• Key Info Wins Award for IBM i Video

  April 25, 2012 Alex Woodie

  Key Information Solutions has won an award from IBM for a video about how it helped recycling company Recology implement an IBM i application that helps it achieve its mission of reducing waste in San Francisco. Recology has contracts with the City by the Bay to collect recyclable materials from homes and businesses. Every week day, fleets of Recology trucks span out across the hilly town, picking up used bottles, cans, paper, and vegetable material and food scraps. The trucks haul the materials back to Recology’s sorting plant, where it is turned back into 16 different raw materials that are

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• SAP Fleshes Out HANA’s Roadmap with Heavy Dose of Sybase

  April 25, 2012 Alex Woodie

  SAP last week announced additional details of the roadmap for HANA, the in-memory database technology that the German ERP software giant is currently using for business intelligence workloads. Not surprisingly, the plans calls for HANA to become the underlying database powering everyday business transactions in the SAP Business Suite, not just analytic workloads. But before then, SAP’s Sybase database will play a bigger role. SAP executives have not been shy about telling the world about their grand plans for HANA, which has become an exceptionally popular product for SAP since the company started selling it less than a year ago

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• Getting PC5250 F1-F24 Keys to Work Correctly on HP Laptops

  April 25, 2012 Joe Hertvik

  Today’s tip comes from my own experience with a recent model HP Pavilion laptop that I use for my business. The problem occurred when I loaded up the PC5250 emulator software that comes with System i Access for Windows V6R1M0. I attached to and signed on to my production IBM i box with PC5250, executed a green-screen command, and hit the F3 key to exit the screen. Nothing happened. The F3 key didn’t work. Neither did F5, F10, F12, or any other F-key from F1 all the way up to F24. My PC5250 F-keys were dead. Experimenting with different keystroke

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• Specify SQL Table-creation Library at Runtime

  April 25, 2012 Hey, Ted

  I have an RPG programs that creates work tables in QTEMP. I’d like to be able to specify the library at runtime. I tried using a host variable for the library in a CREATE TABLE command, but that didn’t fly. I am using the system naming convention. Can you help? –Ben I wish CREATE TABLE would allow a host variable for the explicit qualifier, but it doesn’t. Here are a few ways that work. 1. Use dynamic SQL. Embed the library name in the SQL command. D SqlCommand s 256a varying D WorkLib s 10a /free *inlr = *on; SqlCommand

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• NOMAX? No Way!

  April 25, 2012 Hey, Ted

  I just read *NOMAX Does Not Mean Infinite Capacity and I politely beg to differ. I work at some shops with smaller and older systems with smaller disk capacity (70 GB, 140 GB). Some are already using more than 70 percent of available space. If I read the capacities correctly, a physical file can hold over four billion records. I did some calculations and I think I’d fill up a system before reaching capacity. For DDS-described files, I usually set some maximum number of records, as 10,000 seems ridiculously low. Now that you have mentioned SQL described tables, which I

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• Kronos Takes iSeries Central on the Road, Gets SMART

  April 24, 2012 Alex Woodie

  Kronos‘ iSeries Central suite has a seat on the Customer Experience bus as it embarks today on a 20-city road show across North America to showcase Kronos. The Massachusetts software vendor also announced the acquisition of SMART, a U.K.-based developer of workforce management software. The iSeries Central suite doesn’t always get top billing in the Kronos scheme of things, as the company prefers to lead with Workforce Central, which runs on open systems like Windows and Linux. That’s a shame, as the suite, which is composed of iSeries Scheduler, iSeries Timekeeper, iSeries Absence Management, iSeries Activities, and iSeries Gaming,

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• Lavastorm Signs On as QlikTech Partner

  April 24, 2012 Alex Woodie

  Lavastorm Analytics, a developer of tools that helps users understand how data flows across their business, has joined QlikTeck‘s partner program. While neither vendor’s software runs on IBM i, they are widely used by customers in the midrange space. QlikTech has made a name for itself over the last several years with its focus on developing low-cost business intelligence tools that are easy to use. The success of its flagship QlikView product line helped fuel the recent resurgence of in-memory analytic products–and also helped drive an IPO on Nasdaq. While the company’s software runs on Windows, it is

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• STORServer Launches Entry-Level Backup Appliance

  April 24, 2012 Alex Woodie

  STORServer last week unveiled a new backup appliance for smaller organizations and offices that want to protect between 1 and 7 TB of data. The entry-level BA series can back up different types of servers, including IBM i, thanks to its use of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) software. The new BA 851 is a 2U appliance that features a six-core X86 processor, 15 TB of SAS disk, and 32 GB of memory. On this frame sits Windows Server 2008 R2, a copy of TSM 6.x, and the STORServer software and GUI console (TSM’s GUI leaves much to be desired).

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• Databeam Adds Security Component to Suite

  April 24, 2012 Alex Woodie

  Databeam, a Rochester, Minnesota-based developer of power tools for the IBM i server, last month unveiled version 3 of its software suite. The new version of Databeam includes updates to existing tools, dataCapture and dataAlert. The company has added a new component, called dataSecurity, which alerts administrators to potential security breaches. Databeam unveiled its first IBM i offerings about a year ago when it launched version 1 of its eponymous Databeam Suite. The software, which it developed with fellow Rochester developers at Centerfield Technology , is a tool that has two components: dataCapture, a query and filter tool for

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• Kisco Locks Down IBM i Security Tool

  April 24, 2012 Alex Woodie

  Kisco Information Systems last week unveiled SafeNet/i 9.0, a new version of its IBM i network security tool, which used to go by the name SafeNet/400. The new version uses IBM journaling to keep irrefutable logs of system activity. Other areas of enhancement include support for new IBM exit points, IFS object checks, user profile security, and a GUI redesign. SafeNet/i is a network security tool that uses IBM exit points to lock down potentially dangerous routes of access to the IBM i server, such as ODBC and FTP connections. It has been said over and over again, but it’s

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