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  • Reality-Based PHP Training on IBM i in Michigan

    September 26, 2011 Dan Burger

    Some people never lose their natural desire to explore, create, share, and learn. That’s even true for RPG programmers, although it’s widely called into question by folks who have never met any RPG programmers. Imagination is often limited by environment and Laura Ubelhor has an idea that she thinks will foster the imaginations of RPG programmers. She’s leading a project based at the Southeast Michigan iSeries User Group (SEMiUG) that connects programmers willing to learn new a new skill with companies open to innovation.

    Here’s the plan: Ubelhor, who is the president of the SEMiUG, put out the call for

    … Read more
  • Zend Reveals DBi, A New Version of MySQL for IBM i

    September 26, 2011 Alex Woodie

    IBM i shops that were hesitant to deploy pre-packaged PHP apps on the platform because of the end of MySQL support from Oracle can go forward with their plans now thanks to the public unveiling of Zend DBi, a new IBM i-specific version of MySQL that Zend Technologies will develop, maintain, and support. Zend DBi is slated to ship with the upcoming December release of the Zend PHP software stack for the IBM i server, the company said last week.

    Ever since Oracle announced plans to drop MySQL support for i5/OS V5R4 and IBM i 6.1 last December, IBM and

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  • Start Planning For New Systems Now

    September 26, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    Server buyers sure do have a lot to think about these days. Perhaps more than they have had to consider in a fourth quarter of a year in a number of years, in fact. That’s because there are a lot of new processors due from IBM, Intel, Advanced Micro Devices, and Oracle. The latter doesn’t have much of a direct effect on IBM i shops, right?

    Correct–right up to the moment when Larry Ellison’s sales force suggests you dump your Power Systems gear and run JD Edwards EnterpriseOne on a cluster of Sparc T and Sparc

    … Read more
  • Running Down Cache Battery Rumors and More on Damaged Objects

    September 21, 2011 Hey, Joe

    I read your article about changing iSeries disk caching batteries. You said that iSeries administrators should call IBM to send out new batteries, and then schedule an IBM service call for replacement. Is this considered standard IBM maintenance or are batteries a consumable item that is billable? I’ve heard rumors of changes in IBM’s policy, where they are starting to charge for batteries…

    –Brian

    With some help, I ran this issue past both an IBM Certified Engineer (CE) and someone in IBM CE dispatch. Both people said that it was just a rumor and that cache battery maintenance falls

    … Read more
  • A Better Way to Display Quick 5250 Messages in RPG

    September 21, 2011 Hey, Mike

    Note: The code accompanying this article is available for download here.

    Here are a couple of code snippets containing a call to the QUILNGTX API that does a much better job than the DSPLY opcode. This API has been around for a long time (before/free), and we wrapped it into a service program procedure to make it easier to use.

    As you can see from the included code sample, it only takes a character work variable to contain the text to display, and a call to the ShowText subprocedure to display a message. It shows a pop-up box

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  • Call-backs Simplify File IO

    September 21, 2011 Bruce Guetzkow

    Note: The code accompanying this article is available for download here.

    Writing subfile programs to display a list of data elements is a task most IBM i programmers have done countless times. It can be tedious and extremely repetitive, especially if you are listing information from the same file in multiple programs. Since the logic is nearly identical in all of those programs, wouldn’t it be great if we could put some or all of it into a service program that could be used in many places?

    The part of the process that is common to all of those

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  • Contractors Used by 70 Percent of IT Businesses, Survey Says

    September 20, 2011 Alex Woodie

    Independent contractors have been an intrinsic part of the IT industry since the IT industry was invented. But according to a recent survey of CompTIA members by tech staffing firm OnForce, nearly 70 percent of companies in the IT business use independent contractors when they don’t have enough full-time staff to do the work.

    While the country as a whole suffers through economic stagnation and a high unemployment rate, the situation is a bit brighter in the IT industry, where the unemployment rate is 4.5 percent, according to a recent blog post by CompTIA’s Jim Staats, who counted 856,000

    … Read more
  • IBM Updates Service Delivery Manager

    September 20, 2011 Alex Woodie

    IBM last week announced a new release of Service Delivery Manager for Power Systems, a PowerVM-based product that helps Power Systems and X86 customers provision and manage virtual operating system instances. With version 7.2.2, the offering gets enhancements in the area of monitoring and usage metering.

    IBM bills Service Delivery Manager as a cloud management system that’s geared toward helping customers squeeze the most virtual bang for their physical buck. The primary task of the software (which is available in Power Systems and X86 flavors) is automating the provisioning and de-provisioning of AIX, Linux, and Windows (sorry, no IBM i)

    … Read more
  • SEEBURGER Unites MFT and Integration Suites

    September 20, 2011 Alex Woodie

    The German software company SEEBURGER AG last week unveiled a new release of its managed file transfer (MFT) solution. The company says it’s made SEE MFT an integrated component of its Business Integration Suite, thereby giving customers a single product for sharing supply chain data, such as EDI and AS2 files, alongside file types not used to transmit supply chain data, such as PDF or PowerPoint.

    SEEBURGER has a long history in the EDI field, having launched its first EDI offering for the automotive industry in 1986. Over the years, the company developed a close relationship with German ERP powerhouse

    … Read more
  • IBM Updates Cognos BI Software

    September 20, 2011 Alex Woodie

    IBM last week unveiled a new release of its flagship Cognos Business Intelligence software. Version 10.1.1 delivers several small enhancements, including support for iPad clients, better integration with third-party OLAP tools, and more setup options in the Cognos visualization and authoring tools.

    IBM’s Cognos BI is a sprawling suite of BI tools with dozens of components that run the gamut from reporting and dashboards to scorecards, what-if analysis, predictive analytics, statistical analysis, and online analytical processing (OLAP). The software doesn’t run on the IBM i server (its server components require Unix, Linux, or Windows), but plenty of IBM i shops

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