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.
How to Introduce Modern Development Tools Successfully
July 14, 2023
Dawn May, president of COMMON, and Andy Finley, senior solutions engineer at Rocket Software, discuss how IBM i customers are taking advantage of new DevOps offerings
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Experts at IBM i Modernization
July 11, 2023
COMMON president Dawn May and CM First Group's John Rhodes discuss current trends and technologies to modernize RPG and COBOL applications on the IBM i
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System Monitor Configuration With Collection Services
May 11, 2023
My blog, Getting Started with IBM i Navigator System Monitors, Revisited, explained how to set up system monitors in Navigator for i. Visualize System Monitor Data showed how to view monitor data in Navigator for i and Investigate IBM i Monitor Data Using the Performance Data Investigator (PDI) explained how to review monitor data with […]
ArticlesInvestigate IBM i Monitor Data Using the Performance Data Investigator
April 13, 2023
In this step-by-step tutorial, Dawn May explains how to use the Performance Data Investigator and highlights the differences between “investigate monitor data” and “visualize monitor data”
ArticlesVisualize System Monitor Data for IBM i
March 10, 2023
My blog Getting Started with IBM i Navigator System Monitors, Revisited explained how to set up system monitors in Navigator for i. Once you have system monitors up and running, you will want to look at the monitor data on a regular basis. There are three options: Visualize Monitor Data, Visualize Monitor Data (new tab) […]
ArticlesGetting Started with IBM i Navigator System Monitors, Revisited
February 21, 2023
Dawn May explains how to set up system monitors in Navigator for i
ArticlesAlerting for System Limits on IBM i
January 26, 2023
IBM i automatically tracks many system limits and allows you to review these limits using various IBM i services, such as the QSYS2.SYSLIMITS view. There are many monitored categories, such as database, journal, work management and file system limits. See the System Health Services topic in the IBM i Knowledge Center for the full list […]
ArticlesA Look at Upcoming COMMON Events
January 4, 2023
COMMON is the preeminent organization offering the best educational opportunities for IBM Power Systems professionals. We’ve been busy setting up 2023, so let’s look at what is coming this year. iHAXLABS Kicking off the year is a LoopBack Hackathon that is being held in conjunction with Common Europe and is branded as iHAXLABS. This event […]
ArticlesIBM i Services Update
December 19, 2022
I am happy to announce that IBM delivered another round of updates to IBM i Services with the Db2 Group PTF released earlier this month. This blog reviews my favorite enhancements. QSYS2.COMMAND_INFO is a new service to return command information similar to DSPCMD. With no WHERE clause, you can populate a list of all commands […]
ArticlesWays to Work With Your JVMs in Navigator for i
November 22, 2022
One of my very first i Can blogs was “Work With Your JVMs,” written when the JVM CL commands (WRKJVMJOB, DSPJVMJOB, PRTJVMJOB, and GENJVMDMP) were added in the 6.1 release. Since that time, IBM added additional ways to work with your JVMs. This post provides updated information on the features available in Navigator for i […]