Category: News
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Article 600!
This is a historic post, article number 600 rolls of the print press! Here we celebrate this exciting feat. The number 600 pops up in various contexts, here are some interesting facts that have the number 600.
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Calling app owners and developers!
LANSA engineers are showcasing the LANSA repository in a series of 30-minute webinars. It may be the solution you’re looking for to streamline app development. With it, you can centralize product data for reuse in various implementations. Boost team collaboration with shareable components, logic, styles, and more. Register now to join us on the following…
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Shield Advanced Solutions release V2.0 of Nagios Monitoring plugin for IBM i – AAG
Choose AAG to keep and ‘eye’ on their IBM i. Shield’s simple to install, highly functional solution for monitoring your environment. Using the notification options not only reduces operator workload but can also prevent minor issues becoming major problems. The frequency of some checks requires they perform at the highest level possible; this is something that…
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RPG Data-Gen Operational Code
Looking back at when I first started writing articles for PowerWire.eu nine years ago, I was bought onboard to cover RPG articles. Looking back over the last few years I have failed miserably in this task and maybe got too carried away in the ‘open-source’ frenzy. In this anniversary month for the IBM i we…
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Eclipse 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 power of AI to provide contextual suggestions, code snippets, bug checking and documentation proposals. Empowering you to write code faster and more efficiently.’ Yes, it…
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A 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 IBM i services is quicker in getting the job done. In my next episode of a screen a story I am going to demonstrate that…
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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 is between the contact information and the PTF cover letters is something I will explain later on. Please allow me to focus on the special…
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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 variables and their effects on the IBM i. What are environment variables? Let me start at the beginning, what are environment variables? Environment variables allow…
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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 keep the information flowing – then 2023 is going to need a whole new weather warning! 2022 was a great year. We had some great…
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A screen a story – Not our problem anymore
Last week I ran into an issue, which did teach me something new about the command WRKPRB. After checking a test LPAR after having applied the latest group PTFs for IBM i 7.4, I noticed the following when checking the apply: When looking at the joblog of QSYSCOMM1 spoolfiles were being created: When looking at…
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Raspberry Pi and Machine Learning
In my last article, I demonstrated how I used Machine Learning on the Raspberry Pi to determine if a photograph contained a bird. This article can be found at https://powerwire.uk/raspberry-pi-and-machine-learning if you missed it. In this follow-up article, we will be using the Raspberry Pi to send details to our IBM I server to inform…