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Time for IBM to Stage an Intervention?

February 26, 2016 by Tom Petrocelli

Let’s start with an old joke: Q. How many psychologists does it take to change a lightbulb? A: One, but the lightbulb has to want to change. This, in essence, is the problem with collaboration software adoption. The technology keeps improving, with more choices and better design. Unfortunately, adoption is held back due to resistance […]

Zipping / Unzipping IFS Objects in IBM i

February 25, 2016 by Steve Bradshaw

Those of you who know me probably know that I’m a lapsed programmer. These days I spend most of my time working at or below the IBM i Operating System layer but every now and then there is an exception that makes me dust off my coding skills and the recent need to Zip / […]

USB Flash Drives and IBM i

February 1, 2016 by Steve Bradshaw

USB Flash Drives, thumb drives, memory sticks, call them what you may, are pretty much everywhere these days and it is a little known fact that you can use them with your IBM i server at no cost. Support was added for these devices for POWER 7 / 8 servers from IBM i v7.1 TR6 […]

Using PHP and RPG to Communicate Together Part 2

January 29, 2016 by Andy Youens

This is the second part to my article about PHP and RPG communicating together. If you missed the first part, it can be found here. Last time we discussed PHP calling, and using, the power of RPG. This time let us switch things around and show you how easy it is for RPG, or any […]

Running Open Source PHP Applications

January 11, 2016 by Pete Samways

Way back in March last year, I wrote an article for PowerWire.eu that talked about how to get started with PHP on IBM i. In that article I touched briefly on the fact that PHP on IBM i gives you the foundations you need to start using a wide range of open source software. Since […]

Did IBM just offer you a FREE HMC?

January 7, 2016 by Steve Bradshaw

OK, so maybe it’s not 100% free, but with the launch of the new Virtual Hardware Management Console (vHMC) the cost of the acquisition for many folks has tumbled by as much as 80% to a point where it’s almost as good as free. IBM have announced the long awaited offering, which allows you to […]

Using the VIOS VMR for system backups

December 11, 2015 by Glenn Robinson

My previous article discussed how you can upload and load ISO images into the Virtual Media Repository (VMR) to provide virtual optical images to the client LPARs. You may recall that the mkvopt command has an option, -ro, which forces the access mode of the image to read only. When a VMR image is set […]

Test your mksysb backup without NIM or a tape drive

December 9, 2015 by Anthony English

There’s a really handy way of cloning an AIX operating system straight from a mksysb backup. Even if you don’t need to clone an OS, it’s a pretty handy way of testing that your mksysb backup will actually be suitable for rebuilding your AIX root volume group. As you know, the mksysb command creates a […]

Fresche Legacy Secures US$6 Million Strategic Investment

December 7, 2015 by Staff Reporter

Fresche Legacy, a premier provider of application management and modernization solutions for the IBM i announced today it has received a $6 million US (C $7.8 million) investment from the Fonds de solidarité FTQ and the regional Fonds de solidarité FTQ Montréal. The investment will be used to fuel Fresche’s aggressive organic growth as it […]

Basic AIX performance monitoring for IBM i professionals

November 30, 2015 by Ash Giddings

IBM Power Systems have the ability to run both the IBM i and AIX (as well as Linux) operating systems, so how can you leverage your existing IBM i performance analysis skills to provide AIX support? Every system, from Charles Babbage’s first mechanical computers in the early nineteenth century to the high-end Power Systems we […]

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