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Basic AIX performance monitoring for IBM i professionals
IBM Power Systems have the ability to run both the IBM i and AIX (as well as Linux) operating systems, so how can you leverage your existing IBM i performance…
ByProximity and Scandinavian House win second major award in 2015
The implementation of STREAM, a cloud-based order, delivery and transport management software application has enabled Scandinavian House with Proximity to scoop its second major award this week after winning the…
New publisher for PowerWire
PowerWire has a new publisher in the form of NC Communications. Lymm, Cheshire-based NC Communications is already well-known in the British midrange sector as the co-host of UK user group…
Experience may stymie Oracle’s Power play
Oracle put the boot into IBM’s Power Systems last month but it may find its users are unimpressed. Oracle launched a new programme called Exa Your Power at its OpenWorld…
i-UG expands its winter conference in Wolverhampton
i-UG, the UK’s IBM i user group, is to hold a big event in Wolverhampton next month. Its winter conference will take place at the city’s Mount Hotel (pictured, above)…
Tech tip: finding AIX’s save buttons
If there’s one thing that I will never get used to about Google Docs, it is that it doesn’t save your changes. Or rather, it does it for you. Well,…
Opinion: How to make your work on IBM i look good (so the platform doesn’t get replaced).
I would like to share with you a photo of my granddad dressed in a sparkly disco dancing outfit. Not really! But that’s what some people think I’m suggesting when…
Tech tip: populating the VIOS Virtual Media Repository
One of the most useful features of VIOS is the Virtual Media Repository (VMR). This allows us to create and import ISO images and then map these to virtual DVD…
ByOur authors’ verdicts on latest IBM i announcements: new services, SQL capabilities and RAID features
IBM made a slew of Power Systems announcements on Monday including new hardware, an updated version of AIX and two Technology Refreshes for IBM i. Big Blue also removed free-form…
SoftLanding launches Columbus content manager
SoftLanding Systems, the IBM i software division of Unicom Global, has launched Columbus, an enterprise content management solution for Power Systems. Columbus was developed by Macro 4, Unicom’s document management…
NSPCC revamps IBM i-based supporter system
Britain’s biggest children’s charity has completely revamped a crucial IBM i-based application that looked like it was up for the chop. The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to…
A guide to RPG definitions
I would like to take you through the process of defining variables and files in RPG programs. In an effort to promote totally free-form RPG, all the examples shown in…
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