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A screen a story – What is my IP Address, tales of the unexpected?
ByRecently I ran into a problem on an LPAR where apparently nothing was changed. The problem as always is, how to determine if nothing was changed. After all an IPL…
Access for Client Solutions 1.1.9.5
ByAs the seasons change, so does the tech landscape. And just like clockwork, IBM has graced us with the latest iteration of their Access for Client Solutions (ACS) product. Say…
Nano – A Great Open-Source Editor
In this article I show you how to use a great editor called Nano for any editing we have to do with files on our IFS. Yes, I can hear…
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ODBC & Node.js on IBM i
In this article I will be looking at database access using Node.js on our favourite platform the IBM i. A bit of background info first. One of the first applications…
A screen a story – collateral benefits
In today’s world when reading about IBM i it is hard to avoid articles dealing with application modernization. Being a system administrator, I use applications too. What about them, do…
A Java on IBM i Intro
A bit different this one. I was recently asked by a fellow IBM Champion to give him a quick run through on Java on the IBM i, so I thought…
A Screen a Story – to desire or to require
You may think that a Hardware Management Console (HMC) is a luxury that is only needed by larger POWER user environments but in this article I am going to try…
IBM i on IBM Power Systems the next ten years of innovation
Join Northdoor and IBM to celebrate the innovations in both IBM i and Power Systems. As we approach the launch of POWER10, we will discuss the next generation and how clients can take…
ByRemoving drives from guest partitions
“You’ve not done a lot during lockdown, so it’s time to trim the fat.” Technically words from my GP, but I figured perhaps I could apply it to my partitions…
ByA screen a story – to include or to filter
Once in while an ad hoc job ends up on your desk. A while ago I had such a day, although the disk space usage was around 70 %, the…
Who is using that IFS object?
Sometimes the simplest of questions that come into our support desk can fill us with dread and before the advent of IBM i Services, finding out which job had a…
ByInterview with Mike Ryan, Chairman of i-UG. What have they been doing over the last 12-months? and what to expect at their event next month!
PowerWire (PW): – Hello Mike, its nice to chat to you again, the last time we spoke was in Spring last year when the pandemic first broke out and i-UG…
IBM Champion Tweets
As you will hopefully know, in my last few arcticles for PowerWire, I have been writing about retreiving tweets and storing them in a SQLite database on the IBM i.…
A screen a story – PM400 and the day after (30th September 2020)
The term “IBM Performance Management for Power Systems” does most likely not immediately ring a bell, my guess is “PM400” does. It was offered for free and as a Dutchman,…
More – What is eating my IFS?
Warning :- The main SQL statement may run for many minutes. In my case just over 1:30 elapsed and 35 CPU seconds, but I only have 222,000 objects in my…
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