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Andy Youens

An IBM Power developer for the past 45 years. IBM i Consultant at FormaServe IBM Champion since 2021 Wrote IBM i Developer Certification Wrote Redbook on Power Modernisation Ex Royal Navy

Node-RED & IBM i

In my last article I wrote about the hoops we had to jump through to get the DB2 for i Node-RED adapter installed. In this article, we will be taking a look at how we use that adapter and also how we can run IBM i commands from within our

Raspberry Pi and Machine Learning

In my last article, I demonstrated how I used Machine Learning on the Raspberry Pi to determine if a photograph contained a bird. This article can be found at https://powerwire.uk/raspberry-pi-and-machine-learning if you missed it. In this follow-up article, we will be using the Raspberry Pi to send

An Ansible Environment Setup

Firstly, thank-you to all those who attended my Ansible workshop and presentation of Visual Studio Code at the i-UG conference at Northampton in June. It was great to be back presenting and meeting up with friends. This article is related to this event. The Power servers for the event, were

An Ansible IBM i Disk Checker

This article slightly deviates from my usual open source articles on IBM i. I say slightly, as this article will be about Ansible and yes Ansible is open-source. Thank-you Red Hat. This article will not be an introduction to Ansible. My good friend Glenn Robinson, has written a great couple

RPG 2017 Updates

RPG 2017 Updates

Introduction 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