Remote Journal Filtering Reduces Network Traffic

Remote Journaling has been available on IBM i for many releases. It provides an efficient way to replicate journal entries from one system to another and is often part of a high availability or disaster recovery solution. As HA and DR have become a high priority in recent years, remote journaling has become more heavily used and multiple enhancements have been made in recent releases.

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New Navigator for i Service Packs

If you’re on IBM i 6.1 and have not yet started to use IBM Navigator for i, there’s never been a better time to start using it! With the recently released Service Pack 8 PTFs (SI42186, SI42187, SI42188), you’ll find many new enhancements that were previously available only in 7.1.

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Using SQL to Interrogate Journal Objects

An exciting enhancement has been added to IBM i. Through a new Db2 for i provided user defined table function (UDTF), IBM i users can use SQL to interrogate journal objects (drum roll please …). The enhancement has been provided via PTFs to V5R4M5, IBM i 6.1 and 7.1, and is available in all subsequent releases.

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