During SearchCIO’s recent inaugural ‘tweet jam’, an interesting debate emerged over the topic of how green information technology will shape the data center of the future. Some responses included virtualization, self-service portals and greener power sources. What do you think? What are the positives and negatives of ‘going green’?

I am trying to read a RPG created file with special characters in the data fields (EX: EP$DEPT,etc). Is there a way I can remap the fields in a COBOL program. I tried a logical mapping over the PF but when I rename the fields in the LF removing the $ sign, I get compile…

I have date in yyyymmdd format. I want to validate if it lies between a particular period of 2 years let b/w 1 Jan 2012 to 5 April 2014, in COBOL/400…. Please help me as the intrinsic function like that in COBOL are not working in this case. Thanks.

As technology and most notably ‘data’ continues to grow over the next decade, many companies will depend on the evolution of data centers to keep pace with the growth rate. Some notable (and possible) data center transformations could include: Energy-efficient servers, power distribution and cogeneration. What do you think will be the next big data…

I have a client with IBM made server using Windows 2003 Server running Oracle applications and some other stuff. He is having another IBM made server with same configuration and everything but is not installed with any OS or apps whatsoever. Now, he wants to create a exact replica of the first server with Windows…

I have job plans that are in a sequence in Maximo 5.2 but the supervisor field becomes blank whenever the next jp plan is called. All the plans should have the same supervisor.

Hi I have below query in my program , when i executed it interactively thro strsql , its fetching records but the same query is not fetching records when i execute it in my program. Please provide your valuable answers as soon as possible.. as i need it very urgently… As si mentioned it has…

” Preparing to move to “Trash” I have over a dozen of these in an icon with the label “Trash”The bar keeps moving, but nothing happens. How do I get rid of this. Thanks for any help. Peter

The Planar Inverted F antenna are among few antennas used for mobile communication. This is mainly due to its miniature size and it’s abiltiy to work on higher frequency. A metallic strip is used over a ground plate which resembles the F shape, hence called the F antenna. The dielectric with high permittivity is best…

Having created a website, how does one load it onto an open source web server?

Hi, Is there any way to convert a Purchase Order to Word document using the tool IBM Reflection nexsus.rsf. Its a legacy system and old way of creating a purchase order in IBM Reflection nexus tool. Any help on this is really appreciated. Please advise.

We own the data center and host application for our other agencies, along with housing some of their equipment.  We also have a secondary data center for redundancy and disaster recovery purposes.  I am looking for a set of requirements that the agencies must follow prior to using the facilities.  Example – they must have…

We all know the old story of the tech support guy who was called to help with a broken mouse that the client was using as a foot pedal. But there are plenty of lesser known but equally humorous tales out there. What’s your funniest tech support story? Who knows, you may tell it here…

Do we have any formula for calculate CPW ? Did the environment size is estimated based on CPW size in iSeries ?

Happy New Year everyone! What’s your tech resolution for 2013? Is it to make your tablet more secure so there will be less BYOD issues at work? Will you try gadgets not made by Apple?

In circuit with IC3525, while connecting LCD monitor its output voltage is increased. How we can control it?

As the technology world heads into the new year, many people are predicting exciting changes; particularly in the mobile, big data and security sectors. What do you think will be the next big thing for technology in 2013?

I have been receiving emails called daily spam reports, which spam report contains some emails that I require. I have been unable to locate where the Spam Folder is in order to retrieve the emails that I need. this is not the same as my junk mail folder which i am able to open and…

Hi, I’ve downloaded Mocha Soft TN3270. But when I’m trying to connect its asking for IBM Host name or IP address. I’m unable to connect it through my IP address. Please help me out with this issue. Thanks Rahul

This year brought us several interesting quotes across the IT world, ranging from: Apple CEO Tim Cook apologizing over the company’s ‘maps app’ to RIM CEO Thorsten Heins gloating over the struggling company. What was your favorite technology quote of 2012?