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Happy Holidays And the PM 2011 Edition Fruitcake Recipe

December 12, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan

The strange brews have been concocted. The three dozen fruitcakes of various sizes have been baked, soaked in bourbon, wine, and cognac, and wrapped up in fondant, waiting to be shipped. Some of the Christmas shopping has been done, but there’s still more to go and not a lot of time. The holiday meal menu is being pondered and tweaked. And now is the time for the good people at IT Jungle to take a well-deserved break from the rat race that is the news business.

As it has been for several decades now, it is my great

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Reader Feedback On Blade Servers Barely Nick IBM i Market

December 12, 2011 Hey, Dan

Good article. I agree with the complexity from an i-perspective, and liked your detailed analysis. I would like to add another point. I think blades in general are at an awkward junction. I work at a large Intel shop right now, with a mix of Windows (Windows 2000, Windows 2003, and Windows 2008 server) as well as Red Hat Linux (4.X thru 6). Several years ago they started moving from a standard rack mount to blade configuration. A funny thing happened on the journey. It’s called virtualization. Long story short, VM’ing everything has minimalized the need for blades.

Instead, you

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IBM Bolsters ‘Smarter’ Initiatives with Two Software Acquisitions

December 12, 2011 Alex Woodie

IBM last week announced plans to acquire two software companies, including DemandTec, a provider of software that helps retailers make pricing, promotion, and assortment decisions, and Cúram Software, which makes software used by governments to streamline the delivery and administration of social services.

IBM exited the ERP space years ago and has since professed an aversion to getting back into the core business application space, which it insists it is leaving to its business partners. On its IBM i server platform, for example, IBM partners with dozens of ISVs, like Infor, SAP, JDA Software, Manhattan

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Michigan PHP Program Progressing Nicely

December 12, 2011 Dan Burger

The inventive PHP training project at the Southeast Michigan iSeries User Group (SEMiUG), reported in this newsletter in September, is nearly completed according to SEMiUG president Laura Ubelhor. The idea for the training project began with Ubelhor, who saw a great learning opportunity for local user group members by enlisting the support of a nearby company where the PHP programming could be put into use.

Not quite two months ago, 28 members of the local user group signed up to participate in this project and four teams were created. Ubelhor took the role of project manager and DEXTECH, an

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Windows, Linux Big Server Sellers In Q3

December 12, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Last week, The Four Hundred reported on the quarterly server sales and shipments presented by Gartner, and this week we get a second opinion on the market from IDC, which looks at the system racket a little bit differently from its box counting peer.

Gartner measures server sales each quarter as they are peddled to users from either the vendors directly or their reseller channels, while IDC looks only at the factory revenue at the manufacturer level. And each presents, to the public at least, a slightly different set of dicing and slicing of products by operating system,

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Juggling With jQuery

December 7, 2011 Paul Tuohy

Note: The code accompanying this article is available for download here.

Way back in May 2009, I wrote about some of my experiences with Javascript. Well, time has moved on and I, hopefully, have become a more experienced Javascript programmer. Part of that experience has been in coming to grips with the many Javascript libraries and frameworks that are available for download.

When it comes to Javascript, here is what has been happening to me. I came across a requirement for a feature on a Web page (e.g., a calendar to allow the selection of dates), so I did

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SQL Finds a Delta

December 7, 2011 Hey, Ted

Is there a way using SQL to calculate the amount a numeric column changes from one row to the next?

–Ken

Yes. Here’s how it’s done.

First, you need a table to use for an example.

create table mydata
 ( Name char(8), Qty dec(3,0))

insert into mydata values
  ('Bob',   25),
  ('Bill',  85),
  ('Sue',   17),
  ('Bob',   28),
  ('Bob',   32),
  ('Bill', 105),
  ('Sue',   45)

To pull this off, the data must be stored in the order in which it is to be retrieved. If necessary, create a temporary table to hold the sorted data.

declare global temporary table SortedData as
  (select name,

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Admin Alert: More Information on Semi-Restricted State, Vendor Profiles, and Storage Pools

December 7, 2011 Joe Hertvik

As we approach year end, I usually clear out my Admin Alert mailbox to see if there’s any good additional information about recent articles that I can pass along to you. Good thing, too, as some readers sent over workable ideas about getting into semi-restricted state and how to handle vendor profiles for auditors. Here’s what they said. I hope this information helps you.

On Semi-Restricted State TCP/IP, Suggestion #1

About my article on putting an IBM i system into semi-restricted state (where the system is down but TCP/IP is up), reader Richard Shearwood filled in some gaps about

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LANSA Launches LongReach, a Free iOS Client for the IBM i Server

December 6, 2011 Alex Woodie

LANSA this week unveiled LongReach, an iOS client that allows users to securely share files, folders, and data between an Apple device and an IBM i server. The iOS client is a free download available now on the iTunes app store, and LANSA is also giving away the IBM i server component to the first 1,000 people to download it.

LongReach can be used as a standalone iOS client, where it enables users to store files on the iOS device; create, copy, paste, rename, and delete files and folders; share files with other apps; and manage email attachments.

But in

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Cloud and Virtualization Hurting State of Resiliency, Vision Study Finds

December 6, 2011 Alex Woodie

Organizations need to do a better job of understanding the potential downsides that cloud computing and virtualization can have on their ability to maintain the resilience and availability of their applications and data, Vision Solutions concluded in its State of Resilience 2011 report, which it unveils today in a Webcast at 10 a.m. CST. The overall state of resilience has suffered as the result of increased level of complexity due to the different IT protection schemes put in place to cover virtualization and cloud.

For the fourth year in a row, Vision Solutions and its Information Availability Institute have published

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