Find Out Why You Should Keep Data on IBM i
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It’s simple. IBM i is the most reliable, securable, and powerful platform to house your critical business data. IBM i was built for business and has added features and functionality over the years to keep up with modern business needs. You can trust it to run your business, access your data in real-time, and keep your data secure. Plus, IBM i can scale to your business and handle all of your critical data. Can your other platforms do that? We didn’t think so. Check out the slide deck to learn why you should keep your data on IBM i, including: -IBM i is reliable -IBM i offers fast and secure real-time data access -IBM i helps your business prepare for tomorrow Plus, we demonstrate how Sequel Data Access helps you modernize IBM i data access and meet your business needs. Watch the on-demand webinar version for more insight > goo.gl/B43EgI
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- 3. Find Out Why You Should Keep Data on IBM i Mike Stegeman Sr. Data Access Consultant Introductions Heath Kath Sr. Data Access Consultant Today’s Speakers:
- 4. Find Out Why You Should Keep Data on IBM i Polling Questions
- 5. Find Out Why You Should Keep Data on IBM i Today’s Agenda Find Out Why You Should Keep Data on IBM i 1. Built for Business and Reliable 2. Increased Processing Speed 3. Most Securable Platform Available 4. Prepare for Tomorrow’s Business World • Sequel Demonstration
- 6. Find Out Why You Should Keep Data on IBM i • AS/400 designed, in 1988, for Business • DB2 optimized for business • Lowest cost of ownership • Scalable • Reliable Built for Business and Reliable
- 7. Find Out Why You Should Keep Data on IBM i • Query/400 for data access uses CQE • Native SQL has no adequate user interface • SQL Query Engine is faster—and keeps getting faster Increased Processing Speed 960 3 210 10 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000 Minutes 1 2 Clients - Views Minutes CQE v. SQE
- 8. Find Out Why You Should Keep Data on IBM i SQE is faster: • Optimizes in SLIC • Eliminates nonsensical elements • Stores statistics about all SQE queries across the system in Global Statistics Cache (GSC) • Uses indices that couldn’t be used before • Includes in-memory file access Increased Processing Speed
- 9. Find Out Why You Should Keep Data on IBM i Most Securable Platform Available
- 10. Find Out Why You Should Keep Data on IBM i Most Securable Platform Available Carol Woodbury Robin Tatum Row Lib File Sys
- 11. Find Out Why You Should Keep Data on IBM i Prepare for Tomorrow’s Business World
- 12. Find Out Why You Should Keep Data on IBM i Prepare for Tomorrow’s Business World • Companies need to collect data by the terabyte • Data is the new ‘currency’ • Security from data thefts needs to be high • Data needs to be transformed into information • Proper information usage leads to growth
- 13. Find Out Why You Should Keep Data on IBM i Sequel Demonstration • Built for business and reliable • If it’s captured, it can be reported • Increased processing speed • Easy to change & create • The most securable platform available • Close the door • Prepare for tomorrow • Uncover information
- 14. Find Out Why You Should Keep Data on IBM i Find Out Why You Should Keep Data on IBM i
- 15. Find Out Why You Should Keep Data on IBM i Sequel Demonstration • Built for business and reliable • If it’s captured, it can be reported • Increased processing speed • Easy to change & create • The most securable platform available • Close the door • Prepare for tomorrow • Uncover information
- 16. Find Out Why You Should Keep Data on IBM i Charts & Graphs Pivot Tables Remote Database Access Custom Reports Scripting Browser Access Executive Dashboards Report Distribution Queries & Views Drill-Down Data Analysis Sequel: Easily Access and Share Data Sequel Data Warehouse
- 17. Find Out Why You Should Keep Data on IBM i We Are Ready for Your Questions! Sequel is offering exciting year-end promotions. We’d love to tell you about them—and set up your one-on-one demonstration. Heath Kath Sr. Data Access Consultant heath.kath@helpsystems.com Mike Stegeman Sr. Data Access Consultant mike.stegeman@helpsystems.com
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- HEATH: Welcome to today’s presentation Why you should keep your data on the IBM i and still have the access and security. We will examine reason to use the IBM i on Power System and address some common misconceptions about the system.
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- Mike: First, lets start with a quick poll…. I have a couple of questions, lets take just a couple of minutes… (2 min MAX – keep this up and go to the next slide after reading the questions) Please read through the questions and when finish, press the submit button. … run through the questions, then mention that I am going to keep the poll open but move to the next slide. Once press the submit button, (use a marker to point in the top right corner…) press the diagonal arrows to maximize your screen. I will share the results with you in a few minutes. ** New questions sent for approval 7/13 What tools are your users using today to access data? (select all that apply) What ‘options’ would make you a here to your users? (select all that apply) Discussion pieces Are you able to easily create PC documents, xls, pdf, rtxt, xml and so forth? Are your users on the move and would they benefit from mobile access to the data? Do you need to access data on other partitions or remote databases? What does your organization use to access data today? LATER…. A few slides down… then Show RESULTS!
- Mike: Here is the agenda for today. The IBM i, was built form the beginning for businesses in mind. It has improved over the years where today’s processing speeds are light years faster than the original. And it is the most secure-able system available. Finally I’ll end with a Sequel demonstration.
- MIKE: When IBM came out with the AS400 in 1988, they had designed the System36, 38 and AS/400 for businesses. The DB2 database on the AS/400 was embedded into the operating system making it the most reliable system on the planet. In 1988, it was the talk of the business world. And it still should be. The AS/400 name is no longer. Non-IBM systems people believe the AS/400 is old technology since it has been out for nearly 30 years. That’s eons in the technical world. But other platforms have spread the miss-truths to convince IT and business to switch to their PC based systems. I find it odd that some in IT and executives are leaving PC’s for Macs and I-pads claiming security and reliability but they run their global multi-billion dollar conglomerates on PC based systems like Microsoft SQL Servers. ITG has done this survey for several years now. I first saw it in a presentation by Steve Will, the Chief Architect of the IBM i a few years ago. The percentage differences rarely changes from year to year. This is one from 2014. You can see how the cost of hardware needed to run system, the cost of licenses and the cost of personnel to run and maintain the PC based servers is MUCH larger for Linix/Oracle and Windows SQL Servers than it is for the IBM i. The newest IBM i systems almost can run them selves. I find it almost humorous that the IBM i cost is less than HALF of Linix/Oracle. And the IBMi is 45% less than Microsoft SQL server running on Windows.
- MIKE: If you are still using Query/400 for data access on the i, then you are in for a pleasant surprise. Here is are performance improvements for 2 Sequel clients when they began running Sequel objects in the newer, faster, SQL Query engine, the SQE. It took 16 hours to process 130 million records with Query/400 which uses the slower Classic Query Engine the CQE. That time was reduced to 3 minutes with SQE. Another client went from 3-4 hours to under 10 minutes for 3-4 weeks of data. You can and are encouraged to use SQL for data access according to IBM and DB2 experts. You are encouraged to build SQL tables and Materialized Query Tables where the IBM i logs suggest you build one. But native SQL on the i has no user interface. You must know SQL and the syntax in order to achieve your objective. JD Edwards F0911 Results 316,000 records
- MIKE: This slide gets a little technical. Suffice to say that there are several reasons that the SQE is faster. The one section here I tend to focus on is the ‘In memory file access’. The more an access path is called upon, the more likely the system will leave it in memory for even faster processing. The IBM i is beginning to ‘think’ for itself. (Support for Java applications is also built into OS/400. Java applications utilize a JVM and Java compiler built into the OS/400 kernel (SLIC)).
- MIKE: Can anyone spot a security flaw with this picture of a bank vault? <pause> The door is wide open! When we talk about the IBM i as the most securable system around we mean it. However, if you leave the vault door open, you are not secure and you are asking for trouble.
- MIKE: HelpSystems’ own Carol Woodbury and Robin Tatum are a couple of security experts, especially on the i. In their books, white papers, articles, industry surveys and speeches they talk about the securable design of the i. You start with the system settings, most companies have set properly these days; security level 30 or higher. Then there is object level security. Remember, everything on the i is an object that can be secured: libraries, files, programs. There are products like Sequel that sit on top of the i security and enhance it with field and row level options. Even if your software application has it’s own security settings, you do not want to open a back door to the data. Sequel allows you, in most cases, to use the existing application settings and apply them to the data files accessed through Sequel. Banks and JDEdwards clients really like this feature. And there are other products, like PowerTech that take advantage of exit programs. I won’t get into that too much here. Suffice to say the IBM i is the most securable system on the planet if it is setup correctly.
- Now on to tomorrow’s business world. I am not talking about an amusement park attraction. I am talking about survival and growth. As organizations prepare for the future, they need to be able to get at and analyze their data. The information gleamed from the data will provide insights into trends and anomalies to keep them competitive in their industry.
- Just about every organization is collecting more data from activity than ever before. Activity includes product movement through the plant or warehouse – RF Sensors; purchase transactions – demographics, credit cards, web source; etc. This information can be used to guide the organization to produce more or cost less, change their production schedules, streamline processes, identify target audiences they had previously missed, and so on. Why does Wal-Mart stock up on beer and strawberry Pop-Tarts before a hurricane? Data showed them that the pop-tarts sales increased by 7% and beer is the biggest seller.
- MIKE: Now for the demo. I will touch on easy access to the dashboard from a users perspective. Then I’ll show how quick and easy a dashboard can be created. Finally, I’ll touch on securing the dashboard.
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- MIKE - SEQUEL is a complete tool set, a solution that will help IT Managers break free from BI struggles -- use a single product like SEQUEL that allows you do to most everything – from creation to the distribution of information. You can easily create the views/queries, do drilldowns, pivot data, build custom reports and dashboards and even see data in charts and more. < Alternate text from original slide> SEQUEL is a complete tool set, use a single BI solution that allows you do to most everything, from the creation to the distribution of information. SEQUEL can provide data to analysts in a variety of forms and formats. You have data coming in from your applications, remote databases like an MS SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, or from a data warehouse like SEQUEL Data Warehouse. SEQUEL can help distribute the information, whether simply displaying the information, emailing, providing summary data for the user to drill into details on demand. And, for those power users, they can easily build powerful views, custom reports, drill-downs, dashboards, build charts, and more – very quickly with our graphical user interface.
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