• IBM Presents Awards to Most Innovative Business Partners

  June 15, 2009 Dan Burger

  During a recent conversation with Bob Tipton, I picked up a couple of tips about how certain companies and certain individuals are open to innovation. It doesn’t just happen like magic. There are steps, tools, and approaches that can be learned. You can learn to be innovative. There’s a necessary attitude, a desire, and an atmosphere that is conducive to innovation, but by and large the process is not like spontaneous combustion. It’s planned. As a reward for innovation within the IBM business partner ranks, Big Blue has the Beacon Awards. It’s an annual recognition, within its PartnerWorld program,

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• Configuring Run SQL Scripts for Ad Hoc Queries

  June 10, 2009 Skip Marchesani

  Many months ago, when I needed to create and execute an ad hoc query using SQL, my tool of choice was Interactive SQL, available via the System i green screen interface. I don’t recall any dramatic change taking place–I suspect it was gradual–but these days I find myself using Run SQL Scripts (a.k.a. SQL Script Center or Script Center) from System i Navigator, instead of Interactive SQL, to execute an ad hoc SQL Query. The Script Center offers a couple of advantages over Interactive SQL. Specifically the Script Center allows you to intermix and execute SQL statements and batch CL

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• Advanced DB2 for i Data Access Techniques with .NET

  June 10, 2009 Hey, Mike

  There are a lot of shops like mine where one or two people are responsible for everything and we are very busy trying to learn new technologies and push the business forward. My project is very large. It will eventually replace 90 percent of the green-screen menu driven system we currently use. I am working on this project alone and building it slowly from the ground up. I want to have a well-built base. I want to understand how .NET and DB2 work together before I start building a lot on top of the base program. I am working with

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• Taking Care of PC5250 Popup Keypad Problems

  June 10, 2009 Hey, Joe

  We just ghosted and sent out 20 new PCs with iSeries Access for Windows V5R4M0 on them. Now we’re getting complaints that the Popup Keypads on the new machine’s PC5250 display sessions aren’t working correctly. On the old PCs, we had three Popup Keypads available to the users. The new PCs only have two keypads and some of the functions are missing. What’s going on? –Beth I suspect your problem isn’t so much that things have changed; it’s that the Popup Keypad configuration went back to its default settings with the new install. Here’s what I think happened. For readers

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• ShowCase Essbase 11 for IBM i: It’s About Time

  June 9, 2009 Alex Woodie

  SPSS and its ShowCase division today announced the general availability of Essbase 11 for IBM i , the latest release of its powerful OLAP software for the Power Systems i server. With this release, SPSS has made several big changes to the way it handles time, which is one of the most essential–and challenging–elements to creating and maintaining multidimensional data “cubes.” Now, Essbase for IBM i users don’t have to choose between including time as a dimension in a cube, or sacrificing the inclusion of detailed data. Hundreds of System i shops rely on the ShowCase suite of tools for

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• WTS Expands Into Managed DR for i OS Apps

  June 9, 2009 Alex Woodie

  JD Edwards outsourcing specialist WTS is expanding its managed disaster recovery (DR) services. As part of the new offering unveiled last week, WTS will provide the data center space, the System i hardware, and the human IT expertise needed to get a customer’s critical i OS (i5/OS) applications and data back online and functioning in the event of an outage. The company will support any i OS applications–not just JD Edwards–and offers several ways to transmit data, depending on specific recovery objectives. WTS was founded in 1997 by Tom Hughes, an influential JD Edwards customer, to do one thing: be

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• SunGard Launches Secure2Disk Online Backup Solution

  June 9, 2009 Alex Woodie

  SunGard‘s Availability Services unit last week launched Secure2Disk, a new online solution designed to back up and store data from i OS, Windows, Unix, and Linux servers. The new appliance-based offering helps protect vital customer data by storing de-duplicated and encrypted copies of backups at SunGard facilities, and costs about the same as a tape-based backup system, the software and services giant says. SunGard also announced its top 10 tips for dealing with hurricane season. While disk-based backup has been widely used in the larger IT market for years, there appears to be a surge of interest in the

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• Help/Systems Supports Windows with i OS-Based Job Scheduler

  June 9, 2009 Alex Woodie

  Help/Systems last week unveiled an update to its cross-platform job scheduler, Robot/SCHEDULE Enterprise, that supports Microsoft Windows Server operating systems. The update follows the introduction of Robot/SCHEDULE Enterprise less than three months ago, and allows Help/Systems customers to monitor and control jobs on Windows servers using the same i OS-based software they use to control jobs on their System i, Unix, and Linux servers. Robot/SCHEDULE Enterprise is a special version of Help/System’s popular i OS-based job scheduler, Robot/SCHEDULE, that was launched in March. The Enterprise version allows i OS (i5/OS) shops to manage their AIX, Solaris, and Linux servers

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• Pat Townsend Hooks up with Solutionary for Outsourced i Log Monitoring

  June 9, 2009 Alex Woodie

  i OS security software developer Patrick Townsend Security Solutions (PTSS) recently announced it’s working with managed service provider Solutionary to help organizations bring their System i (AS/400) servers into compliance with PCI, Sarbanes-Oxley, and HIPAA regulations. In addition to developing i OS encryption tools and encryption key management tools, PTSS writes software that translates critical i OS messages from the System i format into the universally understood syslog format. In this manner, messages from System i systems can be collected and parsed with messages from other systems as part of an organization’s overall security and regulatory compliance imitative. Now PTSS

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• Sun Borrows Idea from Apple’s App Store, Unveils Java Store

  June 9, 2009 Alex Woodie

  Sun Microsystems took a bite out of Apple‘s playbook last week when it unveiled the Java Store, a new online repository for Java applications that looks suspiciously like the Apple App Store, the über hip outlet where you can buy programs for your iPhone. It’s still in beta, but is expected to go live later this year. The hype surrounding the iPhone’s launch two years ago was thick enough to cut with a knife. Critics were right when they said that, while the device was super cool and undeniably awesome, it didn’t include any technology that was necessarily “new”

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