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IBM Brings Active-Active Mirroring Into Db2 For i Database

April 24, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan

As a platform that is approaching 40 years of deployment within enterprises that can’t afford downtime with their mission critical systems – that’s counting the System/38 as well as the AS/400 and its follow-ons as part of the same continuum – it is no surprise at all that IBM midrange systems running RPG and COBOL had some of the most sophisticated – and perhaps the only application-centric – clustering software ever developed.

Concurrent with the launch of IBM i 7.4 this week, Big Blue is rolling out a new kind of database clustering, which is called Db2 Mirror, that is …
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Melding System Monitoring And Capacity Planning

April 24, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Installing a modern system to run enterprise applications is a pretty tough task, but the job is not done once the iron is in and the databases and applications are up and running. Sophisticated organizations, whether they are large or small, do sophisticated application and system monitoring to keep an eye on how things are running, they have job schedulers that synchronize work to optimize for performance as well as drive up system utilization, and they use all of the information gathered to better plan for the kinds of systems they will need in the future.

There are many …
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Power Systems Bucks The IBM Trend And Grows

April 24, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan

The Power Systems business continues to grow, and that is good news for all IBM i shops, particularly for those of us who actively want for there to be boisterous competition in server processors and systems architecture. It comes as no surprise that we think Big Blue still has much to offer when it comes to engineering systems that provide real differentiation in the market. The ongoing growth of Power Systems – maintaining the happiness of the substantial IBM i and AIX customer bases and expanding the Linux base – is what is required for IBM to continue to make …
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IBM i 7.4 Rolled Out, And IBM i 7.3 Tech Refresh Rolled Up

April 24, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Every couple of years, we get a new release of the IBM i operating system from Big Blue, and it has been quite a number of years since we have seen a new version of the platform. But that’s alright, since IBM has its Technology Refresh mechanism for adding support for new hardware and for adding significant new software function to the platform without breaking release-level compatibility and therefore requiring customers to requalify their applications, or worse yet, be forced to port their applications to an updated operating system.

This new Technology Refresh approach has been a very good thing, …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 21, Number 16

April 24, 2019 Doug Bidwell

Hopefully you got a little downtime over the holiday weekend, because there are more PTFs to deal with. But it is not too bad, so don’t panic.

There are new HIPERs on all three currently supported releases – that’s IBM i 7.1, IBM i 7.2, and IBM i 7.3 – plus new Security groups on for IBM i 7.2 and IBM i 7.3 as well as new MGTOOLS available for download for IBM i 7.2 and IBM i 7.3.

New (Updated) Links this week:
- Print: Information on Printers from Various Manufacturers
- MGTools: MustGather: Instructions for Sending Data to IBM i
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IBM Brings Active-Active Mirroring Into Db2 For i Database

Melding System Monitoring And Capacity Planning

Power Systems Bucks The IBM Trend And Grows

IBM i 7.4 Rolled Out, And IBM i 7.3 Tech Refresh Rolled Up

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 21, Number 16

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