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VIOS SSP creation using the HMC Enhanced+ GUI

Every now and then you see something which takes you completely by surprise. This is even better when it’s something new to Power systems and makes life a whole lot easier. The HMC Enhanced+ GUI is getting a lot of stick, mostly from people who are used to the

User Groups

2016 Common Europe Congress Concludes

Luxembourg, Europe; 17 June, 2016. An IT community truly representing Europe.Common Europe elects new Executive Committee. The 2016 Common Europe Congress (CEC) concludes as one of the best IT events in recent Common Europe history. It was held in Stockholm, Sweden, this past 12-14 June. The Congress hosted 320

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Remain Software releases the new CA 2E interface

Remain Software addresses the CA 2E community and releases the new, powerful CA 2E interface for their IBM i Application Lifecycle Management tool, TD/OMS. The new solution supports management of business applications built with the CA 2E case tool and allows greater insight, control and predictability of CA 2E

User Groups

Maxava iFoundation invites IBM i User Community to apply for 2016/17 funding

Philadelphia, PA (15 June, 2016) – The Maxava iFoundation is once again delighted to announce a new funding pool to assist IBM i user groups following the record number of applications granted for 2015/16. Established in 2011 to help IBM i user groups in any part of the world, the

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Paragon Group refreshes its IBM server and storage infrastructure with Northdoor

Scaling up to tackle business growth.  Paragon is a highly dynamic organisation that continues to grow both organically and through acquisitions. The Group launched its banking subsidiary in 2014, a year which also saw a massive 82 percent increase in its mortgage lending business. Ongoing growth and changes in the

IBMi

IBM i 7.3, little things mean a lot

Much has been spoken about the key new features in IBM i 7.3 that it’s really easy to overlook some of the smaller new features, some of which can be really useful. To quote Edith Lindeman, these “little things mean a lot!” So in this article we explore

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Raz-Lee’s iSecurity Suite Supports IBM i 7.3

Raz-Lee Security Inc., a major vendor of security, auditing & compliance software solutions for IBM i systems, is announcing full support in its iSecurity product suite for IBM’s latest release of OS/400, release 7.3. Raz-Lee’s ability to announce same-day support for 7.3, which was officially

AIX

The Business Impact of Losing Your Critical System

The more critical a project is to a business, the greater attention it deserves. Which is why it puzzles me that many companies have little or no appetite for discussing the most important IT project of them all: disaster recovery. DR is the set of policies and procedures that will

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Remain Software announces a major step in global expansion

Remain Software stands together with Japanese resellers to support application development and modernization among IBM i teams in Japan and APAC Remain Software announces a major step in global expansion and boosts their presence on Asian market. As of May 2016 the Remain Software IBM i Application Lifecycle Management tools

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JT4i—Job tracking for IBM i

Press Release: Shield Advanced Solutions, leading providers of High Availability software, announces a new product JT4i. This job tracking solution for IBMi brings a fresh approach, and is a complete re-write of Shield’s long-standing product JQG4i. “JT4i’s new code and design brings to the table a solution that

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It’s about time! – Time Travelling with DB2 for i

Introduction –  In this article, I want to run though a great new feature of DB2 that was released as part of the Version 7.3 announcements last month. As the title of this article states ‘It’s about time’! IBM introduced a new feature within the database called temporal support.

Technical Articles

Customisation for the VIOS CLI

Something I’ve discussed previously but have refined recently is customising the VIOS CLI take make using the CLI and navigation a little easier. Whenever I install a VIOS LPAR the first thing I do is add in a couple of files I keep handy to do a few things

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Say Hello to IBM i 7.3

Last week saw both the announcement and shipping of IBM i v7.3, just three days apart, this statement in itself tells you something about the new management style of the IBM i team, as in years gone by it would have taken weeks if not months to get from

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Common Europe welcomes its newest country member

Luxembourg, Europe; Common Europe is pleased to welcome its newest country member into its user group community. AIX Portal, of Russia, joins 15 other country user groups belonging to Common Europe which together represent thousands of IT professionals practicing technologies surrounding IBM Power Systems™, IBM i™, AIX™, and Linux. Common

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Using PHP and RPG to Communicate Together With DataQueues

Continuing my articles about PHP and RPG communicating together, this time I will show how these two languages can talk with each other using data queues. If you missed the other parts in this series, you can find them here. Part 1 Part 2 DataQueues If you know all about

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ObjectConnect – Using SAVRSTLIB

More of us than ever find ourselves working on more than one system. There are a whole range of reasons for this. Quite often we have separate LPARs on the same physical server for Development and Production or perhaps separate physical servers for High Availability solutions to replicate our Business

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Creating and Mapping multiple LUs in SSP

If you’ve read any of my previous articles you’ll know that I’m a big fan of VIOS shared storage pools (SSP). I have been lambasted by a number of IBMers for using SSP instead of NPIV but my arguments are: 1. SSPs are fast and will cope

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Press Release: Maxava launches a brand new product - Maxava Monitor Mi8

Philadelphia, PA., March 2, 2016:  Maxava is delighted to announce the release of its latest product, Maxava Monitor Mi8. The brand new product is a multi-platform, cloud-native monitoring solution that is easy to set up, easy to use and incredibly cost-effective to operate on a flexible monthly fee. Nathan McClintock,

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HelpSystems Meets Growing Demand for Cybersecurity on Multiple Platforms

HelpSystems Meets Growing Demand for Cybersecurity on Multiple Platforms Minneapolis, MN, March 1, 2016—HelpSystems, a leading provider of systems management, business intelligence, and security solutions, today announced the release of Policy Minder, a new security administration and reporting solution for the Linux, AIX, and IBM i platforms. Policy Minder

Technical Articles

Be the Exception. Become an IT Monitoring Hero.

Today’s businesses must be available 24/7 with fewer people having to manage more complex systems and processes. IT departments receive a constant bombardment of information from a diverse variety of operating systems, business applications and critical processes and support a complex array of servers and devices running across

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HelpSystems Marketplace Survey

It’s 2016. Is anyone expanding their IBM i footprint? Now you don’t have to guess. The answer’s right here! Check out the second annual IBM i Marketplace Survey Results from HelpSystems. Now in its second year, HelpSystems, in conjunction with IT Jungle and PowerWire.eu, surveyed over

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Time for IBM to Stage an Intervention?

Let’s start with an old joke: Q. How many psychologists does it take to change a lightbulb? A: One, but the lightbulb has to want to change. This, in essence, is the problem with collaboration software adoption. The technology keeps improving, with more choices and better design. Unfortunately, adoption

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HelpSystems Acquires Tango/04 Computing Group

HelpSystems Acquires Tango/04 Computing Group to Meet Growing Global Demand Companies combine to help organizations in Europe and Latin America automate systems management, strengthen security, and deliver simple data access. Minneapolis, MN, February 25, 2016—HelpSystems announced today the acquisition of Tango/04 Computing Group, which has built a

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Zipping / Unzipping IFS Objects in IBM i

Those of you who know me probably know that I’m a lapsed programmer. These days I spend most of my time working at or below the IBM i Operating System layer but every now and then there is an exception that makes me dust off my coding skills and

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Press Release: TD/OMS integrates with WebSmart PHP

TD/OMS integrates with WebSmart PHP to enable robust PHP web applications lifecycle management on IBM i. The Remain Software IBM i Application Lifecycle Management solution, TD/OMS is now integrated with WebSmart PHP from BCD Software to enable PHP and RPG developers to deliver high quality and modern web