A bit of background to start with today, I’ve recently been learning how to setup NodeJS on IBM i (again big plug here for Andy Youens series to get you started.) After completing a few tutorials, I started looking at pulling data out of the local tables using the idb-connector package, more on that another…

Continuing my Node.js website on IBM i, in this article I’ll show you how we can access a file/table and display the results on a web page all neatly formatted. We will take our employee table, do some record selection and sort for a certain order. Before we access our database, we need to prepare…

Oh no! and just when everything was running so well. There’s a problem with the system and you have logged a Problem Management Report (PMR) with IBM. You get a response from IBM asking you to manually collect all kinds of disparate information from areas of the system you might never have delved into before.…

For those of you who haven’t already read it, I’d highly recommend starting with Steve Bradshaws article “Do I need to pay for Java?” from January. After following the setup guide on the IBM site so that I was using OpenJ9 I was left with the question “I’d rather like to use Download Director, how…

Now we have our basic Node.js website up and running, let me show you how easy it is to make it a secure site.  By secure, I mean making the transport layer secure, ensuring the site uses Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) to ensure all communications between the client and the server are secured. My previous…

GREAT SCOT !! No I’m not talking about Mr Forstie but of course borrowing from Doc Brown in the Movie Back to the Future.  This is something he would say whenever he saw something incredible. Now that is exactly how I felt when I was shipped a test PTF by my hero Mike K Russell…

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…

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…