Category: IBM i
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Who invited SYSMSG
Another in my catalogue of “everyone and their mother has done this if they needed to, but here’s a slight twist on it” articles. To set the scene, a customer of mine decided they want their Power server in an enquiry state and so setup some new generic profiles with generic menus sans all their…
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A screen a Story
Being a system administrator in the GUI era, it seems almost impossible to ignore the IBM i GUIs. Having said that it is my experience that a lot of sysadmins try to ignore those GUI, which were not part of day-1, when they started working. They are, as would I say, more or less glued…
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Tic-Tock, Tic-Tock; time’s running out for IBM i 7.2
IBM announced on the 10th September that you will be able to order a 7.2 version of IBM i until the 30th April 2020, and with the announcement came the news that support for the 7.2 will also cease on the 30th April 2021. However you can upgrade directly from 7.2 to 7.4 (you don’t…
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IBM i & AIX now available on Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS Clouds
From the start of this year there have been a few announcements that came across my desk and caught my attention about IBM i, AIX and Linux being available on Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS Clouds, and I thought I would condense them down and show them here. Why? Because as more organisations adopt a…
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Leaving SEU behind – ILEditor
After sitting in a number of the SiD sessions at the international i-Power event this year, one key fact I took away is “you really need to get off SEU.” However, I’m a little cost-averse so can’t quite justify jumping straight to RDi, luckily the open source community is ready to step into that gap.…
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PRUV Tool
Upgrading your system to a new release of IBM i can be a worrying process with many items to check before taking the plunge. The IBM Pre-upgrade verification (PRUV) tool can help with this process by checking through all the IBM mandated pre-requisite tasks before you start the actual upgrade. This can give you peace…
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VS Code – An OSS IDE
In my previous articles on IBM i Open Source, I’ve briefly mentioned Microsoft Visual Studio Code. So, in this article, let me show you what it’s all about. What options do we have for editing our source/applications that reside on our IFS? IBMs RDi (Eclipse based) Zend Studio (Eclipse based) Notepad ++ 5250 EDTF (Suppose…
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Node-red on i – 5733OPS not required
Inspired by Andy Youens series of articles on Node and Open Source on IBMi, I decided to try setting up Node-red on one of my servers. I’ve also got to give credit to a post on the IBM developer site: https://developer.ibm.com/tutorials/i-running-node-red/ The main difference is that where the walk-through uses licensed program 5733OPS I decided…
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“What am I letting myself in for?”
“What am I letting myself in for? “ One of many thoughts going through the mind of the Aspie on his way to the i-power event in the middle of his third minor panic attack. Maybe not the intro you’re expecting, but I’d like to talk now about why it’s worth the trip. For…
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SMBv3 support in IBM i 7.4
Those of you that spotted my article on what’s new in 7.4 back in April (if you missed it, click here to read it now) may well remember I was quite excited at the prospect of SMBv3 in 7.4. And yes, I realise just how sad that makes me sound and yet it is AWESOME…
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Node Project – iDash
In this article I will take you through part of my Node.js workshop that I presented at the UK International i Power conference in June 2019. The workshop was called ‘From Zero to Production with Node.js’. I hope those that attended enjoyed the workshop and found it beneficial. I also included a brief introduction into…
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HMC’s – descriptive errors optional
I’ve been having great fun recently trying to upgrade one of my HMCs and figure I shall now share with you all the woes in the hope that the next person to have this problem can find the solution a little easier. If you read all the way through there’s also a couple of bits…