News IBM i Conference in the UK i-UG’s International i-Power is the largest IBM i Conference of the year in the UK and they will have a whole host of topics to choose from, looking at many key aspects of today’s IBM i installations. Here are just some of the topics being covered this year…
IBMi Ping unto eternity 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
IBMi Programmers Comments 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
IBMi ‘i’ will emPOWER the new generation of techs 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!
News The 2019 Common Europe Congress The 2019 Common Europe Congress adds IBM experts to agenda including the latest announcements and education on OS 7.4 and Db2 Mirror; Luxembourg, Europe; 20 May 2019. The Common Europe Congress (CEC), a technical association event centered around IBM i technology, has newly added more world-known IBM experts to
IBMi IBM i Security Best Practices – Presented by Jeff Uehling 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
IBMi Raz-Lee Security Announces ICAP Client for iSecurity Anti-Virus 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,
IBMi DSPIFSLCK and the profile that would not delete 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
IBMi Use the Beaver! 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
IBMi Say Hello to IBM i 7.4 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
IBMi i-UG’s International i-Power is back and this time it’s bigger than ever! 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
IBMi Old solutions causing new problems - DSPFD and RGZPFM 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
Technical Articles Free Performance boost for POWER8 & POWER9 Servers Anyone fancy a free performance upgrade? Well if you are running a POWER8 or POWER9 and your firmware is up to date, you may just be able to get a performance increase by changing a single setting in the Hypervisor. This is not an April Fool, it a free 10%
User Groups Community Matters Communities or User Groups are a great source of education as well as networking opportunities with experts and your fellow peers, if you are not part of one you should be, here’s an example why. I attended a User Group meeting organised by i-UG (UK) in February and was
News 48 Hours in POWER There is a great Travel Guide to IT Transformation that IBM Power Systems are presenting where you can virtual travel around the globe and visit companies / organisations that are employing POWER Systems to deliver technology solutions that are quite honestly ‘eye opening’, and at the end of each short story
IBMi Open Source Updates 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
IBMi Disable on Date 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
IBMi IBM i: The Most Amazing IBM Product We Have Heard Of Today I read an article in eweek about IBM i from a reporter who had attended the IBM Think 2019 conference in San Francisco, encountered IBM i for the first time and thought he had stepped into an alternative universe. It was a nice article to read because it was
IBMi IBM i Dashboard In all of those cool computer control rooms you see in the movies, there is always some simple screen that the technician looks at when there is a problem. Admittedly this computer techie is not normally the hero of the movie, nor are they usually the most dashing of characters
IBMi When usage is not usage - Inactive user profiles & devices I’m reminded of an essay I wrote at school “I believe I have no beliefs”, as a good coder I’m sticking to a naming convention! This is a slightly different take on something I’ve seen discussed in various forms, including on the IBM site here: https://www-01.
IBMi "Where did this print come from? How I learned to love the audit journal" A question that crops up from time to time since the paperless office never materialised. Another variation is ‘I asked for a print but didn’t get it, where did it go?’ This is one of the first things that got me to look in detail at the audit functionality
IBMi Fifth Annual IT Marketplace Survey Reveals Ongoing Reliance on IBM i to Support Critical Business Needs HelpSystems announced today that its fifth annual IBM i Marketplace Survey Results reveal not only that the IBM i platform continues to be a top choice for IT professionals, but also that investment in the platform is growing. More than 750 IT professionals from around the world participated in the
News A10 NETWORKS THUNDER® CONVERGENT FIREWALL SELECTED FOR 5G NETWORK DEPLOYMENT A10 Networks Thunder® Convergent Firewall selected for 5G network deployment by major Japanese mobile carrier Theale, UK. – 9th January, 2019: A10 Networks (NYSE: ATEN), a leading provider of intelligent and automated cybersecurity solutions, today announced a major Japanese mobile carrier has selected the A10 Thunder® Convergent Firewall (CFW) Gi/SGi
IBMi Midnight Commander IBM is doing such a great job on the Open Source front, it’s difficult keeping up with all their offerings as of late. That’s not a complaint, keep going IBM! Another great example of software being added to that list is Midnight Commander – what a great name! Midnight
IBMi The Joys of System36 – Update your flat files via SQL For those of you who have a customer that just stopped checking the calendar before the turn of the millennium or really likes the good old-fashioned two character device IDs you’ll sometimes need to update data in a very awkward format. If your data is in a format that
