Category: Featured
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Article 600!
This is a historic post, article number 600 rolls of the print press! Here we celebrate this exciting feat. The number 600 pops up in various contexts, here are some interesting facts that have the number 600.
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Which VIO Servers Are You Using for vSCSI Storage?
How do you know which VIO servers your AIX LPARs are using for storage? There are different options for presenting storage for your AIX VIO clients (the LPARs). This article focuses on vSCSI storage. For most environments, the creation of virtual SCSI disks is a set-and-forget kind of activity. This makes it low maintenance, but…
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How to use SQL to find files needing Reorganisation
While there are quite a few methods for finding candidates for Reorganise Physical Files (RGZPFM), lots of them are old and some of them take a long time and resources to get results. So here is a new one using ACS Run SQL Scripts, that may be faster and is more controllable. Lets start with…
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Getting Started with the IBM HMC
The command line interface allows you to automate tasks, which can make monitoring or even creating new LPARs easier. Although the Hardware Management Console GUI is a common way to manage Power Systems, I’ve found it worth getting familiar with the CLI. If you need to create a lot of new LPARs with their profiles…
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Access for Client Solutions 1.1.9.5
As the seasons change, so does the tech landscape. And just like clockwork, IBM has graced us with the latest iteration of their Access for Client Solutions (ACS) product. Say hello to version 1.1.9.5! In this article, we’ll delve into the exciting updates, enhancements, and features that ACS brings to the table. Installation If you…
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A screen a story – What is my IP Address, tales of the unexpected?
Recently I ran into a problem on an LPAR where apparently nothing was changed. The problem as always is, how to determine if nothing was changed. After all an IPL of an LPAR is change. Let me tell you what happened. For a customer running an independent Auxiliary Storage Pool (iASP) in a Cluster environment…
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Nano – A Great Open-Source Editor
In this article I show you how to use a great editor called Nano for any editing we have to do with files on our IFS. Yes, I can hear half the readers screaming ‘I can use Rational Developer for i!’ and the other half of the readers shouting, ‘I can do that with VS…
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AIX System – Unix in the Modern IT World
Introduction In the world of operating systems, Unix is one of the foundations on which today’s computing is based. Designed in the 60s and 70s at AT&T Bell Labs by Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, Unix revolutionized the way computers are used. Thanks to its reliability, stability, and security, Unix and its derivatives have gained…
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A screen a story – Raise your delay knowledge level by 0.1?
If the screen show below looks familiar, there are two possible reasons: Either you are using the Scheduled Job (WRKJOBSCDE) command for scheduling jobs on IBM i and are not using the Advanced Job Scheduler. Or you are aware of the fact that the CL command DLYJOB exists and you might have used it yourself.…
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Why AIX is the best option to start your fresh new Agile Project
When it comes to a new project, management usually has only one option. It must be Linux in “cloud”. Many people think AIX is an old operating system and as such it doesn’t fit anymore in a modern infrastructure where everything is agile and changing constantly. I don’t want to remind you that the official…
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Installing & Using the AIX Toolbox for Open Source Software
What is the AIX Toolbox for Open Source Software? Previously known as the AIX Toolbox for Linux Applications, the AIX Toolbox for Open Source Software (AIX OSS) is a collection of open source and GNU software built specifically for AIX. The toolkit provides open source utilities for managing and development, that is the choice for…
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Make Sense of Journaled Tables with SQL
Test Setup I had a number of tables that had been journaled and I wanted to analyse what had changed during a fixed time. This is quite simple, the essential parts are sections 2, 4 and 5. The table created in section 4 can be kept and reused, one for each table, if required. N.B.…