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A screen a story – What does “move active records” mean?

March 7, 2023 by Rudi van Helvoirt Leave a Comment

The latest Technology Refresh (TR) for IBM i 7.4 and 7.5 has something new within them for reorganizing a file. If you have lost count of the TR levels IBM i 7.4 is at TR7 and IBM i 7.5 is at TR1. Every time a new TR is announced it can be overwhelming with the […]

A screen a story – What does this button do? Part II

January 10, 2023 by Rudi van Helvoirt Leave a Comment

In my last article A screen a story – What does this button do? The SQL button was used to retrieve SQL statements which I then tweaked to get the job done. The purpose of it all was to build an SQL script to automate changing the object owner of a printer, object type *DEVD. […]

A screen a story – What does this SQL button do?

December 6, 2022 by Rudi van Helvoirt 2 Comments

When working in the IT business we all appreciate it if we are being helped by the operating system. For that purpose in the New Navigator for I IBM created the SQL button. Should we all start to use the name Navigator for i or keep it short, like I do, and use the term […]

A screen a story – Not our problem anymore

November 7, 2022 by Rudi van Helvoirt 1 Comment

Last week I ran into an issue, which did teach me something new about the command WRKPRB. After checking a test LPAR after having applied the latest group PTFs for IBM i 7.4, I noticed the following when checking the apply: When looking at the joblog of QSYSCOMM1 spoolfiles were being created: When looking at […]

A screen a story –  Explore the power of Authority Collection in Navigator for i

October 4, 2022 by Rudi van Helvoirt Leave a Comment

In order to step up to a higher level of security, I suggested a customer to start using encryption on File Shares on IBM i. Currently for IBM i SMBv3 with encryption, is the highest level you can go to. For more details I suggest you have a look at this article: smbv3-support-in-ibm-i-7-4. Since we […]

A screen a story –  Db2 Symmetric Multiprocessing part II

September 6, 2022 by Rudi van Helvoirt Leave a Comment

The sayings are “practice what you preach” or the more down to earth expression “eat you own dogfood”. Eating your own dog food is a phrase that refers to the internal use of a company’s own products or services in its day-to-day operations. So over the years I have been advising customers to purchase a […]

A screen a story –  Db2 Symmetric Multiprocessing

August 2, 2022 by Rudi van Helvoirt Leave a Comment

Part of the announcement of IBM i 7.5 was a change in what is entitled as part of the base operating system with IBM i. If you want a complete list of the Price Change(s): Price Decrease on Selected IBM i Sofware Products please have a look at the spreadsheet which is available for download […]

A screen a story – Enabling SSL/TLS for IBM Navigator for i

June 23, 2022 by Rudi van Helvoirt Leave a Comment

In today’s world there is a lot of emphasis on IT security. Not strange when the word “Hack” is a word you often hear or read when following the daily news. We all know that there is no better security level possible than security implemented at the source level. I like bringing examples to life […]

A screen a story – IBM i 7.5 – Set Subsystem Routing

May 10, 2022 by Rudi van Helvoirt Leave a Comment

May the third IBM i 7.5 was announced, if you follow the IBM i news, this announcement was hard to miss. Normally it does take a while before every IBM i LPAR is running this version, but this time things are little different. First of all, the date IBM I 7.5 will be available is […]

A screen a story – SQL Performance – a Table Scan

April 4, 2022 by Rudi van Helvoirt Leave a Comment

In today’s world it is impossible to limit yourself to the green screen when we are talking about IBM i performance and SQL performance in particular. For some shops the IBM i database has become the spider in the database “web”. I assume we have all heard about the Plan Cache and the Index Advisor […]

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