IT Jungle: Graphically Setting Up IBM i TCP/IP Host Routing

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0-IT Jungle LogoIT Jungle just published my latest tip on graphically setting up IBM i TCP/IP host routing using System i Navigator. Continue reading →

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My 3 Favorite Twitter Secrets

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twitter iconHere are three of my favorite Twitter secrets that when followed, can help improve your Twitter presence and help deliver your tweets to a wider audience. Continue reading →

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Adding Bullet Points to LinkedIn Profile Text (Via @LissaDuty)

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Here’s a great Twitter tip from Lissa Duty.

 

If you’re having trouble reading this embedded tweet, Lissa’s tip reads:

#LinkedIn Secret: Can’t get a bullet into your LinkedIn profile? Create one in Word, then Copy and Paste.

I tried this tip out on my own user profile to change my LI Summary and Hertvik Business Services experience entries.

I can verify that this technique works with the following caveats: Continue reading →

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Using the Windows 7 Snipping Tool for Creating Graphics

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MS Snipping Tools screenIf you’re running Windows 7, Microsoft provides a tool for grabbing all or part of any screen you’re looking at and turning it into a graphics file or copying it to the Windows clipboard: the Windows 7 Snipping Tool.

The Snipping Tool is great for quickly grabbing and saving screen shot sections (snips) for copying or saving as a graphics file, such as a .jpg, .gif, or .png file. Snipped files can be inserted or attached to blogs, emails, Web sites, tweets, Facebook posts, LinkedIn, etc. It’s easy to use, fast, and free with Windows 7. Here’s how to use it. Continue reading →

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IBM i System Monitoring: What Should I Monitor on My Partitions?

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0-IT Jungle LogoIT Jungle just published my latest tip on IBM i system monitoring.

In that article, I go through all the general areas that should be monitored on an IBM i and provide some tips on what to look for in these areas. Continue reading →

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IBM i System Monitoring: Everything You Need to Know

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#preferred IBM i graphicHere’s an index of articles I’ve written over the past few years covering IBM i system monitoring. Check back every once in a while, as I’ll be adding to this list as new articles come out. Continue reading →

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Non-Replicated Objects: Something to Consider in IBM i HA Environments

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rule of thumbOne of my clients has what I’d consider a mature IBM i High Availability environment using Mimix software on Capacity BackUp system (CBU). First implemented in 2006 and tested every year since then (with 1-2 extended switch-overs where the system ran live for several days to a week),

But after a recent user-certification HA Exercise , we noticed one finding that may be particular to mature HA environments like this. Continue reading →

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IT Jungle: Setting Up IBM i TCP/IP Host Routing

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0-IT Jungle LogoIT Jungle just put up my new article on how to set up IBM i TCP/IP host routing.

In this article, I go through a step-by-step configuration on how to set up a host routing table that will correctly send TCP/IP traffic through different IP interfaces. Continue reading →

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Getting IBM i FTP Sessions to Work After an i 6.1 or 7.1 Upgrade

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If you find that your FTP sessions are unable to transfer data after an i 6.1 or 7.1 OS upgrade, the problem may be in the way IBM changed FTP sessions for i 6.1 and above.

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Starting with the IBM i 6.1 operating system and above (including i 7.1), IBM changed all FTP client attempts to send and receive data in Extended Passive Mode. This is a change from the default sending mode in i5/OS V5R4M0 and below. Continue reading →

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IT Jungle: How to automatically answer IBM i record locks

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itj-logoIT Jungle just published my latest tip on auto-answering IBM i record lock messages, where I answered the following reader question.

My Power i system is driving me crazy with RPG1218 record lock messages. Because of the way one of our applications was written, we receive RPG1218 messages several times a day. The record lock only lasts a minute. When we enter a retry on the locked record, the system is always able to update the record. Is there any way to auto-answer these record locks?

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Three Things to Do When Blogging and Publishing On-line

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Why arent you blogging

One of the problems with accessing on-line publications (including blogs) is that it’s hard for readers to verify the accuracy, reliability, and freshness of the content you’re reading. Especially in a technical article where a solution written for one version of a product may not work in a later version.

Here are three things I believe that anyone posting content should do in order to help readers insure your post is accurate and fit for its intended purpose. These aren’t difficult to add to a post, but they can help enhance your credibility by helping the reader evaluate whether the content will work for them now and in the future. Continue reading →

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And then someone gets fired: IBM i ERP Implementations Gone Bad

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you are fired

I was reading Dan Burger’s IT Jungle article called Fear or Freedom: IBM i ERP Upgrades about the fears and opportunities involved in upgrading old ERP systems and how many ERP vendors are seeing 2014 as the “year of the ERP upgrade”. And that got me thinking of the times I’ve been involved in IBM i ERP upgrades in the past, and some of the traumatic experiences and management lessons that came out of those upgrades. Continue reading →

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Community Post: List of IBM i High Availability Vendors

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This post is intended as an in-process centralized shared list of all the companies that offer Power system IBM i high availability solutions. Feel free to pull the information from this post into other posts to disseminate to the broader IBM i community.

(updated  2/24/2014)

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LinkedIn’s New Blogging Option: Everyone’s a Blogger, What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

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Linkedin logo with magnifying glassOn February 19, 2014, LinkedIn announced that they will start allowing users to publish original long-form content to their user profiles. While more details are still coming out, here’s some links you can check out to get more information as well as some initial takes on LinkedIn’s new blogging option. Continue reading →

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An IBM Technical Delivery Assessment Primer

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question mark signWhen you buy an IBM hardware product, the business partner or IBM will generally perform a Technical Delivery Assessment (TDA) meeting with you to insure that the solution you’re going to buy is appropriate for your environment and meets your needs.

A TDA is really a newish name for the old Solution Assurance (SA) process. TDAs are intended to help guarantee the following items are met before a machine is purchased, delivered, and installed:

  • That the solution meets customer requirements
  • That the proposed solution is technologically viable
  • That there aren’t issues around delivery and installation
  • That all the risks around using the solution have been identified and properly assessed

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