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  • Big Data Gets Easier to Handle With IBM i TR7

    October 14, 2013 Alex Woodie

    IBM i shops are struggling to adapt to big data, just like organizations that use other types of servers to store their data. Whether it is email messages, social media posts, or a sequential list of invoices dating back to 1978, you will find it squirreled away inside of some DB2 for i database, somewhere. Keeping up with the growing volume of data sets should be easier as a result of the enhancements IBM will deliver next month with IBM i 7.1 Technology Refresh 7 (TR7).

    The IBMers in Rochester refer to the really big databases using the acronym VLDB,

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  • Oh, Ruby! What You Do To Me (On Rails)

    October 14, 2013 Dan Burger

    Why would an RPG programmer have any interest in a language called Ruby and an architectural framework called Rails? I dunno. Why does anyone go where he or she has never been before? Because it sounds like fun, appeals to a sense of adventure, and holds some degree of promise (like Web programming, for instance)? If you haven’t stopped for a look at Ruby on Rails, there’s no better time than the present.

    Why now? For one reason, because IBM just announced support for Ruby as part of the Technology Refresh 7 for IBM i. Ruby is on the

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  • Little Linux Pricing On Big Power Systems Iron

    October 14, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    In case you haven’t noticed, IBM thinks that getting customers to put their Linux workloads onto Power Systems is going to reverse the sales decline for the platform. That decline has more to do with all flavors of Unix falling out of favor compared to Windows and Linux in the data centers of the world with the exception of very large workloads, usually databases, and the relatively high prices that Unix system vendors charge for their iron.

    In a way, Unix is the new proprietary platform and Linux is the lower-priced upstart, echoing the situation when Unix first became tame

    … Read more
  • Admin Alert: A Primer For Setting Up PC5250 SSL Connectivity, Part 1

    October 9, 2013 Joe Hertvik

    To better secure your IBM i Access for Windows connections (Access for Windows), you may be required to encrypt your PC5250 Telnet sessions using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption. If you need SSL encryption for your PC5250 setups, here’s a primer for setting up your IBM i and PC clients to communicate via SSL certificates.

    The Overview

    Setting up Telnet SSL connectivity between your PCs and your IBM i partition requires you to perform the following configuration steps in your IBM i Digital Certificate Manager (DCM), your network, and on your PCs running IBM i Access for Windows.

    On your

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  • Anita’s SQL Tips

    October 9, 2013 Ted Holt

    I derive great satisfaction when something I say benefits someone else. Call me selfish, but I derive as much or more satisfaction when something someone else says benefits me. A case in point occurred when I spoke about SQL recently at the COMMON 2013 Fall Conference and Expo in St. Louis. Anita Corcoran, of StoneMor Partners, in Levittown, Pennsylvania, greatly honored me by coming to hear what I had to say. She shared an SQL tip that I had seen before and forgotten. Today I pass along to you that tip and a few other tips she emailed me.

    1.

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  • Open Access Handles The Queue

    October 9, 2013 Jon Paris

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

    In my previous tip I introduced you to an RPG Open Access (OA) handler that facilitated writing to a data queue using conventional WRITE operations. As you saw, from the programmer’s perspective they were writing to a disk file. The only difference was that the F-spec included the HANDLER keyword to instruct RPG that the handler was to perform all of the actual I/O operations. This time I am going to describe its companion handler–one that reads from data queues.

    Design Considerations

    When we write a program that

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  • MVP Systems Ships JAMS Version 6

    October 8, 2013 Alex Woodie

    MVP Systems Software is now shipping Job Access Management System (JAMS) version 6, a new version of its cross-platform enterprise job scheduler for IBM i and other environments. The new version gives customers better views into the execution of jobs running across their enterprises.

    JAMS is a .NET product that runs on Windows servers. Most of MVP’s 800 or so customers use the software to manage jobs on Windows servers. However, the software can also be used to control and coordinate jobs executing on IBM i, Unix, Linux, and OpenVMS servers. The company has supported an IBM i agent since

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  • IBM Decides to Give Decision Engine an Update

    October 8, 2013 Alex Woodie

    Some decisions made during the course of business are critical, and should only come from the executive suite after careful deliberation. However, for every important decision, there are a hundred less important decisions that need to be made, which need not ever touch a human’s brain, especially if one has IBM‘s Operational Decision Manager (ODM) keeping an eye on things.

    ODM is a Java-based automated decision management engine that has been in the IBM software collection since IBM acquired ILOG in 2008 for $340 million. Before being given the boring and descriptive ODM name, the software went by WebSphere

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  • TMW Unveils New Web Version of IBM i-Based TL2000 Trucking App

    October 8, 2013 Alex Woodie

    TMW Systems last month took the wraps off a swath of new products during its annual user conference in Anaheim, California. Among the new products unveiled was a new edition of its core IBM i-based dispatching application called TL2000 Web Edition, which was developed using technology from Profound Logic. The company also updated its TMWSuite and TruckMate dispatching apps, and shipped new releases of its routing and business intelligence solutions.

    For better or for worse, 5250 green screens are synonymous with IBM i ERP systems. But with the launch of TMW’s TL2000 Web Edition, even old-school trucking firms will

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  • AURA’s Launcher Certified on SAP

    October 8, 2013 Alex Woodie

    The Launcher/i suite of document management software from AURA Equipements has been certified to work with SAP applications, AURA announced earlier this year.

    Launcher/i is the latest version of AURA’s document management software for IBM i. The software takes spool file output from business applications and applies templates to it, for the purpose of extracting specific data from it or adding graphical elements, such as company logos or barcodes. The software also enables customers to distribute it via email or fax; convert it into Office, PDF, or HTML formats; or print out a hard copy.

    In July, AURA announced that

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