Schönes neues Cloud Zeitalter

Praktisch alle großen IT Firmen wollen derzeit Ihren Kunden den Umstieg von on Premise Lösungen auf die Cloud schmackhaft machen. Manche Anbieter wie z.B. Adobe bieten Ihre Produkte überhaupt nur noch als Cloud Lizenzen an. Zwar können die Produkte noch lokal installiert werden, aber der Lizenzserver läuft in der Cloud. Jetzt hat Adobe offensichtlich Probleme mit seinem Cloud Dienst und die Nutzer können nicht mehr auf Ihre Dateien zugreifen. Lokales Arbeiten ist derzeit noch möglich, da die Programme nicht permanent die Lizenz prüfen. Aber sobald die Anwendung der Meinung ist, dass die Lizenz geprüft werden muß, ist auch lokales Arbeiten nicht mehr möglich.

Für Details siehe Schwierigkeiten mit der Creative Cloud auf Heise.de

Deshalb keine kritischen Geschäftsanwendungen in die Cloud.

Presentation Developing secure IBM i applications

The IBM i is one of the most secure system on earth, but even on the ibm i many mistakes can be made if you do not understand how security has to be implemented on the system. I have found a presentation which explains in detail how security works on the IBM i. This presentation was presented at the January meeting of the Utah IBM i developer association by Robin Tatam. I really recommend this presentation for every Sysadmin and Developer who is interested in security on the IBM i.

Rise Like A Phoenix

Conchita Wurst aka as Tom Neuwirth is not only a very good singer with a fantastic James Bond theme style song, she/he is also a statement for tolerance towards people who are different. So if you like her/his song and you want to set a statement for tolerance, vote for Conchita in the final of the Eurovision song contest.




I am really happy that this year our country shows europe that Austria is a tolerant and open place to live.

Analyze IBM i Communication Trace with Wireshark.

One of the most valuable tools to solve problems in networks is the communication trace. Fortunately IBM i has a very powerful trace tool built in the core os, so if you want to trace your network traffic to and from your IBM i you do not need the network guy to implement port mirroring or other network analyzing techniques. But the weak point of the comm trace tool is, that the generated reports are not very easy to view and are a little bit confusing.

So in today's post i want to show you how you can trace your communication and export the traced data to the best open source network traffic analyzer Wireshark:

Link Collection for IBM i 7.2 and Power 8

There are so many resources about the new release of IBM i. In this blog post i want to build a list with the best links to all information sources regarding V7R2. Please leave a comment if you know links with valuable informations which are missing in my list.

Announcement letter V7R2

Documentation

IBM Knowledge Center V7R2  
IBM Technology Update Wiki
IBM i 7.2 – The great beyond 
IBM i 7.2 and IBM POWER8
IBM i information overview and what's new

IBM i V7R2 has been announced today.

Today IBM has announced the newest Version V7R2 of the IBM i Operating system. The planned availabilty is May 2, 2014. You can visit my IBM i  7.2 link Collection for further informations

There are many improvements in this release like:

• Enhanced security options in DB2® for i
• Many new functions for programmer productivity and expanded function in DB2 for i
• Improved ease of use with IBM Navigator for i
• Enhancements to iAccess Client Solutions
• Extension of security to more applications through new single sign-on (SSO) environments
• Liberty Core as the base for Integrated Application Server
• Support for Zend Server 6.0 on IBM i 7.2
• Performance improvements for the integrated file system
• Extensions to the printing environments
• Expanded Hub functions for Backup, Recovery, and Media Services (BRMS)
• PowerHA® SystemMirror® for i Express® Edition with new HyperSwap® capability
• Support for new Power Systems™ built with POWER8™ architecture and processor
• Additional I/O capabilities including support for WAN over LAN
• Rational® tools enhancements to support Free Format Report Program Generator (RPG)
• Support for the open source file serving solution Samba

The announcement letter is available here to download, but the links to the knowledge center are still not working. I hope IBM can fix this soon. Update 16:41 Knowledge Center is now working.

First Informations about new features in IBM i V7R2

IBM has updated the Technology Update Wiki with the first informations whats new and enhanced in IBM i V7R2. Some of the links in the wiki are still broken, but i am sure IBM will fix this in the next week.

So check out IBM Technology Wiki V7R2

Platzsparen am Domino Server

Ulrich Krause hat eine fantastische Präsentation auf Slideshare gestellt die einen Überblick über alle Techniken enthält die der Domino Server in den letzten Versionen bekommen hat um Speicherplatz zu sparen und die IO Performance zu steigern. Die Präsentation enthält auch viele Tips und Tricks und kann mit Sicherheit das nächste Hardwareupgrade sparen.

Folgende Themen werden in der Präsentation besprochen:

• Compact Options
• Neue Möglichkeit mit -REPLICA zu kompakten
• Upgrade ODS
• Domino Defrag
• Design Notes Compression
• Document Body Compression
• Attachment De-Duplication (DAOS)
• Transaction Log Location
• Fulltext Index Location

Honey, I shrunk the data - Mehr Platz am IBM Domino Server