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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.

Article

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.

Article

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.

Article

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.

Article

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.

Article

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.

Article

Performance Navigator vs. IBM PM400

By Randy Watson on Mon, 01/25/2021

This article presents a technical review of how Performance Navigator stacks up as a replacement for IBM Performance Management for Power Systems (PM400).

Article

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.

Article

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.

Article

Why Relying on Scripted Operations Can Be a Problem for Your Business

By Steve Brasen on Tue, 03/31/2020

Scripting provides a powerful platform to automate simple tasks, but overusing custom scripts is hazardous for your business.

Article

All About Alert Intelligence

By Andrew Bullivant on Thu, 02/13/2020

Thanks to intelligent filtering, the Alert Intelligence feature included in IBM i Server Suite improves the quality of IBM i alerts while reducing the quantity, providing increased application availability and system uptime.

Article

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.

Article

Log File Monitoring in IBM i Server Suite

By Paul Ratchford on Mon, 01/27/2020

Log File Monitor can monitor the contents of files in the integrated file system (IFS) and raise alerts based on this content. Read on to learn more.

Case Study

Alaska Communications Reaches New Heights with Network Monitoring from Intermapper

Alaska Communications is an internet service provider (ISP) supporting communications infrastructure in Alaska. Their team provides critical network services to customers—oftentimes, in remote locations. The company was in the midst of developing plans for a new site—one which was located on a mountaintop. With this remote site, they knew they were in for an uphill battle regarding maintenance and...

Case Study

Meissner Manufacturing Uses Sequel to Filter the Data that Matters

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Capacity Planning and the Culture of Proof

By Timothy Prickett Morgan on Fri, 05/31/2019

Capacity planning is one of the most important things that a company will do, and yet there are still many companies that do it on the back of the envelope. Read this article and learn how to do it right.

Article

Top 5 Capacity Planning Mistakes on IBM i

By Tom Huntington on Tue, 02/12/2019

When it comes to capacity planning for IBM i, skip the shortcuts. This article shares expert recommendations on how to avoid the most common capacity planning mistakes.

Article

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...

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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.

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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...

Top Three Reasons Mobile Data Access Will Be Your Savior

5 Things to Try During Your Sequel Data Access Trial

5 Reasons IT Teams Purchase Sequel Data Access

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

13 FAQs on Switching from Query/400 to Sequel

Three Essential Steps to Successful Performance Management

Performance Navigator vs. IBM PM400

FAQ: How Does Sequel Data Access Go Beyond SQL?

Three Advanced Scripting Tips That Help Solve Reporting Challenges

Why Relying on Scripted Operations Can Be a Problem for Your Business

All About Alert Intelligence

Availability Reporting for Managed Service Providers

Log File Monitoring in IBM i Server Suite

Alaska Communications Reaches New Heights with Network Monitoring from Intermapper

Meissner Manufacturing Uses Sequel to Filter the Data that Matters

Capacity Planning and the Culture of Proof

Top 5 Capacity Planning Mistakes on IBM i

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

How to Download an ODBC Driver

FAQs about Performance Navigator

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