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IBM Opens App Services Center in Michigan, Support Center in Iowa

January 26, 2009 Timothy Prickett Morgan

While IBM has been making layoffs around the United States and Japan, and perhaps all around the world for all we know, two Big Ten states here in America at least got some good news recently from Big Blue.

The state government of Michigan, which is reeling from the latest pop in a 35-year implosion of the indigenous car market, has worked out a deal with IBM to plunk a global delivery center for application services in the East Lansing campus of Michigan State University. (Penn State, 49; MSU, 18) The center is, according to IBM, the first

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Dataram Offers Try and Buy Deal for Server Memory

January 26, 2009 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Clone memory maker Dataram was for many years a little gun shy about saying that it offered clone memory that was supported on AS/400 and iSeries boxes, but the convergence of the i and p lines by IBM presents the company with some opportunities to make money and to help i and p shops save money.

Last week, Dataram, which is located in Princeton, New Jersey, and which has been making clone memory since 1967, said that it was initiating a free “try and buy” program to help customers get clone memory, which can cost half as much as memory

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BOSaNOVA Outlines the Green Effects of Thin Clients

January 26, 2009 Timothy Prickett Morgan

There are a lot of reasons why you might want to think about getting rid of PCs for a lot of end users at your company, but cutting back on energy use and therefore lowering your carbon footprint is something that more companies are taking seriously. Quite frankly, it is low hanging fruit, like using those swirly fluorescent bulbs instead of incandescent lighting.

To make its case, BOSaNOVA has put together a white paper promoting thin clients, which it makes a living selling. The company cites an estimate that has made the rounds in the PC-TC wars, claiming that if

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Redundant Join Criteria: Good or Bad Idea?

January 21, 2009 Hey, Ted

Suppose I have four tables that I commonly join. Is there any benefit to adding redundant criteria to the join? Or to the “where” clause? That is, will redundant criteria or selection expressions improve performance?

–Philip

Philip’s four tables are keyed as follows:

SITE     ITEM      PROCESS   STRUCTURE
------   ------    --------  ---------
SiteID   SiteID    SiteID    SiteID
         ItemID    ItemID    ItemID
         Revision  Revision  Revision
                             StructID

Here’s a join without redundant join criteria:

select whatever
from site as s
join item as i 
  on s.siteid = i.siteid
join process as p
  on i.siteid = p.siteid
 and i.itemid = p.itemid
 and i.rev    = p.rev
join

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Do Your File Specifications Lie?

January 21, 2009 Ted Holt

An old joke says, “How do you know a salesman (or politician) is lying to you?” The answer: “His lips are moving.” All joking aside, your RPG IV F specs can lie to you, and it’s not obvious when they do. This is not a serious problem, but I’ve run across it on occasion and want to be sure others are aware of it.

Let’s say the following program is running:

H dftactgrp(*no) actgrp('QILE')
Fcustcdt   uf   e             disk
Ferd01p    o    e             printer
 /free
     *inlr = *on;
     dow '1';
        read cusrec;
        if %eof();  
            leave;
        endif;
        write erd01p1;
     enddo;
     return;

This is

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Trouble-Shooting WebSM to HMC Connectivity Problems

January 21, 2009 Hey, Joe

I’m having problems connecting to different Hardware Management Consoles (HMCs) via a single Web Based System Manager (WebSM). I can connect to our production HMC, but I am having problems accessing our backup HMC in New York. I enter an IP address for the backup HMC, but it’s not accepting my user ID and password. Is it possible to access two HMCs with the same WebSM?

–Ray

Hi Ray,

Yes, it is possible to access two different HMCs through the same WebSM configuration. I do it in my shop where I use one WebSM to access three different HMCs on

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Jobscope’s Customer Focus is Made-to-Order

January 20, 2009 Alex Woodie

When it comes to the make-to-order and engineer-to-order discrete manufacturing industries, there’s a little company from South Carolina that you may not have heard about called Jobscope. With roots that can be traced back to the original “Silverlake” AS/400 program, Jobscope is happy to be off the radar of the major ERP vendors, as it concentrates on helping customers drive more efficiency into their processes.

Like many software companies, Jobscope was born out of need. A manufacturing organization was having difficulty finding an ERP package that could handle its make-to-order (MTO) manufacturing setup, so it decided to write its

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What’s Next from IBM Lotus?

January 20, 2009 Dan Burger

This week the Lotus world is tilted on its axis toward Florida, where the annual Lotusphere conference is under way in Orlando. IBM already announced the general availability of LotusLive.com, the software as a service collaboration and communication system previously known in its beta version as “Bluehouse”; a March release of a joint Lotus Notes and SAP Business Suite product called Alloy; and a deal with Research In Motion that brings collaboration features and developer tools on the BlackBerry platform.

LotusLive is a cloud-based suite of social networking and collaboration services designed for business. The big deal with LotusLive

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Infor Shows Flexibility as Reseller Channel Evolves

January 20, 2009 Alex Woodie

A couple of years ago, when Infor was still figuring out exactly what it owned following a string of acquisitions that made it one of the world’s three largest enterprise software vendors, the company irritated some of its reseller partners by mandating they sell only Infor solutions and drop competing products. Today, as the company refines its reseller model, it says those restrictions are in the past, and is displaying a more nuanced understanding of channel politics.

As senior vice president of global partners, Dennis Michalis is in charge of the diverse group of partners peddling Infor products around the

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i OS Jobs Spawn Anew with Halcyon’s Updated Scheduler

January 20, 2009 Alex Woodie

Halcyon Software unveiled a new version of its Job Scheduler last week that’s designed to drive more automation into management of System i systems. The biggest new feature in Job Scheduler 4.0 is something that Halcyon calls “multiple dependencies,” which enables a System i server and its various jobs to run with higher degrees of autonomy than before. The British software developer also made its first U.S. sale of its systems management tools for Intel-based servers.

Halcyon’s Job Scheduler reduces the need for human intervention in the management of System i servers, and contributes toward the goal of “lights

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