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  • Ping unto eternity

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    David Shears
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    A slightly pretentious title for an article that doesn’t deserve it, but you must indulge yourself every so often. If you’ve ever used the PING command from a windows command line I imagine you’re familiar with the -t option that will leave it running until you have the information you want. I found myself needing…

  • Programmers Comments

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    Andy Youens
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    This is a light hearted article this month while I prepare for my Node.js on IBM i workshop at the UK International i Power conference 2019. Over the 40 odd years I have been programming, I’ve come across some fantastic comments in source code.  They certainly make code maintenance a lot more enjoyable. These are…

  • ‘i’ will emPOWER the new generation of techs

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    For as long as I can remember, the Holy Grail of IBM i computing has been to engage with the younger generations and to bring them into the safe and secure IBM i fold; and it has been a tough journey. Until now! This just got a whole lot easier! With the latest explosion of…

  • IBM i Security Best Practices – Presented by Jeff Uehling

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      Security best practices and regulatory compliance are a constantly moving target. In this webinar, Syncsort’s Product Management Director for Security Solutions, Jeff Uehling, shares what he’s learned over the past 30 years regarding IBM i security best practices. Key topics include: Why you need to run at security level 50 – and the exposures…

  • Raz-Lee Security Announces ICAP Client for iSecurity Anti-Virus

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    iSecurity Anti-Virus has been enhanced to support the new ICAP Client. With this solution, the actual virus scanning is performed outside the IBM i, by organizational servers. This solution is important for organizations with multiple LPARs (logical partitions), especially if these LPARs are using parts of a processing unit. ICAP, the Internet Content Adaptation Protocol…

  • DSPIFSLCK and the profile that would not delete

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    David Shears
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    DSPIFSLCK and the profile that would not delete Mixing a little of promoting useful utilities with my frustration when I can’t get something to work. To set the scene, I’ve been trying to remove an old developer profile from one of our production machines. For whatever reason every time I try to delete it I…

  • Use the Beaver!

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    Andy Youens
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    Use the Beaver! In this article I will show you how we can use beneficial plugins to enhance our RDi environment. If you find the Run SQL Scripts limited in its functionality, not being able to prompt SQL statements, no auto-complete etc, then the Beaver may be for you! DBeaver is free and open source…

  • Say Hello to IBM i 7.4

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    Steve Bradshaw
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    Say Hello to IBM i 7.4 It’s time to meet the new kid on the block, as IBM announces the latest version of IBM i.  IBM i 7.4, announced today and generally available from June 2019. The arrival of 7.4 in 2019 is no surprise, for the last year senior IBM executives have described “The…

  • i-UG’s International i-Power is back and this time it’s bigger than ever!

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    International i-Power is returning to Milton Keynes on the 11th & 12th June and this year the agenda is the largest it has ever been! Continuing with the great success in 2018 the System i-Developers (SiD for short) team are returning this year to deliver lectures to developers who work on IBMi and POWER systems.…

  • Old solutions causing new problems – DSPFD and RGZPFM

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    David Shears
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    A cautionary tale that I’m sure many of you will never have to deal with, but if it stops one person pulling out quite as much hair as I did then it can’t be all bad. One of the bits of maintenance I can normally get my customers to agree to, even if they’re a…

  • Open Source Updates

    Open Source Updates

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    Andy Youens
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    To continue my series of articles on Open Source on the IBM i. A couple of months ago I wrote a PowerWire article on how we should now be managing, and keeping up to date, our open source, which can be found here. For those of you, like myself, who have been working on this…

  • Disable on Date

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    David Shears
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    Speaking to some of my colleagues on Microsoft products (and using sufficient holy water to cleanse afterwards.) I was told that Active Directory has a tickbox to disable a profile on a given date. After a lot of searching I concluded that we don’t have that on IBMi until V7R1 and the USREXPITV/USREXPDATE keywords, cue…