“Finding Save Files” might sound like a Disney “Straight to TV” sequel to “Finding Nemo” but no, it’s much more pleasurable than that 😉 Few of us enjoy tidying up after ourselves in our home life and in my experience, even less of us like to do it in their IBM i work life. In […]
Hello Maria!
Hello Maria! – I can’t say that without sounding like Leslie Philips – showing my age again! One of the cutting-edge recent additions from IBM for their Open Source offerings is Maria DB. In my opinion, this is a great addition, and will open the IBM i to even more applications than are readily available […]
The modern way to check your IBM i PTF levels
In the good old days before Covid (remember them) finding out where you were with your PTF levels was a laborious task. You had to manually compare the PTF groups installed on your system with the IBM Fix Central web site and note the level of each group. If the level on your system was […]
Ansible AIX Introduction
Introduction In previous articles I dabbled with IBM’s Ansible modules for IBM i. Whilst I will definitely be using those in the future I thought I’d take a look at the Ansible modules for AIX too. There are fewer AIX modules than IBM i at present and many of these are NIM related. Whilst most […]
Bye Bye NodeVer!
For those of us using Node.js on our IBM i, you are probably aware of an Open Source utility, provided by IBM, called NodeVer (Is that Node Ver? or is it Nod Ever?, I’ll leave it with you to call it whatever you like!). NodeVer was a great utility allowing you to have more than […]
Last signon date – set it yourself
Something that came up recently and jogged my memory for a tweak I made a few years ago. I was asked to confirm if a user had logged into a profile, now on the face of it a nice simple question and answer. WRKUSRPRF <username> and return the date I get on the screen. The […]
Cloud Walkers bring new tools to IBM i administrators
Cloud Walkers s.r.o is a new company that has been set up by Bartlomiej Grabowski who is an IBM Champion, their aim is to bring new tools to IBM i administrators, and at the moment their tools are called LPARKit. Below is the detail that PowerWire.eu received about their new tools. LPARKit is a green […]
i-UG’s November event goes Hybrid
i-UG’s final event of 2020 will be on Tuesday 10th November, known as their i-Power Midlands event and will be FREE to attend to all attendees. Normally i-Power Midlands is an in-person event held at the Mount Hotel in Wolverhampton, but with the current Covid-19 restrictions and government advice/guidelines, i-UG have transformed it into a […]
Three reasons to look at INZTAP in a different light
The use of tape with IBM i is still truly ubiquitous, and yet virtually no one pays any attention to the way that the tapes are prepared. Whether we are taking about GDPR secure data wipes, backup data integrity or identifying backup time, then INZTAP is a great tool to have in your tool kit. […]
Keep My NodeJS App Running!
In my previous article, we created a quick weather app running on our favourite server. In this article, I will show you how we can ensure this application is always up and running, and if it’s not running, get it to automatically restart.Node applications are different to say, PHP applications, where we have the Apache […]
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