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DB2 Row and Column Access Control

May 2, 2017 by Andy Youens Leave a Comment

DB2 Row and Column Access Control

Introduction DB2 for i has a fantastic feature that is fairly new, Row and Column Access Control, or RCAC, for ease. This feature has been around since 7.2 of IBM i in April 2014, but doesn’t get a lot of exposure, so hence my interpretation of how it works. It is a method of controlling […]

Great Tech Events … but how do you convince the boss to send you?

April 26, 2017 by Anthony English 1 Comment

Great Tech Events … but how do you convince the boss to send you?

There are many great technical events and conferences throughout the year. Now, maybe you’re sold on the idea of going to one of these conferences. But how do you get the boss to agree it would be a good idea for you to attend? After all, there’s the cost of attendance, possibly travel and accommodation […]

Keep an eye on your cache batteries with QSMBTTCC

April 3, 2017 by Steve Bradshaw Leave a Comment

Keep an eye on your cache batteries with QSMBTTCC

Those of you who have suffered from an unexpected cache battery failure (SRC nnnn8008) will know how much pain it can cause. Whilst there is never any danger to your data, in many cases the performance of your server can be reduced by a factor of ten! So this month I thought I would show […]

Who are these millennials with the ‘legacy’ technology vendettas?

March 30, 2017 by Rhiannon Dakin Leave a Comment

Who are these millennials with the ‘legacy’ technology vendettas?

It’s becoming a weekly occurrence. Whether in conversations with customers, or in our industry’s publications, the millennial disdain for so called ‘legacy’ technology is a hot topic. We are supposed to subscribe to the idea that we have a looming skills crisis because people in my generation treat these platforms with contempt. Where did this […]

IBM i SNTP – Automatic Time Adjustment

February 28, 2017 by Steve Bradshaw 4 Comments

IBM i SNTP – Automatic Time Adjustment

Last month I wrote about how you could get your IBM i to automatically adjust its clock for Daylight Saving Time adjustments, this month we take it one step further and see how its trivial to get your clock to keep itself in sync constantly with other services on your network using SNTP Simple Network […]

Corporate Inertia

February 24, 2017 by Anthony English Leave a Comment

Corporate Inertia

Resistance. Inertia. It’s hard to understand why people don’t do what they know they should be doing. This inertia isn’t just for people who really need to go to the gym or stop losing hours on Facebook. There’s also such a thing as Corporate Inertia. When you’re introducing some IT solution which will address a […]

RPG 2017 Updates

February 24, 2017 by Andy Youens Leave a Comment

RPG 2017 Updates

During the latest round of IBM i Technology Refreshes, TR2 for version 7.3 and TR6 for version 7.2 enhancement, IBM also introduced three enrichments for RPG. These changes will be released as individual PTFs, around the April 2017 timespan, as with the Technology Refreshes. Let us take a look at these. These are: Nested data-structures […]

IBM i Daylight Saving Time Management

February 1, 2017 by Steve Bradshaw Leave a Comment

IBM i Daylight Saving Time Management

Spring is on its way (Halleluiah!) and next month the clocks with be springing forward an hour.  As a boy (and the youngest of my clan) I remember it was always a job given to me to go around the house and change the dozen or so clocks that we had around the place. Nowadays […]

IBM i 7.3 – Authority Collection Services

December 23, 2016 by Steve Bradshaw 1 Comment

IBM i 7.3 – Authority Collection Services

One of the great new functions IBM has built into IBM i as standard, and free of charge in 7.3, is the Authority Collection Services.  This works a little like the performance collection services, in that you start it for one or more users to monitor access to objects in one or more Libraries or […]

Application Runtime Expert – Worth a Look?

December 20, 2016 by Andy Youens Leave a Comment

Application Runtime Expert – Worth a Look?

IBM recently announced that their product, Application Runtime Expert (ARE) for IBM I, is now free of charge, along with a host of other products.  The IBM announcement can be found here if you are interested. ARE is a licensed program, 5733ARE, which will work on any IBM i Version 6 or above.  It was […]

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