Minimizing Project Plan Delays With Debugging
December 16, 2019
Project planning has been a way of life for me since my career’s early days, learned from an IBM senior systems engineer who was my comrade providing support to a large, leading edge insurance company, driven by their appetite for CICS First Customer Shipment, then Early Support Programs as IBM’s early introduction programs evolved. Project […]
ArticlesNIM Users Must Get Current on AIX
December 10, 2019
A recent change in OS versioning requires NIM servers to run on the latest versions of AIX.
ArticlesMaximum Spooled Files by Job
December 9, 2019
There may be times when a specific job requires more than the default number of spooled files. Here's how to increase the maximum spooled files on a job.
ArticlesVirtualizing Storage with LPM via vSCSI
December 3, 2019
Moving to POWER9? Live Partition Mobility (LPM) can be used to virtualize storage on LPARs connected to VIO servers via vSCSI.
ArticlesTake a Sneak Peek at New Hardware
November 26, 2019
The IBM Interactive Product Tour Catalog allows you virtually preview 3D representations of new hardware.
A Look at Cloud Automation Manager
November 19, 2019
This short demo video breaks down the process of using Cloud Automation Manager to create templates and deploy virtual machines.
ArticlesThe Benefits of Working Remotely in IT
November 15, 2019
When I was rewriting a student records system for my graduate college, I spent most of time in a tiny room with a keypunch and desk filled with old and new program printouts, plus the punched card versions of each. When I wrote code, it was an instruction per card (or more if putting an […]
ArticlesLittle Things Mean a Lot in RDi 9.6
November 8, 2019
IBM i development experts Jon Paris and Susan Gantner review new enhancements to RDi
ArticlesActive_Job_Info() for Prestart Server Jobs
November 5, 2019
This article continues upon the series of blogs Dawn May has written related to prestart jobs, one of which detailed retrieving the current SQL statement for a job using QSYS2.ACTIVE_JOB_INFO()
ArticlesNPIV Client Boot Hanging Fix
November 5, 2019
IBM Support troubleshoots an NPIV client boot hanging with Error Code 554.