You may think that a Hardware Management Console (HMC) is a luxury that is only needed by larger POWER user environments but in this article I am going to try and explain why you should think again. A LAN console may be technically sufficient for your needs and does not put much weight on your […]
A Screen a Story – a sizeable font?
In today’s world screen get bigger and bigger, resulting in screen resolutions following that trend. The highest I have seen so far is 3360 x 2100, but I to end there. Working with IBM i Access Clients Solutions, it annoyed me that the 5250 looked as show below: What is the use of setting 5250 […]
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 […]
ARCAD Software announces ARCAD iNow for UI modernization on IBM i
New UI modernization tooling completes ARCAD’s integrated offering for Modernization and DevOps on IBM i. Annecy, 12-09-2019 – ARCAD Software international leader in DevOps and Modernization solutions, today announced ARCAD iNow, an automated UI modernization suite offering complete platform and device independence, “advanced on the fly” modernization capabilities and tight application security thanks to its architecture […]
Major Software Upgrade for iSecurity Firewall
Nanuet, New York – September 15, 2019 – Raz-Lee Security announces a major software upgrade for the iSecurity Firewall. The upgrade includes these major enhancements: Complete What-If system • Re-Calculate Logged Events – Now you can check your previous activity logs against rules that you have modified and see how these changes would influence the […]
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 […]
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 […]
Disable on Date
Speaking to some of my colleagues on Microsoft products (and using sufficient holy water to cleanse afterwards.) I was told that Active Directory has a tickbox to disable a profile on a given date. After a lot of searching I concluded that we don’t have that on IBMi until V7R1 and the USREXPITV/USREXPDATE keywords, cue […]
2017 Common Europe Congress Concludes
An event that truly represents the European IBM I community. Common Europe re-elects Executive Committee with new Treasurer. Luxembourg, Europe; 21 June, 2017. The 2017 Common Europe Congress (CEC) concludes as one of the best IT events in recent Common Europe history. It was held in Brussels, Belgium from 18-21 June. The Congress hosted 250 […]