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Dot Files on IBM i

April 4, 2022 by Andy Youens 1 Comment

For those who have been following my bite size BASH tutorial on You Tube, I thought it about time I wrote an article about a very useful BASH utility that’s available for our IBM i, and of course, plug my BASH videos at https://bit.ly/3IXBkm6 at the same time! This helpful utility was developed by my […]

Rant for better security on IBM i

March 8, 2022 by Guy Marmorat Leave a Comment

This rant is intended as a wakeup call to companies and ITSecurity experts.I have 25 years of experience in Security on IBM i and all too often my observation of the poor implementation of IBM i Security of many companies is truly alarming! All players are responsible for this situation, but first and foremost companies. One would have thought […]

Probably the best Interactive Debugger on the IBM i

March 7, 2022 by Terry Bartlett 3 Comments

Get Started Open up ‘IBM i Client Access’, make sure you have entered the correct system, then choose ‘Database – Run SQL Scripts’. Now select ‘Run – System Debugger’.  If on start-up, you get  an error ‘Unknown system ‘xxxxx’ was specified – OK’, go to ‘File – Change System’.  Enter the system IP address instead. […]

How to find the right IBM i printer configuration

March 7, 2022 by Steve Bradshaw Leave a Comment

You might think that we live in a world of standards and that any printer would be able to work out of the box with any server. Well sadly, you would be wrong. Whilst this would be the easiest thing in the world to achieve, the one thing that is consistent about all the worlds […]

A screen a story – A Better way to Retire the Heritage Navigator for i

March 7, 2022 by Rudi van Helvoirt Leave a Comment

Let me cut right to the chase, if you have read or have not the article of last month titled: “A screen a story – Retire the Heritage Navigator for i”, forget about it. If, however you do not have the option to apply PTFs in the short term and you are concerned about this […]

How Can You Update Your UAK Key without an HMC?

March 3, 2022 by Graham Street 1 Comment

I was working at a customer last week when I noticed the system attention light was illuminated on their Power 9 Server. Looking at WRKPRB (work with problems) log, the SRC code was A7004761 which is the code for an expired Update Access Key (UAK). What is a UAK? If you are wondering what a […]

NCDU on IBM i

March 1, 2022 by Andy Youens 1 Comment

Yes, I am continuing my amazing journey with open source on the IBM i. In this article I’ll be taking a look at another one of the open source utilities that has slipped under the covers… This time it is NCurses Disk Usage, or NCDU from now on. This is a disk storage utility, with […]

2022 All400’s IBM i Survey

February 19, 2022 by Staff Reporter Leave a Comment

Four years agon All400’s did a ‘user’ survey about IBM i, and they had 650 resonses, this year they are doing another survey and hope to achieve 1000 responses. They have asked PowerWire.eu to promote their survey in the hope of achieving their target. It involves the 3 major segments of the IBM i community […]

Remain Software Milestone

February 19, 2022 by Staff Reporter Leave a Comment

NIEUWEGEIN, Netherlands — Today Remain Software is pleased to announce the second Milestone of TD/OMS V14, Gravity V7, OCTO V1, Remain API Studio V3, and MiWorkplace V1.28, in line with the company’s commitment to innovation and support. This Milestone is the second of three scheduled enhancements to each solution, culminating in the annual release each summer. Today’s […]

A screen a story – Retire the Heritage Navigator for i

February 1, 2022 by Rudi van Helvoirt 1 Comment

Although the log4j media storm of December 2021 has settled and is part of what we call the past. IBM did publish a document titled Security Bulletin: IBM i components are affected by CVE-2021-4104 (log4j version 1.x) When looking at this document you will find a section called “Workarounds and Mitigations”, in there you can […]

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