When Does a User Profile Become a Bottleneck?
April 7, 2021
I’ve worked with several clients recently where a user profile, which could be a group profile, has become a major system bottleneck. This issue has taken two forms: Performance issues that occur because many objects are created and deleted for a single owning user profile Availability issues because a user profile hits the limit on […]
PodcastsJesse Gorzinski on Apache Camel and Open-Source System Lifecycles
April 1, 2021
Charlie Guarino: Hi everybody. This is Charlie Guarino. Welcome back to TechTalk. I am thrilled to have as a guest today Jesse Gorzinski, who is the business architect of open-source on IBM i, or I should really say, Lord Jesse Gorzinski. Jesse, welcome to our podcast. Jesse Gorzinski: Absolutely Charlie. Thank you for having […]
PodcastsSteve Will on What’s Next for IBM i
March 29, 2021
Paul Tuohy: Hi everybody and welcome to another iTalk with Tuohy. I'm delighted to be joined today by the IBM's chief architect for IBM i, Steve Will. Hi Steve. Steve Will: Hey Paul, it's good to talk to you again. Paul: Okay so as people will notice, we're getting a little bit of […]
ArticlesStanding Pat Is No Longer an Option With the HMC
March 19, 2021
New POWER9 servers running new firmware won't work with your old HMC. Rob McNelly explains why, and provides some upgrade options.
ArticlesExtend the IBM i Administration Runtime Expert With Custom Plug-ins
March 18, 2021
Creating custom plug-ins for Administration Runtime Expert extends functionality
AIX at 35 and the Layered Significance of AIX 7.3
March 10, 2021
Rob McNelly on AIX and Power hardware improvements, and where the AIX roadmap might lead beyond 2023
ArticlesOverview of the IBM i Administration Runtime Expert
March 4, 2021
The IBM i Administration Runtime Expert (ARE) provides the ability to ensure your environment and application attributes remain in a consistent and expected state. Using ARE, you set up templates that define the attributes you want to verify, run the verification against your own partition or groups of partitions and review reports on any differences […]
ArticlesTom Huntington on the 2020 HelpSystems Survey and the Effects of the Pandemic
March 2, 2021
Paul Tuohy: Hi everybody. Welcome to another iTalk with Tuohy. So actually it seems like the other day that we were talking Tom and it pretty much was so— Tom Huntington: Right. It was. Paul: I’m joined today by Tom Huntington, who is the executive VP of Technical Solutions on HelpSystems, and we […]
ArticlesUpdating to HMC v9
March 2, 2021
IBM brought out HMC v9 M910 in March 2018 for x86, Power and virtual HMCs. Since then, there have been numerous updates to the v9 code, adding features and fixing bugs. As new releases have come out, requirements for the HMC hardware have changed. The latest release (V9R2M950) no longer supports the x86 HMCs (7042-*) […]
ArticlesWalden Leverich on Open-Source Licensing
February 25, 2021
Charlie Guarino: Hi everybody and welcome to another edition of TechTalk. I’m joined here today by my friend Walden Leverich. Walden is the CEO and founder of Tech Software, a company that delivers software as a service solution for compliance, governance and clinical trial management to hospitals, universities, government agencies, and private sector enterprises. Walden, […]