It’s tough to make the new release highlights list. A valuable capability that will help reduce planned outages that didn’t make the cut for IBM i 7.1 announcement highlights is the capability to remove disk units from the partition without requiring an IPL or going into restricted state. While it’s documented in the Knowledge Center, you most likely wouldn’t find it if you didn’t know to go look for it.
(more…)Finally, the time has come when I can start talking about our 7.1 release! It’s not been a secret that 7.1 would be available this year, but other than the high-level statements of direction, no details about the release were shared publicly. Now we can start to share the details.
(more…)Service tools user IDs were introduced in V5R3. With this change, you were required to sign in with the service tool user ID to access service functions. Service functions —whether accessed via Dedicated Service Tools (DST) from the system control panel, the System Service Tools via the STRSST command or the disk management tasks through Navigator for i —required you to enter the service tools user ID and password. Service tools user IDs are not related to IBM i user profiles. In the 6.1 release, an enhancement was made to associate a service tools User ID with a user profile. Additionally, you can now display service tools user ID information without going into SST or DST.
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