• Systems And Strategy Execs Switch Roles At Big Blue

  May 6, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Ginni Rometty is not cleaning house after a particularly unprofitable–and surprisingly so–first quarter for its Systems and Technology Group. But just after The Four Hundred went on hiatus at the end of April, IBM‘s CEO and chairman announced that she was swapping the roles of two executives who are long familiar to the OS/400 and IBM i community. The executives who are swapping desks are Rod Adkins, who has been running Systems and Technology Group for the past couple of years, and Tom Rosamilia, who used to work for Adkins as general manager of the System z business and

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• Infor Exudes Total Confidence At Annual User Confab

  May 6, 2013 Alex Woodie

  Infor let its customers and competitors know that it means business at the Inforum 2013 conference in Orlando, Florida. At the show, the privately held company highlighted its impressive growth, demonstrated the new products it shipped since last year’s show, and set a high bar with a new line of offerings that ranges from the new consumer-grade SoHo user interface and Twitter-like Ming.le feed, to new cloud offerings with IBM and Amazon‘s RedShift, and another IBM i product acquisition, just for good measure. On the stage at the Inforum 2013 opening session on April 23, the Infor brain trust

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• IBM Launches Extended Support For i5/OS V5R4

  May 6, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Not only is i5/OS V5R4 a rugged operating system in terms of its stability and reliability, but it is also one of the most long-lived operating systems in the history of computing. While regular Software Maintenance (SWMA) support for V5R4 expires on September 30 this year, IBM has, as promised, announced an extended SWMA support offering for V5R4 for customers who cannot, for whatever reason, get onto a newer IBM i 6.1 or 7.1 release by the end of September. In announcement letter 613-004, IBM introduced Service Extension for i5/OS V5R4, offers Software Maintenance support starting on October 1,

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• Admin Alert: Six Things To Do Before Switching Production Processing To Your CBU

  May 1, 2013 Joe Hertvik

  Switching production processing to an IBM i Capacity BackUp (CBU) system involves more than just running the High Availability (HA) software commands that initiate the switch. It also involves preparing your source and target machines to switch places, so that data is correctly replicated and you can confidently run production processing on your CBU. Today, I’ll describe six steps you can take to ensure a smooth CBU switch over. Setting The Stage This article lists out tasks you should consider adding to your HA run book to produce the best results when switching production processing to an IBM i CBU

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• Odds and Ends

  May 1, 2013 Ted Holt

  It’s been awhile since we had an issue of odds and ends. Today seems like a good day for it. I hope you find something of benefit here. Hey, Ted: I tried to use the sed command in a CL program to replace [ with [n (newline). I tried many ways to get it to work. I finally gave up and used tr to translate from [ to n. I was really hoping to keep the bracket. When running Qshell commands in a CL procedure, how can you force a continuation line for a sed command? How can you insert

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• Copy Source Members Between Systems Without FTP

  May 1, 2013 Bob Cozzi

  Moving source code between systems is critical in a multi-system environment. Using save/restore is one way to accomplish this task, but not everyone has save/restore authority. Using FTP is another popular way to move one or more source members between systems, but the downside is that the SRCSEQ and SRCDAT fields are thrown out. Only the SRCDTA field is sent, similar to sending a plain ASCII text file. Maybe I’m late to the party, but I found a better way. The better way is one of those things that causes me to think that I must be the last person

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• Cloudy And HANA In-Memory Apps Lift SAP In Q1

  April 23, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  German software giant SAP is feeling pretty good about its growth in the first quarter selling software and the fact that it was able to push up profits nearly two and a half times faster than revenue growth in the period that ended in March. Specifically, SAP said that in the first quarter, its revenues rose by 7 percent to €3.6 billion, with profits after taxes using generally accepted international accounting standards up 17 percent to €520 million. And that was during a time when SAP added nearly 5,200 employees, to a workforce of 64,598. In the March quarter, SAP

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• IBM Chops Disk Prices For Storwize V7000 And Flex System Clone

  April 22, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  If you have not yet gotten the message that IBM wants enterprise customers running distributed applications to give serious consideration to using its FlexSystem iron, a price cut announced last week will demonstrate it for you. In announcement letter 313-031, IBM said that it was chopping prices for disk drives and flash drives used in both the Storwize V7000 disk array and in the FlexSystem V7000 enclosure that slides into the FlexSystem modular chassis announced last year. The price cuts range from 9.5 percent to 22.3 percent, depending on the device. But as you can see below, the pricing

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• IBM Does Web Query Deal Down Under

  April 22, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  It has been a year since IBM launched version 2.1 of its Web Query for IBM i follow-on to the ancient Query/400 ad-hoc query tool for the operating system we all love that runs on Power Systems. That 2.1 release split Web Query into Express and Standard Editions and shifted to per-core pricing from a very complex set of priced features you needed a PhD in IBM marketing to understand. (Sorry, I only have a master’s degree.) Last week, IBM announced a Web Query for IBM i promotion deal for both Australia and New Zealand that gives customers who buy

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• More Candles On The IBM i Cake

  April 22, 2013 Dan Burger

  With all the noise about the consumerization of IT, can we just turn down the volume on that a bit so we can actually hear ourselves think about what businesses really need? Let’s have a discussion about real business needs and what separates one computing system from another. The IBM i platform is designed for business. That’s not just a marketing slogan. It’s backed up with 25 years of experience in the business world–the real world. As you most likely know, IBM is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the IBM i operating system. This is an on-going celebration that officially

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