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  • As I See It: Eight Years From Now

    September 22, 2014 Victor Rozek

    “What’s next?” It’s a question best left to deities and fortunetellers because our current pace of change tends to pour havoc on the prediction business. These days stability, to the degree it exists at all, is of the high-wire variety, always vulnerable to the next gust of wind. Even the near future can be elusive since drastic changes often occur in modest timeframes. Someone observing the American scene in this century, for example, might well be surprised to find how quickly social media came to dominate the collective consciousness. Or, for that matter, that Janay Palmer actually married Ray Rice.

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  • Where Have All The IBM i ISVs Gone?

    September 22, 2014 Alex Woodie

    American-style capitalism is a rough-and-tumble sport where new markets and businesses are seemingly created out of thin air, and disappear just as easily. The IBM‘s midrange marketplace, as a whole, has been remarkably resilient to change. But the list of vendors that have gone out of business or been acquired is long and getting longer every year, and today we’re likely down to fewer than 1,000 vendors.

    There usually isn’t a lot of fanfare when a company goes out of business. No press releases are issued after the money has run out, and CEOs aren’t eager to get on

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  • Micro Focus Acquires Attachmate, Builds Software Powerhouse

    September 22, 2014 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    Two software powerhouses with extensive software portfolios aimed at proprietary IBM systems are coming together with Micro Focus shelling out $1.2 billion and assuming a bunch of debt to acquire Attachmate. The combination will create a software giant with just under $1.4 billion in sales and 34,000 customers between the two of them.

    Micro Focus, which is perhaps best known for its COBOL application development tools, is oddly enough the smaller of the two companies, so it might seem unusual for Micro Focus to be doing the buying. But it was always assumed that the private equity owners who

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  • IBM i Modernization Gets A Fresche-look

    September 22, 2014 Dan Burger

    Fresche Legacy is making a name for itself in the IBM midrange business. Today the company announced it is acquiring looksoftware, one of several successful third-party application development tool vendors. The transaction creates a unique modernization-focused company. One year ago, Fresche Legacy purchased Databorough, a company with strong database technology. What’s taking shape is a company with an expanded modernization strategy designed to help companies solve modernization puzzles.

    The marriage of application modernization and database modernization is something new for the IBM i software community, where application modernization has gained a foothold while database modernization struggled for attention.

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  • Restoring Passwords & Private Authorities When Using RSTUSRPRF

    September 17, 2014 Hey, Joe

    Restoring Passwords & Private Authorities When Using RSTUSRPRF

    Thanks for your nice article on copying user profiles between IBM i systems. I wanted to add that I copied a profile between systems and got this system message.

    CPC3713 - &2 &1 restored without password or group linkage
    

    I fixed it by adding the Security Data parameter to the Restore User Profile (RSTUSRPRF) command. I’m running IBM i 6.1.

    –Avraham

    Here’s what happened with Avraham’s system and how it affects user profile restores.

    When moving user profiles between systems, IBM has two scenarios for restoring passwords and private authorities for

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  • Share And Share Alike With RSE

    September 17, 2014 Susan Gantner

    In my last tip, Decisions, Decisions: Templates Or Snippets?, I discussed taking advantage of both Templates and Snippets. They are used to make life simpler when including small pieces of code that might otherwise be copied from another source member somewhere or, worse yet, rewritten from scratch over and over again.

    Once you’ve created a few templates and/or snippets, your fellow developers may ask you to share the wealth. So how do you do that? There are Import and Export options for both Snippets and Templates. They work a bit differently, however.

    Remember that Templates are created via the

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  • Bash Is Not A Shell Game

    September 17, 2014 Aaron Bartell

     It is interesting to observe where the IBM i side of IBM invests its resources. The operating system and database get a whole lot of investment, but the native application layer seemingly not nearly as much.

    Why? Because I don’t believe they see a viable future for modern applications being written in timely fashion with the likes of RPG. If that is true then what future does the platform have? The PASE environment on IBM i is the remaining hope for the operating system to live in the realm of modernity. Why? Because that’s where modern things are being ported

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  • IBM Broadens European Power Systems ISV Promotion

    September 15, 2014 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    A deal that IBM created for its Power Systems customers and software partners earlier this year for its Europe, Middle East, and Africa region has been extended to include new Power8 iron.

    The original deal came out in January, and it is called the 2014 Power ISV Solution Connection Program. As the name suggests, it gives business partner and system integrator companies rebates that range from $500 to $3,000 if they work with application software providers to close deals running on Power Systems iron. The deal was updated in announcement letter ZA14-1004, and it gives bigger rebates to

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  • Will IBM Get Its ‘i’ Back After Apple Ditches Letter?

    September 15, 2014 Alex Woodie

    Apple’s big launch last week delivered the expected goodies, including the new Apple Watch and Apple Pay. But there was also something missing–namely, the letter “i.” The company is dropping the “i” from new products as part of CEO Tim Cook’s strategy to begin a new era for the company. But will the move give IBM the headroom it needs to finally begin heavily marketing its venerable IBM i platform before it’s too late?

    The “i” has been a staple of Apple products since it launched iTunes and iPod in 2001. The ninth letter was heavily featured in Apple’s 2007

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  • IT Budgets Increasing; Outsourcing Doesn’t Keep Pace

    September 15, 2014 Dan Burger

    I was surprised to hear that companies are increasingly inclined to invest in internal IT operations, including hiring more permanent staff, than to outsource tasks to off-premise providers. This information comes in the form of a survey and study conducted by Computer Economics, a company well known for its analysis of the IT industry. When comparing outsourcing as a percentage of IT budgets, 2014 shows a lower percentage than any of the past five years. Spending on outsourcing is averaging 10.2 percent of total IT spending this year. That’s a slim decline from 10.6 percent in 2013 and a

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