There has been a lot of positive feedback about the New Navigator for i (NewNav) interface and this is for good reason as this new IBM i Administration Interface really is a blueprint for what a modern interface should be like. As there are so many articles telling you why it’s better, I thought I’d […]
PDF Direct Printing from IBM i
What happens when you want to print a PDF from IBM i via a regular IBM i writer and output queue, where do you start with that? Let’s face it, there is no native PRTPDF (Print PDF) command in IBM i. Well, this was the question I received the other day and I was delighted […]
Finding Save Files and Freeing Up Disk Space on IBM i
“Finding Save Files” might sound like a Disney “Straight to TV” sequel to “Finding Nemo” but no, it’s much more pleasurable than that 😉 Few of us enjoy tidying up after ourselves in our home life and in my experience, even less of us like to do it in their IBM i work life. In […]
New Software Enhancements for POWER Systems
PowerWire.eu talked to Brandon Pederson earlier this month about the Software Enhancements for POWER System. PowerWire.eu (PW): Hello Brandon, it’s nice to talk to you again, the last time we spoke back in April, Covid-19 was disrupting all our plans, cancelling all our conferences, and making us work from home. Not a lot has changed […]
i-UG’s November event goes Hybrid
i-UG’s final event of 2020 will be on Tuesday 10th November, known as their i-Power Midlands event and will be FREE to attend to all attendees. Normally i-Power Midlands is an in-person event held at the Mount Hotel in Wolverhampton, but with the current Covid-19 restrictions and government advice/guidelines, i-UG have transformed it into a […]
Three reasons to look at INZTAP in a different light
The use of tape with IBM i is still truly ubiquitous, and yet virtually no one pays any attention to the way that the tapes are prepared. Whether we are taking about GDPR secure data wipes, backup data integrity or identifying backup time, then INZTAP is a great tool to have in your tool kit. […]
POWER 9 G Models
IBM has recently announced a new version of the POWER9 scale out servers, these are the entry level servers that make up the P05, P10 and P20 Process Group ranges. If you’ve been paying attention to the past server announcements, you would be excused for assuming this was a POWER9+ as IBM did with the […]
SMBv3 support in IBM i 7.4
Those of you that spotted my article on what’s new in 7.4 back in April (if you missed it, click here to read it now) may well remember I was quite excited at the prospect of SMBv3 in 7.4. And yes, I realise just how sad that makes me sound and yet it is AWESOME […]
Back to the future
Let us be honest sometimes our / your job as a system administrator is not as varied as we would like it to be. In many cases we have to run commands over and over again with just a small change. When doing this working with a GUI it is not the most efficient way […]
Say Hello to IBM i 7.4
Say Hello to IBM i 7.4 It’s time to meet the new kid on the block, as IBM announces the latest version of IBM i. IBM i 7.4, announced today and generally available from June 2019. The arrival of 7.4 in 2019 is no surprise, for the last year senior IBM executives have described “The […]
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