scalable DB2 for i database service and build EC2-like images that work as RPG and COBOL compute engines

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• Parris Named Power Systems GM, Rosamilia Moves Up

  May 7, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  There are more executive changes at IBM and some familiar faces in the IBM i community have been promoted to new positions within Big Blue. When IBM launched the new X86-priced PowerLinux systems two weeks ago, I didn’t see it at first, but way at the bottom of the press release there’s a quote from Colin Parris, who is referred to as general manager of Power Systems at IBM. Tom Rosamilia, who ran the System z mainframe business for a stint, took over the combined Power Systems and System z business back in August 2010, appointing Parris the

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• Infinite’s Migration Plan Targets IBM i ISVs

  May 7, 2012 Dan Burger

  Infinite Corporation, a company that specializes in migrating OS/400 and IBM i applications to Windows, Unix, and Linux platforms, has targeted IBM i ISVs with a migration plan that the company says has proved to be successful in Argentina. The migration plan provides the tools to move RPG or COBOL applications written for the AS/400 or System/36 environment to Microsoft Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle Enterprise Linux (its RHEL clone) and Solaris (its Unix), and IBM AIX. Infinite’s CEO Bruce Acacio says approximately 60 ISVs in Argentina have gone through the migration process and that success led

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• Oracle Wants To Send SAP A $776.7 Million TomorrowNow Bill

  May 7, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Software giant Oracle, which is seeking a retrial of the lawsuit against defunct third-party ERP maintainer TomorrowNow and its parent, rival SAP, told the U.S. District Court that is hearing the retrial that it will seek $776.7 million in damages against SAP. Considering how puny the TomorrowNow business actually was, this is still a very large amount of money to ask for damages. But it is far less than the $1.3 billion that a jury awarded Oracle in the first trial against TomorrowNow and SAP, even if it is a lot more than the $272 million that U.S.

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• Get IBM i Work Management And Security Skills In Under A Week

  May 7, 2012 Jenny Thomas

  Just because the IBM i has been around awhile doesn’t mean there aren’t new operators coming to the platform in need of education on how to better utilize its power. And it’s probably safe to assume there are even a few experienced operators out there who could use a brush-up on the basics. In today’s workplace, where budgets are tight and headcounts are small, employees often have to dive in and learn on the job. So when time and money can be made available for training, companies want to know their employees are coming back with skills that can be

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• CL Error-Handling With APIs

  May 2, 2012 Ted Holt

  Note: The code accompanying this article is available for download here. I had the great pleasure of meeting Brian Rusch in Milwaukee last month, when I spoke to the Wisconsin Midrange Computer Professionals Association (WMCPA). Brian told me about the method his shop uses to handle CL program exceptions. I’d like to share it with you. IBM has established an architecture for exception handling. When a program exception occurs, the system may send one or more diagnostic messages that give information about the error. The system does send an escape message, which summarizes the problem and cancels the program.

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• How Do I Format Date Literals? Let Me Count The Ways

  May 2, 2012 Hey, Ted

  I have a strange SQL problem. I have an SQL DELETE command that works perfectly in interactive SQL. But when I use Run SQL Statement (RUNSQLSTM) to execute it, it does not find any rows to delete. –Jabir Strange, indeed. I gave Jabir some suggestions, but none of them helped. Jabir found his problem himself. In one of those environments (he didn’t say which), the date format was *MDY, while the date format of the other one was *DMY. SQL was interpreting a date value in two different ways. It’s fortunate that Jabir did not test with a date that

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• Admin Alert: Secrets Of The IBM i IPL Parameters

  May 2, 2012 Joe Hertvik

  IBM i operating systems contain a number of attributes that are used to control IPL processing when you start or restart a partition. Some attributes (such as Start To Restricted State) are well-known, while others are seldom looked at. This week, let’s take a look at your system’s IPL attributes and how they can help you perform specific functions on your system. Viewing And Changing Your IPL Parameters You can view and change your IPL parameters by typing in the Change IPL Attributes (CHGIPLA) command from a 5250 green screen and pressing the F4 key. When you do this, you’ll

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