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 | 24 March 2025 | Linux
Last week, I had the opportunity to deploy a new partition with Ubuntu on Power installed. This was not the first time I was venturing into such a situation; I had previously deployed some Linux machines, but they were not production machines. This time however is...
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...
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...
by Andrea | 10 February 2025 | AIX
A very important and often fascinating challenge (at least from my perspective) is to give a new way of reading and then using what are often unfortunately referred to as legacy systems. Being heavily involved in research and development at the place where I work, I...
by Andrea | 4 February 2025 | IBM i, System Management
In the last post, I’ve presented a simple way to monitor some particular metrics of your IBM i. In addition to system monitors, you can go for message and queue monitoring. It is often the case that some information about the status of some system services as...
by Andrea | 20 January 2025 | IBM i, System Management
One of the most important allies of a sysadmin is a good monitoring system. In this first tutorial, I will show you how it’s so easy implementing an IBM i system monitor using features that are already included in the OS without using third part software. To do...
by Andrea | 13 January 2025 | Community
What makes the difference in a platform? Of course, stability and resilience that is the ability to always be able to rely on the availability of the system, its application services, and especially its data. Another focus is the simplicity of the tool and the...
by Andrea | 8 January 2025 | IBM i, Sql Tricks & Tools, System Management
One of the dream of sysadmins is monitoring system SQL usage, to check how much temporary storage is used by SQL statements, to check long-running SQL statements and so on. Daily, in my job I am able to see a lot of situations in which user run a lot of SQL statements...
