Author: Staff Reporter
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New product release: RE4i – Object distribution for IBM i
Shield Advanced Solutions, leading providers of High Availability software, today added a new solution to their product suite. RE4i — Object Distribution for IBM i. RE4i provides the ability to distribute objects across IBM i systems installed in your network. It allows objects to be saved and restored onto remote systems, that have RE4i running,…
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Visual LANSA is a Game Changer for Web Application Development
Web applications with the look and feel of desktop applications. Downers Grove, IL — November 16, 2015 — For more than 25 years, LANSA has continually enhanced its software development tools to make developing business applications easier and to keep pace with technology advances. Visual LANSA version 14 is the next step in this journey…
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Test your mksysb backup without NIM or a tape drive
There’s a really handy way of cloning an AIX operating system straight from a mksysb backup. Even if you don’t need to clone an OS, it’s a pretty handy way of testing that your mksysb backup will actually be suitable for rebuilding your AIX root volume group. As you know, the mksysb command creates a…
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Fresche Legacy Secures US$6 Million Strategic Investment
Fresche Legacy, a premier provider of application management and modernization solutions for the IBM i announced today it has received a $6 million US (C $7.8 million) investment from the Fonds de solidarité FTQ and the regional Fonds de solidarité FTQ Montréal. The investment will be used to fuel Fresche’s aggressive organic growth as it…
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Basic AIX performance monitoring for IBM i professionals
IBM Power Systems have the ability to run both the IBM i and AIX (as well as Linux) operating systems, so how can you leverage your existing IBM i performance analysis skills to provide AIX support? Every system, from Charles Babbage’s first mechanical computers in the early nineteenth century to the high-end Power Systems we…
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Proximity and Scandinavian House win second major award in 2015
The implementation of STREAM, a cloud-based order, delivery and transport management software application has enabled Scandinavian House with Proximity to scoop its second major award this week after winning the European Supply Chain Excellence ‘Best SME’ Award. Now in their nineteenth year, the awards celebrate the ‘very best in supply chain and logistics’ across Europe.…
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New publisher for PowerWire
PowerWire has a new publisher in the form of NC Communications. Lymm, Cheshire-based NC Communications is already well-known in the British midrange sector as the co-host of UK user group i-UG’s International Power conferences. The company took over PowerWire in November 2015 after negotiations with the site’s former owner, Cue Communications, based in Manchester. Former publishing editor…
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Experience may stymie Oracle’s Power play
Oracle put the boot into IBM’s Power Systems last month but it may find its users are unimpressed. Oracle launched a new programme called Exa Your Power at its OpenWorld conference in San Francisco. The idea is to wean Oracle database users off their AIX-flavoured Power Systems hardware with proof-of-concept promises of 15 times better…
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i-UG expands its winter conference in Wolverhampton
i-UG, the UK’s IBM i user group, is to hold a big event in Wolverhampton next month. Its winter conference will take place at the city’s Mount Hotel (pictured, above) on November 26 and is free to all i-UG members. Colin Spofford, i-UG secretary and treasurer, says: “This event would normally be a single stream…
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Tech tip: finding AIX’s save buttons
If there’s one thing that I will never get used to about Google Docs, it is that it doesn’t save your changes. Or rather, it does it for you. Well, Mr Google, I want the “save” button back. Even if it doesn’t do anything. There is something very consoling about a save button. It’s closure.…
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Opinion: How to make your work on IBM i look good (so the platform doesn’t get replaced).
I would like to share with you a photo of my granddad dressed in a sparkly disco dancing outfit. Not really! But that’s what some people think I’m suggesting when I tell them they need to fancy up and modernise their IBM i green screens. Well, I have some breaking news for those people: green…
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Our authors’ verdicts on latest IBM i announcements: new services, SQL capabilities and RAID features
IBM made a slew of Power Systems announcements on Monday including new hardware, an updated version of AIX and two Technology Refreshes for IBM i. Big Blue also removed free-form RPG’s 80-column limit. IBM i OS version 7.1 got its eleventh Technology Refresh and the more up-to-date version 7.2 got its third. Both will be…