Earlier this month I wrote about PowerVM Live Partition Mobility and Simplified Remote Restart, and I hope you want to get your I/T environment LPM and SRR capable to exploit these features. This week, I’m going to review the PowerVM LPM/SRR Automation tool in detail.
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Posted: October 23, 2017 |
IBM i Services have become quite popular, and it has become typical for new and enhanced services to be included with IBM i announcements. STACK_INFO is one of the new services that is part of the recent IBM i 7.3 TR3 / IBM i 7.2 TR7 announcement.
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Posted: October 17, 2017 |
This article explains how to leverage two IBM Power Server features to reduce downtime for maintenance and migrations and unplanned outages. Let’s start by reviewing some important PowerVM features that give customers more flexibility to keep their LPARs up and running for a variety of data center changes.
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Posted: October 3, 2017 |
I’ve written about system monitors in Navigator for i two times before; first when system monitors were added to Navigator in IBM i 7.2, and then later, when system monitors were enhanced with Visualize Monitor Data in the 7.3 release (which has also been taken back to IBM i 7.2).
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Posted: September 26, 2017 |
The End Subsystem (ENDSBS), End System (ENDSYS), and Power Down System (PWRDWNSYS) commands all have the End Subsystem Options (ENSSBSOPT) parameter. This is nothing new—it’s been there for a long time. In case you are now aware of this parameter, this blog is for you.
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Posted: August 30, 2017 |
This week’s blog was written by Scott Forstie. Scott is the Db2 for i Business Architect, SQL development leader, and IBM i developerWorks content manager.
Trigger programs are a data-centric technology to deploy business logic by establishing code that will run (fire) when the associated triggering event occurs. Trigger programs have been around a long time and come in two forms:
1) Native Triggers – managed with the Add Physical File Trigger (ADDPFTRG), Change Physical File Trigger (CHGPFTRG), and Remove Physical File Trigger (RMVPFTRG)
2) SQL Triggers – managed with the CREATE TRIGGER, ALTER TRIGGER, and DROP TRIGGER SQL statements. More recently, users have been able to also use CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER to simplify trigger deployment.
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Posted: August 22, 2017 |
Dump a Communications Trace was a blog I wrote back in 2009. That article reviewed the support for dumping the trace data in “packet capture” (PCAP) format and hinted that the DMPCMNTRC command would likely be updated to support this feature (without the need for a data area).
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Posted: August 2, 2017 |
Way back in V5R1, IBM introduced the ability to route FTP and SMTP workloads to their own subsystems. By default, FTP and SMTP server jobs run in the QSYSWRK subsystem, along with a lot of other IBM i server jobs. The Server Table in the IBM i Knowledge Center documents all the IBM i server jobs along with the default subsystem in which they run. The server table does state the subsystem is configurable for these servers, but it doesn’t give you any more information.
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Posted: July 24, 2017 |
You should already be familiar with the fact that you can launch Navigator for i from Access Client Solutions (ACS). But did you know that there are now functions, that when requested from Navigator for i, are executed with ACS?
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Posted: July 13, 2017 |
If you have wondered why you haven’t seen a new blog published recently, it’s because my day job consumed my time for the past month. I’ve written before about how I work with the Large User Group (LUG), the COMMON Americas Advisory Council (CAAC), and the COMMON Europe Advisory Council (CEAC). All three of these groups had face-to-face meetings in June that left me with little time for other work.
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Posted: June 22, 2017 |
