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Say hello to the new POWER9 and go buy a POWER8

December 7, 2017 by Steve Bradshaw

IBM has just announced the all new POWER9 based AC922 model and it looks great!  I’ll talk about that a little more later but for now just know that it’s faster than ever but these first models are focusing on AI (Artificial Intelligence) and will be running Linux only. We can expect to see the […]

RDi 9.6 – Worth a Look?

November 29, 2017 by Andy Youens

Firstly, thank-you to all that attended my RDi session at the last UK iUG meeting. I hope you enjoyed it. At that presentation, I notified all that IBM were due to release Version 9.6 of RDi on the 16/11/2017, which replaces RDi version 9.5.1.2 It will require a new install and also there are new […]

Time to say bye bye to 7.1

October 3, 2017 by Steve Bradshaw

“Alas, poor 7.1! I knew him, Horatio: an O/S of infinite Roch-est, of most excellent Resili-ancy: he hath borne me on his back-up a thousand times”. OK so I confess that is quite possibly the most painful Shakespeare kludge I have ever read too.  If you can do better, please feel free to share with […]

DB2 Field Procedures – Testing

September 26, 2017 by Andy Youens

In my last article, I wrote how we can encrypt sensitive data in our DB2 database. To recap; IBM has given us the ability to take a field, or column, and let us apply security, or encryption, to that field/column.  It is up to your FieldProc program to perform the measures you have taken to […]

Wanna Use SMB v2

September 5, 2017 by Steve Bradshaw

If you need NetServer you need the last from IBM i. Netserver (the IBM i Service that allows you to map a network drive) and QNTC (the ability to read and write to a Windows Share directly from your IBM i) have been around so long now it’s hard to imagine life without them. Many […]

Legacy Application Mobility, is the Answer Surprisingly Simple?

August 30, 2017 by Rhiannon Dakin

The significant benefits of mobility were highlighted in a recent Microsoft paper. The paper went further than most, stating some quantifiable bottom line benefits for mobile application access; claiming that mobility “leads to 30% improvement in processes and 23% more productivity – and 100% more satisfied employees”. This enthusiasm and willingness to drive value for the […]

DB2 Field Procedures

July 20, 2017 by Andy Youens

A few years ago, DB2 for i introduced a new feature that can be used to apply security/encryption to our columns within our database. This enhancement is called Field Procedures, or FieldProcs throughout this article. DB2 FieldProcs have been around since 7.1 of IBM i in April 2010. Before FieldProcs, it was common to see […]

Aggregated Ethernet – Faster and more resilient networking

June 5, 2017 by Steve Bradshaw

Have any of you ever lost connectivity to your server because someone accidentally disconnected the wrong cable? It is so annoying as in many cases even if the cable was plugged back in you still had to answer a message on QSYSOPR to tell your system that it’s OK to start using the network connection […]

WRKJOBSCDE – Working with Job Scheduled Entries

May 4, 2017 by Steve Bradshaw

OK, OK, OK, I know this command has been around since the beginning of time but there are a couple of things I find that most people I work with do not realise about this command that can be really useful. So, just bear with me here and check that you know this before you […]

DB2 Row and Column Access Control

May 2, 2017 by Andy Youens

Introduction DB2 for i has a fantastic feature that is fairly new, Row and Column Access Control, or RCAC, for ease. This feature has been around since 7.2 of IBM i in April 2014, but doesn’t get a lot of exposure, so hence my interpretation of how it works. It is a method of controlling […]

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