Data Cleansing is Critical to Business Success
April 1, 2019
Regardless of their size, businesses are increasingly reliant on data analytics to maximize profit and efficiency. But with so much data now available through all sorts of technical applications, how does a business know which numbers to trust? And what happens if a number is off by a decimal point, or a piece of information […]
ArticlesStreamline Regulatory Compliance With a Hybrid Cloud
April 1, 2019
In today’s business climate, just delivering goods and services to customers is no longer enough. Amid an ongoing stream of security breaches, countries, regions and industries around the globe have established regulations governing data protection—data privacy and data security. As a result, enterprises need to demonstrate and maintain compliance around egulations such as the European […]
ArticlesLet the End User Be Your Guide
April 1, 2019
Although my career has been primarily in OSes, transaction processing, data management/database and network implementation—along with consulting later on—I’ve also participated in application development projects. In my early years, I and an IBM consulting system engineer designed and developed a field developed program called Trend Analysis for CICS/VS, one of the first graphic analysis tools […]
ArticlesConferences, Community and More Ahead for IBM i in 2019
March 30, 2019
A look at conferences and user group events coming up in 2019, and why attending these events is beneficial.
ArticlesComments on the Changing UNIX Landscape
March 26, 2019
Rob McNelly blogs about his recent interview with Network World about the future of AIX and UNIX.
REST, SOAP, Microservices, Monitoring and Management
March 25, 2019
There are different aspects of the “outside in” approach, specifically Representational State Transfer (REST) and Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP).
ArticlesA Look at AIX and Cloud
March 19, 2019
Rob McNelly blogs about Petra Bührer's Power Systems Virtual User Group presentation, "Enterprise Cloud Bundle and AIX Enterprise Edition"
ArticlesTraditional and Nontraditional Approaches to Application Modernization
March 18, 2019
A discussion of traditional and nontraditional approaches and techniques for application modernization.
ArticlesLogging in NPIV from the HMC
March 12, 2019
Using the HMC to display and change N_Port ID virtualization (NPIV) mappings to get secondary World Wide Names (WWNs) logged in to use for live partition mobility.
ArticlesIBM i Job Accounting and Prestart Server Jobs
March 10, 2019
Job accounting can be used to track the use of system resources, such as CPU time, transactions, printed output and more, to a particular user or groups of users