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May 24, 2013
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Too Many IVM Consoles? Try the HMC

The HMC offers a locked-down, lightweight management console with more flexibility and redundancy than an IVM-managed system....More
May 22, 2013
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What Can IBM i Do For Your Business?

Cool new IBM i "What IBM i Can Do For Your Business" video up on YouTube, posted, of course to the Facebook-based raging river of IBMi25 awesomeness. . . ....More
May 22, 2013
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IBM i Security Study Shows Repeated Exposure Problems

PowerTech, a division of Help/Systems, has released it's 10th annual State of IBM i Security Study. The 2013 findings show that IBM i user provisioning is a significant source of vulnerability, with averages that include:...More
May 22, 2013
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IBM Watson Moves into the Call Center

IBM has announced a new job for its IBM Watson technology, the IBM Watson Engagement Advisor. The solution lets brands crunch big consumer data to help IBM customers engage in better customers service, marketing, and sales....More
Get to Know the case Statement
May 21, 2013
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Get to Know the case Statement

You can quickly build your shell script repertoire by mastering the case statement, which offers a way of testing a variable against several different values....More
Building a Dynamic System Group
May 21, 2013
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Building a Dynamic System Group

IBM Systems Director provides a wealth of systems management and monitoring functions, but sometimes you have to think outside of the box to implement the solution you're looking for....More
Flex System Manager Mobile Enhancements
May 17, 2013
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Mobile Enhancements Abound for Flex System Manager Mobile

FSM Mobile 1.1 sports some major enhancements that let you easily monitor and manage your Flex and PureFlex resources from your phone. You can run actions, view job status and firmware levels, and more!...More
IBM power systems linux center in china
May 14, 2013
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PowerLinux Goes to China

As Linux matures into a trusted operating system for enterprise workloads, IBM has increasingly invested in its PowerLinux offerings. PowerLinux brought the semblance of a thinking nervous system to the Jeopardy!-winning Watson, but that was just the beginning: There's more business need for PowerLinux than ever seen before, and IBM is paying attention....More
Get a quick view of mksysb backups with lsmksysb
May 14, 2013
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Get a Quick View of mksysb Backups with lsmksysb

Get a sneak peak of the contents of an AIX operating system backup using the lsmksysb command....More
LPI Exam Objective 101.3: Runlevels, Shutdown, and Reboot
May 13, 2013
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LPI Exam Objective 101.3: Runlevels, Shutdown, and Reboot

This entry in the LPI certification exam blog series discusses the third objective in the System Architecture topic of the exam: Linux runlevels, and shutdown and reboot procedures....More
May 13, 2013
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Feedback Loop

I had more feedback from readers to my article, "The Forgotten", than practically anything I have written before. If you missed it, it told the story of a conversation I had with the financial director a mid-sized British food retailer....More
May 13, 2013
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COMMON Europe Cancels Flagship Conference

COMMON Europe has cancelled its flagship annual conference, due to be held next month in Annecy, south-eastern France....More
May 13, 2013
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Huge i-Based Cloud Planned for Huhtamaki

Packaging giant Huhtamaki Group is using two new Power i 720's as the first building blocks of a huge multinational private cloud project....More
Hit the Pause Button in AIX Printing
May 9, 2013
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How to Hit the Pause Button in AIX Printing

When you use the AIX print subsystem, you can pause print queues and grab a copy of temporary print jobs, which makes it easy to view or edit print files....More
May 8, 2013
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POWER7+ Systems Now Available in the IBM Virtual Loaner Program (VLP)

Wow, time flies -- it's been more than two years since I last wrote up a feature on IBM's cool Virtual Loaner Program (VLP) -- which was, even back then, "Cloud before the Cloud." Meanwhile, today the VLP still lets IBM Business Partners reserve a slice of a Power System server....More

AIX User-Related Commands

Download AIX User-Related Commands (Infographic) today! This quick guide highlights differences between user administration commands on AIX and other UNIX-derived operating systems.


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Secrets of an AIX Administrator by Christian Pruett
Dec. 13, 2012
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Secrets of an AIX Administrator  

Download this Tech Advisor from POWER IT Pro and learn practical, real-world information about AIX administration. Christian Pruett shares all the things he wishes he had known about AIX before becoming an admin in his ebook Secrets of an AIX Administrator....More
Dec. 3, 2012
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AIX Security  

IBM i has extremely robust intrinsic security, and Linux, although much less secure than either AIX or IBM i, has many more eyes watching for problems. But AIX has some significant corner cases where security can be breached if you're not careful....More
POWER IT Pro Blogs
May 22, 2013
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What Can IBM i Do For Your Business?

Cool new IBM i "What IBM i Can Do For Your Business" video up on YouTube, posted, of course to the Facebook-based raging river of IBMi25 awesomeness. . . ....More
Building a Dynamic System Group
May 21, 2013
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Building a Dynamic System Group

IBM Systems Director provides a wealth of systems management and monitoring functions, but sometimes you have to think outside of the box to implement the solution you're looking for....More
LPI Exam Objective 101.3: Runlevels, Shutdown, and Reboot
May 13, 2013
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LPI Exam Objective 101.3: Runlevels, Shutdown, and Reboot

This entry in the LPI certification exam blog series discusses the third objective in the System Architecture topic of the exam: Linux runlevels, and shutdown and reboot procedures....More
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