System and Software for journaling system objects patent EP 1559019 A1

To view the above patent please click here. Why the interest My interest was peaked by a recent LinkedIn comment about how using the Audit Journal to capture replication requests was a poor design choice. […]

Pricing for the ISV

I recently read through an article about how IBM i ISV’s are apparently wrong in the way that the charge for their products. While I do have some sympathy and do recognize that some pricing […]

Who would have thought! I am starting to use RPG!

I have always said that I did not need to learn or use ‘RPG’ on the IBM i as I always found that ‘C’ could do all that I needed. Recently I was asked by […]

Setting up the new VIOS based Partitions in question

We have been trying to migrate our existing IBM i hosting IBM i partitions to a VIOS hosting IBM i, AIX,Linux configuration. As we have mentioned in previous posts there a re a lot of […]

IBM i Mobile with IBM i Access for Web

We have been resistant to implement anything to do with the IBM HTTP server for a number of reasons, the main one being that we feel Linux is a better option for running any HTTP […]

Chinese Domain name scam still ongoing!

I have been getting a number of emails about Chinese companies trying to register our domain with a Chinese registrar and that we should act now to register before they can! As always, I am […]

New features added to HA4i

[adrotate group=”3,5,7,8,9″] A couple of new features have been added to the HA4i product as a result of customer requests. Auditing is one area where HA4i has always been well supported but as customers get […]

Interesting discussion about XMLSERVICE and big data

[adrotate group=”3,5,7,8,9″] I sometimes worry about how we perceive the Open Source products and what we as developers should expect from it. I like to keep a watch on what is happening within the IBMi/PHP […]

IBMi eco system.

[adrotate group=”3,4,7,8″] I was reading a number of articles in the press this morning about the IBMi (i5,iSeries,AS/400 and the rest) and the possible install base. The articles suggests that there are around 35,000 “active” […]

Playing around with LOB objects

[adrotate group=”3,5,7,8″] As part of the new features we are adding to the HA4i product we needed to build a test bed to make sure the LOB processing we had developed would actually work. I […]