Simply 'i'› HA4i running in production and performance is better than expected
HA4i Version 7.1 was announced a few weeks ago now and we have been upgrading the current HA4i V6R1 customers to the latest version. After a few initial teething problems we are seeing a big...
View ArticleSimply 'i'› HA4i and IFS Journal entry replay
One of the features we have been working on recently is the ability to replay journal entries generated by IFS activity. The HA4i product does support the replay of IFS journal entries but only via the...
View ArticleSimply 'i'› Playing around with LOB objects
As part of the new features we are adding to the HA4i product we needed to build a test bed to make sure the LOB processing we had developed would actually work. I have to admit I was totally in the...
View ArticleSimply i › New and improved RTVDIRSZ utility
We were recently working with a partner who needed to asses the size of the IFS directories in preparation for replication with HA4i. Before he could start to plan he needed to understand just how...
View ArticleSimply i › Adding configuration Capabilities to the HA4i PHP Interfaces
We have been developing the management interface for HA4i our High Availability product in PHP for some time, but we had not got round to looking at how we could extend that interface to allow us...
View ArticleSimply i › New features added to HA4i
A couple of new features have been added to the HA4i product as a result of customer requests. Auditing is one area where HA4i has always been well supported but as customers get used to the product...
View Articlei Can › New PowerHA SystemMirror Enhancements
This week’s blog was written by Jenny Dervin. Jenny is the technology leader for IBM i High Availability. Last week, as part of the IBM... Read the original at i Can.
View ArticleSimply i › Adding a Bar Graph for CPU Utilization to HA4i and DR4i
As part of the ongoing improvements to the PHP interfaces we have developed for HA4i and DR4i we decided to add a little extra to the dashboard display. The dashboard display is a quick view of the...
View ArticleSimply 'i'› Improved the List of affected objects in a receiver to include...
I have just updated the JRNMASTER tool which allows the listing of objects that have entries in a journal receiver to include IFS entries. This was part of the original tools design but the...
View ArticleSimply 'i'› Send the output for affected objects to a DB File
Another request we felt made a lot of sense for the JRNMASTER list affected objects program was to allow the output to be written straight to a file instead of displaying through a panel group. So you...
View ArticleSimply 'i'› Trigger capabilities for new apply process within HA4i
We had not realized the new apply process for HA4i version 7.1 did not have the trigger support built in, the IBM apply which uses the APYJRNCHG commands did not need to be told to ignore trigger...
View ArticleSimply 'i'› New command to save selected objects to a save file
Every wanted to be able select a number of objects from within a library and save them to a save file! Well are always saving different objects from libraries to save files so we did. As we are always...
View ArticleSimply 'i'› HA4i Version 7.1 GA Announcement
Shield is pleased to announce the availability of HA4i Version 7.1 the latest version of our High Availability product. The latest version comes with many new features and functionality of which the...
View ArticleSimply i › What does V8R0 of HA4i look like?
While we wait for IBM to get back to us about our PowerVM activations (3 days and counting, I often wonder does IBM want to service clients?) I thought I would start to show some of the changes we have...
View ArticleSimply i › New Product Library Vault, Why?
We have just announced the availability of a new product, Library Vault for IBM i (LVLT4i) which is aimed primarily at the Managed Service Providers. The product allows the replication of data and...
View ArticleSimply i › SAVSECDTA timing?
We are looking at how to manage the recovery of profiles and passwords in an environment where the profiles cannot be managed constantly. When using our HA4i product we have the ability to constantly...
View ArticleSimply i › PowerHA and LVLT4i.
We have had a number of conversations about LVLT4i and what it offers to the Managed Service Provider(MSP). As part of those discussions the IBM solution PowerHA often comes up as it also uses iASP...
View ArticleSimply i › Getting the most from LVLT4i
While it is early days for the LVLT4i product we have already had a number of interesting conversations with IBM i users and Managed Service Providers about how we see it being deployed to the smaller...
View ArticleSimply i › System Values and LVLT4i
System values are an important part of the working environment on the IBM i, therefore it is important that are correctly set ready for whenyou move to a recovery system. LVLT4i is working in an...
View ArticleSimply i › High Availability Secret Weapons
I just read an article in the IT Jungle which made me smile to myself, basically it was stating how a competitor of our High Availability Products had a secret weapon with their simulated role swap...
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