It only seems like a few days ago that we made the announcement about the HMC checks being shipped in the latest updates for AAG, but here we are announcing a NEW update for the […]
Category: Paritioning
Security Bulletin PTF’s – Automated download
As part of our AAG product we have been looking at how we can make the security bulletin checks easy so that users can get their systems status with respect to security exposures announced by […]
Problem with SNDPTFORD on hosted LPAR’s
We are running and IBM i hosting IBM i LPAR’s environment that we use for all of our development. The setup works perfectly for our purposes and even though we have since created a VIOS […]
Continuous Integration using Jenkins and More…
I recently attended an online meeting with the MAGIC user group which showed how to install and set up Jenkins on the IBM i for Continuous Integration purposes. The installation and configuration all seemed very […]
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 […]
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 […]
Attention Light on new Power8 set up
We recently logged a Hardware PMR with IBM due to an attention light which kept coming on on the new Power8 system we have just set up. The light would come on at the same […]
Installing Virtual HMC.
As part of our recent new system purchase we found that our existing HMC is no longer able to connect and configure the system partitions that we required. We did look at using Virtual Partition […]
System Values and LVLT4i
System values are an important part of the working environment on the IBM i, therefore it is important that are correctly set ready for whenyou move to a recovery system. LVLT4i is working in an […]
Getting the most from LVLT4i
While it is early days for the LVLT4i product we have already had a number of interesting conversations with IBM i users and Managed Service Providers about how we see it being deployed to the […]