Category: Technical Articles
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IBM i Exit Points – The Power To Control and Audit
During this period of enforced lockdown Rowton Staff have been encouraged to spend more time on Training and Education. A recent webinar I watched was one from a series by Robin Tatum from HelpSystems entitled 2020 State of IBM i Security Study. https://www.helpsystems.com/cta/download-state-ibm-i-security-study-guideOne of the points discussed which stood out for me was about Exit Points.…
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Act Fast IBM have announced a SWMA Amnesty
For five long years I’ve been telling anyone at IBM who would listen that we need a SWMA Amnesty, well that time has come but it’s not going to be here for long so if you want to save thousands of £/€/$ you need to act now! And talking of now, now more than ever…
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A NodeJS Website on IBM i – Final Version
This article continues with my Node.js Express website on IBM i theme. Here we will ensure our ‘add a new employee’ functionality is in the same format as the update and delete functions by displaying a pop-up modal window to allow the user to input new employee details. We have finally got there! The stages…
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IBM i 7.4 TR2 and 7.3 TR8
We are living through some incredible times right now, I type this article whilst in Covid-19 Lockdown, I only bring this up so as to allow myself to wish you and your loved ones well and to hope that your lives are not too badly affected. Those of you who know me well, know that…
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Backup the backup of your backup
It may sound like we’re getting into some sort of recursion error, but I like to think of it as the poor mans VTL, Virtual Tape Library, and something you can try at home (I assume most of us are working at home right now.) A little bit of background, most of my customers are…
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A NodeJS Website on IBM i – Updating Records
Continuing with my Node.js Express website on IBM i theme, in this article I’ll show you how easy it is to update employee records from our database. Building on the previous article, on how to delete records, we will use the same structure to update, by using a popup window to allow the user to…
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A Screen a Story – Graph History.
Children and system managers have one thing in common, neither of them like to clean up mess. In one aspect children are different from system managers, they know which mess they should have cleaned up! For system managers that is not always crystal clear. We all know that IBM i Access for Windows is no…
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More Save/Restore Data Area’s Worth Knowing About
Following on from my save21 article last month it transpires that there are some more system data areas worth knowing about in relation to save/restore date/time/media information. If you needed to know when a file was last saved on the system you would run command DSPOBJD OBJ(LIBRARY/FILE) OBJTYPE(*FILE) Then taking option 5 to display the…
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A NodeJS Website on IBM i – Deleting Records
Continuing with my Node.js Express website on IBM i series, in this article I’ll show you how easy it is to delete employee records from our database. In this article, we will develop some quick scripts to remove these records. Once again, it really is very simple in node. The stages we need to go…
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Everyone needs a hobby – Maths on IBM i
First of all, credit to Simon Hutchinson @ RPGPGM.com and the article ‘Calculating prime numbers in RPG’ for reminding me of this. 8 years ago, when I was first learning RPG (and had slightly more hair than I do now, not sure if those two factors are related!) I decided to test some of what…
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A Screen a Story – The system limit is the limit.
IBM i is evolving and so is the work around IBM i. Most shops no longer have someone who is constantIy monitoring IBM i. Monitoring has been automated, be it by using the tools available in Navigator for i, watches or tools like Nagios and any other ISV tool, which may or may not use…
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How Long Is That Save 21 Going To Take?
I was at a customer site the other day, working on a server I hadn’t worked on before doing routine maintenance. HMC upgrade, firmware & ptf install. So what? I hear you ask. Well, everything was going well until I started the save21 (Entire System Save) prior to the ptf install. It took that long…