Following on from my introductory article earlier this month about exit points here’s a straightforward (and useful!) one to get you started. Question; have you or a colleague ever executed the PWRDWNSYS command by mistake? On a system with multiple LPAR’s running it is quite easy to forget which LPAR you are working on. Sometimes […]
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 […]
Telnet failure – check your encryption
One that I’m not sure I want to admit how long it took me to find the answer, so I figure instead I’ll tell you all a story and hopefully it’s one more link out there with the solution. A bit of background, for one of our customers we have a utility to handle passthrough […]
IBM i Exit Points – The Power To Control and Audit
During this period of enforced lockdown Rowton Staff have been encouraged to spend more time on Training and Education. A recent webinar I watched was one from a series by Robin Tatum from HelpSystems entitled 2020 State of IBM i Security Study. https://www.helpsystems.com/cta/download-state-ibm-i-security-study-guideOne of the points discussed which stood out for me was about Exit Points. […]
An interview with Brandon Pedenson, taking about TR’s, going virtual, and more..
PowerWire: Hello Brandon, how are you? And how much has the world changed since the last time we spoke (October 2019), with the COVID-19 pandemic Brandon Pederson (BP): I’m good thank you, its seriously crazy, I’m having to work from home, I believe it’s the same in the UK? PowerWire: Yes, people are working […]
Act Fast IBM have announced a SWMA Amnesty
For five long years I’ve been telling anyone at IBM who would listen that we need a SWMA Amnesty, well that time has come but it’s not going to be here for long so if you want to save thousands of £/€/$ you need to act now! And talking of now, now more than ever […]
A NodeJS Website on IBM i – Final Version
This article continues with my Node.js Express website on IBM i theme. Here we will ensure our ‘add a new employee’ functionality is in the same format as the update and delete functions by displaying a pop-up modal window to allow the user to input new employee details. We have finally got there! The stages […]
IBM staff create protective face visors at home for NHS
News from IBM – As the UK faces a shortage of protective equipment in hospitals due to the ongoing crisis surrounding COVID-19, IBM staff with 3D printers are turning their devices and skills to helping alleviate the shortage by producing them themselves after an internal rallying call for expertise and supplies. In the first few […]
Backup the backup of your backup
It may sound like we’re getting into some sort of recursion error, but I like to think of it as the poor mans VTL, Virtual Tape Library, and something you can try at home (I assume most of us are working at home right now.) A little bit of background, most of my customers are […]
IBM Offers “Watson Assistant for Citizens” to Provide Responses to COVID-19 Questions
With COVID-19 affecting 206 countries, areas and territories, IBM (NYSE:IBM) is helping government agencies, healthcare organizations and academic institutions throughout the world use AI to put critical data and information into the hands of their citizens. With a flood of information requests from citizens, wait times in many areas to receive answers can exceed two […]
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