• Anyone For LPAR?

  January 30, 2012 Dan Burger

  Among the IBM i user base, you often hear about the great technology being used by the customers at the enterprise end of the spectrum. Meanwhile, in the small to midsize shops, you hear complaints that the technology is too complex. The functionality could be put to use, but the complexity is prohibitive. Logical partitioning, or LPAR in the IBM mainframe and now Power Systems lingo, is one of the technologies that fits that description. You’ll find LPARs being used in just about every large enterprise that depends on the IBM i for core business applications. When you explore the

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• Reader Feedback On IBM’s Move On Up To Power7 Upgrade Math

  January 30, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Hey, TPM: Best wishes for 2012! In the table in your story, IBM’s Move On Up To Power7 Upgrade Math, taking into account the last supported release that can could run on that model, can you update this with input from this link from IBM: http://www-947.ibm.com/systems/support/i/planning/upgrade/osmapping.html Nobody in their right mind will pay software maintenance for machines that cannot run a release that is supported. For example, the iSeries 170 and 250 machines can run V5R3 at the latest, and there is no point (apart from sympathy for IBM, ha!) to pay software support if the right for

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• IT Budgets To Crunch This Year In North America And Europe

  January 30, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  If you were expecting for IT spending to go up this year and for new projects to get going and perhaps get a pay raise, the consensus is building that this is not going to happen. That’s the bad news. The good news would seem to be that instead of being asked to do more with less, IT shops will be asked to do a lot more with a tiny bit more dough. But it’s not that simple, so don’t jump to conclusions. IT market researcher Gartner spends a lot of time with CIOs to try to help them figure

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• Take One Tablet And Call Your IT Manager In The Morning

  January 30, 2012 Jenny Thomas

  The explosion of tablets is enough to give even the most savvy IT managers a splitting headache. Almost everyone would agree tablets are cool, and those lucky enough to own one can’t say enough good things about them, but the introduction of tablets into the workplace raises legitimate concerns about security and application access. Cisco Systems recently commissioned a global survey of IT managers and executives in a wide variety of global companies of all sectors and sizes to assess attitudes, fears, and hopes for tablets in the workplace. All 1,500 of the respondents were either primary IT decision makers

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• SAP Stamps Its Mark On 2011

  January 30, 2012 Dan Burger

  When you’re the world’s largest business applications vendor, your financial report card stands as a bellwether for the IT industry. Of course, economic uncertainty adds to the drama and brings an even larger crowd to the stage. Last week, SAP delivered a powerful performance by announcing it beat all expectations for not only the final quarter of 2011, but for the entire year as well. SAP may not be the largest IBM i software provider in terms of customer base or revenue stream, but there are several thousand customers, and some of the largest IBM i shops in the world,

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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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