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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. […]

How to find the right IBM i printer configuration

March 7, 2022 by Steve Bradshaw Leave a Comment

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

March 7, 2022 by Rudi van Helvoirt Leave a Comment

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?

March 3, 2022 by Graham Street Leave a Comment

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

March 1, 2022 by Andy Youens 1 Comment

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 […]

A screen a story – Retire the Heritage Navigator for i

February 1, 2022 by Rudi van Helvoirt 1 Comment

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

February 1, 2022 by Andy Youens Leave a Comment

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 […]

A screen a story – Storage Spikes?

January 11, 2022 by Rudi van Helvoirt Leave a Comment

As mentioned in my previous article, this article is all about when disk space spikes all of a sudden and how to trace the culprit. The last few year more and more of my tasks have moved from 5250 emulation to Run SQL scripts. So finding the reason why disk space suddenly spikes is no […]

Logrotate on IBM i

January 6, 2022 by Andy Youens 2 Comments

In this article I will talk about an open-source utility that hasn’t got much airspace since it was released on our IBM i. Its called logrotate, a handly utility that can help us manage the many logs we have on our IFS.  As we all know, log files can easily get out of hand.  How […]

Your IBM i server is not a fridge

January 6, 2022 by Steve Bradshaw 1 Comment

It feels a little crazy to have to point this out but your IBM i isn’t a bloody refrigerator!   And yet, there are some users who seem to think that you can treat IBM i as they would a fridge, namely they turn it on when it’s shiny and new and just leave it running […]

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