Shield’s Solutions Support the Whole Community at Cooperative Elevator Co.

Cooperative Elevator Co. is a Michigan-based cooperative that provides agricultural products and services to farmers and other businesses. The company was founded in 1915 and has since expanded to serve customers throughout Michigan. Cooperative Elevator […]

Nagios Monitoring for IBM i Update

We are almost ready to start shipments of our new AAG (At A Glance) solution for monitoring the IBM i via Nagios. The product is composed of 2 elements, a Nagios Core configuration running on […]

HA4i Improvements

We are constantly improving our products and have recently pushed a number of significant changes through for our HA4i product. One area we are always looking for improvements is in the audit process and the […]

Reputation, Trust and Something New

The brand of an organization is its logo, the graphic face of a company’s reputation. Business ethics, trust and reputation are brought to the table by the person who is leading and steering the company, […]

HA on a shoestring PartII

I finally found the links for the programs for the programs IBM used in the Lab sessions for HA on a Shoestring. Here they are for those of you who are interested. http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/resources/systems_i_software_db2_chgnsleep.cl.txt http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/resources/systems_i_software_db2_haapply.cl.txt http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/resources/systems_i_software_db2_hrtbeat.cl.txt […]

IBM's HA on a shoestring Presentation

We seem to be getting many requests for information on our RAP and the link to the IBM HA on a Shoestring presentation which has made the rounds at Common a number of times. We […]

Latest Version of JobQGenie

We have taken the new collection engine which we developed for RAP and built it into the latest version of JobQGenie. The new collection engine was needed due to the older technology becoming too cumbersome […]

New release of Crc Builder in progress, should be faster!

When we started to build the Crc Builder we used technology we had built into the RAP Auditing product as the base. While the Auditing functions work, we felt the speed needed to be improved […]

RAP is finally V6.1 ready!

We have finally managed to get the RAP product working satisfactorily on V6R1 and will now build a V6.1 complied version for installation on V6.1 systems. The problem had been with the new Watch technology, […]

See how RAP is installed and configured live, well almost!

As I previously posted we have started to create screencasts (video capture of the PC screen plus audio) of how we downloaded, installed and configured RAP. The final screencast Configure_RAP also shows how the product […]