Welcome to our articles page
If you cannot see what you are after, use the search box below
Your One Stop for IBM i Training!
Look no further than FormaServe, who have been providing IBM i training since 1990.
Our trainers & consultants are one team, ensuring that both stay up to date & our courses revolve around real-world experience.
We are dedicated to providing innovative & useful training for the IBM i.
Our mission is to aid you & your staff to take advantage of new & existing technologies & become more productive in your everyday work.
Previous Posts
Why you should embrace CL’s new features
From the AS/400’s launch in 1988 through to V5R3 in 2004, IBM made no enhancements to CL programming. We thought we were burdened with the same CL forever. We were…
ByVIOS: How to create multiple virtual disks in a Shared Storage Pool
I recently installed a Power8 system with VIOS 2.2.3.4 and used this opportunity to configure a Shared Storage Pool (SSP) cluster. I needed to allocate around 34TB of storage space…
ByOpinion: Toy Story or Rise of The Machines?
Behold, your toddler’s next Power System client device will be a Watson-connected toy dinosaur. But am I the only one who finds the idea of letting a global megacorp’s A.I.…
ByGerman i developer improves cross-platform testing
A German IBM i-based developer has cut errors and test times with Rational Quality Manager. Boppard-based Ehrhardt + Partner specialises in warehouse management and transport logistics solutions. But while it…
Survey shines light on Power i in Europe
Back in October, PowerWire.eu urged our readers to take part in a new survey of the IBM i market conducted by HelpSystems. The reason was simple. Since the i was…
Speedy website’s a winner with Power i and Watson
A German developer has combined the Power i’s strength with Watson’s savvy to carve out a niche in the hotel market. Kaufering-based IT consultant Rainer Ross used a Power 720…
i-UG to hold action-packed event in February
The UK’s i-UG will hold an action-packed conference on Thursday, February 19 at the Mercure Norton Grange Hotel in Rochdale, Lancashire (pictured). Seminars include a look at the latest version…
Brussels conference focuses on security
Common Belgium is kicking off its 2015 schedule with a close look at security. The IBM i user group will hold its first major meeting of the year at the…
How to take advantage of the new, smaller IBM i 7.2
With the release of IBM i version 7.2 Technology Refresh 1, Big Blue has reduced the size requirement for the load-source disk for virtualised storage implementations. “So what?” I hear…
ByOpinion: let IBM i have its day in the sun
Last week, IBM launched its new z13 mainframe (pictured above). Apparently, it had hurried the announcement along so that it came before its latest set of earnings. This move was…
Masterclass: advanced vSCSI disk monitoring (includes scripts)
In my previous article, I showed how you can use nmon in VIOS to display the performance statistics of hdisks that are mapped to client LPARs. This is achieved by…
Indian institution jumps to Oracle/Power combo
India’s Council of Agricultural Research has made the jump from paper-based processes to an Oracle-on-Power ERP system supporting well over 100 sites. The ambitious project is something of a coup…