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Test your mksysb backup without NIM or a tape drive

December 9, 2015 by Anthony English

There’s a really handy way of cloning an AIX operating system straight from a mksysb backup. Even if you don’t need to clone an OS, it’s a pretty handy way of testing that your mksysb backup will actually be suitable for rebuilding your AIX root volume group. As you know, the mksysb command creates a […]

Basic AIX performance monitoring for IBM i professionals

November 30, 2015 by Ash Giddings

IBM Power Systems have the ability to run both the IBM i and AIX (as well as Linux) operating systems, so how can you leverage your existing IBM i performance analysis skills to provide AIX support? Every system, from Charles Babbage’s first mechanical computers in the early nineteenth century to the high-end Power Systems we […]

Tech tip: populating the VIOS Virtual Media Repository

October 28, 2015 by Glenn Robinson

One of the most useful features of VIOS is the Virtual Media Repository (VMR). This allows us to create and import ISO images and then map these to virtual DVD drives on our client LPARs. Most customers will use the VMR to store their IBM i and/or AIX install media and PTFs. Many AIX sites […]

Are IBM i Services the future of systems management?

September 22, 2015 by Steve Bradshaw

IBM i Services are perhaps the best kept secret of managing and monitoring IBM i. Relatively few users of our favourite platform know what they are and even fewer use them regularly. This is a crying shame as they are truly remarkable. IBM i Services can tell you in seconds what it takes a skilled […]

Get started with the RPG debugging alternative

August 4, 2015 by Andy Youens

I wish to take you through the debugging of RPG programs or service programs with a tool some readers may not have come across called IBM System Debugger. It is a client-based tool that has the following advantages over the Rational RDi debug facility: •    It is part of the base IBM i operating system, […]

Tips for a happy Zend Server on IBM i

July 13, 2015 by Pete Samways

We looked in my last article at how to get started with PHP on IBM i. Server side, this involved installing Zend Server – the PHP engine that makes things happen. In this article, I’m going to share some tips with you that relate to configuring this fine software to avoid problems and get the […]

How to delete directories from your IFS

June 30, 2015 by Steve Bradshaw

This article was inspired by a recent support call I received. It made me realise that many of you may not have noticed that IBM added a handy parameter to the RMVDIR (remove directory) command back in v6.1 called SUBTREE. Let me set the scene and you can work out whether this is something that […]

Tutorial: using wizards with RPG and Rational Developer for i

June 12, 2015 by Andy Youens

I’m going to run through some of the shortcuts/wizards we can employ with RPG using Rational Developer for i (RDi). Nowadays, it is all about productivity. Gone are the days when we had a DPM (data processing manager) looking over our shoulders to ensure that we were thrashing out code (we didn’t have fancy job […]

The end of IBM i Access for Windows

June 1, 2015 by Steve Bradshaw

It has been known as many things over the years: PC Support, Personal Communications, Client Access, iSeries Access. Now its latest name,  IBM i Access for Windows, would seem to be its last. Love it or hate it, over the last 20 years we have all grown used to it and so when I was […]

Exclusive preview: How Windows 10 works with Power i

May 2, 2015 by Andy Youens

With the release of Microsoft Windows 10 looming, I thought it would be a good idea to go through how this new desktop operating system will interact with IBM i Power Systems. As my company is a Microsoft partner, we had the opportunity to review the Windows 10 Technology Preview. For this article, testing was […]

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