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The new new in the New Navigator for i

September 8, 2021 by Rudi van Helvoirt 1 Comment

The New Navigator for i has the potential to change the way people work with IBM i. If you are a developer or a system administrator, it does not matter here. Up to now we have all been using 5250 emulation, some of us on a daily basis. This New Navigator for i brings DB2 […]

A screen a story – collateral benefits

August 9, 2021 by Rudi van Helvoirt Leave a Comment

In today’s world when reading about IBM i it is hard to avoid articles dealing with application modernization. Being a system administrator, I use applications too. What about them, do they need modernization too? Well, let us have a look at the two screens shown below: The first screenshot is taken from the Job scheduler […]

A Screen a Story – to desire or to require

July 1, 2021 by Rudi van Helvoirt Leave a Comment

You may think that a Hardware Management Console (HMC) is a luxury that is only needed by larger POWER user environments but in this article I am going to try and explain why you should think again. A LAN console may be technically sufficient for your needs and does not put much weight on your […]

A screen a story – to include or to filter

June 1, 2021 by Rudi van Helvoirt Leave a Comment

Once in while an ad hoc job ends up on your desk. A while ago I had such a day, although the disk space usage was around 70 %, the backup of the Integrated file System (IFS) part of the system was consuming more and more time every night. The decision was made not to […]

A screen a story – PM400 and the day after (30th September 2020)

May 5, 2021 by Rudi van Helvoirt Leave a Comment

The term “IBM Performance Management for Power Systems” does most likely not immediately ring a bell, my guess is “PM400” does. It was offered for free and as a Dutchman, after I hear the word “free”, you have my attention. PM400 was a service offered by IBM for free, performance reports accessible from a Website […]

A screen a story – time to unlock yourself

April 7, 2021 by Rudi van Helvoirt Leave a Comment

We humans are creatures of habit, and of course some of these are bad habits. I am no judge here as I have my own set of habits too, good and bad, just ask my wife! As you may know, I am from the Netherlands and in my country, we have a TV commercial which […]

A screen a story – IBM i Services (SQL) to the rescue

February 2, 2021 by Rudi van Helvoirt Leave a Comment

Friday 29th January 2021 I am in a Teams meeting which is drawing to an end, when the phone is ringing. A quick text message is the response, telling the caller that I will call back within 10 minutes. The moment I prepare myself for calling back, another customer is calling. This call takes some […]

A screen a story – time to update the settings of your IBM i SMTP server

January 5, 2021 by Rudi van Helvoirt 2 Comments

Let us face it QDLS is something of the past, back from the days when the Integrated File System (IFS) had not seen the light of day. If you have not yet abandoned using QDLS now is a good time to do so. I will not go into details, but knowing that OfficeVision and QDLS […]

A screen a story – it is in the details

July 31, 2020 by Rudi van Helvoirt Leave a Comment

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?

June 23, 2020 by Rudi van Helvoirt 1 Comment

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 […]

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