Category: IBM i
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Download Director – now with less Oracle
For those of you who haven’t already read it, I’d highly recommend starting with Steve Bradshaws article “Do I need to pay for Java?” from January. After following the setup guide on the IBM site so that I was using OpenJ9 I was left with the question “I’d rather like to use Download Director, how…
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A NodeJS Website on IBM i – The Secure Version
Now we have our basic Node.js website up and running, let me show you how easy it is to make it a secure site. By secure, I mean making the transport layer secure, ensuring the site uses Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) to ensure all communications between the client and the server are secured. My previous…
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F8 – Back to the Future II
GREAT SCOT !! No I’m not talking about Mr Forstie but of course borrowing from Doc Brown in the Movie Back to the Future. This is something he would say whenever he saw something incredible. Now that is exactly how I felt when I was shipped a test PTF by my hero Mike K Russell…
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Time to Say Byebye to the POWER7+
Those of you with first generation POWER7 processor (the models that end in B & C) will be all to aware that on Monday this week (30th September 2019) IBM ceased their mainstream hardware support for these models. Some of you will of managed to negotiate and EOS Extension of Service but this is often…
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Who invited SYSMSG
Another in my catalogue of “everyone and their mother has done this if they needed to, but here’s a slight twist on it” articles. To set the scene, a customer of mine decided they want their Power server in an enquiry state and so setup some new generic profiles with generic menus sans all their…
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A screen a Story
Being a system administrator in the GUI era, it seems almost impossible to ignore the IBM i GUIs. Having said that it is my experience that a lot of sysadmins try to ignore those GUI, which were not part of day-1, when they started working. They are, as would I say, more or less glued…
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Tic-Tock, Tic-Tock; time’s running out for IBM i 7.2
IBM announced on the 10th September that you will be able to order a 7.2 version of IBM i until the 30th April 2020, and with the announcement came the news that support for the 7.2 will also cease on the 30th April 2021. However you can upgrade directly from 7.2 to 7.4 (you don’t…
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IBM i & AIX now available on Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS Clouds
From the start of this year there have been a few announcements that came across my desk and caught my attention about IBM i, AIX and Linux being available on Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS Clouds, and I thought I would condense them down and show them here. Why? Because as more organisations adopt a…
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Leaving SEU behind – ILEditor
After sitting in a number of the SiD sessions at the international i-Power event this year, one key fact I took away is “you really need to get off SEU.” However, I’m a little cost-averse so can’t quite justify jumping straight to RDi, luckily the open source community is ready to step into that gap.…
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PRUV Tool
Upgrading your system to a new release of IBM i can be a worrying process with many items to check before taking the plunge. The IBM Pre-upgrade verification (PRUV) tool can help with this process by checking through all the IBM mandated pre-requisite tasks before you start the actual upgrade. This can give you peace…
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VS Code – An OSS IDE
In my previous articles on IBM i Open Source, I’ve briefly mentioned Microsoft Visual Studio Code. So, in this article, let me show you what it’s all about. What options do we have for editing our source/applications that reside on our IFS? IBMs RDi (Eclipse based) Zend Studio (Eclipse based) Notepad ++ 5250 EDTF (Suppose…
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Node-red on i – 5733OPS not required
Inspired by Andy Youens series of articles on Node and Open Source on IBMi, I decided to try setting up Node-red on one of my servers. I’ve also got to give credit to a post on the IBM developer site: https://developer.ibm.com/tutorials/i-running-node-red/ The main difference is that where the walk-through uses licensed program 5733OPS I decided…