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 […]

AS/400 Shield In From The Start!

As IBM i – AS/400 approaches it’s 35-year celebration the Shield team have nurtured the story from the start. 1994 London England, Midrange EXPO. Chris Hird presenting: Disaster Recovery versus High Availability – Common Europe. […]

Monitoring the IBM i with Nagios.

Using AAG to monitor your HA4i solution will ensure your replication is operating smoothly. With the ability to view the status  and history across all replication elements, an informed admin will be able to see […]

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 […]

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 […]

Job Tracking Solution – JT4i – New Product Launch from Shield

Shield launched a new product solution JT4i – Job Tracking for IBMi. Press Release:Shield Advanced Solutions Ltd, leading providers of High Availability Software, announced a new product, JT4i. The job tracking solution for IBMi brings […]

Ignore journaling when restoring objects

One of the questions we get asked a lot about how to stop an object being journalled when it is restored. This is a problem for replication software because the entries deposited either need to […]

Less is More!

Shield is a long-standing player providing solutions for the IBM i (AS/400, iSeries… etc) platform servicing the midrange community for close to 20 years.We constantly work at reducing complexity which in turn reduces the resources […]

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 […]