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  • Gartner: Fatter Servers Drive Revenues in Q1

    June 13, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    In last week’s issue of The Four Hundred, I went over what the box counters at IDC reckoned happened in the server market in the first quarter. IDC looks at the market at the vendor factory level and gives a certain dicing and slicing. The box counters over at Gartner look at sales by vendor type including the reseller channel and direct sales from the vendors with a slightly different angle.

    By Gartner’s count, customers shelled out $12.67 billion for servers in the first quarter, an increase of 17.3 percent compared to the year-ago period. The number of boxes

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  • Is Perception the Reality?

    June 13, 2011 Doug Mewmaw

    On a recent training engagement, I visited a very popular American company. This company fit the profile of ones that I have visited before. In this case, the customer had a Power System 570; i5/OS V5R4 and IBM i 6.1; and had CPU running redline at 100 percent of utilization, using shared resources between LPARs. Support consisted of a help desk (Level 1 support) and a systems analyst (Level 2 or 3), and the entire IT support staff for the IBM i environment was four system admins.

    During the week-long class, we talk about best practice performance guidelines and teach

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  • IT Budget Relief from High Hardware Maintenance Fees

    June 13, 2011 Dan Burger

    Certain companies thrive during a recession. Those that can tighten budgets, run leaner without killing productivity, actually put themselves in an advantageous position. Some try to do it with smoke and mirrors with short-term relief causing long-term pain. Sort of like deciding to save money by not paying the electric bill. That’s not a good long-term plan. But as you shine a light on the IT department, what about an option to reduce hardware maintenance charges? What can you do and how dangerous is it?

    If your company fits in with the majority of IBM i shops–a small to midsize

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  • Help/Systems Buys Database Monitoring Tool from Innovatum

    June 13, 2011 Alex Woodie

    Help/Systems has acquired the DataThread database monitoring tool from Innovatum, the companies announced last week. The deal puts Help/Systems and its security subsidiary, PowerTech, firmly in control of a product they have been reselling since last year.

    DataThread is a powerful database monitoring tool that automatically detects and records IBM i user and application activity, down to the field level. The software complements native IBM i capabilities and third-party security tools by providing filtering and workflow mechanisms to sift through millions of journal and database entries, and alert administrators of signs of potential security breaches, such as changes

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  • The Power Systems-IBM i Road Ahead

    June 13, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    The Four Hundred has spent the past several weeks going over what the top brass and head techies at Big Blue say about how the IBM i platform running atop Power Systems iron is doing both economically and technically. This week, we close out this series of articles with a discussion with Steve Will, the IBM i chief architect, concerning the near-term future of the platform, by which IBM means the time between now and the end of 2013.

    Will went over a lot of this material at his IBM i: Today, Tomorrow & Beyond presentation at the COMMON tradeshow

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  • Admin Alert: Things I Learned from My Latest Power i Upgrade

    June 8, 2011 Joe Hertvik

    Over Memorial Day weekend in the U.S.A., we finished completing two Power i 720 hardware upgrades for a regular client. While the machine installation was relatively easy, I thought it would be helpful to discuss some of the problems, opportunities, and general time wasters that accompanied our migration to the latest Power i hardware, hoping that my experience will help others with their own hardware upgrades.

    Cutting Hardware and Acquisition Costs

    Before you buy your machines, make sure you’re not leaving any money on the table. Check if you are eligible for migration assistance from IBM. For many System

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  • Write PDM Scans to Database Files

    June 8, 2011 Ted Holt

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

    My shop licenses a documentation package that tells us all sorts of useful information, such as which programs use which files and which programs call which programs. Nevertheless, we still use PDM string searches to search source code. I wrote a utility that makes such searches more powerful. Maybe you’ll find it beneficial.

    How To Search Using PDM

    You have two ways to search source code with PDM. You can use option 25 from the WRKOBJPDM and WRKMBRPDM displays, or you can use the Find String Using PDM

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  • ILE: Decisions, Decisions, Part 1

    June 8, 2011 Susan Gantner

    I’ve been working with and teaching people about ILE for many years. There are a few questions that come up again and again. So I thought I’d cover my responses in some tips. In this tip, the subject is binding directories.

    I’m often asked about the best way to use binding directories and/or how many binding directories I recommend.

    My philosophy is to keep things as simple as possible for the developers. I believe that ILE’s value is in making development more efficient by making it easy to develop and use your own application functions that you can use as

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  • MyEclipse Blue Edition 9.0 Offers RAD Alternative

    June 7, 2011 Alex Woodie

    Power Systems Java developers who are looking for an alternative to IBM‘s pricey Rational Application Developer (RAD) may want to take a look at the latest release of the MyEclipse Blue IDE from Genuitec. In May, Genuitec delivered the ninth version of MyEclipse, which supports HTML5, Java EE 6, and other technologies.

    Genuitec has been developing Java IDEs since it was founded in 1997. In 2003 it launched MyEclipse Blue, its most feature-rich IDE. MyEclipse Blue replicates many of the Java-development features in IBM’s RAD, including support for deployment of Java applications to IBM i and DB2/400. But,

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  • CCSS Picked by Hospital Serving Mississippi’s ‘Golden Triangle’

    June 7, 2011 Alex Woodie

    Mississippi’s OCH Regional Medical Center has picked CCSS to provide IBM i systems management tools, the software company announced last month. The software will be employed in the management of critical information systems used by the hospital, which serves a seven-county area known as Mississippi’s Golden Triangle.

    Based in Starkville, the Oktibbeha County Hospital (OCH) Regional Medical Center serves a seven-county area of northeastern Mississippi known as the Golden Triangle. While the area is largely rural, the OCH Medical Center prides itself on being a progressive hospital. For example, many of its 100 staff physicians are board certified, according to

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