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Keep an eye on your cache batteries with QSMBTTCC

April 3, 2017 by Steve Bradshaw

Those of you who have suffered from an unexpected cache battery failure (SRC nnnn8008) will know how much pain it can cause. Whilst there is never any danger to your data, in many cases the performance of your server can be reduced by a factor of ten! So this month I thought I would show […]

Who are these millennials with the ‘legacy’ technology vendettas?

March 30, 2017 by Rhiannon Dakin

It’s becoming a weekly occurrence. Whether in conversations with customers, or in our industry’s publications, the millennial disdain for so called ‘legacy’ technology is a hot topic. We are supposed to subscribe to the idea that we have a looming skills crisis because people in my generation treat these platforms with contempt. Where did this […]

Corporate Inertia

February 24, 2017 by Anthony English

Resistance. Inertia. It’s hard to understand why people don’t do what they know they should be doing. This inertia isn’t just for people who really need to go to the gym or stop losing hours on Facebook. There’s also such a thing as Corporate Inertia. When you’re introducing some IT solution which will address a […]

RPG 2017 Updates

February 24, 2017 by Andy Youens

During the latest round of IBM i Technology Refreshes, TR2 for version 7.3 and TR6 for version 7.2 enhancement, IBM also introduced three enrichments for RPG. These changes will be released as individual PTFs, around the April 2017 timespan, as with the Technology Refreshes. Let us take a look at these. These are: Nested data-structures […]

IBM i 7.3 – Authority Collection Services

December 23, 2016 by Steve Bradshaw

One of the great new functions IBM has built into IBM i as standard, and free of charge in 7.3, is the Authority Collection Services.  This works a little like the performance collection services, in that you start it for one or more users to monitor access to objects in one or more Libraries or […]

Application Runtime Expert – Worth a Look?

December 20, 2016 by Andy Youens

IBM recently announced that their product, Application Runtime Expert (ARE) for IBM I, is now free of charge, along with a host of other products.  The IBM announcement can be found here if you are interested. ARE is a licensed program, 5733ARE, which will work on any IBM i Version 6 or above.  It was […]

Deleting Old Spool Files – DLTOLDSPLF

December 5, 2016 by Steve Bradshaw

OK, so nobody likes tidying up, not at home, not in the office and certainly not on their computers.  How many spool files are there sitting on your system right now that deserve a “Long Service Award” because of the amount of time they’ve been in your company? It’s a pain I know, removing spool […]

RPG – What’s New in 7.3

December 1, 2016 by Andy Youens

  As you probably know, IBM released 7.3 of the IBM i operating system in April 2016.  So now it has been over six months since the new release, let us take a look at what has changed in RPG for this release. Remember that SEU has not been updated since Version 6.1 way back […]

Detecting Damaged Objects

August 31, 2016 by Steve Bradshaw

With IBM i being as robust as it is, for most of us damaged objects are a rare thing but the problem is that they tend to turn up at the most inopportune moments. So, in this article I wanted to share a little known tool called areVerify that IBM created to detect damaged objects […]

Git – A Free SCM?

August 31, 2016 by Andy Youens

In my previous article I gave you an insight into the new open source editor Orion on the IBM i. If you haven’t yet read my Orion PowerWire article, it can be found here. As promised in that article I said I would now move on to Git, which is closely integrated with Orion, and […]

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