Author: Rudi van Helvoirt
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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:…
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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…
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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…