• Golden Nugget Taps Agilysys to Supply Software for New Casino

  October 14, 2014 Alex Woodie

  A new Golden Nugget casino slated to open in December will be outfitted with more than 700 rooms, 1,600 slot machines, and an 18-hole golf course. It will also be served by at least one IBM i server running enterprise software from Agilysys. Situated about two hours east of Houston on the shore of Lake Charles, Louisiana, the new Golden Nugget Lake Charles is slated to be one of the country’s most luxurious casino resorts outside of the Las Vegas strip. The 242-acre complex will be the fifth Golden Nugget property, and represents a $600 million investment by the

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• City Touts PowerHA Install

  October 14, 2014 Alex Woodie

  The folks who work for the city of St. Charles, Illinois, asked themselves some tough questions recently. What would happen if the city were hit by a tornado or succumbed to some other disaster? The answers were not pretty, and led the city to adopt high availability software from IBM and a local business partner, IT Solutions Group. Like many municipalities around the country, St. Charles relies on an IBM i server to manage the business aspects of running a principality. The city’s electric, water, and sewer services are managed on an IBM i server. If the city was

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• BRMS Learns New Tricks

  October 14, 2014 Alex Woodie

  IBM is adding new capabilities to several existing commands in Backup, Recovery and Media Services (BRMS), the native backup facility included with IBM i. IBM made four enhancements to BRMS with last week’s announcement of IBM i 7.1 Technology Refresh 9 (TR9) and IBM i 7.2 TR1. According to IBM’s announcement letters, the enhancements include: During backup of integrated file system (IFS) objects, the Start Backup Using BRM (STRBKUBRM) command has been enhanced to automatically remount file systems after a backup is run for a control group The Print Report using BRM (PRTRPTBRM) command has been enhanced to support multiple

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• IBM Gives RDi 9.1.1 ‘Push to Client’ Feature

  October 14, 2014 Alex Woodie

  It will be easier for IBM i developers to share tool preferences with other members of their teams thanks to the new “push to client” feature that IBM announced last week with Rational Developer for i version 9.1.1. The new release of RDi becomes available in December. The new push to client capability in RDi 9.1.1 will allow a team of developers to share a set of standard preference and connection settings for the Eclipse-based development tool. According to IBM, a template that’s maintained on the server will enable developers to share a common set of preferences, connections, filters, and

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• Options Abound for IBM i Data Replication

  October 14, 2014 Alex Woodie

  As an IBM i system administrator, it’s your job to ensure that data in DB2 for i is available where it’s needed. No server is an island these days, not even the IBM i-based Power Systems servers, and so that means replicating data to external databases is a requirement. But what’s the best way to power data integration? Should you build it yourself or buy off the shelf? We’ll try to provide you some answers. At many organizations, the IBM i server might house the core ERP application and be the system of record, but there are plenty of other

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• Dropbox and IBM i: Love It Or Leave It?

  October 14, 2014 Alex Woodie

  There’s no doubt that Dropbox has become a pervasive tool of American consumers. But is it up to snuff when it comes to business data? Many IBM i software vendors say Dropbox represents a major security and compliance risk. But one vendor, Arpeggio Software, says Dropbox is no more dangerous than other cloud offerings and can safely be used. “I am amazed and frankly shocked at the number of IBM i software vendors who come out with anti-Dropbox positions instead of accepting the reality . . . Dropbox is here and it is pervasive,” Rich Brown, the CEO and

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• IBM Delivers Node.js Runtime to IBM i 7.1 and 7.2

  October 14, 2014 Alex Woodie

  Among the many announcements made by IBM last week was the revelation that it has built a Node.js runtime for the IBM i operating system. The move to adopt the cross-platform JavaScript framework is another indication that IBM is working to keep the platform current with the latest Web technologies. Node.js is essentially a framework designed to take some of the complexity out of building and running scalable, data-intensive Web applications. The framework was created in 2009 by Ryan Dahl, who was tired of the “request-response” paradigm that has characterized the Web and wanted Web apps with “push” capability, like

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• IBM Navigator for i Increases Web and Mobile Effort

  October 14, 2014 Dan Burger

  Along with the Technology Refresh announcements for IBM i 7.2 and 7.1 last week came enhancements for IBM‘s Navigator for i, the integrated, Web-based console that handles systems management tasks. Navigator is available in a client version as well as a Web version, but IBM has made it clear the Web is the way of the future. That strategic direction is not new. It’s where you’ll find the product enhancements. For those introduced to the Web-based version of Navigator as far back as the debut of IBM i 6.1, that ugly duckling is on its way to becoming a

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• Integration Not The Least Of IBM i Mobile Challenges

  October 13, 2014 Dan Burger

  Organizations everywhere come under heavy criticism for failing to have mobile application projects lined up like ducks on a pond. The folks with the pitch forks and torches outside the IT castle include the C-level transformational business types, the marketing miracle makers, and the human resources employee self-service advocates. Meanwhile, inside the IT department, there are application development teams wrestling with problems such as integrating front-end systems of engagement with backend systems of records, keeping data secure in a mobile world, and managing the boatload of mobile devices that workers, customers and business partners have at their disposal. Phil Buckellew,

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• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 Tuned Up For Power8

  October 13, 2014 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  SUSE Linux, the German-American distributor of commercial-grade Linux operating systems that will soon be part of Micro Focus, is getting up to launch its much-awaited SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 operating system. And the Power8 machines from IBM are the first boxes that are being talked about running the updated Linux. In announcement letter 214-378, IBM said that it was tuning up SLES 12 to run on the Linux-only variants of the Power8 scale-out servers sporting the PowerKVM V2.1.1 hypervisor. At the moment, when SLES 12 ships for Power-based machines on October 27, IBM is only supporting

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