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Enterprise Software Spending Grows Faster Than Expected

May 23, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan

The enterprise software market–everything from the hypervisor up through the operating system to databases, middleware, and applications–got back on something akin to an even keel as 2010 came to a close, according to the latest statistics from Gartner.

That enterprise software stack also includes corporate purchases of Windows, Mac OS, and Linux operating systems for PCs and laptops as well as applications for PCs, so the money does mount up. To $244.6 billion, in fact, which is 8.5 percent higher than spending on the same kinds of enterprise software in 2009, when the world was just starting to consider

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Aberdeen Examines BI in the Supply Chain

May 23, 2011 Dan Burger

Business intelligence has to do with brains, but what about the bucks? If you ask supply chain executives about the value that business intelligence brings, it’s clear the two can’t be separated. But business value is not necessarily concordant with big software investments. And companies with an IBM i platform running their critical supply chain applications have the same issues related to organizational and process management, along with technology management, as any other organization.

What’s hoped for in a business intelligence solution and what’s getting accomplished often isn’t within shouting distance of one another. And that’s why analyst firms such

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Avnet Rides Server and Storage Waves in Fiscal Q3

May 23, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Just like its rival Arrow Electronics, master IT distributor Avnet is riding an upgrade cycle for servers and storage.

In the third quarter of fiscal 2011 ended April 2, Avnet posted $6.67 billion, up a very impressive 40.3 percent. Net income for the seller of IT gear and electronic components rose by 31.9 percent, to $151 million. Acquisitions are a big part of that growth story, of course, and on a pro forma basis excluding the effect of companies that have been brought into the Avnet fold, sold off, or unit movements within the company, overall revenues for Avnet

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Blue Skies Are Gonna Cloud Up

May 23, 2011 Jenny Thomas

Not long ago, a prediction for cloudy skies was something we heard from our local weatherperson, and all it meant was you might want to keep an umbrella handy. But today’s cloudy forecast is courtesy of Big Blue, and, according to its new global study, those clouds are rolling in fast.

In a recent IBM survey of CIOs, 60 percent of organizations said they are ready to embrace cloud computing over the next five years as a means of growing business and achieving competitive advantage. This figure nearly doubles the number of CIOs who said they would utilize cloud in

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Red Hat, IBM, and Friends Gang Up On VMware, Ignore PowerVM

May 23, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan

As IBM knows full well, when you are the 800-pound gorilla, the juggernaut, or the leviathan in any part of the IT industry–and you are making money–then everyone is gunning for you. And with the pole position in the X64 server virtualization racket, and a desire to extend that to virtualized PCs and tablets as well as to cloudy infrastructure, VMware has big red bull’s eyes plastered all over itself.

Last week, server and desktop virtualization wannabe Red Hat teamed up with IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, SUSE (now part of Attachmate), BMC Software, and Eucalyptus Systems

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Attachmate Busts Apart SUSE from Novell, Puts Own People in Charge

May 23, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Now that Attachmate has finished up its acquisition of Novell, the private equity-backed conglomerate of midrange software companies has set about breaking the company into two different halves.

For those of you who run SUSE Linux on your iSeries, System i, or Power Systems logical partitions, SUSE is now a separate division of Attachmate, much as Attachmate (with the Attachmate and WRQ products) was separate from the NetIQ security products. With the break, the SUSE Linux business and its related openSUSE development project are now separated from the burden of trying to save Novell and its NetWare and GroupWise

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An Introduction to Python on IBM i, Part 3

May 18, 2011 Garry Taylor

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

Guido Van Rossum, creator of Python, once said, “Python is an experiment in how much freedom programmers need. Too much freedom and nobody can read another’s code; too little and expressiveness is endangered.”

In this third part of our introduction to Python on our faithful IBM i, you’ll learn how to use the expressiveness of Python while still keeping your code readable. This will be achieved by creating classes to represent our data in a clean and manageable fashion. You have likely heard of classes and object from

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The Case of the Missing Logical File

May 18, 2011 Hey, Mike

I created a logical file that combines multiple tables into a single result set (similar to a SQL UNION.) However, when Microsoft Excel’s Query Wizard presents a list of available tables and views to query, this logical file does not show up in the list. What is the problem?

Suzy

Hi, Suzy:

The problem is that DB2 for i is classifying your logical file as a non-relational file. It turns out that the Microsoft Excel Query Wizard uses ODBC (or OLE DB for Excel 2007 and later) to access DB2 for i. When tools like the Query Wizard and Crystal

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Admin Alert: Running System i Cleanup Manually

May 18, 2011 Joe Hertvik

A reader recently wrote me inquiring about some of the finer points in running the i operating system’s cleanup tasks for clearing out messages, job logs, and other system output. While IBM offers a decent automated cleanup function, it’s not quite as clear how to manually run the cleanup option. This week, I’ll review what cleanup tasks do and show you how to run this function either automatically or manually.

What Are the Cleanup Tasks?

Cleanup is an i operating system task for manually or automatically cleaning up user messages; system and workstation messages; system journals, job logs and log

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SMA Comes Out of the Blue with IT Automation Tools

May 17, 2011 Alex Woodie

“We’re the best company you never heard of,” began Will Pulley, the director of customer relations for Software and Management Associates (SMA) at a press conference during the COMMON show earlier this month. Whether the Texas company makes the best IBM i job scheduler and message automation tools is debatable, but there’s little question SMA has some work to do if it wants to appear on the radar screens of North American IBM i shops.

The appearance at COMMON was a good first start for SMA, which has roots in the IBM mainframe world, as well as NASA, which SMA

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