• IBM Lets You Take PureSystems For A Spin On SmartCloud

  July 9, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  The new PureSystem modular and hybrid systems from IBM are both familiar and different at the same time, and will require a little tire kicking before customers are comfortable making the switch from standalone machines to converged boxes. That’s why IBM is offering trial capacity for 90 days to customers who want to take PureSystems out for a spin. The offer, which you can sign up for here at IBM’s developerWorks development web site, was quietly announced on June 1 as a beta program and is available in 59 countries around the world spanning all geographies. The PureSystems are back-ending

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• IBM Goes BYOD With VDI

  July 9, 2012 Alex Woodie

  As business computing workloads are being moved from on-premise locations into the “cloud,” it begs the question: What happens to the personal computing environments that people rely on to access legacy client/server applications? Many cloud apps can be accessed directly from a Web browser, but some apps still require a full client running under a Windows or Linux operating system. In June, IBM announced a new virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution aimed at bridging the gap between client/server apps and the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) revolution. Organizations today face a two-pronged challenge of meeting the modern BYOD mandate while simultaneously keeping a

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• As I See It: The Visionary

  July 9, 2012 Victor Rozek

  He was a world-class marathon runner, but he is not known for that. He was a defender of human rights, but neither is he known for that. He is better remembered for having shortened a long and terrible war, and for being an originator of the field that remade the world in the last half-century. That field is computer science, and his name is Alan Turing. Yet given his many achievements and with everything to live for, why then did he commit suicide at the age of 42? Turing was a child of the British Empire. His father was a

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• IBM i Marketing Plans Get The iManifest Touch

  July 9, 2012 Dan Burger

  Boosting the public image of the IBM i operating system is a pretty steep mountain to climb. It is widely misunderstood, often mischaracterized, and repeatedly underestimated by those who are less familiar with it than they are with nuclear fusion. Any faithful follower of the IT Jungle publications knows about iManifest and how the Japanese have used it for brand-specific promotions while it has remained bed-ridden in the United States and the European, Middle East, and Africa markets. Well, look who just got out of bed. It’s iManifest EMEA. What have they done? They’ve come up with a focused plan

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• Help/Systems Buys Safestone To Boost Power Systems Security

  July 9, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  System management, security, and database query software maker Help/Systems has been on an acquisition tear for the past six years, and has done it again with a deal to buy British security software maker Safestone Technologies. The Safestone buy marks the third acquisition by Help/Systems in the past 13 months and demonstrates that the company is serious about extending from its IBM i base out to AIX and Linux platforms. Safestone has offices in the Yorkshire burg of Sheffield and in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, west of London. Like PowerTech and Bytware, two formerly independent security companies that were acquired

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• Some Insight Into Those Future Power7+ Processors

  July 9, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  A few weeks ago, I told you that IBM was getting ready to start talking about its future Power7+ and System zNext processors at the Hot Chips conference at the end of August. Like you, I am an impatient sort when it comes to getting some insight into future processors from any vendor, and I like to poke around and see what I can find out about these chips as soon as possible because it is interesting and useful to know as much as possible as soon as possible. I like rummaging around the Internet for processor roadmaps and such

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• HiT Software Takes DBMoto To the Cloud

  July 6, 2012 Alex Woodie

  HiT Software last week unveiled a cloud version of DBMoto, its data replication and change data capture (CDC) software. The new product uses Web services to keep disconnected databases refreshed or in sync with other databases, using the cloud for transport. DB2/400 is supported by the software, as are 20 other databases. Organizations are increasingly adopting cloud-based applications to address their data processing needs, particularly in areas such as CRM, sales force automation, human resources, and reporting and analytics. However, the cloud model has introduced new challenges for customers who run the most critical ERP and financial applications on their

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• Admin Alert: Finding TCP/IP Interface History And More On The NetServer GO Nets Installation Library

  June 27, 2012 Joe Hertvik

  For this week’s column, here’s some interesting information I found about discovering the history of your TCP/IP interfaces and how to retrieve the QUSRTOOL library for installing the IBM i NetServer GO NETS menu discussed in last week’s column. Displaying The History Of Your IBM i TCP/IP Interfaces If you’re on i 6.1 or above, here’s an easy way to determine when and how your TCP/IP interfaces were last started or stopped. You can do this by looking at the job log history of the TCP/IP control job, QTCPWRK (formerly named QTCPIP in V5R4Mx and below). Whenever TCP/IP

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• Another Way To Skin A Generic Cat

  June 27, 2012 Hey, Ted

  I am writing in response to your recent article, Add Powerful Generic Processing to Your Applications, regarding generic processing. I have another, simpler technique that you should share with my fellow readers of Four Hundred Guru. –D D’s technique is to use the Remove Link (RMVLNK) command. Here’s the example he (she?) gave me: RMVLNK OBJLNK('/qsys.lib/dug*.devd') This command deletes device descriptions with names that begin with DUG. Notice that RMVLNK requires objects to be specified in the IFS naming convention. You may use RMVLNK or its two aliases, DEL and ERASE, for objects other than libraries. For libraries,

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• Protect Your Intellectual Property: Obfuscate DB2 For i Source Code

  June 27, 2012 Michael Sansoterra

  Every “old timer” IBM i developer knows about the compiler option to include or exclude source statements within an OPM or ILE program. The CL compilers even have an option to allow CL source to be retrieved from the Retrieve CL Source (RTVCLSRC) command. While high-level language programmers can decide whether or not to include source statements with their objects, DB2 SQL developers had no such option because anyone could use a tool like iNavigator to retrieve the SQL source. Thanks to the IBM i 7.1 technology refresh 4 update, SQL developers now have the option to obfuscate their

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