Prestart Job Messages
January 4, 2019
This article reviews the messages sent by various types of prestart jobs and provide examples of how to gather useful information from these messages
ArticlesThe Privacy Regulation Inflection Point
January 1, 2019
Congratulations! We’re all in a growth area—the ever expanding footprint of privacy compliance regulations around the world. We’re now about eight months into General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) being live, and the world is still turning. Up ahead, we see the California Consumer Privacy Act due to go live in early 2020, along with Brazil’s […]
ArticlesCrowdsourcing Drones for Crisis Management
January 1, 2019
Dramatic weather events are becoming increasingly common, whether they’re hurricanes, extended periods of drought or out-of-season heatwaves. Understanding these phenomena is critical to (hopefully) helping reverse the cause. That, however, would likely require a coordinated global response, something that may not be possible. But quicker action can be taken on the local level, especially in […]
ArticlesInvestigate Prestart Jobs
December 6, 2018
Collection Services is always running on your system and you can use the Performance Data Investigator with Collection Services data for insights into your prestart jobs
ArticlesPrestart Jobs and QPRTJOBs
November 16, 2018
What happens when you generate a spooled file from a prestart job? Where does the output go and is there an easy way to find it?
Watches and Job Log Messages
November 5, 2018
Watches make life easier if you need to track down an intermittent error or a difficult-to-find issue in a prestart job
ArticlesCompanies Are Taking a Fresh Approach to Private Cloud
November 1, 2018
Businesses turn to the cloud for myriad reasons. Chief among them are accelerating and streamlining processes in environments such as the IBM Power Systems* platform, which enable increased speed of execution, agility for applications and better cost efficiency. “Organizations are concerned about time to market and how long it’s going to take to get IT […]
ArticlesThe QDFTSVR Job Description
October 25, 2018
QDFTSVR parameter settings provided by IBM with a description of why these settings are selected for prestart jobs
ArticlesManaging Prestart Server Jobs by Remote IP Address
October 3, 2018
There may be times you want to find prestart jobs associated with a remote IP address. In this case, you will want to use one of the various Netstat interfaces
Articles5 Modernization Steps to Maximize Value and Reduce Risk
October 1, 2018
Application modernization is a hot topic for IBM i shops and it’s no secret why. Companies need to be nimble and their applications need to adapt to meet the evolving needs of the business. Systems are aging, interfaces and processes are outdated, and data is hard to access. Skills shortages are becoming a bigger issue […]