Resources

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...

Guide

How to Right-Size Your Power10 Capacity and Configuration

On-Demand Webinar

How to Modernize Your IBM i Queries with Sequel

By Mike Stegeman

You don't have to move your data off of IBM i to modernize your queries and give users real-time information in a modern environment. Sequel can help.

Blog

Access Data While Maintaining IBM i Security

Tue, 10/16/2018

Why do you need extra data access security on IBM i? Find out. Plus, learn how to secure data access, let users analyze data, and distribute data securely.

Datasheet

Powertech Authority Broker for IBM i

Satisfy your auditor requirements with reports that provide a complete audit trail of privileged user activity with Powertech Authority Broker for IBM i. Schedule a demo today.

Guide

Data Access in a Big Data World: How to Access Big Data so You Can Use It

With organizations collecting more customer, transactional, and relational data than ever before, data volumes are beginning to expand past their system’s processing capacity. But big data doesn’t have to be alarming. Go beyond the hype and conquer your IBM i data.

On-Demand Webinar

Creating Simple Yet Powerful Queries with Sequel

By Mike Stegeman

Query-building should be functional and flexible to fit your organization's needs. Sequel helps you build powerful and simple queries for better data access.

Datasheet

Sequel Data Warehouse

Complete integrated suite of tools to build and manage data warehouses and data mart environments.

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...

On-Demand Webinar

Getting Started with IBM i Security: User Privileges

By Robin Tatam

Get up to speed on special authorities, command line access, and auditing user activities

On-Demand Webinar

8 Items to Consider When Switching ERPs

By Tim Dunn

This webinar with HarrisData and Fortra covers the eight questions to consider when you switch enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems.

On-Demand Webinar

Business Intelligence is Changing: Make Your Game Plan

By Mike Stegeman

Don’t let business intelligence send your head spinning. Watch this webinar to learn how to set your IT department up for BI success in 2018.

Blog

Does Data Analysis Have to Be So Hard?

By Heath Kath on Fri, 05/25/2018

Find out how to get your AS400 or iSeries data and turn it into insight with simple data analysis.

Case Study

Sequel Transforms IT Reporting for Food Distribution Company

On-Demand Webinar

Controlling Insider Threats on IBM i

By Robin Tatam

Despite the avalanche of regulations, news headlines remain chock full of stories about data breaches, all initiated by insiders or intruders masquerading as insiders.