Dawn May
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Dawn May is an IBM i consultant. She owns Dawn May Consulting, LLC in the Greater Boston area. Dawn is also a former Senior Technical Staff Member with IBM.
Route 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.
ArticlesCOMMON Americas Advisory Council (CAAC) and RFEs
May 3, 2017
Dawn May highlights several IBM i client advisory councils.
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.
ArticlesPowerVM LinkedIn Group
March 28, 2017
PowerVM is IBM's advanced virtualization on Power Systems. Learn more about it in the PowerVM LinkedIn group.
ArticlesCopy an Open Spooled File
March 22, 2017
With IBM i 7.3, you can now copy an open spooled file.
ArticlesDetermining the Size of QTEMP
March 6, 2017
I have a very short update this week. The blog entry “QTEMP – Temporary or Permanent Storage,” was written before IBM i 7.2 was available, but it’s still applicable. That blog explained how storage used by a job’s QTEMP library is actually permanent storage, and it also included some tips on how to determine the […]
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.
ArticlesFebruary 2017 IBM i Announcements
February 14, 2017
Once again it is announcement time, with IBM i 7.3 Technology Refresh 2 and IBM i 7.2 Technology Refresh 6 being announced.