Rob McNelly
Contributor
Rob McNelly is a Senior AIX Solutions Architect doing pre-sales and post-sales support for IBM Premier Business Partner Meridian IT Inc. in Deerfield, Ill. He is a technical editor and a former administrator within IBM's Integrated Technology Delivery and Server Operations division. Rob was named an IBM Power Systems Champion (www.ibm.com/developerworks/champion) in October 2011. Rob can be reached at rob.mcnelly@gmail.com.
A note from Rob:
“I enjoy camping, hiking, biking and backpacking through the mountains of Arizona. I’ve also learned to enjoy Ragnar races, and sprint triathlons. I always look forward to spending time on Arizona’s closest beach which is located in Puerto Penasco, Mexico. I enjoy scuba diving from live-aboard diving boats. My favorite trip was hiking to the blue waters of Havasupai, and I’m planning on hiking the Grand Canyon in the near future. Long ago, I realized that I would rather live in a hot, dry climate than shovel snow.”
Working Magic with hmcscanner
April 2, 2026
Rob McNelly conjures an Excel file and gets a timely reminder
ArticlesAIX’s 40th Anniversary Celebration Is Underway
March 2, 2026
Rob McNelly shares the latest IBM news and support updates, plus details from the recent storage announcement
ArticlesNewsflash? IBM Has Made and Sold Enterprise Computers for Decades
January 30, 2026
Rob McNelly has fun with a tech website's noteworthy lack of AIX/Power Systems awareness and shares information from recent IBM security bulletins
ArticlesMcNelly: IBM Unveils watsonx.data
January 5, 2026
Rob McNelly shares details on the recently GA'ed watsonx.data on IBM Power, an explainer on the dangers of 'shadow AI' and the latest security alerts
ArticlesNew AIX and Availability Enhancements
December 3, 2025
Rob McNelly shares recent IBM news and notifications, including virtualization enhancements and security alerts
ArticlesMcNelly: Reflections on TechXchange
November 4, 2025
Rob McNelly shares his thoughts on last month's conference, praising the event for a wide variety of offerings that got attendees our of their comfort zones
ArticlesThe Virtual HMC Continues to Evolve
October 2, 2025
Rob McNelly shares updates on Power11's zero planned downtime and HMC problem determination, and reflects on how the online world sounded at its inception
ArticlesMcNelly: The Latest From IBM Support, and Changes to Power11 Partition Scoring
September 3, 2025
Occasionally readers will ask about documents that are linked in some of my older articles. As an example, I was recently asked to locate a copy of the IBM document I’d linked to in this 2016 blog. If you’re at all tempted, don’t bother clicking that first link; the doc is no longer available. The […]
ArticlesRob McNelly on Power11: A Rundown of the New Servers and AIX and IBM i Enhancements
August 6, 2025
Redbook co-author Rob McNelly reels off the announcement links
ArticlesThe Future of IBM Power, and the Latest With IBM Storage
July 1, 2025
Upcoming virtual and live events are on tap for this summer and fall (and you may even get to meet Rob himself!)