[[{“value”:”If you haven’t heard yet, here it is: IBM is planning to make a major IBM i announcement soon. IBM i chief architect Steve Will said as much during his recent IBM i Guided Tour. While Will shared a general outline of what IBM has in mind for the major announcement, specifics still are few and far between.
Will, who also holds the titles of IBM i CTO and IBM distinguished engineer, teased the IBM i community with his one-hour February 12 presentation, which is titled IBM i in 2025 – A Strategic Preview. You can access a recording …
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Guru: Avoiding Land Mines During A Role Swap Steven McIver
[[{“value”:”Having a disaster recovery plan is crucial for many businesses running on IBM i. The data that resides on these systems is often mission critical to the business. Implementing a strategy for disaster recovery is tough. Planning and actually executing on the strategy is even tougher.
Even with excellent planning, role swap tests to a designated disaster recovery machine can many times fall short due to unforeseen circumstances that force an immediate role swap back to the production site. In this article, I’ve compiled a few of those land mines to look out for to help ensure a successful swap …
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Need Data Off An Old Tape? The Backup Crackers Can Help Alex Woodie
[[{“value”:”What happens when you need data from an old backup tape, but no longer have the vintage IBM hardware it was backed up from, let alone a subscription to the application it was created from nor the backup software it was created with? If you find yourself in such a predicament, the folks at S2|Data would like to hear from you.
“We are backup software format crackers,” says Brendan Sullivan, the founder and chief executive officer of S2|Data. “What we do is we look at the media, which might be tape or it might be disk, and we figure …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 27, Number 9 Doug Bidwell
[[{“value”:”If you are using Rational Developer for i to create applications and your company uses the Singularity endpoint manager from SentinelOne, then you might be having an issue.
According to this notice from IBM, after updating Windows 11 to 24H2, Rational Developer for i 9.8.0.3 may be ended abruptly by SentinelOne. IBM adds: “There may be a Java dialogue left showing “Java was started but returned exit code=-1073741571” and the Windows event viewer will show that the problem happened in ntdll.dll.” The temporary workaround is to revert to Windows 11 23H2 or whitelist RDI in SentinelOne until IBM figures …
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Talsco Weekly: IBM i talent solutions simplify hiring patrick staudacher
[[{“value”:”Welcome to another edition of Talsco Weekly IBM i Brief: 🏗️ IBM shifts to build-to-order for entry Power Systems. 💼 IBM finalizes $6.4B HashiCorp acquisition. AI: AI agents autonomously complete tasks without human direction . 🚀 IBM expands Granite model family. Development: 🎥 F-2 Rename Symbol tutorial. Database: 📊 Six foolproof data recovery methods for
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