A good quiz question for this article could have been: “When was the Index Advisor introduced?”. When searching the Internet I could find information going back to V3R6, which was released back in 1995. I think it is fair to say, we have all heard about it, but unfortunately we can not say that of […]
A Screen a Story – a sizeable font?
In today’s world screen get bigger and bigger, resulting in screen resolutions following that trend. The highest I have seen so far is 3360 x 2100, but I to end there. Working with IBM i Access Clients Solutions, it annoyed me that the 5250 looked as show below: What is the use of setting 5250 […]
A Screen a Story – i…i… Captain
Ever wondered about the firmware level of any adapter present in a POWER server? My guess is that you probably never have or never needed to. Allow me to tell you a story which took place at the beginning of April. It all started with messages in QSYSOPR at the weekend. Messages with ID CPPEA33 […]
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 […]
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 […]
A Screen a Story “Old habits die very slowly”
IBM i Access Client Solutions (ACS) is an excellent tool to review IBM i SQL performance. My guess is that most system administrators hardly touch the option “SQL Performance Center” which can be found under the Database section when you start ACS. Below an example of what you see when you do so: The screen: […]
How to get the Latest and Greatest
Within a few days the latest Technology Refresh for IBM i 7.4 and 7.3 will be available. The official planned availability day is 15 November 2019. For details please have a look at these two links IBM i 7.3 Technology Refresh 7 and IBM i 7.4 Technology Refresh 1 or you might try to google […]
A screen a Story
Being a system administrator in the GUI era, it seems almost impossible to ignore the IBM i GUIs. Having said that it is my experience that a lot of sysadmins try to ignore those GUI, which were not part of day-1, when they started working. They are, as would I say, more or less glued […]
Back to the future
Let us be honest sometimes our / your job as a system administrator is not as varied as we would like it to be. In many cases we have to run commands over and over again with just a small change. When doing this working with a GUI it is not the most efficient way […]