• IBM Rejiggers V5 Rebate Deal, Includes PS Blades And Power7+ Entries

  March 25, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  With the entry Power7+ systems shipping and the PS7XX series of blades using Power7 chips being the last of their line, it comes as no surprise that IBM has tweaked an on-again, off-again Power7 rebate deal. The rebate deal aims to get customers using earlier generations of Power Systems iron with any of the releases in OS/400, i5/OS, IBM i V5 to move up to new Power7 iron and either IBM i 6.1 or 7.1. The last time this deal was updated was back in June 2012, when IBM put out a rule saying that with this rebate

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• Analytic Skills Is The Top Big Data Priority, Lavastorm Says

  March 25, 2013 Alex Woodie

  The concept of “big data” came into vogue a few years back as organizations began adopting new ways to deal with the increase in data volume, variability, and velocity. But according to a new survey conducted by toolmaker Lavastorm Analytics, the biggest analytics investments organizations are planning to make in the coming years are aimed at educating and training people, as a shortage in analytic skills looms. The term big data is fairly new, but the concept is not. By most accounts, the amount of data generated in world has been increasing at an exponential rate for quite a

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• IBM i Cloud Watch

  March 25, 2013 Dan Burger

  Who’s to say that small to midsize companies are ready to move their IT infrastructure off premise to the cloud where it will be managed by people on someone else’s payroll? I can name one person who would. His name is Jay Johnson and he’s vice president of managed services for Sirius Computer Solutions, IBM‘s largest business partner. His managed services program is built around Power Systems and is primarily focused on the IBM i user base. Last fall, Sirius rolled out a cloud computing program (part of, but separate from, managed services) because it thought the time

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• As I See It: All Things Big

  March 25, 2013 Victor Rozek

  Many years ago, 60 Minutes did a segment on the Israeli Air Force. At the time, the United States had just sold the Israelis a handful of our latest jet fighters and 60 Minutes wanted to see how Israeli pilots were using their new toys. Turns out they had made a number of low-tech modifications (some classified), which the Israelis believed would make the planes more user friendly. For one thing, they installed an inexpensive rear-view mirror so that the pilot could track enemy aircraft without turning his head. The reporter also asked about the vast array of gauges, flashing

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• Doin’ A Land Office Power7 Business Down In Texas

  March 25, 2013 Dan Burger

  It’s good to know when business is good. But you usually hear about it quicker (and louder and more often) when it’s not. Fortunately, when I want to know a little something about the IBM i business, there’s a guy in Texas I call. He always starts off by saying “my view of the world is pretty narrow.” And that’s a fact. But I always say something to the effect of “if the crumbs are good, chances are the cake is, too.” A lot of you folks know the Texan I’m talking about. His name is Doug Fulmer and he

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• One MSP’s Clear View Of The Future Of Cloud ERP

  March 25, 2013 Alex Woodie

  Tom Bruno understands cloud ERP better than you. After all, as the president and CEO of Velocity Technology Solutions, a managed service provider (MSP) based in New York City, it is his job to make sure his customers’ JD Edwards, Lawson, Kronos, and Hyperion applications run safely and securely in his private cloud. Bruno recently got on the telephone with IT Jungle to share his view of the future of private clouds and enterprise software’s place in them. Velocity runs ERP and other critical systems for more than 250 midsize to large companies out of five data centers

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• Midrange Power7+ Servers: Scaling Up Means Bring Your Checkbook

  March 25, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  We have spent several weeks walking you through the salient technical and economic characteristics of the new entry Power Systems machines using the new Power7+ processors from IBM. This week, it is time to take a run at those midrange Power 750+ and Power 760+ boxes that are based on the double-stuffed dual-chip modules, or DCMs, that are used to put more cores and threads in these boxes than Big Blue might otherwise not be able to deliver using regular single-chip module, or SCM, units that are used on the entry machines. If you want to review the feeds

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• Using Incremental IFS Backup To Speed Up Backup Time

  March 20, 2013 Hey, Joe

  Is there a trick to speeding up AS/400 Integrated File System (IFS) nightly backups? My nightly backups run over 300 minutes and 120 of those minutes are tied to the IFS backup, so it runs into production hours. Here’s the Save (SAV) command I’m using to backup the IFS. SAV DEV('/QSYS.LIB/TAP01.DEVD') OBJ(('/*') + ('/QSYS.LIB' *OMIT) ('/QDLS' *OMIT)) + SAVACT(*SYNC) ENDOPT(*UNLOAD) + UPDHST(*YES) DTACPR(*DEV) — C To cut down on IFS backup times, you can modify your backups to perform a full IFS backup once a week and an incremental backup the other nights of the week. Here’s how this works.

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• Using SQL Joins With Tree Structures

  March 20, 2013 Ted Holt

  Note: The code accompanying this article is available for download here. The reason tree structures are important to me is not that they are so numerous, but that I use them every day. I don’t write programs to process tree structures every day, but many of the programs I have written still run every day. For that reason, I must know fast ways to extract data from tree structures. One such method is the SQL join. This article is a rewrite of the topic “Efficient Database Retrieval” from my article Recursion and the Alternatives, which I wrote eight

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• Tips For Using RDP’s DDS Designer

  March 20, 2013 Susan Gantner

  In my Guru tip on the DDS Designer in Rational Developer for Power Systems, I showed you the basics of using the DDS Designer to create or maintain screens. A few changes have been made to the DDS Design tool in recent releases of RDP, and I’ve also had a bit more experience with it. So I decided it was time for an update on the topic. The most obvious change that has happened in recent releases is that the DDS Design perspective can now automatically be opened on a double-click of a DSPF or PRTF source member. You

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