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LFTP on IBM i

May 10, 2022 by Andy Youens Leave a Comment

If you know all about the TCP/IP utility FTP, you will feel right at home with this nifty utility. If you are fed up with all the virus’s in the open-source utility FileZilla, give lftp a try.  You will not be disappointed. As the man page for lftp states; lftp is a file transfer program […]

Dot Files on IBM i

April 4, 2022 by Andy Youens 1 Comment

For those who have been following my bite size BASH tutorial on You Tube, I thought it about time I wrote an article about a very useful BASH utility that’s available for our IBM i, and of course, plug my BASH videos at https://bit.ly/3IXBkm6 at the same time! This helpful utility was developed by my […]

NCDU on IBM i

March 1, 2022 by Andy Youens 1 Comment

Yes, I am continuing my amazing journey with open source on the IBM i. In this article I’ll be taking a look at another one of the open source utilities that has slipped under the covers… This time it is NCurses Disk Usage, or NCDU from now on. This is a disk storage utility, with […]

Service Commander on IBM i

February 1, 2022 by Andy Youens Leave a Comment

In this article I will talk about another great open-source utility for our IBM i. Firstly, what a great name! Service commander was developed by Jesse Gorsinski, the business architect of open source on IBM i. The github repository for Service Commander can be found at https://github.com/ThePrez/ServiceCommander-IBMi Check-out this repository, not only to see the […]

Logrotate on IBM i

January 6, 2022 by Andy Youens 2 Comments

In this article I will talk about an open-source utility that hasn’t got much airspace since it was released on our IBM i. Its called logrotate, a handly utility that can help us manage the many logs we have on our IFS.  As we all know, log files can easily get out of hand.  How […]

PostgreSQL on IBM i

December 5, 2021 by Andy Youens 1 Comment

In this article I will show you how we can install and use the very popular PostgreSQL database on our IBM i. PostgreSQL is an open source relational database management system, a DBMS developed by a worldwide team of developers.  It has been around since 1986 and now available on the IBM i. Install To […]

Data-Queues with ODBC

November 3, 2021 by Andy Youens 1 Comment

In my last couple of PowerWire articles, I have written about using data-queues and about ODBC connectivity. If you need to refresh yourself of either of the articles, the data- queues article can be found here, with the ODBC article in the link here. In this article, we are going to combine those two features […]

Data-Queues and DB2 Services

October 3, 2021 by Andy Youens 1 Comment

In this article I will be taking a look at how DB2 SQL Services can help with using data-queues. Data-queues are a great way for open source to communicate with traditional objects on the IBM i. For example, an RPG program may place order details on a data-queue, where a Node.js program will pick up […]

Open-Source Package Management Signon

August 31, 2021 by Andy Youens Leave a Comment

For those of you who follow either my articles on PowerWire or my videos at learning.formaserve.co.uk you will know my inclination over the past few years is in Open-sourceon the IBM i, and one of the easiest ways of obtaining packages is via the Access for Client Solutions (ACS) application from IBM, unless you are […]

ODBC & Node.js on IBM i

August 9, 2021 by Andy Youens Leave a Comment

In this article I will be looking at database access using Node.js on our favourite platform the IBM i. A bit of background info first. One of the first applications we wrote in Node.js had to access an audit log that was stored as a traditional table, physical file.  It had to both read and […]

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