Last week I ran into an issue, which did teach me something new about the command WRKPRB. After checking a test LPAR after having applied the latest group PTFs for IBM i 7.4, I noticed the following when checking the apply: When looking at the joblog of QSYSCOMM1 spoolfiles were being created: When looking at […]
Raspberry Pi and Machine Learning
In my last article, I demonstrated how I used Machine Learning on the Raspberry Pi to determine if a photograph contained a bird. This article can be found at https://powerwire.eu/raspberry-pi-and-machine-learning if you missed it. In this follow-up article, we will be using the Raspberry Pi to send details to our IBM I server to inform […]
Shield Advanced Solutions – new Messaging and Monitoring solutions
September 2022 – Toronto As Shield Advanced Solutions celebrates the significant milestone, 25 years of providing Availability for the IBM i (and predecessors), our customers are raving about the new Messaging and Monitoring solutions. Many of Shield’s long-standing HA4i – high availability for IBM i customers have taken up EM4i – message monitoring for IBM […]
A screen a story – Explore the power of Authority Collection in Navigator for i
In order to step up to a higher level of security, I suggested a customer to start using encryption on File Shares on IBM i. Currently for IBM i SMBv3 with encryption, is the highest level you can go to. For more details I suggest you have a look at this article: smbv3-support-in-ibm-i-7-4. Since we […]
Raspberry Pi and Machine Learning
In this follow on from my last PowerWire article on ActiveMQ, we will be using a Raspberry Pi, with Machine Learning, to take photos of birds feeding in our garden. This part of the series will focus on the ML segment to take a photograph and let machine learning decide what is in it. After […]
2022 IBM Power Summit
Northdoor is delighted to hold our 2022 IBM Power Summit which will be streamed live on Linkedin on 1st November 2022 where you will hear about Client experiences and from IBM brand leaders David Spurway and Matt Fordham on Achieving Cloud economics with Power Power Private Cloud – A Client Example Industry Megatrends and the Power10 Difference Building […]
Cleaning Up Spoolfiles – Record Count
Because sometimes I get the most interesting challenges to play with! On a dark and stormy night, or if we want to be precise a grey and miserable afternoon… I have a partition with about 4000 QPDZDTALOG spool files dating back over a number of years. For those not familiar, this print file is generated […]
To Cloud or Not to Cloud for IBM i
At a recent IBM i event, a discussion on cloud for IBM i was a divisive topic. Whilst we have a great platform with IBM i, to ensure it’s longevity and avoid the ‘legacy’ tag, it’s important to understand how IBM i can offer cloud and cloud-like capability and economics. In our latest blog, we […]
A screen a story – Db2 Symmetric Multiprocessing part II
The sayings are “practice what you preach” or the more down to earth expression “eat you own dogfood”. Eating your own dog food is a phrase that refers to the internal use of a company’s own products or services in its day-to-day operations. So over the years I have been advising customers to purchase a […]
ActiveMQ
I’ve got a little home project that I’ve been looking at for a while. In this article, I’ll prepare our IBM i for that project. It will involve some IoT devices sending data to the IBM i. To receive that information the IBM i, will be using the Open Source package ActiveMQ. What is ActiveMQ? […]
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