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The IBM i Skills You Need Are Already In‑House

The IBM i Skills You Need Are Already In‑House

The "Great Retirement" of the mid-2020s is no longer a theoretical threat discussed in boardrooms; it is a daily operational reality. As we move through April 2026, the IBM i community faces a unique inconsistency. The platform is more capable than ever, powering global supply chains, hybrid cloud

i-UG Summer Event

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i-UG Summer Event

The i-UG (UK) is delighted to share an important update on the 2026 Summer i-Power Event, taking place on 2nd and 3rd June 2026 at Leonardo’s Hotel, Milton Keynes. Planning momentum is now building rapidly. The event agenda is taking shape, with sessions being firmed up and speakers confirmed

P05 - The Waiting Game

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P05 - The Waiting Game

For the IBM i community, the "Power11 Spring" has arrived with a side order of anxiety. We are currently sitting in a strange hardware purgatory. On one hand, the Power9 Scale-Out machines that have been the bedrock of many SMEs are now officially "legacy" as of

Understanding IBM Power VS

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Understanding IBM Power VS

With IBM offering £2,000 in free trial credits, now is an ideal time to explore how Power Virtual Server brings enterprise workloads to the cloud. IBM Power Virtual Server (PowerVS) represents a significant evolution in how organisations can deploy and manage their Power-based workloads. Rather than requiring on-premises hardware,

PowerWire Revamp

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PowerWire Revamp

🎉 Journey Complete – And What a Ride It’s Been! It’s taken a little longer than the year we originally planned, but we’re thrilled to say it: the final phase of the PowerWire overhaul is complete! 🚀 When we took sole ownership of PowerWire in July 2024, it was clear

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MFA: A Complete Guide to Affected Areas - Part 2

This article continues our deep dive into Multi, Factor Authentication (MFA) on IBM i, focusing on the new features introduced in version 7.6. If you’re new to MFA or need a refresher, you can start with the first part of this series, What is Multi, Factor Authentication? available

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MFA: A Complete Guide to Affected Areas - Part 1

This article continues our deep dive into Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) on IBM i, focusing on the new features introduced in version 7.6 If you’re new to MFA or need a refresher, you can start with the first part of this series, What is Multi, Factor Authentication? available

It’s official – IBM have now launched their Power10 Scale out range!

Whilst IBM’s Enterprise range did come out back in September 2021, that provided for the high-end Power clients only. With this release of low and mid-range servers, the capability of Power10 is made available to everyone. In a nutshell, the key benefits of Power10 are; * Enhanced Security – Power10 includes

Being Cyber-safe is easier than you think

I’m sure you have all heard about the situation in Ukraine, one consequence that we need you to be aware of is the increased risk of cyber-attacks on UK businesses. There are those in Russia and those sympathetic with Russia’s aims, that would like to see businesses in

Power10 First Look

The waiting is over and Power10 is here. So, it is time to take our first look at the new chip architecture, in general, and the new E1080 server, in particular. There is too much material to include in one article. So, in the spirit of the new chip name,

New Software Enhancements for POWER Systems

PowerWire.eu talked to Brandon Pederson earlier this month about the Software Enhancements for POWER System. PowerWire.eu (PW): Hello Brandon, it’s nice to talk to you again, the last time we spoke back in April, Covid-19 was disrupting all our plans, cancelling all our conferences, and making us

Time to Say Byebye to the POWER7+

Those of you with first generation POWER7 processor (the models that end in B & C) will be all to aware that on Monday this week (30th September 2019) IBM ceased their mainstream hardware support for these models. Some of you will of managed to negotiate and EOS Extension of

Tic-Tock, Tic-Tock; time's running out for IBM i 7.2

IBM announced on the 10th September that you will be able to order a 7.2 version of IBM i until the 30th April 2020, and with the announcement came the news that support for the 7.2 will also cease on the 30th April 2021. However you can upgrade

Node Project - iDash

In this article I will take you through part of my Node.js workshop that I presented at the UK International i Power conference in June 2019. The workshop was called ‘From Zero to Production with Node.js’. I hope those that attended enjoyed the workshop and found it beneficial.

i-UG (UK) conference welcomes SiD

For the first time in many years SiD (System i Developer) is returning to the UK to deliver university classes at i-UG’s International i-Power conference that will take place this June in Milton Keynes. SiD university classes are for developers who use IBM i or Power systems and will

Don’t have a Meltdown over Spectre

You would have to be living under a rock not to have heard about the latest class of security vulnerabilities that have been found. These are known by the catchy names of Meltdown and Spectre. Now those of you who know me (and my love of patching servers) will be

RDi 9.6 – Push to Client Feature

To continue with my current stream of Rational Developer for i articles, in this issue, I will show how to use a feature that makes administration easier, I’m all for that! How many times over the years have we opened a PMR with IBM on RDi, or all the

Say hello to the new POWER9 and go buy a POWER8

IBM has just announced the all new POWER9 based AC922 model and it looks great! I’ll talk about that a little more later but for now just know that it’s faster than ever but these first models are focusing on AI (Artificial Intelligence) and will be running Linux

RDi 9.6 – Worth a Look?

Firstly, thank-you to all that attended my RDi session at the last UK iUG meeting. I hope you enjoyed it. At that presentation, I notified all that IBM were due to release Version 9.6 of RDi on the 16/11/2017, which replaces RDi version 9.5.1.2

DB2 Field Procedures - Testing

In my last article, I wrote how we can encrypt sensitive data in our DB2 database. To recap; IBM has given us the ability to take a field, or column, and let us apply security, or encryption, to that field/column. It is up to your FieldProc program to perform

Aggregated Ethernet – Faster & More Resilient Networking

Have any of you ever lost connectivity to your server because someone accidentally disconnected the wrong cable? It is so annoying as in many cases even if the cable was plugged back in you still had to answer a message on QSYSOPR to tell your system that it’s OK

IBM i Daylight Saving Time Management

Spring is on its way (Halleluiah!) and next month the clocks with be springing forward an hour. As a boy (and the youngest of my clan) I remember it was always a job given to me to go around the house and change the dozen or so clocks that we

IBM i 7.3 - Authority Collection Services

One of the great new functions IBM has built into IBM i as standard, and free of charge in 7.3, is the Authority Collection Services. This works a little like the performance collection services, in that you start it for one or more users to monitor access to objects

RPG – What's New in 7.3

As you probably know, IBM released 7.3 of the IBM i operating system in April 2016. So now it has been over six months since the new release, let us take a look at what has changed in RPG for this release. Remember that SEU has not been updated

RDi & IFS Local Source – Worth a Look?

Introduction. As I’m sure you know, Rational Developer for IBM i was enhanced to Version 9.5.1 recently. This update gave us the ability to store our source members, RPG, CL etc. on the IFS and to have the ability to store a local copy on our PCs.