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Common Europe welcomes its newest country member
Luxembourg, Europe; Common Europe is pleased to welcome its newest country member into its user group community. AIX Portal, of Russia, joins 15 other country user groups belonging to Common…
ByUsing PHP and RPG to Communicate Together With DataQueues
Continuing my articles about PHP and RPG communicating together, this time I will show how these two languages can talk with each other using data queues. If you missed the…
ByObjectConnect – Using SAVRSTLIB
More of us than ever find ourselves working on more than one system. There are a whole range of reasons for this. Quite often we have separate LPARs on the…
ByCreating and Mapping multiple LUs in SSP
If you’ve read any of my previous articles you’ll know that I’m a big fan of VIOS shared storage pools (SSP). I have been lambasted by a number of IBMers…
ByPress Release: Maxava launches a brand new product – Maxava Monitor Mi8
Philadelphia, PA., March 2, 2016: Maxava is delighted to announce the release of its latest product, Maxava Monitor Mi8. The brand new product is a multi-platform, cloud-native monitoring solution that…
HelpSystems Meets Growing Demand for Cybersecurity on Multiple Platforms
HelpSystems Meets Growing Demand for Cybersecurity on Multiple Platforms Minneapolis, MN, March 1, 2016—HelpSystems, a leading provider of systems management, business intelligence, and security solutions, today announced the release of…
Be the Exception. Become an IT Monitoring Hero.
Today’s businesses must be available 24/7 with fewer people having to manage more complex systems and processes. IT departments receive a constant bombardment of information from a diverse variety of…
HelpSystems Marketplace Survey
It’s 2016. Is anyone expanding their IBM i footprint? Now you don’t have to guess. The answer’s right here! Check out the second annual IBM i Marketplace Survey Results from…
Time for IBM to Stage an Intervention?
Let’s start with an old joke: Q. How many psychologists does it take to change a lightbulb? A: One, but the lightbulb has to want to change. This, in essence,…
HelpSystems Acquires Tango/04 Computing Group
HelpSystems Acquires Tango/04 Computing Group to Meet Growing Global Demand Companies combine to help organizations in Europe and Latin America automate systems management, strengthen security, and deliver simple data access. Minneapolis,…
Zipping / Unzipping IFS Objects in IBM i
Those of you who know me probably know that I’m a lapsed programmer. These days I spend most of my time working at or below the IBM i Operating System…
Press Release: TD/OMS integrates with WebSmart PHP
TD/OMS integrates with WebSmart PHP to enable robust PHP web applications lifecycle management on IBM i. The Remain Software IBM i Application Lifecycle Management solution, TD/OMS is now integrated with…