A month ago, IBM i Access Client Solutions 1.1.9.9 was released. Probably you have it already running and are using it in your IBM i environment. I have already come across a lot of articles informing you about the new functionality added to ACS 1.1.9.

In the IBM i world, when dealing with High Availability and Disaster Recovery the history started with software replication, no matter which product you started or are still using, starting the printers has always been one of my concerns. I only wanted the printers to be starting on the production

The “R” in the title is no typo, no Q & A this time. The “R” does refer to the name Collection Services Collection in the screen shot, which is available in two flavours, but what is the difference? Well, that is a question that is easy to answer. There

Be it auditors, the recent NIS2 Directive , or just common sense, stepping away from IBM i user profiles with never expiring passwords has always been the better choice.  Since IBM i has been around for quite some time, a lot of the security options have gotten a bit long in

Security is hard to ignore these days and for good reason. So, adding TLS to all IBM i applications is a logical step to take. For sure there are the well know ports, for which it is not hard to guess by which application they are used. Well Known Ports

It’s most likely that you have added an extra lock on your front door, preventing it for being opened from the outside. In most cases we do not think about having this extra lock, it is just there, and we use it. However, at some stage someone came up

Recently I ran into a problem on an LPAR where apparently nothing was changed. The problem as always is, how to determine if nothing was changed. After all an IPL of an LPAR is change. Let me tell you what happened. For a customer running an independent Auxiliary Storage Pool

If the screen show below looks familiar, there are two possible reasons:  1. You are using the Scheduled Job (WRKJOBSCDE) command for scheduling jobs on IBM i and are not using the Advanced Job Scheduler. 2. You are aware of the fact that the CL command DLYJOB exists and you

During the COVID-19 pandemic we all learned to work remotely when possible. Setting up a VPN connection is something no longer only performed by IT personals. Losing a VPN connection is also something which many of us have experienced. Working remotely when doing system management tasks out of office hours,

The Exit point functionality available within IBM i, is what I would call a hidden gem. If we just look at the Pre-power down Exit Point my guess is you will agree. In my article of last month the Start-up program was handled. Now it is time to look at

In order to step up to a higher level of security, I suggested a customer to start using encryption on File Shares on IBM i. Currently for IBM i SMBv3 with encryption, is the highest level you can go to. For more details I suggest you have a look at