April 2009

• Special Report: Performance Management - Is your IBM i dragging its feet? Discover some best performance practices when it comes to disks, memory, and databases.
• Industry Observer (April 2009) - The Latest on IBM i Security * In Search of Standards * Employment Conundrums * Is XBRL the Language of the Future? * Democracy in Action
• Operating Systems on the Run - Cell phones have become an integral part of our personal and professional lives. With all the choices we have between mobile OSs, applications, and phone models, is there a perfect enterprise cell phone?
• f.y.iSystem (April 2009) -
• IBM Announcements (April 2009) -
• The Inevitable(?) Rise of PHP - Let's get one thing straight: PHP is not a replacement for RPG. But, the general purpose scripting language is the language of choice for RPGers who want to create dynamic web applications on IBM i—or at least it should be.
• Hot New Products (April 2009) -
• Illinois Board Improves Bid Solicitation with Development Solutions - The Illinois Capital Development Board designed a system to streamline its bid solicitation. CA Plex and Websydian solutions played a crucial role.
• Installing IBM i on a Power Blade: Tips and Techniques - Using PowerVM technologies such as LPAR and dynamic resource movement, the JS12 and JS22 provide a novel approach to workload consolidation, efficiency, and power cost reduction for IT environments. But implementing the BladeCenter solution in your environment could be tricky. The sage advice presented here can help you navigate this bumpy terrain.
• Coding SQL Routines on the Fast Track - Use these best-practice coding techniques to boost the performance of SQL routines built on IBM DB2.
• It's 2009. Do You Know Where Your IPv6 Addresses Are? - IPv4 address space exhaustion appears to be right on schedule for 2010. With IT budgets and jobs shrinking, if you haven't already started moving your shop and career to IPv6, now is the time while you still have resources to play with.
• Remote Journal 101 - To make an informed decision about how to set up your remote journal environment, it's essential to understand the basics. This look at the different aspects that make up a remote journal and allow for data replication can get you started.
• Keep Your Service Tools Secure - In the wrong hands, IBM i service tools can be used to cripple your system. Yet this aspect of i system security is often a mystery. Learn how to stay safe by managing service tools user IDs, functional privileges, and device profiles prudently.
• Clean Up Redundant IFS Files - Some programs leave behind files you don’t need. But with the handy DLTIFSF utility, you can delete them without causing other problems in the process.
• Networking Basics - As a network or systems administrator, you're charged with making sure that networking at your company is done right. To help you on that front, this article covers the basics of networks so that you can understand what's happening and know how to keep your network humming along.
• Think Like a Packet to Solve Network Problems - Troubleshooting a complex network problem can be difficult. One way to simplify the problem is to break it up into individual small steps--the same small steps that a packet takes when it traverses a network of any complexity. You can visualize the process and get to the root of a problem more quickly by looking at a network from the packet's point of view.
• Tech Corner (April 2009) - Original CL vs. ILE CL * Keep Users Updated with Status Messages * Handy RPG H-specs * Control Powerful Users for Regulatory Compliance * Find IFS Objects with ALWSAV=NO
• Dr. I Doctor (April 2009) - Dr. I Doctor explains i5/OS default IP routing and advises on fiber LAN component selection.
• Feedback (April 2009) -