News Article 600! This is a historic post, article number 600 rolls of the print press! Here we celebrate this exciting feat. The number 600 pops up in various contexts, here are some interesting facts that have the number 600.
News FormaServe & NC Communications Join Forces to Publish PowerWire FormaServe, a leading provider of IBM i training and consultancy services, and NC Communications, a specialist in IT events and media production, have announced a strategic partnership to publish PowerWire, the IBM Power newsletter. PowerWire is a monthly online publication that covers the latest news, trends & insights on IBM
IBMi RPG Data-Gen Operational Code Looking back at when I first started writing articles for PowerWire.eu nine years ago, I was bought onboard to cover RPG articles. Looking back over the last few years I have failed miserably in this task and maybe got too carried away in the ‘open-source’ frenzy. In this anniversary
IBMi Eclipse AI Chat Integration My good friends at Remain Software have just released an AI chat integration feature for Eclipse and Rational Developer for i . According to their website, ‘This tool leverages the power of AI to provide contextual suggestions, code snippets, bug checking and documentation proposals. Empowering you to write code faster and
IBMi A screen a story – A User Reporting Slow ODBC Performance In my last article I wrote: “IBM i Services allows a modern system administrator to move away from having to use 5250 emulation, not because you should, but because using IBM i services is quicker in getting the job done. In my next episode of a screen a story I
IBMi A screen a story – The Contact Information National language version Recently Scott Forstie created an SQL script allowing you to create a procedure with which it is a piece of cake to review the special instruction PTFs. What the link is between the contact information and the PTF cover letters is something I will explain later on. Please allow me
IBMi A screen a story – Not our problem anymore Last week I ran into an issue, which did teach me something new about the command WRKPRB. After checking a test LPAR after having applied the latest group PTFs for IBM i 7.4, I noticed the following when checking the apply: When looking at the joblog of QSYSCOMM1 spoolfiles
IBMi Shield Advanced Solutions - new Messaging and Monitoring solutions September 2022 – Toronto As Shield Advanced Solutions celebrates the significant milestone, 25 years of providing Availability for the IBM i (and predecessors), our customers are raving about the new Messaging and Monitoring solutions. Many of Shield’s long-standing HA4i – high availability for IBM i customers have taken up EM4i – message
IBMi To Cloud or Not to Cloud for IBM i At a recent IBM i event, a discussion on cloud for IBM i was a divisive topic. Whilst we have a great platform with IBM i, to ensure it’s longevity and avoid the ‘legacy’ tag, it’s important to understand how IBM i can offer cloud and cloud-like capability
IBMi Why IBM i continues to deliver excellent ROI for manufacturing and distribution IBM technology has been a key part of enterprise IT since the 1980s with platforms such as AS/400, iSeries, System i and IBM Power Systems and operating systems such as OS/400, i5/OS and IBM i. This technology is prized for its superior performance, stability and dependability. In
IBMi Bring Power to the cloud with Northdoor and Skytap For organisations that run their x86 workloads on Azure, Skytap offers the ability to bring IBM Power workloads into the same cloud, co-located for low latency and high performance. With your AIX, IBM i and Linux on Power workloads in Azure, you benefit from flexible capacity and pricing with no
News Remain Software Milestone 3 NIEUWEGEIN, Netherlands — Today Remain Software is pleased to announce the third Milestone of TD/OMS V14 and MiWorkplace V1.29.0, in line with the company’s commitment to innovation and support. This Milestone is the third scheduled enhancement to each solution, culminating in the annual release each summer. Today’
IBMi Dot Files on IBM i For those who have been following my bite size BASH tutorial on You Tube, I thought it about time I wrote an article about a very useful BASH utility that’s available for our IBM i, and of course, plug my BASH videos at https://bit.ly/3IXBkm6 at the
IBMi Rant for better security on IBM i This rant is intended as a wakeup call to companies and ITSecurity experts. I have 25 years of experience in Security on IBM i and all too often my observation of the poor implementation of IBM i Security of many companies is truly alarming! All players are responsible for this
IBMi Probably the best Interactive Debugger on the IBM i Get Started Open up ‘IBM i Client Access’, make sure you have entered the correct system, then choose ‘Database – Run SQL Scripts’. Now select ‘Run – System Debugger’. If on start-up, you get an error ‘Unknown system ‘xxxxx’ was specified – OK’, go to ‘File – Change System’. Enter the system IP address
IBMi How to find the right IBM i printer configuration You might think that we live in a world of standards and that any printer would be able to work out of the box with any server. Well sadly, you would be wrong. Whilst this would be the easiest thing in the world to achieve, the one thing that is
IBMi A screen a story – A Better way to Retire the Heritage Navigator for i Let me cut right to the chase, if you have read or have not the article of last month titled: “A screen a story – Retire the Heritage Navigator for i”, forget about it. If, however you do not have the option to apply PTFs in the short term and you
IBMi How Can You Update Your UAK Key without an HMC? I was working at a customer last week when I noticed the system attention light was illuminated on their Power 9 Server. Looking at WRKPRB (work with problems) log, the SRC code was A7004761 which is the code for an expired Update Access Key (UAK). What is a UAK? If
IBMi NCDU on IBM i Yes, I am continuing my amazing journey with open source on the IBM i. In this article I’ll be taking a look at another one of the open source utilities that has slipped under the covers… This time it is NCurses Disk Usage, or NCDU from now on. This
IBMi 2022 All400's IBM i Survey Four years agon All400’s did a ‘user’ survey about IBM i, and they had 650 resonses, this year they are doing another survey and hope to achieve 1000 responses. They have asked PowerWire.eu to promote their survey in the hope of achieving their target. It involves the 3
IBMi Remain Software Milestone NIEUWEGEIN, Netherlands — Today Remain Software is pleased to announce the second Milestone of TD/OMS V14, Gravity V7, OCTO V1, Remain API Studio V3, and MiWorkplace V1.28, in line with the company’s commitment to innovation and support. This Milestone is the second of three scheduled enhancements to each
IBMi A screen a story – Retire the Heritage Navigator for i Although the log4j media storm of December 2021 has settled and is part of what we call the past. IBM did publish a document titled Security Bulletin: IBM i components are affected by CVE-2021-4104 (log4j version 1.x) When looking at this document you will find a section called “Workarounds
IBMi Finding the key to cost-effective, simple business continuity and disaster recovery key to cost-effective, simple business continuity and disaster recovery By Tom Richards, Systems and Storage Practice Lead Northdoor plc. Preparing for the unknown If the events of the last year have taught us anything, it’s that no one knows what’s round the next corner. The widespread disruption caused
IBMi Data-Queues with ODBC In my last couple of PowerWire articles, I have written about using data-queues and about ODBC connectivity. If you need to refresh yourself of either of the articles, the data- queues article can be found here, with the ODBC article in the link here. In this article, we are going
IBMi A screen a story – may the path be with you In the life of system administrator SQL now a necessity. It can no longer be seen as something for developers only. The new Navigator for i is the living proof for that. When working with IBM i Access Client Solutions (ACS) Run SQL Scripts (RSS) you have the option to
