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Author: Andy Youens

  • An Ansible IBM i Disk Checker

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    This article slightly deviates from my usual open source articles on IBM i. I say slightly, as this article will be about Ansible and yes Ansible is open-source.  Thank-you Red Hat. This article will not be an introduction to Ansible.  My good friend Glenn Robinson, has written a great couple of PowerWire articles on that…

  • LFTP on IBM i

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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…

  • A Java on IBM i Intro

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    A bit different this one.  I was recently asked by a fellow IBM Champion to give him a quick run through on Java on the IBM i, so I thought I would write a quick article on this topic for others out there. Installation of Java Java has to be installed on our IBM i…