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  • Mad Dog 21/21: ARMs To Fare Well

    November 7, 2011 Hesh Wiener

    Steve Jobs was such a captivating promoter of inventions that his products reshaped our thinking, defining or redefining products we once thought we fully understood. At his best, Jobs was almost too good. If Picasso were God all fish would be flounders. But the computer industry, like nature, fosters diversity. Apple‘s smart clients, the iPhone and iPad, are iconic devices built around systems-on-a-chip (SoCs), but they are not the only important applications of this technology. Servers, too, can be made from compact, efficient, and inexpensive SoCs. And they will prove to be exceedingly disruptive.

    Two examples that have been

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  • Flexera to Tag Apps on IBM i for Usage Monitoring, License Audits

    November 7, 2011 Alex Woodie

    Flexera Software, the developer of the InstallShield and InstallAnywhere utilities that guide software installations on practically every PC and server on the planet–including those running IBM i–is ramping up a new software tagging initiative. The plan involves embedding XML-based software tags into the applications installed with Flexera’s utilities and then providing software asset management tools to enable customers to more effectively track their application usage and cope with vendor licensing audits.

    There are two arguments in favor of software identification (SWID) tags: one from the organizations that buy and use software and the other from the vendors that develop

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  • TUG Night School Matches Enthusiasm with Capability

    November 7, 2011 Dan Burger

    At the end of another grind-it-out day in the IT department, several of the RPG programmers were having a conversation. One mentioned that he had to go to school that evening and he wasn’t really looking forward to it.

    The others, sensing an opportunity to give him a hard time, asked why he dreaded going to school.

    “Well, I’m tired and I’d much rather go home and crash,” the nearly truant night school student said.

    “Those aren’t good reasons,” the others shot back.

    “So why don’t you guys give me some good reasons why I should go?” the first guy

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  • U.S. Unemployment Rate Inches Down, IT Sector Adds Jobs

    November 7, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    The job situation in the United States has improved in the past three months, but the growth in the workforce is still not sufficient to keep up with population growth, much less make much of a dent in the unemployment rate, which remains stubbornly at high levels.

    On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its monthly snapshot of the American workforce based on surveys of employers and of the unemployment rate based on surveys of households. The household data showed that the unemployment rate ticked down one measly tenth of a point, to 9 percent by the end of

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  • Arrow Electronics ECS Unit Keeps Humming In Q3

    November 7, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    Last week, we told you all about how the IT distribution business of master reseller Avnet did in the third quarter, and this week, it is time to take a gander at what is up with its rival Arrow Electronics, which is also a big distributor of IBM systems, storage, and software.

    In the quarter ended in September, the Enterprise Computer Systems group at Arrow grew by 26 percent, to $1.54 billion, and it even managed to grow its operating income by 51.4 percent to $53.7 million. The electronics components distribution business, which is larger at $3.65 billion, grew

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  • IBM Powers Up Software Development Lab With Rooftop Solar Array

    November 7, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    IBM has a Power Systems and System z software lab in Bangalore, India, appropriately enough called the India Software Lab. While there’s plenty of good IT talent in India and the Indian government likes for IBM to invest in the local economy to get the local business, Bangalore does have its problems. And a big one is that its electrical grid and power supply is not up to snuff.

    This can wreak havoc on a software lab that needs to keep Power and mainframe iron up and running to do software development and testing. IBM installed a fleet of backup

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  • Small Businesses Agree Social Media Is A Path To Customers

    November 7, 2011 Jenny Thomas

    The acceptance of social media as a legitimate means of capturing or communicating with customers continues to grow. A recent study by Newtek Business Services, a peddler of services and financial products to the small- and medium-size business market, found that nearly 60 percent of companies polled use social media tools to communicate with customers.

    Even if your small business has not dipped a toe in the social media tidal wave, someone in the organization must be considering it. The cost of a social media campaign alone is pretty attractive. The basic expense is just the labor of the

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  • Adobe Flash Builder for the iSeries Programmer, Part 3

    November 4, 2011 Shannon O'Donnell

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

    In my previous articles in this series, I showed you how to use Flash Builder to create a customer information GUI. You learned how to add visual components such as input text boxes, drop down lists, and even a tab navigator control. In this article, I will show you how to make your GUI into a server client that talks to Websphere Application Server Express running on your iSeries, and I will show you how to exchange data with the iSeries DB2/400 database.

    I will also demonstrate how

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  • Debugging Authority Failures, Part 3

    November 2, 2011 Patrick Botz

    Authority failures are the result of attempts (i.e., actions) to access objects to which a user profile is not authorized. Several IBM i features, such as job logs and QHIST, contain some authority failure information. However, the system audit journal has all the information you need, and the OS provides easy-to-use tools to help you quickly find it. These tools are the audit configuration system values, the CPYAUDJRNE command, and the STRSQL command.

    Audit System Values

    To begin auditing authority failures, configure three system values: QAUDCTL, QAUDLVL, and QAUDLVL2. QAUDCTL is an on/off switch for auditing specific objects, specific user

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  • Adaptable Data Areas

    November 2, 2011 Ted Holt

    If you’ve worked in IT for more than 15 minutes, you’ve undoubtedly been asked, “How hard would it be to. . . ?” The people who depend on the systems we support are constantly thinking of new and better ways to make information systems more closely resemble the reality of business. Every little thing you can do to ease the effort to modify software is worth doing. Here are two extremely simple ways to reduce the amount of effort required to change the length of a character data area.

    Consider a data area, FacInfo (Facility Info), that contains one item

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