Category: News
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Shield Advanced Solutions – new Messaging and Monitoring solutions
September 2022 – Toronto As Shield Advanced Solutions celebrates the significant milestone, 25 years of providing Availability for the IBM i (and predecessors), our customers are raving about the new Messaging and Monitoring solutions. Many of Shield’s long-standing HA4i – high availability for IBM i customers have taken up EM4i – message monitoring for IBM…
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To Cloud or Not to Cloud for IBM i
At a recent IBM i event, a discussion on cloud for IBM i was a divisive topic. Whilst we have a great platform with IBM i, to ensure it’s longevity and avoid the ‘legacy’ tag, it’s important to understand how IBM i can offer cloud and cloud-like capability and economics. In our latest blog, we…
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Why IBM i continues to deliver excellent ROI for manufacturing and distribution
IBM technology has been a key part of enterprise IT since the 1980s with platforms such as AS/400, iSeries, System i and IBM Power Systems and operating systems such as OS/400, i5/OS and IBM i. This technology is prized for its superior performance, stability and dependability. In addition to performance benefits, it has always offered…
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Bring Power to the cloud with Northdoor and Skytap
For organisations that run their x86 workloads on Azure, Skytap offers the ability to bring IBM Power workloads into the same cloud, co-located for low latency and high performance. With your AIX, IBM i and Linux on Power workloads in Azure, you benefit from flexible capacity and pricing with no need to refactor or re-write…
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An Ansible Environment Setup
Firstly, thank-you to all those who attended my Ansible workshop and presentation of Visual Studio Code at the i-UG conference at Northampton in June. It was great to be back presenting and meeting up with friends. This article is related to this event. The Power servers for the event, were kindly provided by Rowton IT…
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Remain Software Milestone 3
NIEUWEGEIN, Netherlands — Today Remain Software is pleased to announce the third Milestone of TD/OMS V14 and MiWorkplace V1.29.0, in line with the company’s commitment to innovation and support. This Milestone is the third scheduled enhancement to each solution, culminating in the annual release each summer. Today’s releases feature new integrations, improvements to the user…
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PowerWire.eu talk to i-UG’s chairman Mike Ryan about their upcoming annual conference
Hello Mike. As the official representative of COMMON Europe in the U.K, i- UG has always listened to the current needs of its members to ensure they get great content that’s relevant to their day to day needs and have done this for many years by organising 4 regional conferences each year, for members, and…
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Dot Files on IBM i
For those who have been following my bite size BASH tutorial on You Tube, I thought it about time I wrote an article about a very useful BASH utility that’s available for our IBM i, and of course, plug my BASH videos at https://bit.ly/3IXBkm6 at the same time! This helpful utility was developed by my…
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Rant for better security on IBM i
This rant is intended as a wakeup call to companies and ITSecurity experts.I have 25 years of experience in Security on IBM i and all too often my observation of the poor implementation of IBM i Security of many companies is truly alarming! All players are responsible for this situation, but first and foremost companies. One would have thought…
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Probably the best Interactive Debugger on the IBM i
Get Started Open up ‘IBM i Client Access’, make sure you have entered the correct system, then choose ‘Database – Run SQL Scripts’. Now select ‘Run – System Debugger’. If on start-up, you get an error ‘Unknown system ‘xxxxx’ was specified – OK’, go to ‘File – Change System’. Enter the system IP address instead.…
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How to find the right IBM i printer configuration
You might think that we live in a world of standards and that any printer would be able to work out of the box with any server. Well sadly, you would be wrong. Whilst this would be the easiest thing in the world to achieve, the one thing that is consistent about all the worlds…
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A screen a story – A Better way to Retire the Heritage Navigator for i
Let me cut right to the chase, if you have read or have not the article of last month titled: “A screen a story – Retire the Heritage Navigator for i”, forget about it. If, however you do not have the option to apply PTFs in the short term and you are concerned about this…