Andrea Fletcher, Software Developer, Lincoln Heritage Life Insurance Company
January 8, 2018
Name: Andrea Fletcher Title: Software developer Company Name: Lincoln Heritage Life Insurance Company Company’s Function: Final expense insurance HQ: Phoenix Years in IT: 3 The biggest challenge our data center is facing today is the rest of the company’s perception of what IT does. My favorite activity outside of work is any DIY activity. I […]
ArticlesTech Tip: Be Like a Turtle!
August 10, 2017
The poet Bill Copeland once wrote “Try to be like the turtle—at ease in your own shell.” I find this to be great advice! Of course, I’m thinking of a different kind of “shell.” That is, I’d like to talk about the shell that you use when connecting to IBM i with the Secure Shell […]
ArticlesRoute FTP and SMTP Workloads to Their Own Subsystem
July 24, 2017
If you're doing file transfers or SMTP email on your IBM i partition, you may want to take advantage of subsystem configuration to isolate those workloads from other work in the QSYSWRK subsystem.
ArticlesGraph History—Stacked Charts
May 22, 2017
With the 7.3 release, IBM introduced historical performance data collection and the ability to view your historical data graphically with Graph History.
ArticlesSubsystem Configuration Documentation
April 18, 2017
With the 7.3 release, the subsystem configuration information has been updated and incorporated into the Work Management topic within the IBM i Knowledge Center.
PowerVM LinkedIn Group
March 28, 2017
PowerVM is IBM's advanced virtualization on Power Systems. Learn more about it in the PowerVM LinkedIn group.
ArticlesSNMPv3 Auditing and Other Enhancements
March 1, 2017
This article describes the new support to audit SNMPv3 requests.
ArticlesHere’s to the Women in IT!
February 21, 2017
Stacy Benfield wrote this week’s blog about her participation in the Women in IT conference in 2016.
ArticlesWhat Skillset Is Needed for Enterprise Systems Success?
January 30, 2017
This is the first in a multi-part series on the key skills needed for success in enterprise computing. As research for this post and the ones to follow, I have gathered and analyzed information from job postings from companies looking to hire programmers, programmer/analysts and developers for jobs in mainframe computing. All Job Postings […]
ArticlesOptical Containers
January 18, 2017
With 7.2 TR5 and 7.3 TR1 enhancements, you can easily store an optical image catalog on flash or RDX media.