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About Chris Hird
I have been around the IBM i or it’s predecessors (AS/400, iSeries, i5, System i etc.) for about 24 years now. I started after being retrained by IBM from a Buyer into a programmer! I always loved to get involved […]
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What we do! We develop solutions for High Availability and Disaster Recovery which we distribute through a network of partners and web based portals. If you wish to contact us please visit our website at http://www.shieldadvanced.com. The blog and website […]
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Every year Shield Advanced Solutions, attends Common’s annual event and Expo where we connect and reconnect with the Power Systems and IBM i businesses and more importantly some of the best specialized professionals in this field from around the world!It’s […]
NGINX install
There is a recent post from Jesse Grozinski A-Tale-of-Two-Web-Servers which gives some information about the addition of NGINX to the IBM i suite of HTTP Servers. We feel that the post needed a little more detail for those of us who are less […]
Installing git and getting our first Open Source Software
In the previous post I discussed the fact that we have two Open Source camps on the IBM i, I believe the easiest start into the community for many is going to be via the ILE camp. If this is […]
Getting Started with Open Source using what you already know.
One of the problems many people have with Open Source on the IBM i is know just where to start. I think some of this can be contributed to the way we have started the conversations with all of the […]
Shield’s Notification Process
Shield has introduced a new Notification Process for customers. Register now to take advantage of Notifications.If and when changes and updates are made to any of our products, you will be informed. Links in the email allow you to download […]
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 recent releases have included a […]
Working with OSSILE,Rdi,IProjects and git.
I was surprised on a recent Crowdcast from the OSSILE group to hear that in order to use git you had to migrate your source code to IFS based files? Having developed a lot of Open Source code and contributed […]
Adding a IBM i *GUEST LPAR to an IBM i *HOST
One of the benefits of running the IBM i is the ability to partition up the system and have instances of isolated IBM i running without having to spend lots of money on new hardware and software. The licenses which […]
Shield – Through the Ages!
History by DesignThe history of Shield’s logos offers a ‘museum’ of designs which demonstrates the length of time Shield has been in business, by their image content. Over the years we’ve worked with different designers, in different countries. The theme […]
Open Source and partitioning for Linux.
There are a number of ways to approach the use of Open Source within your IBM i / IT environment. The one we see discussed a lot on the IBMIOSS groups and various other mediums is the use of the […]