by Andrea | 6 December 2025 | IBM i, Programming
This week, the wait is finally over… a few weeks after signing up for the demo, BOB has finally arrived, and I have the chance to try it out in advance. For those who are not yet familiar with it, BOB is a new IDE owned by IBM. It is not a completely new IDE; in...
by Andrea | 8 October 2025 | IBM i, Programming, Sql Tricks & Tools
A few days ago, a customer opened a case with me because he couldn’t understand the origin of the locks that were occurring on certain objects. In fact, this lock condition was causing problems for the application procedures, which clearly found the files busy...
by Andrea | 29 September 2025 | IBM i, Programming, Sql Tricks & Tools
A few articles ago, we talked about the native integration of the syslog format within IBM i. We also looked at two SQL services (the history log and the display journal) that were able to generate data in this format in a simple way. Today, in this article, I propose...
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 | 24 February 2025 | IBM i, Programming, Sql Tricks & Tools, System Management
In the last post, we have seen how to manage defective PTFs automatically using SQL.Today, we will see how it’s easy to check current PTFs level directly from IBM servers. Let me say that is quite important to keep systems update, both in terms of version and...
by Andrea | 17 February 2025 | IBM i, Programming, Sql Tricks & Tools, System Management
Several days ago, I opened a ticket to the IBM support for a problem that was affecting one of my production lpar. The technician ask me to generate a System Snapshot and once uploaded to website an automatic agent warned me about a defective PTF that was installed on...
