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IBM Delivers a Frictionless Hybrid Cloud Experience With the New Power10-Equipped E1080 Server

Keelia Estrada Moeller

September 8, 2021

Today, IBM announced the new IBM Power E1080 server—the first in a new family of servers based on the new IBM Power10 processor. With the Power10-equipped E1080 server, IBM is providing clients with a frictionless hybrid cloud experience across their entire IT infrastructure. The Power E1080 server is built around the revolutionary IBM Power10 processor. […]

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Installing an ifix With AIX Live Update

Chris Gibson

September 1, 2021

Chris Gibson explains how to install an AIX security ifix without a reboot

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Interact With the ATLASSIAN Jira Software From Within z/OS

Subhasish Sarkar

August 24, 2021

In this tutorial from BMC's Subhasish Sarkar and Sujit Neb, learn how to interact with ATLASSIAN Jira from a JCL Job that executes on z/OS

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CLI Options for Configuring and Modifying LPARs

Rob McNelly

August 23, 2021

Rob McNelly highlights resources you can use to learn how to create an LPAR without using the HMC GUI, and use the CLI for dynamic LPAR operations

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Understanding Disk Space Utilization With IBM i Navigator Performance Tasks

Dawn May

July 14, 2021

Disk space utilization is simply how much of your available disk space is in use. Understanding disk space utilization is something all shops need to do since disk space utilization tends to creep up over time. In my experience, those who are not proactive in understanding where their disk space is going often end up […]

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Best Practices for AIX in a SAN Environment: Part 2, I/O Configurations

Jose Luis Ortega

July 14, 2021

In my last article I explained the best practices for AIX in a SAN environment from a SAN perspective. I explained some best practices for SAN topologies, multipathing, FC-HBA configurations, among other recommendations. In this article, I’ll explain the best practices for the I/O configuration from the AIX perspective—that is, recommendations for data layout, filesystems, flash caches configuration […]

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IBM i Navigator System Monitors

Dawn May

July 6, 2021

Everyone should be proactively monitoring key metrics on IBM i. If you’re not already monitoring your system, I recommend getting started with IBM i System Monitors, which are included with Navigator for i. The feature article, Monitor Your IBM i Application and System Health, reviews why you should proactively monitor your system; this blog post shows you how to get […]

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Mainframe Connectivity: What’s Missing?

Trevor Eddolls

June 21, 2021

We can, perhaps, all remember a time when a simple 3270 terminal emulator was all we needed to access the mainframe without needing a directly-connected terminal. And we were really pleased that we could work from anywhere using this simple solution to our communication problem. It worked and our expectations were not very high. Next, […]

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PowerVM Upgrades and Top 12 Tips for Maintaining Your VIO Servers

Jaqui Lynch

June 15, 2021

PowerVM v3 has now been out for some time. In this article, I’ll go over what you should think about when maintaining VIO servers. I’ve noticed that once a VIO server is installed, people tend to ignore it until they are forced to upgrade it—this is not recommended. So, here are my top 12 tips […]

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After Helping Clients Navigate Challenging Times, the AIX World Moves Forward

Neil Tardy

May 24, 2021

From the beginning, IBM AIX was touted for its reliability. That this characteristic has endured was never more evident than over the past year, as IBM clients relied upon the AIX OS and Power Systems hardware to manage their operations through a challenging time. IBM’s Carl Burnett, Distinguished Engineer, Power Systems software development, believes that AIX/Power […]

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