This newsletter includes: Don’t Neglect Your HMC As the Disk Spins: IBM Disk Drive Announcement for Storwize V5000 and V7000 Storage Systems Can Your Backup Survive a Hurricane? Check Your Cache Batteries Release Levels and PTFs I am writing this as I sit in my hotel room in northern California, my 2nd of 3 trips to California over the course of 4 weeks. The team and I have been flying around the country installing new POWER9 systems. Alaska, California, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Michigan, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, Maine,…

This newsletter includes: Does your system send faxes or not? DISKTASKS for IAS POWER9 Playground: Test out IBM i 7.4 on a POWER9 Release Levels and PTFs Well, June has been another action-packed month. Where did it go?  It seemed like it flew by, but we have been so busy on so many fronts, I can see why.  Certainly, June 21st was a big day in the IBM i world. First, it was the day that IBM i 7.4 became available to the general public.  Then, of course, we all…

This newsletter includes: An Explanation of IBM i 7.4 DB2 Mirror for i IBM i 7.4 Tip #2: Secure sockets layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) changes How is your HMC Setup? Blog: How to tell if your Disaster Recovery System is a Boat Anchor HMC Phone Home Release Levels and PTFs Hectic. That is what the month of May has certainly been.  Well, perhaps hectic isn’t even close, it was “uber-hectic”. It seems like I was traveling more this month than I was home between conferences and customer…