Category: IBM i
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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…
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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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A NodeJS Website on IBM i – Updating Records
Continuing with my Node.js Express website on IBM i theme, in this article I’ll show you how easy it is to update employee records from our database. Building on the previous article, on how to delete records, we will use the same structure to update, by using a popup window to allow the user to…
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A Screen a Story – Graph History.
Children and system managers have one thing in common, neither of them like to clean up mess. In one aspect children are different from system managers, they know which mess they should have cleaned up! For system managers that is not always crystal clear. We all know that IBM i Access for Windows is no…
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More Save/Restore Data Area’s Worth Knowing About
Following on from my save21 article last month it transpires that there are some more system data areas worth knowing about in relation to save/restore date/time/media information. If you needed to know when a file was last saved on the system you would run command DSPOBJD OBJ(LIBRARY/FILE) OBJTYPE(*FILE) Then taking option 5 to display the…
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A NodeJS Website on IBM i – Deleting Records
Continuing with my Node.js Express website on IBM i series, in this article I’ll show you how easy it is to delete employee records from our database. In this article, we will develop some quick scripts to remove these records. Once again, it really is very simple in node. The stages we need to go…
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Everyone needs a hobby – Maths on IBM i
First of all, credit to Simon Hutchinson @ RPGPGM.com and the article ‘Calculating prime numbers in RPG’ for reminding me of this. 8 years ago, when I was first learning RPG (and had slightly more hair than I do now, not sure if those two factors are related!) I decided to test some of what…
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A Screen a Story – The system limit is the limit.
IBM i is evolving and so is the work around IBM i. Most shops no longer have someone who is constantIy monitoring IBM i. Monitoring has been automated, be it by using the tools available in Navigator for i, watches or tools like Nagios and any other ISV tool, which may or may not use…
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How Long Is That Save 21 Going To Take?
I was at a customer site the other day, working on a server I hadn’t worked on before doing routine maintenance. HMC upgrade, firmware & ptf install. So what? I hear you ask. Well, everything was going well until I started the save21 (Entire System Save) prior to the ptf install. It took that long…
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What happened to my emails?
One of the questions I get asked often is “How can you track emails sent from IBM i?” Until 7.2 this was a near impossible task. But since 7.2 WRKSMTPEMM was added to the operating system and I love it! What does it look like? If we start with a WRKSMTPEMM LISTBY(*RCP) QUEUE(*ALL) we get…
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A NodeJS Website on IBM i – Adding Records
Continuing with my Node.js Express website on IBM i series, in this article I’ll show you how easy it is to add new records to our database. In this article, we will develop some quick scripts to add these records. It really is very simple in node. As we know now, the first step to…
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IBM i Spooled File Management
We all love IBM i, but for many spooled file management is considered a real headache. So, what tips and tools are there to help you? Expiration Dates on Spooled Files If you find your system cluttered with old spooled files, the “days until file expires” parameter may help you. Creating spooled files with this…