by Andrea | 28 July 2025 | IBM i, System Management
One of the tools that I still see underutilized on IBM i systems is function usage.Essentially, it is a tool that can centrally manage permissions and authorizations for the use of certain operating system functions. It is a very powerful tool in itself and must be...
by Andrea | 26 May 2025 | AIX, IBM i, Linux, System Management
On IBM i systems, the SSH service is playing an important role in modernisation, it can be used, for instance, to take advantage of new software development tools such as VS Code For I, or it can be used in an innovative software release context using pipelines. SSH...
by Andrea | 27 April 2025 | IBM i, Programming, Sql Tricks & Tools, System Management
More and more frequently customers are reporting to us that after upgrading to Windows 11 24H2 there are problems with connecting to network shares via Netserver. Small parenthesis, in itself, the fact that the IFS of an IBM i system is accessible is a great thing,...
by Andrea | 14 April 2025 | IBM i, Sql Tricks & Tools, System Management
The past few days have been very full of announcements for IBM i system builders, in fact a new major release of the operating system was announced (strange since we are talking about an operating system that some people call dead :-D) namely IBM i V7R6M0. As...
by Andrea | 3 April 2025 | IBM i, System Management
In the many realms of IBM i, whether you are a systems engineer, programmer or just an end user, one of the core mechanisms of the operating system is related to the scheduler and its operation. The system scheduler (WRKJOBSCDE) is a very (perhaps too) basic tool,...
by Andrea | 10 March 2025 | IBM i, System Management
Many, many times I read in reports from customers or in conversations made in the thousand calls on Teams still misunderstandings about the use of certificates on IBM i systems. Let’s try today to provide clarity once and for all. Speaking of certificates in the...
