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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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Just a gentle reminder to customers about the new support process for JT4i and HA4i.We have introduced a support portal which uses OSTicket to allow the submission and tracking of support requests. As part of the portal we have introduced […]
Let’s ‘C’ some IFS locks
I was recently asked about how to retrieve information about what jobs were locking a particular IFS object which is something we covered in a post back in July 2012. IBM does provide a program which allows you to retrieve […]
IoT …. and More
From a non-technical layman’s perspective…. I am hearing the term I.O.T. being referred to more and more…. and in different ways. The Internet of Things can in fact mean so many different things!If you do a search on Google IoT […]
Ever Increasing Prices
The economy and cost of living increases are currently fairly steady and minimal…. so why are we seeing so many spikes of price increases in software, services and maintenance support for IBM i?“Are Corporations Getting Greedy?”An article in Computer Weekly […]
Let’s ‘C’ a bit more PHP
Thought I would add a simple addition to the PHP process so that we can extract some information from the system such as the processor group, LPAR ID and license info. This is something we use a lot for our […]
Let’s ‘C’ it’s been a while
It’s been a long time since I did anything with the Let’s ‘C’ project so while I had a few moments I thought I would do something a bit different. The use of PHP on IBM i seems to be […]
Why You Should Upgrade!
In many cases, keeping your software up-to-date and current is important if you want it to perform well. There is, however strong feelings in the computer industry, in particular the IBM i platform, that suggests…. “Why change, what isn’t broken”! […]
HA4i gains new features using Let’s ‘C’ technology
We have previously posted about how to connect to a remote web server from your IBM i using both secure and non-secure sockets as part of a series of open source snippets (Let’s ‘C’) we have been working on. The […]
Let’s ‘C’ using TLS to the web.
Its been a long few weeks since the last real techie post. We had a number of issues with the Secure Sockets program talking to our externally hosted website which took a lot of debugging to finally figure out what […]
PowerUp18 thoughts
We have finally caught up with things after the PowerUp18 conference in San Antonio, what a great conference we had. I was pleased to see that even though a lot of ISV’s have been merged into a larger group (Syncsort […]