IBMi 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
IBMi Hello Maria! Hello Maria! – I can’t say that without sounding like Leslie Philips – showing my age again! One of the cutting-edge recent additions from IBM for their Open Source offerings is Maria DB. In my opinion, this is a great addition, and will open the IBM i to even more applications
IBMi The modern way to check your IBM i PTF levels In the good old days before Covid (remember them) finding out where you were with your PTF levels was a laborious task. You had to manually compare the PTF groups installed on your system with the IBM Fix Central web site and note the level of each group. If the
IBMi Bye Bye NodeVer! For those of us using Node.js on our IBM i, you are probably aware of an Open Source utility, provided by IBM, called NodeVer (Is that Node Ver? or is it Nod Ever?, I’ll leave it with you to call it whatever you like!). NodeVer was a great
IBMi Last signon date - set it yourself Something that came up recently and jogged my memory for a tweak I made a few years ago. I was asked to confirm if a user had logged into a profile, now on the face of it a nice simple question and answer. WRKUSRPRF <username> and return the
IBMi Cloud Walkers bring new tools to IBM i administrators Cloud Walkers s.r.o is a new company that has been set up by Bartlomiej Grabowski who is an IBM Champion, their aim is to bring new tools to IBM i administrators, and at the moment their tools are called LPARKit. Below is the detail that PowerWire.eu received
IBMi 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/
IBMi 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
IBMi Keep My NodeJS App Running! In my previous article, we created a quick weather app running on our favourite server. In this article, I will show you how we can ensure this application is always up and running, and if it’s not running, get it to automatically restart. Node applications are different to say,
IBMi More fun with Ansible for IBM i Messing about with Ansible for i modules In this article I decided to make use of a number of the Ansible for i modules to demonstrate their use for more usual day to day CL related tasks. A word of warning before I start. The playbook I’ve developed is relatively long and contains all the variables
IBMi Leaving SEU behind part 2 For those who don’t remember, or are new to the newsletter, last year I did an article on ILEditor as a way to start to bring my code writing into the 21st century. I also mentioned in the article that there was a new version, ILEditor 2, in the
IBMi A Weather App on IBM i Back to Node.js on IBM i for this one! In this article, we will be creating a quick weather app running on our favourite server. Once we have this up and running, in the next couple of articles we will be enhancing it to integrate with our existing applications
IBMi Using Ansible with IBM i to install PTFs In my previous article I introduced you to using the ibm.power_ibmi Ansible collection from IBM. I showed how to connect to your IBM i LPAR and vary on and off a device. Whilst that is mildly useful I wanted to write about something slightly more complex and, arguably,
IBMi 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
IBMi Forgetting to recompile - check your dates Something I mentioned on twitter a little while ago, I had a problem where someone had changed a source member but not recompiled it. As it happens they took out a line of code that the customer was quite keen on, so when 10+ years later the next poor sap
IBMi A screen a story – it is in the details A good quiz question for this article could have been: “When was the Index Advisor introduced?”. When searching the Internet I could find information going back to V3R6, which was released back in 1995. I think it is fair to say, we have all heard about it, but unfortunately we
IBMi Windows Terminal & IBM i Still continuing my theme of having a break from Node.js. This time we are looking at the new Microsoft Windows Terminal, also known as WT. And what a great product it is. We will be taking a look at how to use the new Microsoft Windows Terminal to automatically
IBMi Ansible automation for IBM i It’s been a few years since I last put together an article, but I’ve still remained involved with Power systems and IBM storage, specifically around VIOS and Spectrum Virtualize (Storwize). It is fair to say that the landscape is changing rapidly in IT with software driven technologies, cloud
IBMi Protecting against user enumeration in IBM i I was discussing an RFE (Request For Enhancement) with some CEAC colleagues the other day. A request has been made for IBM to formally address the ability to Enumerate User Profiles on IBM i. Now, user enumeration is not something you hear a lot about in the IBM i world
IBMi DB2 for i - Services This month we are going to have a break from node.js – I can hear the cheers from here! This time we are going to look at my favourite DB2 for i services. So, good place to start, what are DB2 services? They are SQL views, procedures and functions that
IBMi A Screen a Story – a sizeable font? In today’s world screen get bigger and bigger, resulting in screen resolutions following that trend. The highest I have seen so far is 3360 x 2100, but I to end there. Working with IBM i Access Clients Solutions, it annoyed me that the 5250 looked as show below: What
IBMi QMGTOOLS - Local update server I mentioned in the last article an issue with one of my partitions that I’m not allowing onto the network proper. One of the challenges this gives me is making sure I keep my software up to date, when I’m used to running a command to dial out.
IBMi IBM i PWRDWNSYS Exit Point Following on from my introductory article earlier this month about exit points here’s a straightforward (and useful!) one to get you started. Question; have you or a colleague ever executed the PWRDWNSYS command by mistake? On a system with multiple LPAR’s running it is quite easy to forget
IBMi A Screen a Story - i...i... Captain Ever wondered about the firmware level of any adapter present in a POWER server? My guess is that you probably never have or never needed to. Allow me to tell you a story which took place at the beginning of April. It all started with messages in QSYSOPR at the
IBMi Telnet failure - check your encryption One that I’m not sure I want to admit how long it took me to find the answer, so I figure instead I’ll tell you all a story and hopefully it’s one more link out there with the solution. A bit of background, for one of our
