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Is the new HMC interface enhanced or not?
ByIBM has rather quietly brought out a new interface to its Hardware Management Console (HMC). This became an option in V8R8.1 Service Pack1 of the HMC. IBM has called it…
How to monitor client LPAR vSCSI disks in VIOS
ByMany customers use vSCSI disk-mapping in VIOS to present external storage volumes to their client LPARs. There are proponents of vSCSI, NPIV and Shared Storage Pools. These all work very…
AIX tech tip: which HMC does this LPAR belong to?
ByIn a large Power environment where you have multiple Power Systems and perhaps hundreds of LPARs, there may well be multiple Hardware Management Consoles. When the environment is spread across…
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Managers can now share dashboards with the new release of m-Power
MRC have announced the brand new release of m-Power. m-Power is an agile development tool allowing you to develop new business solutions in a matter of hours. The new release…
ARCAD Software announces support for external SCM tools, Git, SVN and TFS
Peterborough, NH, 3 October 2016 – ARCAD Software, leading vendor in Enterprise Modernization and DevOps solutions for IBM i, announces October 30th GA release of Version 3.0 of ARCAD-Builder, an…
HelpSystems Introduces New IBM i High Availability Solution
Recent Bug Busters acquisition provides foundation for proven high availability and business continuity offering in the IBM i space Minneapolis, MN, October 3, 2016—HelpSystems today announced the release of Robot…
What is eating my IFS?
The most common question I get about disk usage is about the IFS, specifically “what is using all the disk space allocated to it?” Most recently I was asked this…
Benelux Power 2016
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IBM i Security Deep Dive Training with Carol Woodbury
IBM i security is a scary subject for many, but it doesn’t have to be. Join Carol Woodbury for two days of in-depth security education. Carol will teach you the…
Proximity becomes Zebra Technologies Independent Software Vendor and Reseller partner
Proximity, a leading provider of software solutions, development, support and maintenance has become a Zebra Technologies independent software vendor (ISV) and reseller partner. Zebra Technologies is a global leader in…
Fresche Launches New Power Partner Program
Fresche, a company that has been helping companies manage and modernize their legacy IBM i IT environments since 1976, has announced its new, worldwide Power Partner Program. The new program…
i-UG release details of the final IBM i user group meeting of 2016
i-UG, the UK’s only User Group for IBM i professionals, is delighted to announce details of its forthcoming event in Wolverhampton. The event will take place on Wednesday 19th October…
Running an Old AIX Version?
At an IBM event recently, the presenter asked for a show of hands of companies that are still running AIX 6.1. Quite a few, even though the last service pack…
Detecting Damaged Objects
With IBM i being as robust as it is, for most of us damaged objects are a rare thing but the problem is that they tend to turn up at…
Git – A Free SCM?
In my previous article I gave you an insight into the new open source editor Orion on the IBM i. If you haven’t yet read my Orion PowerWire article, it…
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