Saving Time on IBM i Alison Hird

​Is your data critical to your business and your time extremely precious? As I watch on, I have to admire the change and effective use of our time in the office. Our team activities have Read More 

How to implement a simple IBM i monitor – part 2 Andrea

​[[{“value”:”In the last post, I’ve presented a simple way to monitor some particular metrics of your IBM i. In addition to system monitors, you can go for message and queue monitoring. It is often the case that some information about the status of some system services as well as application services is poured into some
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How would I validate and format dates to align with the “2039 issue” Simon Hutchinson

​[[{“value”:”After my post about IBM providing a control option to look for dates that could fall foul of the 2039 issue, someone messaged me to ask:

I think the problem is when date is converted an external representation and converted back. I think of a display file, if the user input in a display file say an expiry date in 2041 how would you handle the display and conversion?

That is a good question. There are times when users should have to enter eight long dates for things like dates of birth, but other dates can be used on a display file as six size long and stored in the database as a date data type. With the impending “2039 issue” how would I manage the need to change from the “1940” rule to another?
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Cybersecurity Still Top IBM i Concern, But AI And Others Are Creeping Up Alex Woodie

​[[{“value”:”Fortra last week formally released its 2025 IBM i Marketplace Survey results, which marks the start of the second decade of analysis into the IBM i community. In the closely watched Top Concerns component, there were minor changes in the top four items, led by cybersecurity for the ninth straight year. But what’s notable in 2025 is that there’s movement at the bottom of the list, indicating heightened interest in items such as artificial intelligence and machine learning.
IBM i users from around the world took Fortra’s annual IBM i Marketplace Survey in late 2024 – 250 of them …
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