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  • Zend, IBM, and Microsoft Shoot for the Clouds with PHP

    September 28, 2009 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    If the PHP programming language is to live on in clouds as well as data centers, applications written in PHP are going to have to be able to flow not only between data centers and their internal server stacks (we are apparently calling these private clouds these days) and external utility computing providers (these are now called public or semi-private clouds), but also around different clouds.

    To that end, last week Zend Technologies, the commercial entity behind the open source PHP language and runtime environment, teamed up with IBM, Microsoft, and a couple of cloud providers to

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  • WDSC vs. RDi

    September 23, 2009 Susan Gantner

    It’s no secret that I’m a big fan of RSE (Remote System Explorer). When I’m talking to developers who still use SEU to edit their source code, I always nag them to give RSE a try. Assuming I manage to convince them to take a look at it, usually the next topic of discussion relates to whether that means they should load the RSE that’s in WDSC or the version that’s in RDi.

    First, some background for any of you out there who may not be aware of what the quandary is about. RSE first appeared as one part WDSC

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  • Let’s Start Over from the Beginning

    September 23, 2009 Hey, Ted

    We have RPG programs that use SQL cursors to sequentially retrieve data. If a program cancels and I call it again, the program resumes processing a cursor where it left off. I have to sign off and back on in order to restart from the top. Why doesn’t the program start over from the beginning of the returned data set?

    –Lynne

    The behavior you’re witnessing comes from three contributing factors, Lynne. First, your program was compiled to close the cursor when the activation group is destroyed. Second, your program is running in the default activation group. Third, you are not

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  • The Cost of Not Backing Up

    September 23, 2009 Hey, Joe

    I’m performing a disaster recovery review for a client. The client backs up only i5/OS user libraries daily. He doesn’t back up program libraries, QUSRSYS, QGPL, or QSYS2. He doesn’t process the SAVSECDTA, SAVCFG, SAVDLO, or SAV commands daily or weekly, either. He’s adamant that he has enough libraries to perform a successful system recovery. And it gets worse. . . .

    The user only does a complete system save if he loads cumulative PTFs or does a hardware upgrade. He didn’t perform a complete system save before the last hardware upgrade, and he used an old tape to perform

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  • IBM Targets Mid Market with Cognos Express

    September 23, 2009 Alex Woodie

    IBM yesterday showed it’s serious about competing in the mid market business intelligence space with the launch of Cognos Express, a collection of analytics, reporting, and budgeting tools for groups of 100 users or less. With its in-memory OLAP capability, streamlined implementation, and Web- and Excel-based interfaces, the $12,500 offering can be used without much help from IT staffs, which will put it up against the likes of in-memory BI leader QlikTech.

    IBM’s Cognos group has been working on Cognos Express since Big Blue bought the BI software vendor more than two years ago, says Ben Plummer, director of

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  • 3B Aims to Break Barriers with its ‘unERP’

    September 22, 2009 Alex Woodie

    3B Dataservices, an IBM business partner in Eastern Canada, is stirring up the ERP pot these days by claiming that its software for enterprise application for small and mid size businesses in the light manufacturing, distribution, and construction industries, called iNfinite Answers, is the world’s first “unERP” application. So what makes an unERP? According to the folks at 3B Dataservices, it’s all about radically simplifying the database design.

    According to Rob Bunn, a principle at 3B Dataservices, the company started designing the framework for iNfinite Answers more than 15 years ago with the goal of eliminating elements that traditionally

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  • Redesigned Reporting Infrastructure Pays Off in Inventory Reduction

    September 22, 2009 Robert Gast

    Plodding through lengthy printed reports to find specific performance metrics is a leading cause of frustration in many of today’s IBM System i-based business environments. Thumbing through a five-pound green-bar paper report to find bits and pieces of data based on day-old information is the equivalent of walking behind a mule to plow your field. A reporting system based on dashboards created for specific management-level users featuring information updated and displayed every five seconds is not only possible, it’s affordable.

    Key City Furniture manufactures build-to-order products that are sold through hundreds of retail furniture outlets. With more than 150 employees

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  • Bug Busters Fine-Tunes Budget-Minded HA Offering

    September 22, 2009 Alex Woodie

    What can you expect to get with an i OS high availability software offering that costs between $10,000 and $15,000? With last week’s release of Bug Busters Software Engineering‘s Remote Software Facility-HA, you can expect to find new features like a source-to-target compare feature, new archive and refresh functions, and a check-point reset feature for restarting interrupted role swaps. These come on top of core HA features that are leading some System i shops to consider RSF-HA for their HA and DR needs.

    Bug Busters has been continually adding new features to RSF-HA over the past three years since

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  • Crossroads Unveils SPHiNX, a New VTL Solution for i OS

    September 22, 2009 Alex Woodie

    Crossroads Systems last week took the covers off SPHiNX for Power Systems, a new virtual tape library (VTL) offering designed for IBM Power Systems running i OS. The SPHiNX lineup is largely based on the company’s preexisting lineup of Virtual TapeServer (VTS) products, but features some changes in product packaging and lower pricing, in addition to the name change. The announcement was made at the COMMON show in Indianapolis, Indiana.

    Crossroads Systems is an accomplished storage technology vendor based in Austin, Texas, that’s looking to grab its share of the growing market for VTL solutions. Earlier this year, we covered

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  • Vision Lays Out HA and DR Options in Well-Written White Paper

    September 22, 2009 Alex Woodie

    Remote journaling. XSM. Logical replication. iASPs. Disk-based mirroring. If one thing is certain, it’s that there is no shortage of options for disaster recovery (DR) and high availability (HA) on the IBM Power Systems server. Thankfully, there are experts that can guide you through this technological maze, including the folks at Vision Solutions, who recently published a well-written white paper that takes an in-depth look at the wide spectrum of DR HA options for i OS and AIX environments.

    In the new white paper, titled “Next-Generation Disaster Recovery and Availability Technologies for IBM Power Systems,” Vision Solutions takes on

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