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  • The Ultimate Set Of Tools

    December 14, 2020 Rob McNelly

    Those of a certain age will certainly remember the moment in Fast Times At Ridgemont High when Jeff Spicoli got himself into a bind after he wrecked his friend’s car. Luckily, Spicoli’s dad was a TV repairman, and he had an ultimate set of tools. Spicoli knew that with those tools, he could fix it. That level of confidence is intoxicating, although in this case it was possibly misplaced.

    I have a friend that lives around the corner from me that actually does have the ultimate set of tools, and knows how to use them. For example, he recently rebuilt …

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  • Guru: Manage PTFs With The Administration Runtime Expert

    November 9, 2020 Dawn May

    This fourth article in my series on using the Administration Runtime Expert (ARE) reviews how ARE is used to manage PTFs. This article assumes you have already learned the basics of how to use ARE from the prior articles.

    PTF management with ARE features these key functions:

    • Check your installed group PTF levels compared to the latest levels available from IBM
    • Verify consistent PTF levels installed across multiple partitions
    • Distribute PTF images to endpoint systems
    • Optionally load and apply PTFs

    The ARE Template Editor provides the interface to define your templates for PTF management.

    Start by determining what type of …

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  • Guru: Use The Administration Runtime Expert To Validate Your Application Attributes

    August 10, 2020 Dawn May

    This third article in my series on using the Administration Runtime Expert (ARE) reviews how ARE can validate the attributes of your applications. This article assumes you have already learned the basics of how to use ARE from articles one and two.

    There are an unlimited number of ways you can use ARE to validate application attributes. A few examples are:

    • Verify application attributes on a single partition
    • Verify application attributes are consistent across multiple partitions
    • Verify application attributes in the test environment are the same as production
    • Verify application authorities

    When you are creating a template to validate …

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  • Guru: Use The Administration Runtime Expert To Validate Your System Configuration

    June 22, 2020 Dawn May

    Using the Administration Runtime Expert (ARE) to validate system configuration settings is an easy way to confirm configuration values are set the way you want them to be. You can use ARE to ensure these system configuration settings are consistent across multiple IBM i partitions or to verify settings have not changed on an individual partition. In this second in a series of articles on ARE, we’ll walk through the steps to set up a basic template to validate system configuration settings.

    The first step is to identify what system configuration attributes you want to make sure are consistent or …

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