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The Importance of VIOS

Thu, 08/31/2023

VIOS is considered a standard in organizations running IBM i, AIX, and Linux workloads. But don’t put your business at risk by letting it run unchecked. Learn five areas you must be monitoring.

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Top Three Reasons Mobile Data Access Will Be Your Savior

Tue, 11/22/2022

In today’s business world, you need data access beyond the green screen and GUI. Read this article to learn how mobile data access in a friendly browser interface will save you.

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5 Things to Try During Your Sequel Data Access Trial

By Stacy Jensen on Mon, 12/13/2021

Ready to start your Sequel Data Access business intelligence (BI) software trial? Here are five things you need to try.

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5 Reasons IT Teams Purchase Sequel Data Access

Thu, 12/09/2021

IT teams are under a lot of pressure to keep up in today's business world. Sequel can help relieve the pressure. Learn how.

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5 Time-Saving Tips for Smart Data Access on IBM i

By Stacy Jensen on Wed, 11/17/2021

Is there too much on your IT department’s plate? Get five tips for saving time today with smart data access on IBM i.

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13 FAQs on Switching from Query/400 to Sequel

By Heath Kath on Wed, 10/20/2021

Find out why you should choose Sequel Data Access for your IBM i queries—and leave Query/400 behind.

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Three Essential Steps to Successful Performance Management

Tue, 08/24/2021

Performance management is often made to look cumbersome and complex, but we’ve distilled the process down to three essential steps.

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VIOS Performance Monitoring Commands

By Chuck Losinski on Wed, 03/10/2021

You might think VIOS is set and forget, but it’s not. Luckily, VIOS includes a number of command line utilities to help you obtain performance-related information from your VIOS partitions.

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FAQ: How Does Sequel Data Access Go Beyond SQL?

Mon, 08/10/2020

Got questions about moving beyond SQL to Sequel Data Access? Get answers, and get the business intelligence your organization needs from your IBM i data.

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Three Advanced Scripting Tips That Help Solve Reporting Challenges

By Heath Kath on Fri, 05/08/2020

See how Sequel scripts make it easy to link together multi-step processes rather than manually running a series of steps to accomplish a complex task.

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Making the Case for PowerVM

By Tom Huntington on Mon, 02/24/2020

Need to make a case to introduce PowerVM into your Power Systems environment? Read this article!

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Availability Reporting for Managed Service Providers

By Paul Ratchford on Wed, 02/12/2020

Proving that you are meeting service-level agreements shouldn’t be a wasted effort. In fact, it should strengthen your relationship with clients and help your team manage performance in the future. See how.

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Empower Your Security Monitor with Powertech SIEM Agent for IBM i

By Robin Tatam on Wed, 08/28/2019

Typically, there are two main issues with monitoring a system manually: having to go out deliberately (and repeatedly) and check to see if something has happened; and the fact that you are most likely looking for the proverbial needle in a haystack of logged events.

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Interacting with Powertech SIEM Agent for IBM i

By Robin Tatam on Thu, 03/21/2019

Your organization has invested in a security information event manager, or SIEM, to receive and analyse security and event log information from a variety of servers. Now they want to also get this information from their IBM Power Systems server.

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How to Get Your BI Project Approved

Fri, 09/22/2017

Your organization needs business intelligence. But how will you sell upper management on your BI project?

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Use Conditional Logic in Sequel Data Access to Convert Data into Meaningful Information

By Mike Stegeman on Thu, 03/30/2017

Let’s face it, the amount of data that we have is only continuing to grow, which will become harder to manage and understand. Per IDC Research, 90 percent of data in the world today was created in the last two years, and in 2016, we entered the zettabyte era . A huge challenge for everyone is finding the best way to convert all their data into meaningful information. But that can be tricky. If you...

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How To Maintain Your Data Integrity

By Robin Tatam on Tue, 03/21/2017

File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) helps ensure that your critical and sensitive data is viewed and changed only by authorized personnel through approved channels. Candidates for FIM include application files containing sensitive data, such as personnel or financial data, and server configuration files.