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If It Has Moving Parts, Someday It's Going to Fail.

Sat, 11/03/2018
Check out IBM's new READ INTENSIVE SSDs. This is a note to highlight some of the pros and cons - and dig a little deeper into one of the cons - of IBM's recently announced new class of solid state disk drives, "read intensive" (RI) SSDs. The new RI-SSD comes in one flavor, a 1.86 TB drive. The new concept to wrap your head around is that the drive will "wear out" if you write too much over the...
On-Demand Webinar

Back to Basics Webinar Series

By Pat Cameron
Graduate your skill set to the next level and learn how Automate can help make your Inbox smarter, advance your Excel efficiency, learn web data scraping and extraction, and get an A+ in Automate’s best practices.
Automation
Article

How to Download an ODBC Driver

Wed, 07/25/2018
Performance Navigator® requires an ODBC connection to connect to your IBM i system, but it does not come with your PC’s operating system. IBM has a downloadable they’ve titled Access Client Solutions, which we recommend our customers use to get that ODBC connection.
Article

FAQs about Performance Navigator

Thu, 07/12/2018
Will this product hurt the performance of my IBM i®? You will not even notice that the product is working. The data gathering software is already part of the OS. I currently have a subscription to IBM's PM for Power service. How is Performance Navigator compared to PM? Glad you asked... Performance Navigator uses exactly the same input as PM for Power, Collection Services. Performance Navigator...
Designing Automated Workflows
On-Demand Webinar

Everything You Need to Know About RPA in 30 Minutes

By Pat Cameron
If you’re hearing terms like digital workforce, software robot, and automation center of excellence, but aren’t sure what it all means, this webinar is for you. Learn about the advantages of automation with RPA, real-life robotic process automation use cases, and common RPA terminology.
Automation
Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
On-Demand Webinar

Banking on IBM i

By Kevin Aker
Hear how IBM i Systems Engineer Kevin Aker from Old National Bank took an automated approach to systems management.
IBM i Automation
On-Demand Webinar

Simplify PowerHA Hardware Replication with POWER9

How do POWER9 and PowerHA fit together? In this recorded webinar, experts from IBM and Fortra introduce you to the new POWER9 technology, especially as it relates to PowerHA hardware replication and storage area networks (SAN). Complete the form to access: Insight on the POWER9 hardware that supports PowerHA Better understanding of the PowerHA family Live demo of PowerHA Cluster setup and...
IBM i Automation
On-Demand Webinar

The Virtualization Blind Spot

By Chuck Losinski
75 percent of IBM i shops run multiple partitions per server. But what aren't they seeing? Watch now and learn how to monitor virtualized IBM i environments with Robot Monitor.
Monitoring