As mentioned in my previous article, this article is all about when disk space spikes all of a sudden and how to trace the culprit. The last few year more and more of my tasks have moved from 5250 emulation to Run SQL scripts. So finding the reason why disk space suddenly spikes is no […]
Logrotate on IBM i
In this article I will talk about an open-source utility that hasn’t got much airspace since it was released on our IBM i. Its called logrotate, a handly utility that can help us manage the many logs we have on our IFS. As we all know, log files can easily get out of hand. How […]
Your IBM i server is not a fridge
It feels a little crazy to have to point this out but your IBM i isn’t a bloody refrigerator! And yet, there are some users who seem to think that you can treat IBM i as they would a fridge, namely they turn it on when it’s shiny and new and just leave it running […]
PostgreSQL on IBM i
In this article I will show you how we can install and use the very popular PostgreSQL database on our IBM i. PostgreSQL is an open source relational database management system, a DBMS developed by a worldwide team of developers. It has been around since 1986 and now available on the IBM i. Install To […]
A screen a story – Custom Charts. Is it a hidden gem?
If disk space fills up completely on IBM i, the system will eventually come to a stop. Before doing that it will get slower and slower. It is your task as a system administrator to prevent that from happening, In the past I have seen a wide variety of monitoring software keeping an eye on […]
A screen a story – now you see me, now you do not
The life of a system administrator can be full of surprises. Things you have taken for granted, turn out to be completely different. Let me get directly to the point. All jobs being started on IBM i are logged in the history log, right?If you want to know the answer, you need to read on. […]
Say hello to Power10 and go buy a POWER9
IBM has just announced the all new Power10 based E1080 model and it looks great! I recently wrote an article highlighting 10 things you should know about Power10, if you missed that, click here to check it out. At the moment we only have the enterprise version of the Power10 available to us which is […]
Backup Performance
A while ago, I was asked to look at the performance during a Save 21 ‘Save the entire system’. Basically it took a little bit longer, as time went by, due to an increase in both the size and number of objects. However there were a couple of days when the backup took much longer. […]
Northdoor plc partners with Skytap to help organisations get business critical applications into the cloud
Partnership offers unrivalled expertise in running on-premises IBM Power workloads in their native format on Microsoft Azure Northdoor plc and Skytap are delighted to announce a new strategic relationship which will offer organisations unrivalled levels of expertise in moving business critical applications that still reside in on-premises data centres into cloud environments. Some critical business […]
Data-Queues with ODBC
In my last couple of PowerWire articles, I have written about using data-queues and about ODBC connectivity. If you need to refresh yourself of either of the articles, the data- queues article can be found here, with the ODBC article in the link here. In this article, we are going to combine those two features […]
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