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  • SQL PL–The FOR Loop

    November 1, 2016 Ted Holt

    SQL PL has four looping structures. The most useful one, to my way of thinking, is the FOR structure. It is different from–and more powerful than–the RPG FOR op code, and it’s easy to learn and use. Here’s how it works.

    FOR iterates over a read-only result set and terminates when there are no more rows to process. Think of a FOR loop as a read-only cursor without the messiness of OPEN, FETCH, and CLOSE. Let me illustrate with a stored procedure.

    create or replace Procedure Billing (in p_BillingCycle dec(3))
    for One_Customer as
       select c.AccountNumber
         from customers as c 
        where 
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  • IBM i Access Client Solutions For Database

    November 1, 2016 Paul Tuohy

    If you are an SQL user, you need to get your hands on IBM i Access Client Solutions. After some false starts, it looks as if IBM is heading in the right direction again when it comes to providing tools to help us develop and use SQL. I want to take you through some of the highlights of the database functions of IBM i Access Client Solutions.

    Some Background

    Over the last few years, trying to find the right tools for the SQL developer has been quite a challenge. There were Run SQL Scripts in System i Navigator, the

    … Read more
  • Questions Arise Over IBM’s New Cloud Backup for IBM i

    October 31, 2016 Alex Woodie

    IBM raised some eyebrows with the recent release of its Cloud Storage Solutions for i, which enables IBM i shops to back up and archive DB2 and IFS data to its SoftLayer cloud. Much of the initial feedback to IBM’s first native cloud solution for IBM i was positive. But some IBM business partners are already questioning whether the solution will be actually useful for customers as it now stands.

    Cloud Storage Solutions for i was a part of IBM’s big October 11 announcement for IBM i 7.3 Technology Refresh 1 (TR1) and 7.2 TR5. The software, which carries product

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  • As I See It: Paying To Play

    October 31, 2016 Victor Rozek

    It was Fitzgerald who is credited with making what is surely one of the more self-evident observations in history. Namely that “the rich are different from you and me.” To which Hemmingway supposedly replied, “yeah, they have more money.” It didn’t actually happen that way, but small matter. The exchange–more literary than conversational–stuck in the popular imagination.

    Different though they may be, the rich have the same essential needs as their less affluent brethren. Like the rest of us they crave connection, but that craving is informed by a fear of being taken advantage of. That, in brief, is the

    … Read more
  • The Time And Tech Are Right For Online Backups

    October 31, 2016 Dan Burger

    Logically, tape backups shouldn’t be as popular as they are. The process is cumbersome and hardly aligned with the accelerating pace of IT capabilities and business decision making. When you factor in the recovery time for most companies that rely on tape, the logic becomes twisted. Even with automation, shorter backup windows, multi-platform complexity, and regulatory compliance combine to push the question of whether tape is reasonable, in spite of its widespread popularity.

    The online, service-based, backup alternative has been in place for almost 30 years with many improvements during that time. Internet connectivity, CPU capacity, data compression, encryption, and

    … Read more
  • VAI Pours Business Intelligence Into Midmarket ERP

    October 31, 2016 Dan Burger

    During the past several years, VAI has rerouted its ERP software roadmap with a modernization plan that included Web and mobile development, cloud-based managed services, and now business intelligence analytics. At the company’s user conference last week in New Orleans, it provided a peek at the BI component in S2K Version 6, which is in the hands of a few customers now and is expected to be generally available in Q1 2017.

    VAI’s S2K software is running core business applications in approximately 1,500 IBM midrange shops, primarily in the distribution, manufacturing, and retail industries. The privately owned and family operated

    … Read more
  • IBM’s Power Systems Stalls A Bit As Power8 Wanes

    October 31, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    With the Power9 chips slated for some time in the second half of next year, and the Power8 systems not being upgraded with a formal Power8+ variant, it is not surprise to us that sales of Power Systems iron based on the Power8 chip that launched in April 2014 are waning. It is the nature of every product cycle to have its ramp, its peak, and its slide. The slide is just a way to extract profits, with the ease of sales and improving yields on chips compensating for the fact that Big Blue has to discount more to move

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  • Knowing Node

    October 24, 2016 Dan Burger

    Node.js is not just one of many open source components that are riding in the IBM i bus these days. It is the one that is most talked about these days. There are many notable IBM i open source passengers on the bus including, the Apache web server, Java, PHP, MySQL, Ruby, Python, and Perl. IBM has done a good job making the platform less proprietary. But Node.js is the one to watch.

    If you haven’t been introduced to Node.js, the first thing to know is that it is mostly referred to as Node. The .js, which is a reminder

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  • Mad Dog 21/21: Achilles And The iPhone

    October 24, 2016 Hesh Wiener

    In the 5th century BC, a Greek philosopher named Zeno invented clever, paradoxical puzzles. In the most famous, he argues that swift Achilles, racing a turtle that has been given a very modest lead, can never catch that torpid tortoise. Twenty-one centuries later, two geniuses simultaneously and independently used Zeno’s view of infinity and the infinitesimal to create calculus. It took another 500 years for Steve Jobs’s magnificent iPhone to newly define the infinite as Apple sold more than a billion devices, spawned a trillion dollar business, and inspired new forms of social and economic organization.

    Zeno’s inspirational

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  • Cross-Platform Development Targets Code Management

    October 24, 2016 Dan Burger

    The IBM i platform has a reputation that is both good and bad. It is powerful, dependable, securable, manageable, but highly proprietary. Being proprietary means the system and the people who support it on often on their own island. That wasn’t a problem for many years and some shops can still live with that. For others, the “doesn’t play well with others” description doesn’t cut it any more. So IBM is working to change that.

    You probably noticed. Going from proprietary to open is not a quick fix. But compared to the days when almost everything in enterprise computing was

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