This rant is intended as a wakeup call to companies and ITSecurity experts.I have 25 years of experience in Security on IBM i and all too often my observation of the poor implementation of IBM i Security of many companies is truly alarming! All players are responsible for this situation, but first and foremost companies. One would have thought […]
Probably the best Interactive Debugger on the IBM i
Get Started Open up ‘IBM i Client Access’, make sure you have entered the correct system, then choose ‘Database – Run SQL Scripts’. Now select ‘Run – System Debugger’. If on start-up, you get an error ‘Unknown system ‘xxxxx’ was specified – OK’, go to ‘File – Change System’. Enter the system IP address instead. […]
How to find the right IBM i printer configuration
You might think that we live in a world of standards and that any printer would be able to work out of the box with any server. Well sadly, you would be wrong. Whilst this would be the easiest thing in the world to achieve, the one thing that is consistent about all the worlds […]
A screen a story – A Better way to Retire the Heritage Navigator for i
Let me cut right to the chase, if you have read or have not the article of last month titled: “A screen a story – Retire the Heritage Navigator for i”, forget about it. If, however you do not have the option to apply PTFs in the short term and you are concerned about this […]
How Can You Update Your UAK Key without an HMC?
I was working at a customer last week when I noticed the system attention light was illuminated on their Power 9 Server. Looking at WRKPRB (work with problems) log, the SRC code was A7004761 which is the code for an expired Update Access Key (UAK). What is a UAK? If you are wondering what a […]
NCDU on IBM i
Yes, I am continuing my amazing journey with open source on the IBM i. In this article I’ll be taking a look at another one of the open source utilities that has slipped under the covers… This time it is NCurses Disk Usage, or NCDU from now on. This is a disk storage utility, with […]
2022 All400’s IBM i Survey
Four years agon All400’s did a ‘user’ survey about IBM i, and they had 650 resonses, this year they are doing another survey and hope to achieve 1000 responses. They have asked PowerWire.eu to promote their survey in the hope of achieving their target. It involves the 3 major segments of the IBM i community […]
Remain Software Milestone
NIEUWEGEIN, Netherlands — Today Remain Software is pleased to announce the second Milestone of TD/OMS V14, Gravity V7, OCTO V1, Remain API Studio V3, and MiWorkplace V1.28, in line with the company’s commitment to innovation and support. This Milestone is the second of three scheduled enhancements to each solution, culminating in the annual release each summer. Today’s […]
A screen a story – Retire the Heritage Navigator for i
Although the log4j media storm of December 2021 has settled and is part of what we call the past. IBM did publish a document titled Security Bulletin: IBM i components are affected by CVE-2021-4104 (log4j version 1.x) When looking at this document you will find a section called “Workarounds and Mitigations”, in there you can […]
Service Commander on IBM i
In this article I will talk about another great open-source utility for our IBM i. Firstly, what a great name! Service commander was developed by Jesse Gorsinski, the business architect of open source on IBM i. The github repository for Service Commander can be found at https://github.com/ThePrez/ServiceCommander-IBMi Check-out this repository, not only to see the […]
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