Message Monitors in New Navigator
April 11, 2022
IBM is updating New Navigator (New Nav) on a regular basis and there are a lot of enhancements that have been added over the past few months. This post highlights new functions in Message Monitors. IBM’s documentation on Message Monitors overview has complete details. You find Monitors in as shown in Figure 1: Message Monitor […]
ArticlesBig Things Coming for IBM i in 2022
April 6, 2022
Well, well, well. Back again! It’s been about six months since I published a blog post, and about two years since I worked with the good people at TechChannel. I’m happy to bring the “You and i” blog back “home.” Of course, if I only post once every six months, it won’t mean much … […]
PodcastsThe Importance of Refactoring
April 1, 2022
Charlie Guarino: Hi everybody, this is Charlie Guarino. Welcome to another edition of TechTalk SMB. This month I am joined by what I'm going to say is a household legend in our industry: Mr. Ted Holt. He has been in our community for years and years. Ted has worked in the IT industry for over […]
ArticlesRFE Moves From developerWorks to IBM Ideas
March 28, 2022
IBM now has a company-wide user interface where clients can submit requests for enhancements (RFEs) to any IBM product, and IBM i and RDi just transitioned to that tool in March. For years IBM i and RDi requests have been submitted using the developerWorks RFE tool, where you could vote and comment on these requests for enhancements. For those of you who submitted […]
ArticlesAdd Links to Web-Based Tasks With Access Client Solutions
March 18, 2022
There are many web-based management interfaces for IBM i. New Navigator, Heritage Navigator, Web Administration, Administration Runtime Expert and more all have different URLs to access those interfaces. In my blog, “New Navigator Bookmarks and Favorites,” I described how to use bookmarks to link to the various web-based tasks using New Navigator. This week I’ll […]
A New Home for the RFE Community
March 18, 2022
IBM Champion Rob McNelly on the IBM Power Systems Ideas portal, a FLRT change and his latest outdoor adventure
PodcastsThe Impact of Log4j in the Open-Source Ecosystem
March 1, 2022
Charlie Guarino: Hi everybody. This is Charlie Guarino. Welcome to another edition of TechTalk SMB. I'm sitting here today with the business architect for open-source technology for IBM i Jesse Gorzinski. Jesse, thank you for joining us here today for this podcast. Jesse Gorzinski: You bet. Thanks for having me on Charlie. Charlie: […]
ArticlesUnderstanding Power Supplies for Power Systems
February 28, 2022
In 2018, I published an article on planning for power that explored the requirements for power connections and the rules about power distribution units (PDUs) when implementing IBM servers. IBM publishes maximum power usage for each of their servers in the technical overview manuals’ operating environment sections. Whenever installing new servers, it’s important to reassess […]
ArticlesNew Navigator Bookmarks and Favorites
February 25, 2022
New Navigator (New Nav) offers quite a few new enhancements and options. One new feature is the ability to add bookmarks. Favorites were available in Heritage Navigator, but they have been redesigned in New Nav. These features help you get organized and easily access your most used tasks. Bookmarks You will find Bookmarks in the […]
ArticlesTop Reasons to Love AIX
February 17, 2022
IBM Champion Rob McNelly highlights his top reasons to love the Power Systems, IBM i and AIX ecosystems