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The Business Analytics Software Biz Is Booming

January 30, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Wherever the IT money is being spent, market researchers like IDC and Gartner have to be there to dice and slice who gets what money and in turn make money on that data. That’s why IDC has just launched a semi-annual tracking service for the data analytics market, and it would not be surprising for it to eventually go quarterly like IDC and Gartner have for servers, storage, PCs, and other IT expenses.

IDC’s prognosticators reckon that this year the market for business analytics software will grow by 8.9 percent, to $33.9 billion. Of the 12 sub-sectors in the business

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Limited Capabilities Workaround

January 25, 2012 Patrick Botz

Limited capabilities is a widely used security function of IBM i. User profiles have an attribute named limited capabilities or LMTCPB. CL commands have an attribute named allow limited capabilities users or ALWLMTUSR). CL commands set to ALWLMTUSR(*NO) cannot be run from a command line by user profiles set to LMTCPB(*YES). To be more precise, these commands cannot be run from a command line, the command-entry display, FTP, REXEC, the QCAPCMD API, or as an option from a command grouping menu.

This is all well and good. Sometimes, however, you run into situations where a few user profiles, that should

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qsort: A Better SORTA

January 25, 2012 Jon Paris

Over the past few years I’ve done quite a lot of PHP coding alongside my RPG work, and PHP’s extensive use of arrays has furthered my conviction that we RPGers just don’t use arrays nearly enough. There are many reasons for this, of course, one of which is RPG’s limited ability to sort and search arrays.

Admittedly in recent releases the restrictions have been somewhat alleviated, but there are still many limitations. For example, take a look at the DS below:

d customerData    ds                  Dim(1000) Qualified
d  name                         30a
d  address1                     40a
d  address2                     40a
d  city                         30a
d  state

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How Do I Export an iSeries Certificate File?

January 25, 2012 Hey, Joe

I’m trying to export one of my i5/OS digital certificates into a PC file for server installation. Every time I try the export function, I get the message: An error occurred while opening files to write. What’s going on and how can I export the certificate to a file? I’m running i5/OS V5R4M5.

–Abe

It could be the way you’re trying to export the file. Here’s how I’ve successfully downloaded digital certificates in the past, and where I’ve hit that particular message. Maybe this technique will help you export your certificate.

1. Start the IBM Web Administration for i

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Pitcher’s Lotus-on-IBM-i Campaign Pays Dividends

January 24, 2012 Alex Woodie

Steve Pitcher has a major beef with IBM. No, it’s not about the confusing naming schemes that Big Blue has cooked up for his beloved IBM i platform (that’s just a minor beef). The big one has to do with the fact that some key IBM Lotus Notes and Domino software doesn’t run on the IBM i platform. But instead of quietly stewing about it, Pitcher has set out to change things, and judging from his experience at last week’s Lotusphere conference, he’s having success.

In his day job, Pitcher is the enterprise systems manager for Scotsburn Dairy Group

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TECA Data Safe Gives IBM i Customers a DR Lifeline

January 24, 2012 Alex Woodie

Being prepared for a disaster makes good business sense, especially with the recent spate of major disasters occurring recently in the United States. For IBM i shops, disaster preparedness requires a little extra planning and capability. One company that’s growing its specialized IBM i disaster recovery (DR) service business is TECA Data Safe, which provides everything a company needs to recover its IBM i environment, including servers, bandwidth, and–most importantly–experienced staff.

TECA Data Safe first began providing DR in the mid-2000s as a value-added service for customers who purchased System i servers from its sister companies, VIS of Minnesota

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Raz-Lee Gives Away IBM i Antivirus Software

January 24, 2012 Alex Woodie

You can’t beat free. Earlier this month, Raz-Lee Security announced that it’s giving away copies of its IBM i antivirus software, which is based on the open source ClamAV engine. The free version doesn’t include some of the more advanced features that are available in the enterprise version of the software, but it will help IBM i shops detect and eliminate Windows malware that can infect and be distributed via the Integrated File System (IFS).

The IBM i OS is rightfully hailed as one of the most secure, commercially available operating systems ever created. Properly configured, the OS will thwart

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Symtrax Refreshes Output Management with Compleo 5

January 24, 2012 Alex Woodie

Symtrax last week unveiled Compleo Suite 5, a major new version of its line of output management software for IBM i and other platforms. With version 5, Symtrax has added a Web-based interface for the first time, providing an alternative to its Windows-based client. Better backups of critical documents, workflow capabilities, and new support for inputting additional document types round out this release.

Compleo is a suite of output management tools that is well-established in the IBM i community. The software offers a range of document-related capabilities, the biggest being the conversion and distribution of spool files from IBM i

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KeyesMail Gets Simplified APIs

January 24, 2012 Alex Woodie

It will be easier to automatically send emails from your IBM i applications using the latest release of KeyesMail, an IBM i-based email package developed by Computer Keyes. With KeyesMail version 9, the Woodway, Washington, company has rewritten the APIs to make them easier to use.

KeyesMail is a full function email application that runs natively on the IBM i server. The software includes a SMTP- and POP3-compliant email server, a green-screen text editor for writing and viewing email on IBM i terminal, the capability to create email templates, a set of APIs, for automatically sending email from IBM

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iSam Blue Adds Storage Director to its Lineup

January 24, 2012 Dan Burger

iSam Blue, a data protection company specializing in the backup and recovery field, has added a virtual backup storage solution to its repertoire of products and services. The addition is a result of partnership with Tributary Systems makers of Storage Director, a virtual tape library software product that consolidates tape libraries and accelerates backups in multi-server, multi-platform environments.

Robert Seal, CEO at iSam Blue, says he first heard about Storage Director at the COMMON 2011 Annual Meeting and Exposition.

“I realized that this is a backup solution that many IBM i users need,” Seal said in a telephone interview

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