• Round Three of IBM i Predictions for 2016

  January 20, 2016 Alex Woodie

  The one constant in this universe is change, and the IBM i business is no different. The server platform is now in its fourth decade of service, counting go back to the System/3 days, and the pace of technological change in the business IT sector demands agility at many levels. In our third and final installment of our annual IBM i predictions, we have predictions from five IBM i pros about the changes we can expect this year. Bob Langieri director of IT recruiting at Excel Technical Services “I continue to see a slow but demeaning departure of some longtime

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• Micro Focus Debuting Native 5250 Emulator for iOS

  January 20, 2016 Alex Woodie

  IT pros who want to access an IBM i server directly from their iPad or iPhone will soon have another way to do that thanks to Micro Focus, which is rolling out a new 5250 emulator that runs natively on iOS devices. The new product, which IT Jungle has learned will be called Reflection for TN3270 and TN5250, will be available soon from the Apple App Store for less than $50 per device. Micro Focus is arguably the largest provider of terminal emulation software outside of IBM itself. The company acquired NetManage and its popular RUMBA (nee, Rumba) product

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• Carbonite Nabs EVault to Build One-Stop DR Shop for SMB Masses

  January 20, 2016 Alex Woodie

  Carbonite is buying the EVault data protection business from Seagate for $14 million in cash, the companies announced last month. While the deal marks a nearly 10x decline in valuation for EVault, the folks at Carbonite are clearly happy to get their hands on EVault’s disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) business, which it sees pairing up nicely with its existing products for small businesses and consumers. EVault began developing its online data protection business way back at the dawn of the commercial Internet in 1997. By backing up its clients’ data over the Web to centrally located servers, the

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• Where Do Those IBM i Machines Work?

  January 18, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  We may live in a big data world, but a lot of the data is not worth the magnetic media it is stored on. This is particularly true when it comes to the IBM i installed base, which used to be more aggressively diced and sliced by the big IT market researchers of the world back it was called the AS/400 and when it had a $14 billion ecosystem across hardware, software, and services. But we do what we can in a world without much data about our ecosystem, and that is one of the reasons why IT Jungle has

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• Mad Dog 21/21: Toasting Savonarola

  January 18, 2016 Hesh Wiener

  From the 13th into the 18th century, except for an interlude beginning in 1494, the Medici family dominated Florence and surrounding Tuscany. That exceptional 18-year interval began as Girolamo Savonarola, a Dominican monk, spearheaded a dramatic reform movement. The epitome of Savonarola’s campaign was the spectacular burning of valuables deemed tokens of sinful self-indulgence: bonfires of the vanities. Savonarola irritated many powerful people, including the Pope. Ultimately, he was tortured, convicted of heresy, publicly hanged and burned. Since then, inspired reformers in politics and commerce have often chosen to tread lightly, even at decorous

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• Profound Survey Adds To ‘Why i Matters’ Discussion

  January 18, 2016 Dan Burger

  Shock therapy was once considered to be a cure for a variety of disorders. It’s generally not thought of as something that applies to executives of organizations that run mission critical applications on IBM i. But maybe that’s about to change. For the second consecutive week, IT Jungle is reporting the results of a survey that delivers insights into the IBM midrange community that, when it finds its way to the C-level offices, may result in positive behavior modification. Profound Logic, one of the leading application development tool vendors in the IBM i community, shared a glimpse at a

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• 2016 Predictions for IBM i: Round Two

  January 18, 2016 Alex Woodie

  Last week, we ran our first roundup of 2016 predictions from various CEOs and other prominent members of the IBM i community (see “2016 Predictions For IBM i: Cautious Optimism”). As promised, here we go for a second round, which continues the optimistic note, for both the platform and the community as a whole. Jim Oberholtzer, CEO at Agile Technology Architects “I think the biggest play for IBM in the new year will be the open source movement on Power, and specifically on IBM i. IBM has been laying the groundwork for a major push in those technologies

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• The Data-Centric Depiction Of IBM i

  January 18, 2016 Dan Burger

  You have data. You’ve been collecting it in pretty much the same fashion for years. The only thing that has changed is you have more of it. But are you getting more out of it? I’m not talking about data analytics. The world doesn’t need another person talking about data analytics. This is about improving business information integration and the role IBM‘s DB2 for i has played and will play in the future. Data-centric development is not a new concept. It hovers in the background of the IBM i roadmap, but is maybe the most critical element to the

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• SQL Paging With Limit And Offset In DB2 For i

  January 12, 2016 Michael Sansoterra

  LIMIT and OFFSET are two new query options that will please every developer who builds user interfaces (UI) involving potentially large result sets. Handling UI queries that return a large number of rows can be annoying as they may take too long to process, create heavy network traffic, and require a web or desktop client to cache the result set. Further, it’s unlikely a user will review all the rows! But what if DB2 returns only what is needed by giving back one slice of the entire result set on demand? This is where the new LIMIT and OFFSET features

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• Throw Away Old Summary Query Techniques

  January 12, 2016 Ted Holt

  It’s a new year! Out with the old! In with the new! That exhortation applies not only to everyday life, but also to the ways we write SQL queries. Let me show you two ways we used to have to write summary queries and two new ways that are better. First, we need a database to query. Here’s a table of customers. ID Name === ===================== 101 J. Cheever Loophole 102 Otis B. Driftwood 103 Quincy Adams Wagstaff 104 Rufus T. Firefly And here’s a table of shipments. ID CUSTOMER ITEM QUANTITY PRICE === ======== ====== ======== ===== 1 102

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