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2016 Common Europe Congress Concludes
Luxembourg, Europe; 17 June, 2016. An IT community truly representing Europe.Common Europe elects new Executive Committee. The 2016 Common Europe Congress (CEC) concludes as one of the best IT events…
Remain Software releases the new CA 2E interface
Remain Software addresses the CA 2E community and releases the new, powerful CA 2E interface for their IBM i Application Lifecycle Management tool, TD/OMS. The new solution supports management of…
Maxava iFoundation invites IBM i User Community to apply for 2016/17 funding
Philadelphia, PA (15 June, 2016) – The Maxava iFoundation is once again delighted to announce a new funding pool to assist IBM i user groups following the record number of…
Paragon Group refreshes its IBM server and storage infrastructure with Northdoor
Scaling up to tackle business growth. Paragon is a highly dynamic organisation that continues to grow both organically and through acquisitions. The Group launched its banking subsidiary in 2014, a…
IBM i 7.3, little things mean a lot
Much has been spoken about the key new features in IBM i 7.3 that it’s really easy to overlook some of the smaller new features, some of which can be…
Raz-Lee’s iSecurity Suite Supports IBM i 7.3
Raz-Lee Security Inc., a major vendor of security, auditing & compliance software solutions for IBM i systems, is announcing full support in its iSecurity product suite for IBM’s latest release…
The Business Impact of Losing Your Critical System
The more critical a project is to a business, the greater attention it deserves. Which is why it puzzles me that many companies have little or no appetite for discussing…
Remain Software announces a major step in global expansion
Remain Software stands together with Japanese resellers to support application development and modernization among IBM i teams in Japan and APAC Remain Software announces a major step in global expansion…
JT4i—Job tracking for IBM i
Press Release: Shield Advanced Solutions, leading providers of High Availability software, announces a new product JT4i. This job tracking solution for IBMi brings a fresh approach, and is a complete…
It’s about time! – Time Travelling with DB2 for i
Introduction – In this article, I want to run though a great new feature of DB2 that was released as part of the Version 7.3 announcements last month. As the…
Customisation for the VIOS CLI
Something I’ve discussed previously but have refined recently is customising the VIOS CLI take make using the CLI and navigation a little easier. Whenever I install a VIOS LPAR the…
Say Hello to IBM i 7.3
Last week saw both the announcement and shipping of IBM i v7.3, just three days apart, this statement in itself tells you something about the new management style of the…


