Factors that affect VDI performance
What are some variables to keep in mind when deploying a virtual desktop infrastructure? How do you anticipate possible roadblocks?

Answer Question   |  February 2, 2011  3:56 PM
Desktop virtualization, Infrastructure management, Open IT Forum, VDI, Virtualization Performance, Virtualization platforms

Where does the WPHOST file get stored in our Novell server?
Where does the WPHOST.db file gets stored .Does it get stored in our local disc.If yes then where.And where is the novell address book gets stored it gets stored in our local disc or is present at the server side

Answer Question   |  January 25, 2011  9:23 AM
C#, Database Files, Novell, Novell GroupWise

Batch Scheduling Of Jobs
Currently, we are creating 80-100 jobs for a complete batch schedule to execute against individual db2 regions (1 entire batch schedule per region). Is there a way to create one series of batch jobs and use that set against all regions? I apologize if this makes absolutely no sense.

Answer Question   |  February 3, 2011  1:59 AM
AS/400 batch jobs, Batch jobs, DB2, z/OS configuration

Sybase to Oracle
If I move a database from Sybase to Oracle with no coding changes what is the impact on the target database with respect to CPU, Memory, IO, etc?  Note that the OS will go from Solaris to LINUX also. 

Answer Question   |  January 21, 2011  4:18 PM
Linux, Oracle, Oracle Database, Solaris, Sybase, Sybase Databases

Restoring AS/400 after power outage: Src Code on IPL C1001020
How to restore a AS400 after a power outage.

Answer Question   |  August 12, 2011  2:23 AM
AS/400, AS/400 administration, IPL error, Source code, Source code management

Server Timeout on initial web connection to SQLServer
We run a couple of websites (hosted on different webservers) that connect to an SQL Server. The data was recently moved to another SQL Server (called SQLCLUSTER) and now the first time the site is accessed, it takes over 20 seconds to bring up the page. If I don’t set the Connection Timeout in the [...]

Answer Question   |  January 20, 2011  3:21 AM
SQL Express 2008, SQL Server, SQL Server Enterprise Edition, Web Server, Web server administration

SCSI drives suitable for setting up an array
What speed SCSI drives are suitable for CAD designers working off the server? How would you set them up in an array? We need 10 TB capacity.

Answer Question   |  January 19, 2011  5:15 PM
Array, CAD, Capacity planning, SCSI, SCSI Drives, Server management

Hard drive failing on production server
We think a hard drive is failing on a production server. I copied everything to another drive on a different array. How can we monitor the health of the hard drive/array?

Answer Question   |  January 20, 2011  5:13 PM
Array, HARD drive, Hard drive failure, Hard drive repair, Production Servers

Dissecting applications on a production server
Several EXE files were installed on a production server. The AV did not detect them as viruses but we do not know what they do. We have copied them to a USB stick and deleted them and all references from production. How can we dissect the applications to see what they did or do?

Answer Question   |  January 21, 2011  5:12 PM
Antivirus software, Application security, Execute Format, Production Servers, Server Security

Future of distributed/grid computing
I want to know people view about distributed/grid computing after cloud computing has attained a high hype??

Answer Question   |  January 19, 2011  4:37 PM
Cloud Computing, Cloud Services, Distributed computing, Grid computing

Maximo PM for First Monday of Each Month
Is there a way to generate a PM for the first Monday of each month? Doing a 30 day keeps pushing the first day out (i.e. 28 days in a month). We need one to generate every first Monday of the month.

Answer Question   |  January 19, 2011  3:50 PM
Maximo, Maximo 6.2.3, Maximo Asset Management

Move to One Update Program in Cobol
Been running some test, to try to use one update program to help with recompiles and maintenance.  ”UPDATEPRO” in my example is the update program “PROGRAMA” calls “UPDATEPRO” for all I/O…. FILEA and FILEB are Phyical Files.  “PROGRAMA” Program info…  WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.  01 WS-FILEA-SAVE. COPY DD-TESTREC OF FILEA.  01 WS-FILEB-SAVE. COPY DD-RECTEST OF FILEB.  01 [...]

Answer Question   |  January 26, 2011  2:15 PM
AS/400, COBOL, ILE COBOL/400, V5R4

Calendar entries in Novell Groupwise
How to create calendar entries with recurrence in novell groupwise.

Answer Question   |  January 19, 2011  6:17 AM
C#, Novell, Novell desktop, Novell GroupWise

security within the cloud
my question is related to security within the cloud. What is the reality of security because any where i see it’s just suggestions to strengthen the security with respect to platform, infrastructure or Information itself. But i want to know what is current security reality in the cloud because of which many IT guru’s call it [...]

Answer Question   |  January 19, 2011  5:18 PM
AMD, Cloud Computing, Cloud computing security, Cloud Security, Google Chrome, Windows 7, Windows 7 Administration

Encrypt TCP messages
What is the best way to encrypt proprietary (non-XML) messages over a TCP socket from the iSeries? I am currently using IBM’s QZRDSSRV API’s to do the sends and receives and create the socket connections, but those API’s don’t support encryption.

Answer Question   |  January 19, 2011  1:32 PM
AS400 iseries, Encryption, IBM, Socket, TCP

GDG restoration from tape backup
hi, can anyone please tell me iwant to restore generation which is multi-volume (G0001V00) from tape on dasd with renameu option.and i have tried with first creation with base gdg nad without base also. i m getting this error(G0001V00 IS A MULTIVOLUME DATA SET ).can anyone share the jcl. I m trying following JCL—–> //RESTTAP2 [...]

Answer Question   |  January 17, 2011  7:57 PM
Backup and restore, GDG, Restore Database, Tape Backups

OVRDBF SHARE(*YES)
When OVRDBF SHARE(*YES) is used on “FILEA” and you have “FILEA” defined in “ProgramA” and “ProgramB”. I know that doing a READ, START etc… in either program moves the Pointer for both programs since they share the buffer. But are the FIELD values for “FILEA” the same in both programs? EXAMPLE: “PROGRAMA” READS “FILEA” and [...]

Answer Question   |  January 19, 2011  2:45 PM
AS/400, COBOL, OVRDBF

Update disks on Windows server 2003
we have hp ml 350  and it   work  proper   . we  want  to  update  the servers  disks with  5 disks  in  each  server and we  want  to  replace  this  disks   with  new disks without  loss  the  data what  the  soluation???? ahmed  waqiealaa

Answer Question   |  January 20, 2011  5:38 AM
Hard disks, HP ProLiant, HP ProLiant servers, Windows Server 2003

Is anyone backing up to the cloud?
Is anyone using the cloud to backup the IBM i? Recently an IT auditor suggested that this is the wave of the future.

Answer Question   |  February 3, 2011  5:31 PM
Backup storage, Cloud Backup, Cloud Computing, Cloud Services, Cloud storage, IBM

We have a COBOL application running on power6 , i 570 server with OS as V5R4
We have a COBOL application running on power6 V5R4, will upgrading OS to V6R1 benefit in terms of performance.

Answer Question   |  January 15, 2011  1:09 PM
AS/400, COBOL, V5R4, V6R1