IBMi Man – Where’s that Manual Gone? IBM has released quite a few big hitters lately, MariaDB etc., and some of the not so well known utilites have slipped under the cover. Let me take you through one of them in this article. This great utility stops you being told to RTFM (Read the manual)! So this
IBMi A screen a story – IBM i Services (SQL) to the rescue It is Friday 29thJanuary 2021, I am in a Teams meeting which is drawing to an end, when the phone is ringing. A quick text message is the response, telling the caller that I will call back within 10 minutes. The moment I prepare myself for calling back, another customer
IBMi Version 4 of Flash for i product Available for 5 years, installed in more than 200 LPARs in 12 countries, you certainly already know the ‘Flash for i’ product. It brings to the IBM i the extremely powerful SnapShot/FlashCopy function (instant copy) of the external storage units. Mainly the usages of such a product were to
IBMi Free Registration Announced for RPG & DB2 Summit Lunch & Learn Series — Features IBM i technical tips and tool demos for developers — Peterborough, NH – January 26, 2021 – System i Developer today announces free registration for a series of live, 75-minute Lunch & Learn events to take place from March 9-25, 2021. Designed exclusively for IBM i developers, the series focuses on latest
IBMi Lock System Values Stay Safe! If you’re looking to tighten your IBM i security, it can be quite daunting to know where to start. Do you look at securing the perimeter by looking at an exit point solution, or do embark on lengthy object level security project? Or both?! A quick win
IBMi Seiden Group Announces Free Access to CommunityPlus+ PHP for IBM i Enhanced PHP RPMs come with optional setup & support services Seiden Group, specialists in IBM i open source development, today releases their enhanced CommunityPlus+ PHP RPMs to the general public. The Seiden PHP repository, accessible free to registrants, streamlines the installation of license-free PHP while delivering solid performance. The CommunityPlus+
IBMi A screen a story – time to update the settings of your IBM i SMTP server Let us face it QDLS is something of the past, back from the days when the Integrated File System (IFS) had not seen the light of day. If you have not yet abandoned using QDLS now is a good time to do so. I will not go into details, but
IBMi Using IBM i Services To Manage User Profiles Managing user profiles on IBM i can be an onerous task. For those with larger systems user profiles can run into the thousands. As the person responsible for managing this crucial element of the system doing this through the green screen and reports sees you reading through the report looking
IBMi Why did that NetServer User get disabled? What do you get the SysAdmin who already “has everything” for Christmas? Well, I asked Santa Scott (or maybe I should call him “Forstie the Snowman”) for yet another IBM i Service that would make my life easier. Note: Thanks to my good friend and i-UG colleague Will Holland for
IBMi SAVE21 to the IFS - Worst Idea Ever Maybe not quite the worst, but I imagine there’s a good selection of better ones, something to keep in the back pocket though. I originally wondered about this when I got to a customer site to do a full system save and their tape drive was acting up, fortunately
IBMi RSync – Better than Copy (CP) In this article, I’ll be taking a look at an open-source utility that doesn’t get as much credit as I feel it should. If you have followed my open-source articles here and at the i-UG user group meetings, you will often have to copy files from one IFS
IBMi Logical File - more than the sum of its parts An interesting problem I came across recently, completely self-inflicted as these things often are so hopefully a cautionary tale to avoid others repeating it! I was investigating disk space usage on a customer server, trying to figure out if they could do some housekeeping or if it was time for
IBMi Finding Save Files and Freeing Up Disk Space on IBM i “Finding Save Files” might sound like a Disney “Straight to TV” sequel to “Finding Nemo” but no, it’s much more pleasurable than that ???? Few of us enjoy tidying up after ourselves in our home life and in my experience, even less of us like to do it in their
IBMi Hello Maria! Hello Maria! – I can’t say that without sounding like Leslie Philips – showing my age again! One of the cutting-edge recent additions from IBM for their Open Source offerings is Maria DB. In my opinion, this is a great addition, and will open the IBM i to even more applications
IBMi The modern way to check your IBM i PTF levels In the good old days before Covid, remember them! Finding out where you were with your PTF levels was a laborious task. You had to manually compare the PTF groups installed on your system with the IBM Fix Central web site and note the level of each group. If the
IBMi Bye Bye NodeVer! For those of us using Node.js on our IBM i, you are probably aware of an Open Source utility, provided by IBM, called NodeVer (Is that Node Ver? or is it Nod Ever?, I’ll leave it with you to call it whatever you like!). NodeVer was a great
IBMi Last signon date - set it yourself Something that came up recently and jogged my memory for a tweak I made a few years ago. I was asked to confirm if a user had logged into a profile, now on the face of it a nice simple question and answer. WRKUSRPRF <username> and return the
IBMi Cloud Walkers bring new tools to IBM i administrators Cloud Walkers is a new company that has been set up by Bartlomiej Grabowski who is an IBM Champion, their aim is to bring new tools to IBM i administrators, and at the moment their tools are called LPARKit. Below is the detail that PowerWire received about their new tools.
IBMi i-UG's November event goes Hybrid i-UG’s final event of 2020 will be on Tuesday 10th November, known as their i-Power Midlands event and will be FREE to attend to all attendees. Normally i-Power Midlands is an in-person event held at the Mount Hotel in Wolverhampton, but with the current Covid-19 restrictions and government advice/
IBMi Three reasons to look at INZTAP in a different light The use of tape with IBM i is still truly ubiquitous, and yet virtually no one pays any attention to the way that the tapes are prepared. Whether we are taking about GDPR secure data wipes, backup data integrity or identifying backup time, then INZTAP is a great tool to
IBMi Keep My NodeJS App Running! In my previous article, we created a quick weather app running on our favourite server. In this article, I will show you how we can ensure this application is always up and running, and if it’s not running, get it to automatically restart. Node applications are different to say,
IBMi More fun with Ansible for IBM i Messing about with Ansible for i modules In this article I decided to make use of a number of the Ansible for i modules to demonstrate their use for more usual day to day CL related tasks. A word of warning before I start. The playbook I’ve developed is relatively long and contains all the variables
IBMi Leaving SEU behind part 2 For those who don’t remember, or are new to the newsletter, last year I did an article on ILEditor as a way to start to bring my code writing into the 21st century. I also mentioned in the article that there was a new version, ILEditor 2, in the
IBMi A Weather App on IBM i Back to Node.js on IBM i for this one! In this article, we will be creating a quick weather app running on our favourite server. Once we have this up and running, in the next couple of articles we will be enhancing it to integrate with our existing applications
IBMi Using Ansible with IBM i to install PTFs In my previous article I introduced you to using the ibm.power_ibmi Ansible collection from IBM. I showed how to connect to your IBM i LPAR and vary on and off a device. Whilst that is mildly useful I wanted to write about something slightly more complex and, arguably,
