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What’s New with Db2 Mirror, PowerHA, and BRMS

November 8, 2023 Alex Woodie

There’s something for everyone in the new releases of IBM i that IBM will be shipping later this month. For administrators who revel in having well-run high availability, continuous availability, and tape backups, the new releases will not disappoint.

The most substantial enhancements appear to have been saved for Db2 Mirror for i, which is IBM’s continuous availability solution for IBM i. The new management and monitoring features should bring some major improvements to how customers interact with the product.

Some of the biggest changes are due to the addition of the new “Health Center” component to the Db2 Mirror …
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In A Parallel Universe, There Is An IBM i Data Warehouse, Too

November 8, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Over the many years that we have been watching the Power Systems business – which is all of them, starting with the original RS/6000 announcement in February 1990, the first announcement we ever attended and at IBM’s original headquarters at 590 Madison in New York City – we have seen time and time again how Big Blue has rolled out parallel cluster data warehouse configurations for its AIX customers.

Somehow, the IBM i platform and predecessor OS/400 platform have never been shown the same respect. Despite the fact that there are midrange and large enterprise customers who would very likely …
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Remain Bolsters TD/OMS in v16 Release

November 8, 2023 Alex Woodie

Rogue or uninformed programmers will be shut out of making negative code changes to their IBM i applications with TD/OMS V16.0 Milestone 1, the inaugural release of the next major version of Remain Software’s IBM i change management software. New dashboards, training, and ChatGPT integrations also grace this new release.

According to Remain Software CTO Wim Jongman, the new arbitrary code execution protection feature delivered with TD/OMS V16.0 last month was developed in response to customers that were suffering when programmers exploited their freedom to do not-so-smart things with the organization’s IBM i code.

Sometimes, the freedom is necessary. “For …
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Four Hundred Monitor, November 8

November 8, 2023 Jenny Thomas

Depending on where you live, you may be struggling this week from the dreaded time change that happened to many of us over the weekend. I, for one, and definitely dragging this week, and it got me wondering: What would happen if clock changes were abolished? We’d reduce schedule disruptions and having to remember which clocks auto-update. Without losing an hour of sleep in March, you’d probably wake up feeling more refreshed and less tired than on that same weekend in past years. Even falling back has an effect as we try to establish a new rhythm and get used …
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ATS Bolsters Power Cloud, IBM i Data Collection Suite

November 8, 2023 Alex Woodie

ATS Group announced yesterday that it has expanded its Power Cloud, the IBM Power-based private cloud that offers IBM i, AIX, and Linux runtimes. The company also announced that it has enhanced the IBM i data collection capabilities in Galileo Suite, its collection of IT monitoring and observability.

ATS Group is an IBM business partner based in Malvern, Pennsylvania. The company says it has managed thousands of customer environments in its Power Cloud, which is spread across four geographically separate data centers.

In a blog post yesterday, the company announced that it has expanded its private cloud offering. The company …
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What’s New with Db2 Mirror, PowerHA, and BRMS

In A Parallel Universe, There Is An IBM i Data Warehouse, Too

Remain Bolsters TD/OMS in v16 Release

Four Hundred Monitor, November 8

ATS Bolsters Power Cloud, IBM i Data Collection Suite

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