Category: IBM i
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NCDU on IBM i
Yes, I am continuing my amazing journey with open source on the IBM i. In this article I’ll be taking a look at another one of the open source utilities that has slipped under the covers… This time it is NCurses Disk Usage, or NCDU from now on. This is a disk storage utility, with…
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2022 All400’s IBM i Survey
Four years agon All400’s did a ‘user’ survey about IBM i, and they had 650 resonses, this year they are doing another survey and hope to achieve 1000 responses. They have asked PowerWire.eu to promote their survey in the hope of achieving their target. It involves the 3 major segments of the IBM i community…
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Remain Software Milestone
NIEUWEGEIN, Netherlands — Today Remain Software is pleased to announce the second Milestone of TD/OMS V14, Gravity V7, OCTO V1, Remain API Studio V3, and MiWorkplace V1.28, in line with the company’s commitment to innovation and support. This Milestone is the second of three scheduled enhancements to each solution, culminating in the annual release each summer. Today’s…
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A screen a story – Retire the Heritage Navigator for i
Although the log4j media storm of December 2021 has settled and is part of what we call the past. IBM did publish a document titled Security Bulletin: IBM i components are affected by CVE-2021-4104 (log4j version 1.x) When looking at this document you will find a section called “Workarounds and Mitigations”, in there you can…
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Service Commander on IBM i
In this article I will talk about another great open-source utility for our IBM i. Firstly, what a great name! Service commander was developed by Jesse Gorsinski, the business architect of open source on IBM i. The github repository for Service Commander can be found at https://github.com/ThePrez/ServiceCommander-IBMi Check-out this repository, not only to see the…
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Finding the key to cost-effective, simple business continuity and disaster recovery
key to cost-effective, simple business continuity and disaster recovery By Tom Richards, Systems and Storage Practice Lead Northdoor plc. Preparing for the unknown If the events of the last year have taught us anything, it’s that no one knows what’s round the next corner. The widespread disruption caused by the pandemic has put organisations’ continuity…
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A screen a story – Storage Spikes?
As mentioned in my previous article, this article is all about when disk space spikes all of a sudden and how to trace the culprit. The last few year more and more of my tasks have moved from 5250 emulation to Run SQL scripts. So finding the reason why disk space suddenly spikes is no…
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Logrotate on IBM i
In this article I will talk about an open-source utility that hasn’t got much airspace since it was released on our IBM i. Its called logrotate, a handly utility that can help us manage the many logs we have on our IFS. As we all know, log files can easily get out of hand. How…
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Your IBM i server is not a fridge
It feels a little crazy to have to point this out but your IBM i isn’t a bloody refrigerator! And yet, there are some users who seem to think that you can treat IBM i as they would a fridge, namely they turn it on when it’s shiny and new and just leave it running…
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PostgreSQL on IBM i
In this article I will show you how we can install and use the very popular PostgreSQL database on our IBM i. PostgreSQL is an open source relational database management system, a DBMS developed by a worldwide team of developers. It has been around since 1986 and now available on the IBM i. Install To…
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A screen a story – Custom Charts. Is it a hidden gem?
If disk space fills up completely on IBM i, the system will eventually come to a stop. Before doing that it will get slower and slower. It is your task as a system administrator to prevent that from happening, In the past I have seen a wide variety of monitoring software keeping an eye on…
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A screen a story – now you see me, now you do not
The life of a system administrator can be full of surprises. Things you have taken for granted, turn out to be completely different. Let me get directly to the point. All jobs being started on IBM i are logged in the history log, right?If you want to know the answer, you need to read on.…