This is a Redpaper that reviews the IBM Application Runtime Expert for i (ARE), which can help you ensure consistent performance and deployment for any workload running on your system. While this Redpaper was written in 2011, it is still applicable.
In this article, Dawn discusses how you can use the Administration Runtime Expert (ARE) to validate and document your security settings. The Administration Runtime expert can be a useful tool to aid in auditing and compliance.
In past articles about the Administration Runtime Expert, I mentioned that you install the ARE licensed program product on your central system, but I never documented steps on how you acquire the 5733-ARE program product.
This article reviews how you can use the Administration Runtime Expert (ARE) to manage PTFs.
This article explains how you can use the Administration Runtime Expert (ARE) to validate your application attributes to ensure no unexpected changes creep in to impact your production environments.