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  • Admin Alert: Seven Things You Should Be Monitoring On Your System

    October 3, 2012 Joe Hertvik

    Last year, I wrote a two-part article outlining a basic plan for monitoring and answering IBM i error messages. But while it’s important to detect and answer error messages that require a response right now, it’s equally important to detect developing situations that will cause system problems if left alone. This week, I’ll discuss seven other things besides error messages that you should be monitoring for on your IBM i systems.

    The Basics

    For this article, let’s assume you are already using a system monitoring product to send out pager, email, or text alerts whenever an error message shows

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  • Alternatives To SQL Literals

    October 3, 2012 Ted Holt

    Literals have caused me grief on more than one occasion. Trying to figure out what a certain number or character literal means in a program has wasted too much of my time, and my time is more valuable to me than money. I have written about this topic before, but I have not talked about literals in SQL.

    The example I’ve chosen may not be the best one, since the ratio of pounds to kilograms never changes. I chose it because it’s one most people should be able to relate to. The article I just referred to covers the

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  • Debugging Server Jobs In Green Screen

    October 3, 2012 Susan Gantner

    A few years ago, I wrote a tip about my favorite way to debug programs using the Service Entry Point (SEP) feature of WDSC, which I have now replaced with RDP Rational Developer for Power Systems. If you’re a WDSC or RDP user and have somehow missed out on using SEPs for debugging, take a look at my tip.

    If you don’t use WDSC or RDP, you probably didn’t pay any attention to that tip. As it turns out, SEPs aren’t just for the graphical toolset. You can use SEPs with the traditional STRDBG “green screen” debugger as well.

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  • Some Things To Ponder On The Impending Power7+ Era

    October 2, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    Well, the Power7+ era of IBM‘s Power Systems family of servers and now its Pure Systems modular systems is nearly upon us. Or at least the beginning of the era is. It has been a long time since IBM refreshed an entire lineup of Power-based commercial systems from top to bottom, all in one fell swoop, and there is every reason to believe that IBM will have a staggered approach to the Power7+ rollout this time around, too.

    In fact, I wracked my brains, and I cannot think of when IBM last did such a rollout. Certainly not since

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  • LADWP Taps Fresche Legacy for RPG-to-.NET Conversion

    October 2, 2012 Alex Woodie

    The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has signed a contract with Fresche Legacy (formerly Speedware) to convert key real estate management and water quality monitoring applications from RPG to .NET so that they can run on X64-based Hewlett-Packard servers instead of Power-based IBM i servers.

    The LADWP is a major figure and a prognosticator in the western water wars of the last century. The city department owns vast swaths of land extending hundreds of miles north of Los Angeles into the Sierra Nevada mountains, and more importantly, the water rights that go with the land.

    Much of the

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  • STORServer Beefs Up its Backup Servers

    October 2, 2012 Alex Woodie

    As backup volumes grow, so too must the servers that drive the backups. To that end, backup appliance vendor STORServer last week announced upgrades to three of its product lines that will bring bigger, beefier hardware to bear on customers’ backup workloads.

    STORServer sells integrated appliances that include all the hardware and software needed to successfully back up one’s data. The Colorado Springs, Colorado, company’s offerings have a decidedly blue tint to them, in that it builds its appliances on IBM X64 servers and powers them with IBM’s Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) software. It also includes a nice management GUI

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  • Brooks Serves Print Streams to DocuWare ECM

    October 2, 2012 Alex Woodie

    Brooks Internet Software and DocuWare unveiled a partnership last week that will enable Brooks’ print driver software to serve output from hosts like IBM i, Unix, and mainframe servers into DocuWare’s enterprise content management (ECM) system.

    The Brooks-DocuWare partnership involves Brooks Remote Print Manager (RPM), a Line Printer Daemon (LPD) print server that provides more flexibility in the management and handling of the print output of IBM i, mainframe, HP3000, OpenVMS, Unix, and Linux servers. The Windows-based software is commonly used to convert print output from IBM formats, like SCS or AFPDS, to more standard formats like PCL and PDF,

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  • Storagepipe Shifts Focus to IBM Cloud Backup

    October 2, 2012 Alex Woodie

    Storagepipe Solutions last week announced it has launched a new “brand” that’s dedicated to cloud backup solutions for IBM servers, including IBM i, AIX, z/OS, and Linux machines. The branding change hints at new stuff to come from Storagepipe.

    Storagepipe has been providing online backup and recovery solutions for IBM i servers for more than 10 years. The Toronto, Ontario, company uses Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) infrastructure to back up IBM servers. It also provides business continuity services, server replication and failover services, and data- and e-mail-archiving solutions for IBM hosts, Windows, Unix, and VMware machines.

    The new brand doesn’t

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  • HTML5 Emulation Client Now GA from Cybele

    October 2, 2012 Alex Woodie

    Cybele Software last week announced the general availability (GA) of z/Scope Anywhere 7.0, a new version of its terminal emulator for accessing IBM i, zSeries, and Unix hosts from Web browsers. Version 7.0 boasts a complete rewrite in HTML5 and JavaScript, which will deliver consistent experiences across the myriad PCs, smartphones, and tablets that are in use today.

    HTML5 is the first new version of Hypertext Markup Language since HTML4 debuted way back in 1999. Obviously, a lot has changed since then, most notably the use of rich media and graphic capabilities in websites, and the rapid proliferation of handheld

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  • Joomla Now Optimized for Mobile Devices

    October 2, 2012 Alex Woodie

    Websites created with the latest version 3.0 release of the Joomla content management system should look the same whether they’re accessed from a smartphone, tablet, or PC. What’s more, the use of the Twitter Bootstrap is also expected to enforce greater internal consistency across Joomla extensions that power segments of individual websites. The update, which is free, gives IBM i shops another choice for delivering Web and mobile content from IBM i servers. Twitter Bootstrap is an open source framework of tools designed to make Web development faster and easier. The software, which was originally developed by the folks behind

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