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An Ansible IBM i Disk Checker

May 30, 2022 by Andy Youens 1 Comment

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 […]

Remain Software Milestone 3

May 30, 2022 by Staff Reporter Leave a Comment

NIEUWEGEIN, Netherlands — Today Remain Software is pleased to announce the third Milestone of TD/OMS V14 and MiWorkplace V1.29.0, in line with the company’s commitment to innovation and support. This Milestone is the third scheduled enhancement to each solution, culminating in the annual release each summer. Today’s releases feature new integrations, improvements to the user […]

WRKRDBDIRE part 2 – MYSELF and DDMDRDA

May 10, 2022 by David Shears Leave a Comment

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 10, 2022 by Rudi van Helvoirt Leave a Comment

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

May 10, 2022 by Andy Youens 1 Comment

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 […]

Dot Files on IBM i

April 4, 2022 by Andy Youens 1 Comment

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

April 4, 2022 by Rudi van Helvoirt Leave a Comment

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 […]

Tinker’s Tech Tips – Maximum Number of Object owned by a User Profile

March 14, 2022 by Paul Tinker 1 Comment

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 […]

Rant for better security on IBM i

March 8, 2022 by Guy Marmorat Leave a Comment

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

March 7, 2022 by Terry Bartlett 3 Comments

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. […]

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Remain Software Milestone 3

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Hello Mike. As the official representative of COMMON Europe in the U.K, i- UG has always listened to the … [Read More...]

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 … [Read More...]

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