You may be doing incremental or even full application backups periodically, but have you checked the tapes to make sure the content is what you need to be backed up? To do this, insert a statement in your CL program that runs the backup to check to make sure it...

  Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne (JDE EnterpriseOne) software has become a trusted and relied-upon fixture of the business IT landscape and is used by businesses of all sizes across multiple fields. It has been hailed for the intuitive and user-friendly...

  In business, as well as everywhere else in life, information equals power, security and prosperity. The data that your organization accumulates, manages and shares with other companies is the lifeblood of its workflow and the key to continued growth. In an age...

It’s a question that every department in every company must face at one point or another: should we hire and retain full-time staff, or should we source our needs to outside vendors? One of the most common areas of business in which this question seems to emerge is...

On September 14th, IBM will be introducing two key technology refreshes (TRs) to the IBMi operating system that will considerably improve usability and function for engineers, developers, programmers and database managers. The refreshes, known as IBMi 7.3 TR5 and 7.2...

I had the opportunity to hear Steve Will, Chief Architect IBM i at IBM, present “IBM i Trends and Directions” and “V7R3 Overview” at NESTU in Parsippany, NJ recently. The AS400 was announced in 1988.   Since then, IBM has continued to improve...