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Measure Twice, Cut Once Applied to ERP Implementations

March 23, 2009 Dan Burger

What does you ERP software do for you? Or if you look at it from the other side, what doesn’t it do for you? Most companies continue to make sizable investments in ERP applications, but mysteriously they don’t measure their return on those investments. Isn’t that a heck of a way to run a business? A soon to be released report from Aberdeen Group examines this dirty little secret, and pulls the rug back on a bit of the dirt that’s swept underneath.

The survey is based on the survey responses of 168 companies that have ERP projects in various

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UCG Partners with MaxAva, Expands DR and HA Capabilities

March 23, 2009 Dan Burger

United Computer Group (UCG), a provider of online backup services, is one of the proponents of managed services for the Power Systems i platform. It has been making progress with a backup and recovery service called VAULT400 since UCG introduced it to the AS/400 market in September 2006. Now it’s moved into the high availability arena by partnering with Maximum Availability to offer real-time replication of data–what is called “hot backup” in the lingo–for companies that require short recovery times.

The addition of Maximum Availability’s *noMAX will provide UCG with a managed solution option for organizations that have a recovery

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As I See It: Generation Gap

March 23, 2009 Victor Rozek

File this one under “just when you thought you’d seen everything.” As the millennial generation comes of age, the 76 million children spawned by industrious baby boomers are entering the workforce. But unlike past generations, they are not coming to the workplace alone. They are bringing their mommies and daddies.

Reliable sources report that corporate mangers and HR departments are being monumentally annoyed by Boomers who accompany their children to job interviews, review their job offers, intervene on their behalf in salary negotiations, and badger the boss when their nestling fails to be promoted. And they can be irritatingly insistent.

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BCD Cranks Up Services, Training for PHP Deployments

March 23, 2009 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Application development tool maker Business Computer Design has never been shy about its commitment to the AS/400 platform as well as its many progeny, and as application development and deployment technology has changed over time, the company has evolved to take advantage of those new technologies. With PHP, as with past development languages, BCD was on the leading edge in getting the technology deployed on the i platform, and now it is benefiting from that forward-thinking strategy.

In particular, BCD says that its professional services business is seeing a good uptake of PHP-related projects. Exactly how much, Eric Figura, director

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Reader Feedback on Warning: IBM Says Some SATA Disks Are Going to Sleep

March 23, 2009 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Dear Tim:

Thank you for the heads up to the community! However, the solution to the sleeping SATA drives is already out there. The answer to solve the issue you brought to our attention is in the linked page. . . not at the end of the quarter as you indicated; it is a contradiction within the article. I read the entire IBM page and the details, problem, and solution is there at the end of the server list. LOL.

I went to the Seagate site and they have an update since February and have updated all other OEMs.

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Cisco’s California Dream: One Vendor to Supply It All

March 23, 2009 Timothy Prickett Morgan

As rumored, router and switch maker Cisco Systems did indeed jump with both feet into the server market last Monday with the launch of its “California” Unified Computing System. And as I told you last week, those of us in the AS/400 community have a wry grin inasmuch as Cisco is taking a couple pages out of the System/38 and AS/400 playbooks to bring a unified network and server platform together with an integrated system management software stack.

Then again, if you are like me, you are probably more than a little annoyed that IBM had not long since

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Oracle Expects Very Tough Q4 as Fiscal Q3 Meets the Street

March 23, 2009 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Here’s another indication that the global economy is bad, aside from the rumor that IBM is trying to buy its archrival, Sun Microsystems. Software powerhouse Oracle, the first of the big Silicon Valley startups, last week announced that it would be giving a dividend to stock holders.

Oracle reported its financial results for the third quarter of fiscal 2009, ended February 28, and the good news was that despite the economic meltdown, it basically met Wall Street’s expectations. (Like we should give much of a damn what Wall Street thinks after the messes–plural–they got us into. . .

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SafeData White Paper Discusses iSeries Rapid Recovery

March 23, 2009 Timothy Prickett Morgan

iSeries data protection specialist SafeData wants to help you get your data protected better, and for that reason it has put together a white paper that is aimed as much at the owner or manager of your company as it is aimed at the IT department.

The white paper, which has the unwieldy title Best Bets for iSeries Rapid Recovery with Virtualization: An Executive’s Guide to Affordable IBM iSeries Recovery in 12 Hours or Less, lays out the different levels of availability that are available using its SafeData/HA (recovery in 15 minutes or less) or SafeData/DR (10 hours or

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Things That CIOs Should Know Keep Their CEOs Awake Nights

March 23, 2009 Timothy Prickett Morgan

This year is a bit of a mental and emotional challenge as well as being an economic one. And the whiz kids at Gartner make a habit and a business out of trying to say something intelligent about the goings-on in IT Land to help CIOs cope with conditions and their bosses, the CEOs, presidents, or owners.

We are all in a bit of a state of shock absorbing the changes to the economy, our businesses, and our lives. But you have to shake it off and start planning for the future, all the same, says Gartner, which released a

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Looking for Commitment, Part 2

March 18, 2009 Paul Tuohy

In this article I will take a look at the basic rules and coding requirements for using commitment control within RPG programs.

A Database

Figure 1 – SQL used to create a sample schema and tables.

Note: The code show above is available for download here.

Figure 1 shows the SQL used to create a schema named COMMIT, which contains two related tables, called HEADER and DETAILS. The main points to note are as follows (refer to the corresponding letters in Figure 1):

A. Creating the schema COMMIT results in a library named COMMIT that contains a journal named

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