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A Month of Security Problems
ByBefore we begin my article, let me talk about CVEs. A CVE, or Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures, is a standardised system for identifying and cataloguing security vulnerabilities in software and…
Collection Services Q & R
ByThe “R” in the title is no typo, no Q & A this time. The “R” does refer to the name Collection Services Collection in the screen shot, which is…
The Year of Many Changes
2025 began a month ago. It is now February 2025, and we are back to our daily responsibilities: tickets, customer calls, and our regular routines. We’ve already forgotten our New…
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Why Celebrate the 35th Anniversary of the IBM i Platform at the University of Wolverhampton? …Because the Future Won’t Wait!
The 21st of June this year marks the 35th anniversary of the launch of the IBM i Platform. This event is quite unusual in a tech industry that typically venerates all…
ByEclipse AI Chat Integration
My good friends at Remain Software have just released an AI chat integration feature for Eclipse and Rational Developer for i . According to their website, ‘This tool leverages the…
ByA screen a story – A User Reporting Slow ODBC Performance
In my last article I wrote: “IBM i Services allows a modern system administrator to move away from having to use 5250 emulation, not because you should, but because using…
A screen a story – The Contact Information National language version
Recently Scott Forstie created an SQL script allowing you to create a procedure with which it is a piece of cake to review the special instruction PTFs. What the link…
Environment Variables
The IBM i operating system is highly dependent on environmental variables, which can have a significant impact on its performance. In this article, we will dive into the various environmental…
A Note from the Chairman
Well, if we thought that 2022 was a whirlwind – that saw much of business come back together and saw i-UG really step up to the mark in trying to…
ByA screen a story – The Run SQL Scripts bottom bar
If IBM is following the same schedule as it has in previous years it is fair to say that a new version of IBM i Access Client Solution (ACS) is…
DB2 for i Multisystem
In this article I will be taking a look at a feature we should all be installing, and using, on our IBM i servers. As I mentioned in a recent…
A screen a story – What does “move active records” mean?
The latest Technology Refresh (TR) for IBM i 7.4 and 7.5 has something new within them for reorganizing a file. If you have lost count of the TR levels IBM…
Node-RED & Security
I gave a quick demonstration of Node-RED to a client recently and I didn’t get the response I was expecting. On bringing up the Node-RED browser interface, the first question…
Node-RED & Bank Holidays
In a recent training course I gave to a UK bank, we were covering web-services and I showed how we can get information from a reliable source and then store…
A screen a story – What does this button do? Part II
In my last article A screen a story – What does this button do? The SQL button was used to retrieve SQL statements which I then tweaked to get the…