In today’s world there is a lot of emphasis on IT security. Not strange when the word “Hack” is a word you often hear or read when following the daily news. We all know that there is no better security level possible than security implemented at the source level. I like bringing examples to life […]
An Ansible IBM i Disk Checker
This article slightly deviates from my usual open source articles on IBM i. I say slightly, as this article will be about Ansible and yes Ansible is open-source. Thank-you Red Hat. This article will not be an introduction to Ansible. My good friend Glenn Robinson, has written a great couple of PowerWire articles on that […]
WRKRDBDIRE part 2 – MYSELF and DDMDRDA
Some of you may remember an article I wrote in December 2019 about using WRKRDBDIRE and DDM to get data from a V5R4 system. Recently I came across a couple of extra scenarios when pulling data from systems, so it seems a perfect opportunity for a part 2 article. First off, what if I want […]
A screen a story – IBM i 7.5 – Set Subsystem Routing
May the third IBM i 7.5 was announced, if you follow the IBM i news, this announcement was hard to miss. Normally it does take a while before every IBM i LPAR is running this version, but this time things are little different. First of all, the date IBM I 7.5 will be available is […]
LFTP on IBM i
If you know all about the TCP/IP utility FTP, you will feel right at home with this nifty utility. If you are fed up with all the virus’s in the open-source utility FileZilla, give lftp a try. You will not be disappointed. As the man page for lftp states; lftp is a file transfer program […]
PowerWire.eu talk to i-UG’s chairman Mike Ryan about their upcoming annual conference
Hello Mike. As the official representative of COMMON Europe in the U.K, i- UG has always listened to the current needs of its members to ensure they get great content that’s relevant to their day to day needs and have done this for many years by organising 4 regional conferences each year, for members, and […]
Dot Files on IBM i
For those who have been following my bite size BASH tutorial on You Tube, I thought it about time I wrote an article about a very useful BASH utility that’s available for our IBM i, and of course, plug my BASH videos at https://bit.ly/3IXBkm6 at the same time! This helpful utility was developed by my […]
A screen a story – SQL Performance – a Table Scan
In today’s world it is impossible to limit yourself to the green screen when we are talking about IBM i performance and SQL performance in particular. For some shops the IBM i database has become the spider in the database “web”. I assume we have all heard about the Plan Cache and the Index Advisor […]
Being Cyber-safe is easier than you think
I’m sure you have all heard about the situation in Ukraine, one consequence that we need you to be aware of is the increased risk of cyber-attacks on UK businesses. There are those in Russia and those sympathetic with Russia’s aims, that would like to see businesses in the west impacted. One of the key weapons that […]
Tinker’s Tech Tips – Maximum Number of Object owned by a User Profile
By Paul Tinker – Covenco I had a customer send out the “Bat Signal” late on a Sunday night, their application had completely stopping working but when it came to error messages, there was nothing much showing anywhere on the system. They tried to restart their application services, but to no avail. They had even […]
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