New to i COMMON Community
February 2, 2022
Everyone has a point in their career where they look back to and say “Ah, yes that is when … ” a decision, person or event had a significant impact on their career. That is what COMMON’s New to IBM i (N2i) community is trying to do. We are working to bridge that gap from […]
ArticlesMainframe and IT 2021 Review, With a Look Toward 2022
January 28, 2022
2020 continued into 2021, giving us more of the COVID-19 era’s new normal. The Oxford Dictionary’s 2021 Word of the Year was “vax”—like vax sites, vax cards, getting vaxxed and being fully vaxxed. Collins Dictionary chose non-fungible token (NFT) as its word of the year. An NFT is a unique and non-interchangeable unit of data—e.g., […]
ArticlesStreamline Fintech Data Management With IBM Hyper Protect Services
January 28, 2022
Many banks and financial institutions are modernizing their IT systems and applications to become more agile and responsive by adopting a hybrid multicloud strategy, which involves minimal lift and shift. IBM is a major provider of hardware, software and services that are geared towards helping customers through their mainframe modernization journey. The process of migrating […]
ArticlesAIX and Power Systems 2021 Review, and a Look Toward 2022
January 27, 2022
IBM Champion Rob McNelly highlights key AIX and Power Systems 2021 milestones, and reflects on what’s to come in 2022
ArticlesSend Messages to a Telegram Bot from a JCL Job that Executes on z/OS
January 26, 2022
A JCL Job that executes on z/OS actually can send messages to a Telegram Bot, and I’ll demonstrate how to achieve this through a series of steps.As a note, I worked on this proof-of-concept (POC) project on my Windows machine. Therefore, all instructions pertaining to this POC should be done on a system running Microsoft […]
10 Hidden Gems in the RPM Pile
January 24, 2022
From JSON Query Utility, to LFTP, to Service Commander and more, Jesse Gorzinski highlights 10 hidden open-source gems in the RPM pile
ArticlesReaders Respond: Updating VIOS on POWER7, and a Simplified invscout Script
January 21, 2022
IBM Champion Rob McNelly reflects on what he's learned from readers—from mixed results updating VIOS on POWER7 to a cleaned-up invscout script
ArticlesMainframe Strategy: Identifying and Solving Common IBM Z Issues
January 19, 2022
One of my recent clients was a Fortune 100 company utilizing many mainframes and all of the complexities that go with it. My client had robust availability, resiliency everywhere, and redundancy exactly where you expect it. They had a multitude of highly skilled individuals keeping their infrastructure and applications running smoothly. They also had an […]
ArticlesA Simplified Approach to Understanding z/OS Performance
January 18, 2022
Knowing and understanding the performance of z/OS systems has always been important for enterprises as mission-critical business processes run in z/OS systems. Each mainframe shop has its own way of dealing with performance, which is a factor of in-house skills. As deep technical skills are becoming rare, a simplified approach to z/OS performance can help […]
ArticlesAIX 7.3 and HMC v10 Upgrades
January 18, 2022
In late 2021, IBM released the final versions of HMC v10 and AIX v7.3. Below is a summary of my experiences upgrading my HMC to v10 and a couple of LPARs to AIX v7.3 HMC v10 Upgrades on Your POWERHMC The first step for me is to login to the BMC interface on the HMC […]