DCOM uses and its component
What are the uses of DCOM in Software Architecture? Explain its component.

Answer Question   |  June 18, 2013  6:23 PM
DCOM, Software architecture

NULL value in physical file
I am a beginner in AS/400 and learning through some tutorials, I came with a problem of how to add a NULL value in physical file. The spaces can’t do the work, as even spaces have a ASCII value. Please respond with possible solutions.

Answer Question   |  June 18, 2013  5:27 AM
AS/400, ASCII, Physical File

Forms
I have a form (frmInvoices) used to enter new invoice data. It’s control source is tblInvoices. But on my form, I have 3 fields to pull data from: (tblcustomer.customerid) and (tblnewinvoices.id; customerid; and datecreated) I can’t figure out how to populate datecreated and id from tblnewinvoices whenever I enter customerid. One problem is that tblnewinvoices.id [...]

Answer Question   |  June 12, 2013  6:22 PM
Microsoft Access 2003, Microsoft Access forms

Advice on purchasing a new laptop
I’m looking to buy a new laptop,I mostly use Photoshop and Illustrator (Image editing software). What is the main feature that I should be concerned about regarding the software that I use? Any advice? A buying guide? Thank you all!

Answer Question   |  June 12, 2013  4:16 PM
adobe illustrator, Laptops, Photoshop

Java
I have done BE 4m electronics and instrumentation in 2012. I want do a course but I’m confused. I have 3 courses in my mind i.e.., automation, Java, and Networking. But I don’t know which one is having better scope. I also have fear that if I will go for Java, then is it understandable [...]

Answer Question   |  June 12, 2013  8:15 AM
Java, Networking, Networking careers

Which type of BPM vendor do you prefer?
CFOs are turning to business process management (BPM) tools to ensure their departments are efficient, transparent and compliant.  When it comes to acquiring BPM tools, there are two types of vendors according to Clay Richardson, senior analyst at Forrester Research. “…some vendors provide interfaces to systems of record, such as SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) [...]

Answer Question   |  June 18, 2013  4:19 PM
BPM, Vendor selection

Truncation of printer output
I have for many years been using Visual Basic 6 to manage libraries for my Stamp Collection, Video Library etc. In these programs is a facility to print out a record entry’s content to provide labels etc. Last week, for the first time ever, the print-out, which are normally about 80 characters across the page, [...]

Answer Question   |  June 10, 2013  2:37 PM
Visual Basic 6, Visual Basic printing

SAP ABAP for Fresher
Hi, I am Dipti. I have completed B.E Computer engineering in 2012. I am really very confused of starting career in JAVA or SAP ABAP. I have Googled a lot of information about it but not satisfied. Can anyone please guide me in taking this tough decision of career. Can SAP ABAP certification be a [...]

Answer Question   |  June 10, 2013  6:49 PM
Java, SAP, SAP ABAP

Log management software
Be able to extract the Logs from Windows (App & Sys), IIS, Individual App Logs ( Ex Sharepoint Logs, AD Logs, biztalk logs) etc into a Central Logging Server repository A friendly GUI to check the status of the transfer etc. Simple email alerting of the transfer would be good. Able to generate easy reports [...]

Answer Question   |  June 7, 2013  10:16 AM
GUI, Windows Server 2008

AS/400 – SQL
I am reading a record in SQL with No Lock and its getting displayed in Screen. Based on the user input, I will/won’t update the record. I want to check the record lock before performing the update statement. I don’t want to check the SQL code after performing the update statement. What I want is: [...]

Answer Question   |  June 7, 2013  4:07 AM
AS/400, SQL, SQL statement

SQL installation
What is an Instance Name? What is an Instance ID?

Answer Question   |  June 7, 2013  12:11 AM
SQL, SQL Installation

VB-runtime error-3001 (arguments are of the wrong type,are out of acceptable range,or are in conflict with one another)
Dear sir, I am a student in Visual Basic. I am trying to insert image on VB form (GetChunk–method). It is successfully saved and I’m trying to retrieve in same time. It’s okay. I’m also trying to edit that form and trying to save it. It’s working but it’s creating the same entry in the [...]

Answer Question   |  June 6, 2013  3:28 PM
Visual Basic, Visual Basic Error Messages

MDB and SOA in the cloud
Cloud papers often refer to “applications”, but how can a mix of in-house and cloud providers handle SOA and MDB?

Answer Question   |  June 4, 2013  2:12 PM
Cloud Computing, Cloud Security, SOA

Crystal report (8.5) is not working on Win 7 (64 bit machines)
Basically we have two Visual Basic projects, lets say 1.Diapp.vbp and 2.adacrystal.vbp. In order to generate the Crystal Reports, I have consumed adacrystalreport.dll into the Diapp.vbp application, adacrystalreport.dll is a part of adacrystal.vbp Visual Basic project. Crystal reports is working fine on Windows XP  but when we generate the Crystal Report on Windows 7, Crystal [...]

Answer Question   |  June 3, 2013  11:38 AM
Crystal Reports 8.5, Visual Basic, Windows 7

SQL vs RPG
We are using a huge number of SQL on our production machine. We have our back up machine equal to the production machine where is located our data warehouse based on RPG. Can you help me with arguments to defense that all SQL should be moved into RPG programs at our DW?

Answer Question   |  May 31, 2013  10:46 AM
RPG, RPG Program, SQL

SQL logging
How do we prevent our SQLRPGLE programs from creating so many job log records when executing?

Answer Question   |  May 30, 2013  3:41 PM
SQL, SQLRPGLE

Are we ready for the growth of public clouds?
Cloud will be king at the Red Hat Summit and JBoss World 2013 conference running June 11- 14. There will be some 50 sessions on cloud deployment at the conference. Much of the anticipation focuses on the rise of public clouds. But as public clouds become more common, the need for the infrastructure to handle [...]

Answer Question   |  June 10, 2013  2:56 PM
cloud deployment, Conferences, JBoss, Public Cloud, Red Hat

Kind of data CMOS contains
What kind of data does CMOS contain about the system?

Answer Question   |  May 30, 2013  11:15 AM
CMOS, Software

Can purchasing companies successfully “monetize” social media sites?
When a company such as Yahoo purchases a social media site like Tumbler, it’s not unusual to see users flee in droves. A similar thing happened when Rupert Murdoch purchased MySpace. Users of social media sites don’t like when an outside entity purchases their sites with an eye towards “monetization”. Understanding that there must be [...]

Answer Question   |  June 10, 2013  6:40 PM
Content management, social media, tumblr, Yahoo

Will Jeff Barr’s road trip buoy AWS?
In an interesting marketing move, Amazon Web Services Chief Evangelist Jeff Barr is doubling down on customer outreach with a road-trip tour of 14 AWS user groups throughout the U.S. Will his trip have a positive effect on Amazon’s cloud provider customers? What effect will it have on AWS sales?

Answer Question   |  June 4, 2013  1:37 PM
Amazon Web services, AWS