Guru Tech Tips Archives - Dawn May Consulting

Configure Collection Services

by Dawn May | Mar 8, 2019

This article reviews key configuration changes you should make to Collection Services.

Health Indicators

by Dawn May | Mar 8, 2019

This article reviews the Health Indicators, which are part of the Performance tasks in Navigator for i.

Find the Needle in the Haystack with Watches

by Dawn May | Mar 8, 2019

This article explains how to use watches to be notified when elusive messages are sent to job logs.

From the i Can Blog

Should You Consider Becoming a CAAC Member?

May 14, 2019

This week’s blog was written by Mike McArdle, who is an instructor at Western Technical College in La Crosse, Wisconsin, and represents education on the COMMON Americas Advisory Council (CAAC). The CA … read more »

IBM i 7.4

April 24, 2019

IBM has announced IBM i 7.4. I listened to the COMMON IBM i Announcement webcast, and spent time pouring over the RFA and the 7.4 Knowledge Center (yes, the 7.4 documentation is already available). Up … read more »

Prestart Server Jobs and Exit Programs

April 2, 2019

Securing IBM i is essential and it’s important you understand how to control access to your system with prestart server jobs. Prestart server jobs allow users to connect over the network and you must … read more »

TE’s Pick ' n' Mix Client Edition

March 25, 2019

The integrated nature of IBM i has many advantages—but knowing what you need to know can be a challenge because there is so much to know! To complicate things further, there’s hardware, virtualization … read more »

IBM i Job Accounting and Prestart Server Jobs

March 7, 2019

Job accounting can be used to track the use of system resources, such as CPU time, transactions, printed output, and more, to a particular user or groups of users. read more »