In June, IBM announced the replacement for the popular 1, 2 and 4 socket Power servers which make up the mainstay of the Power installed base. If you missed it, Northdoor have covered the highlights in performance, security and scalability in our latest blog. With significant CPW improvement per core – such as 2.8X […]
A screen a story – Db2 Symmetric Multiprocessing
Part of the announcement of IBM i 7.5 was a change in what is entitled as part of the base operating system with IBM i. If you want a complete list of the Price Change(s): Price Decrease on Selected IBM i Sofware Products please have a look at the spreadsheet which is available for download […]
An Advanced Job Scheduler
In this article, I’ll be going back to good old green screen, well for some parts of this article! Nested in the IBM i 7.5 OS announcements made by IBM in May 2022, was the statement that half a dozen or so licensed programs will now be included within the cost of the OS. Great […]
It’s official – IBM have now launched their Power10 Scale out range!
Whilst IBM’s Enterprise range did come out back in September 2021, that provided for the high-end Power clients only. With this release of low and mid-range servers, the capability of Power10 is made available to everyone. In a nutshell, the key benefits of Power10 are; Enhanced Security – Power10 includes 4 Crypto engines per core, […]
Bring Power to the cloud with Northdoor and Skytap
For organisations that run their x86 workloads on Azure, Skytap offers the ability to bring IBM Power workloads into the same cloud, co-located for low latency and high performance. With your AIX, IBM i and Linux on Power workloads in Azure, you benefit from flexible capacity and pricing with no need to refactor or re-write […]
An Ansible Environment Setup
Firstly, thank-you to all those who attended my Ansible workshop and presentation of Visual Studio Code at the i-UG conference at Northampton in June. It was great to be back presenting and meeting up with friends. This article is related to this event. The Power servers for the event, were kindly provided by Rowton IT […]
A screen a story – Enabling SSL/TLS for IBM Navigator for i
In today’s world there is a lot of emphasis on IT security. Not strange when the word “Hack” is a word you often hear or read when following the daily news. We all know that there is no better security level possible than security implemented at the source level. I like bringing examples to life […]
An Ansible IBM i Disk Checker
This article slightly deviates from my usual open source articles on IBM i. I say slightly, as this article will be about Ansible and yes Ansible is open-source. Thank-you Red Hat. This article will not be an introduction to Ansible. My good friend Glenn Robinson, has written a great couple of PowerWire articles on that […]
WRKRDBDIRE part 2 – MYSELF and DDMDRDA
Some of you may remember an article I wrote in December 2019 about using WRKRDBDIRE and DDM to get data from a V5R4 system. Recently I came across a couple of extra scenarios when pulling data from systems, so it seems a perfect opportunity for a part 2 article. First off, what if I want […]
A screen a story – IBM i 7.5 – Set Subsystem Routing
May the third IBM i 7.5 was announced, if you follow the IBM i news, this announcement was hard to miss. Normally it does take a while before every IBM i LPAR is running this version, but this time things are little different. First of all, the date IBM I 7.5 will be available is […]
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