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Various System i and Power Systems i Nips and Tucks

September 2, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

You can tell that Big Blue is pretty much done with thinking about–much less making or selling–Power5+ servers now that it is getting ready to support all of its key operating systems on the complete line of new Power6-based Power Systems machines. With i 6.1 and Linux support coming on the Power 595 big box in September and October, respectively, the Power6 lineup will be completely rolled out. And now it is time to start cleaning up the product catalog a little.

And to that end, IBM announced last Tuesday that August 26 (the same day of the announcement) would

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After Olympics Success, Lenovo to Go Global with Servers

September 2, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

While companies in the Asia/Pacific region were familiar with the Lenovo desktop and laptop PC brand, the Chinese company did not really register on the radar of consumers and businesses in North America and Europe until Lenovo bought IBM‘s beleaguered PC business in 2004 for $1.25 billion. But the Lenovo name may get a little better known now that the company has successfully delivered the infrastructure to support the Beijing Olympics, including servers that the company is apparently getting ready to sell worldwide.

Lenovo has made and sold servers in its home Chinese market for years, but is predominantly

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IBM Partners with CloudShield for Network Security Blade Server

September 2, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

There is so much malware, spam, and other garbage running around the Internet these days that it is fair to say that the idea of anonymity expressed in the Internet Protocol was probably a bad choice. But, because the world runs on TCP/IP these days and we are not about to all be issued permanent IP addresses at birth, whether we are humans or servers, we are stuck trying to cope with the onslaught as best we can with various kinds of security products. IBM rolled out a new one last week.

The BladeCenter PN41 is a new kind of

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Infor Launches EMEA Channel Recruitment Drive

September 2, 2008 Dan Burger

Among the ERP software vendors with customers on the IBM System i hardware, no one tops Infor. The privately held company has more than 16,000 customers running its ERP LX (formerly SSA BPCS), ERP XA (formerly MAPICS), System 21 (formerly JBA), ERP A+ (formerly DP Solutions), and HCM Infinium (formerly Software 2000) software suites. Last week, the company announced plans for improving its channel partner network across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). The plan calls for the recruitment of new partners and the termination of underperforming partners currently on the team.

Two years ago, Infor’s channel partners

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BluePhoenix Sets 2008 Bar at 20 Percent Growth as Q2 Numbers Come In

September 2, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Legacy application modernization tool vendor BluePhoenix Solutions, a mainframe specialist that got into the midrange when it acquired ASNA last year, reported its financial results for the second quarter of 2008 and at the same time says that it expects business to be good through the rest of 2008, now that it has sold off its stake in Mainsoft.

In the quarter, BluePhoenix posted sales of just a smidgen over $23 million, up 20.1 percent over the second quarter of 2007. On a GAAP basis, the company had an operating loss in the quarter of $165,000, which was

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IBM Ditches i and AIX in U.S. Open Systems for Linux

September 2, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

There was a time when IBM took a lot of pride in supporting the IT needs of big sporting events like the Olympic Games and the U.S. Open, and it also used to try to showcase all of its key information systems as part of the overall solutions. IBM walked away from the Olympics IT sponsorship after the Barcelona games, but it still hosts the infrastructure for the U.S. Open tennis competition. The one big change at this year’s tennis tournament is that IBM is not only consolidating servers, but has ported all the applications, which do scoring and provide

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Automatic or Static Storage?

August 27, 2008 Susan Gantner

If you write RPG subprocedures, you should know about the differences between automatic and static storage. (If you don’t write subprocedures, shame on you!) I’ve found that many writers and/or users of subprocedures don’t fully understand the differences. So let’s start at the beginning.

By default, fields (i.e., stand-alone fields, data structures, arrays, etc.) defined inside a subprocedure (a.k.a. local fields) use automatic storage. This means that the storage doesn’t exist until the procedure is called and it is cleaned up when the procedure returns to its caller. Of course, since the storage goes away between calls to the procedure,

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Jetty: An Efficient, Easy to Manage Alternative to WebSphere

August 27, 2008 Mike Brown

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

In the past couple of years, I have talked with colleagues and read articles about the complexity of WebSphere and the resources it uses. There are alternatives to WebSphere when you need a Servlet or JSP container. Apache Tomcat is probably one of the better known competitors to WebSphere. However, I would like to introduce you to another one that is smaller, easier to manage, and just plain works: Jetty.

Introduction to Jetty

Jetty is an open source Web server–implemented in Java–that provides Servlet and JSP support,

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Admin Alert: Giving Auditors What They Want

August 27, 2008 Joe Hertvik

Many i5/OS administrators hate system audits the way dental patients hate getting their teeth filled: they despise it with all their might, but realize the process might be somewhat healthy and beneficial for their system. This week, I’m going to look at some common system auditor requests for i5/OS configurations and show you how to retrieve that information from a Power i, System i, iSeries, or AS/400 machine.

Default Passwords

Your auditor may request a list of all users who use default passwords. Default passwords occur when the user’s password is the same as his or her user ID name

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A Bumblebee for BI–Now That’s Just ‘Smart’

August 26, 2008 Alex Woodie

Domino got one (the original “Bumblebee”). JD Edwards, Linux, and the high availability vendors got theirs, too. We’re talking about dedicated System i hardware–or appliances, if you will. So why isn’t there a pre-integrated i OS bundle for business intelligence, one of the fastest growing application segments in IT? For whatever reason, that’s about to change, thanks to a group of IBM business partners in Southern California, who have teamed up to create the “Smart i.”

The idea of a dedicated server is not new at IBM, which has offered various flavors of the Power Systems server geared for different

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