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  • IBM i 7.1 Leads OS Shipments, Pushes Entry Sales

    July 25, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    The second quarter was not just a good one for IBM‘s Power Systems server sales. It was a good one for the latest-greatest incarnation of the OS/400 operating system and database platform, known as IBM i 7.1.

    Back in May, when the editorial team at IT Jungle–Dan Burger, Alex Woodie, and myself–attended the COMMON midrange conference in Minneapolis, we met with the top brass in the Power Systems organization. They told us that in the first quarter of the year, there were a few companies making the jump from i5/OS V5R4 directly to IBM i 7.1, but that

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  • Infor Shares Development Plans for Lawson M3

    July 25, 2011 Alex Woodie

    Users of Lawson Software‘s M3 suite are getting Infor‘s new SharePoint-based Workspace user interface, and ION, a Java-based enterprise service bus (ESB), the ERP giant announced last week. Conversely, Infor plans to adopt some of Lawson’s products and technology for its existing offerings, including its Smart Office interface, Mashup Designer, and Enterprise Search options.

    Infor bolstered its already-dominant position in the IBM i enterprise software space with its $1.83 billion purchase of Lawson, one of the few remaining large ERP software houses that cater to midmarket and enterprise customers. While both of Lawson’s flagship ERP products–the M3 and

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  • As I See It: Barry, Barry Bad

    July 25, 2011 Victor Rozek

    More often than not, ethical behavior seems to be determined by distance–either real or virtual. The Internet provides a daily reminder that the more removed an offender is from the outcomes he creates, the more emboldened he becomes. And the corollary is also true: The more remote the victim, the easier it is to harm her. Stealing an old woman’s money from the safety of Nigeria is easier than mugging her in Des Moines.

    Technology offers criminals, the mean-spirited, and what Hannibal Lecter described as “the free-range rude,” a high degree of immunity from discovery and retaliation. It’s as if

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  • RPG Open Access Suffering from Inaccessibility

    July 25, 2011 Dan Burger

    You would think that in any IT community, especially one as tight as the IBM i community, there would be few, if any, secrets. But that doesn’t do justice to IBM, where apparently it is believed that loose lips sink ships. A good example is RPG Open Access. Funny how you could have something called Open Access and yet hardly anyone talks about it except the proponents of modern RPG.

    Here’s a tool, officially referred to as Rational Open Access: RPG Edition, that had RPG developers overflowing sessions at the COMMON 2010 Conference. It was one of the first

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  • IBM Powers Through The Second Quarter

    July 25, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    The comparisons are getting a little bit harder as 2011 rolls along, but the Power Systems business at IBM pulled its weight and then some in the second quarter ended in June. Big Blue’s mainframe business is enjoying the best upgrade cycle it has had in five years, raking in the bucks as companies in emerging markets buy mainframes for the first time and established companies in the financial services and insurance industries do long-overdue upgrades to their big iron.

    IBM’s overall revenues in the second quarter were up 12.4 percent, to $26.7 billion, while net income rose by 8.2

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  • Top Concern for i Shops: Making Users Happy

    July 25, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    Despite all of the legitimate complaining that many of us in the IBM midrange community do, it looks like the IT staff, business partners, and IBMers have their eye on the ball and are focused on satisfying the needs of customers. That is the message from the preliminary results of the 2011 edition of the COMMON Europe Top Concerns survey of the OS/400 and i installed base.

    Despite being managed by COMMON Europe, the Top Concerns survey of OS/400 and i shops is a global survey that seeks to take the pulse of IBM midrange customers and ultimately, in conjunction

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  • Admin Alert: Porting an Image Catalog Between Power i Boxes using FTP

    July 20, 2011 Joe Hertvik

    In a recent article about creating and using image catalogs in lieu of CDs and DVDs for i operating system installations and upgrades, I didn’t discuss how to move image catalogs between different i/OS partitions that can be located many miles or time zones apart. To plug that hole, this issue I present two simple programs that enable you to move pre-loaded image catalogs between systems.

    Why Move Image Catalogs?

    For many organizations, their iSeries, System i, and Power i partitions may reside in different cities, states, or even countries. The production system frequently resides in one location while its

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  • Emulate RPG’s Pessimistic Locking in SQL

    July 20, 2011 Hey, Mike

    I’m writing a Java program to replace several RPG programs that access unjournaled database files. The current programs all use the same logic: obtain a lock on a record, allow the user to make zero or more changes on various “screens,” then save the changes (potentially not changing anything). I need to make my Java program behave like the original RPG programs.

    I have always been able to use SQL, but no transactions, due to the lack of journaling. I thought I found a solution today, but it didn’t work as I implemented it. I tried setting the isolation level

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  • INSERT to Overlay Positions in a Character String

    July 20, 2011 Skip Marchesani

    In V5R3, IBM simplified the manipulation of character stings with the implementation of the INSERT and REPLACE functions in SQL. INSERT allows the positional insertion of one or more characters into a string and REPLACE scans for all occurrences of a target string and overlays or replaces the target string with a replace string. This article will discuss INSERT, and a future article will discuss REPLACE.

    Prior to the implementation of INSERT in V5R3, the positional insertion or update of one or more characters (alpha or numeric) in a character string was a challenge. You had to create a compound

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  • SAP Wants Oracle’s TomorrowNow Award Cut Way Down

    July 18, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    The TomorrowNow saga continued dragging on last week and looked no closer to being a closed matter than it did last November when a jury at trial awarded Oracle a $1.3 billion settlement from SAP for the theft of software patches and other intellectual property relating to third-party support of Oracle’s applications by TomorrowNow.

    That small company, which SAP shut down in 2008 in the wake of the lawsuit launched by Oracle saying that TomorrowNow was using illegally its own software and documents to provide support to customers, has caused a big headache for SAP, which clearly bought TomorrowNow to

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