• Looking For i In All The Wrong Places

  September 19, 2011 Dan Burger

  For those of you who seldom find your way to the IBM i homepage, here’s a peek at an archived webinar you can find there under the title of Optimizing on Power Systems for Superior Economics. It co-stars Ian Jarman, IBM’s program director of global marketing for Power Systems, and Brad Day, an IT industry analyst and president of Enterprise Computing Advisors. I visit the IBM i site from time to time in search of new resources and information to pass along to IT Jungle readers. Last week, I decided to check out the Power Systems webinar. This

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• Reader Feedback On As I See It: Going Silent

  September 19, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Victor, really good article on the need for and benefits of silence. Thank you! In Tai Chi, we say that “stillness is the master of unrest.” You’ve stated the same thing with regards to silence. Well done, sir. –Mike Thanks for another terrific article. I also enjoy backpacking in the mountains. . . . especially the Sierra, when I can get there from Rhode Island. –Ed Victor, I have enjoyed all your columns for some time but Going Silent, which struck a chord, prompted me to say thank you. Very much. –Tim I really enjoyed your article this week. I

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• Maxava Makes $45,000 In iFoundation Awards

  September 19, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Back in late March, high availability software maker Maxava put $50,000 of its money where all of our mouths were to try to help out the IBM i community. June 30 was the cutoff date to put in an application for a grant of a few grand, which could not be used for any personal expenses or any other costs that had been already incurred by a user group or other organization. Allan Campbell, chief executive officer of Maxava, tells The Four Hundred that there were over 20 applicants for iFoundation grants, and that most of them were approved. “We

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• SAP Settles TomorrowNow Criminal Charges for $20 Million

  September 19, 2011 Alex Woodie

  SAP paid $20 million in fines and plead guilty in federal court last week in the criminal case over TomorrowNow’s illegal downloading of support information from Oracle. In exchange for its plea and the fines, the Department of Justice dropped its criminal case against SAP and its now defunct TomorrowNow subsidiary. Oracle’s civil case against SAP is still under appeal. SAP plead guilty to 11 felony counts of unauthorized access of Oracle’s computer system and one felony count of criminal copyright infringement. It will pay the fine of $20 million to Oracle and be under probation for three years.

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• Disk Storage Sales And Capacity Both Up in Q2

  September 19, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  There’s no shortage to the amount of digital junk that we want to keep, just in case it might be useful some day, and because of this, the disk array business continues to see both revenue and capacity shipment growth grow even as disk subsystems get more efficient at storing data. In the second quarter, the analysts at IDC reckon that total disk array revenues rose by 10.2 percent to $7.49 billion while aggregate capacity rose by a stunning 46.7 percent to 5,353 petabytes. Sales of external disk arrays–the kind used by most midrange and high-end servers–rose by 12.2 percent

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• The System i PTF Guide Is Back

  September 19, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Long-time readers at IT Jungle and especially those that are trying to sort out IBM‘s patches for the IBM i operating system every week, rejoice. The System i PTF Guide is back. The System i PTF Guide is put together by Doug Bidwell, the president of DLB Associates, an IBM business partner that supports midrange customers on the OS/400 and Windows platforms, including suites from JDE, Lawson, SSA GT, Harris Data, Friedman, and others. Bidwell knows his midrange hardware cold, and as a service to all of IT Jungle‘s readers for many years, he has put together the

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• Learn To Debug Authority Failures, Part 1

  September 14, 2011 Patrick Botz

  It is truly amazing how many IBM i administrators and programmers do not understand how to debug authority failures. When a user they support encounters an authority failure, many typically do one of two things: Give the user *ALLOBJ authority Or, if they can identify the object on which the authority failure occurred, they make sure *PUBLIC has *ALL authority to it Attacking authority failures in this way results in huge security holes. And this practice is almost certainly non-compliant with the organization’s written or unwritten security policy. Further, when the change happens to fix the authority failure, they

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• Now Where Did I Leave That Source Member?

  September 14, 2011 Bruce Guetzkow

  Note: The code accompanying this article is available for download here. During execution, programs rely strictly on their compiled objects. The source used to create the object is not used in any way for execution. There are, however, some instances where source is of value during processing. In a source member, one could store FTP commands to be used with the FTP (Start TCP/IP File Transfer) command, SQL statements to be used with the RUNSQLSTM (Run SQL Statements) command, or REXX statements to be used with the STRREXPRC (Start REXX Procedure) command. Knowing where the proper source exists is

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• Admin Alert: Three Common Problems with CBUs

  September 14, 2011 Joe Hertvik

  Power i Capacity BackUp (CBU) systems are complicated critters. Aside from the basic tasks of configuring, testing, and enabling a CBU for taking over processing from a production box, there are a lot of different problems that can occur with CBU configuration, and even when the CBU is running in replication mode. This week, let’s look at a few not-so-obvious CBU configuration issues that can hurt your CBU or production system setup. Issue #1: Problems with libraries that start with “Q” By default, many Power i replication packages do not replicate objects in libraries whose names start with “Q”, such

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• Ricoh Claims Breakthrough in PDF Processing

  September 14, 2011 Alex Woodie

  Companies that use Ricoh‘s automated document factory (ADF) offering will be able to do all kinds of new things with PDF files that were previously impossible to do without converting to a different format, the company claims. Ricoh’s Production Print Solutions unit (formerly InfoPrint Solutions Company, formerly the printing division of IBM) claimed several industry firsts with last week’s update to InfoPrint ProcessDirector, its PDF solution used by high-volume print operations. From the sound of it, Ricoh is squeezing management benefits from PDF documents that previously were the domain of the high-end advanced function presentation (AFP) document format.

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