Monthly Archives: April 2012

Tim Prickett Morgan of IT Jungle has a pretty complete rundown of IBM’s IBM i Tech Refresh for i 7.1 that IBM announced last week. Here’s the opening paragraph from Tim’s article and it just gets more detailed from here. … Continue reading →

Regarding my post the other day about IBM putting out instructions for replacing the Systems Director Management Console (SDMC) with the Hardware Management Console (HMC) for managing Power system servers, IBM pointed me to their software announcement on April 24th … Continue reading →

Update 4-28-12: IBM has withdrawn the SDMC from marketing as of April 24, 2012 in favor of enhancing the HMC. Details can be found here.   Last year, IBM was encouraging people to move to the new Systems Directory Management … Continue reading →

IT Jungle just posted my latest article about what to do if you can’t get your F-keys (F1-F24) to work in PC5250 on late-model HP Envy and Pavilion laptops. I ran into this issue on a Pavilion laptop I purchased on Black Friday … Continue reading →

In today’s iCan Technical Tips for i column, Senior IBM Technical Staff Member Dawn May provides the technical details for i 7.1′s new Live Partition Mobility feature announced today with Technology Refresh 4 (TR4). Dawn covers a lot of ground … Continue reading →

Lots of IBM i announcments today. IBM i Chief Architect Steve Will has the rundown on his You and i column. The announcements cover a number of things to be included in Technology Refresh 4 for i 7.1, including: Live … Continue reading →

Like to post your thoughts here on joehertvik.com about the IBM i system, PureSystems, creating marketing materials on technical subjects, tech writing, or LinkedIn or Twitter tips for industry managers, vendors, or writers? For a limited time, I’m experimenting with opening … Continue reading →

So where will the new IBM PureSystems be manufactured? According to a story in today’s IT Jungle, an IBM spokesman was quoted as saying the following to Tim Prickett Morgan. “IBM Rochester is the manufacturing starting point for PureSystems. Some of … Continue reading →

Dan Burger at IT Jungle has an interesting piece about the burgeoning third-party Oracle JDE maintenance marketplace, and why companies are providing alternatives to and people are getting off of Oracle maintenance. To me, the relevant part of the article … Continue reading →

In her i Can Technical Tip for i column, senior technical staff member at IBM Rochester Dawn May is reporting that with PTF SI46398, IBM is addressing the following two long-standing problems (bugs?) with handling Inactivity timeouts in the IBM i 7.1 … Continue reading →