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DB2 Field Procedures – Testing
ByIn my last article, I wrote how we can encrypt sensitive data in our DB2 database. To recap; IBM has given us the ability to take a field, or column,…
Aggregated Ethernet – Faster & More Resilient Networking
ByHave any of you ever lost connectivity to your server because someone accidentally disconnected the wrong cable? It is so annoying as in many cases even if the cable was…
IBM i Daylight Saving Time Management
Spring is on its way (Halleluiah!) and next month the clocks with be springing forward an hour. As a boy (and the youngest of my clan) I remember it was…
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A Worldwide Marketing Manager for IBM i, that’s sounds Champion!
PowerWire.eu had the pleasure last week to interview the newly appointed, Worldwide Head of marketing for IBM i, Brandon Pederson, who had kindly given us some of his time out…
ByDownload Director – now with less Oracle
For those of you who haven’t already read it, I’d highly recommend starting with Steve Bradshaws article “Do I need to pay for Java?” from January. After following the setup…
ByA NodeJS Website on IBM i – The Secure Version
Now we have our basic Node.js website up and running, let me show you how easy it is to make it a secure site. By secure, I mean making the…
F8 – Back to the Future II
GREAT SCOT !! No I’m not talking about Mr Forstie but of course borrowing from Doc Brown in the Movie Back to the Future. This is something he would say…
DOT Anonymizer leads in GDPR compliance with mass discovery of sensitive data
New V5.1 release of DOT Anonymizer introduces automated DBMS-agnostic discovery of sensitive data Annecy, 7-10-2019 – ARCAD Software, international leader in DevOps and Modernization solutions, today announced the new V5.1 release…
Introducing the IBM i Community Badge Program
Brandon Paterson, Worldwide IBM i Product Marketing Manager for IBM, announced yesterday IBM’s initiative to recognise user groups, forums, events, and individual persons, who have and continue to support, advocate,…
Time to Say Byebye to the POWER7+
Those of you with first generation POWER7 processor (the models that end in B & C) will be all to aware that on Monday this week (30th September 2019) IBM…
Who invited SYSMSG
Another in my catalogue of “everyone and their mother has done this if they needed to, but here’s a slight twist on it” articles. To set the scene, a customer…
A screen a Story
Being a system administrator in the GUI era, it seems almost impossible to ignore the IBM i GUIs. Having said that it is my experience that a lot of sysadmins…
ByA NodeJS Website on IBM i
In this article I’ll show you how easy it is to get a web-site up and running on the IBM i. No need to be an Apache expert! Once we…
Tic-Tock, Tic-Tock; time’s running out for IBM i 7.2
IBM announced on the 10th September that you will be able to order a 7.2 version of IBM i until the 30th April 2020, and with the announcement came the…
The RPG Five: Debut Performance
On a light-hearted note, take a look at this video clip on YouTube, it just proves that talent holds no bounds! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc3zx233Td8 Is this the start of a new TV…
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