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Top 5 Capacity Planning Mistakes on IBM i

By Tom Huntington on Tue, 02/12/2019

When it comes to capacity planning for IBM i, skip the shortcuts. This article shares expert recommendations on how to avoid the most common capacity planning mistakes.

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How to Access Meaningful Information with Data Visualization

By Mike Stegeman

It's not news that everyone needs accurate business data these days—and they needed it 5 minutes ago. Real-time, actionable information needs to be simple to access and shouldn't require IT to translate it into something a business user will understand. In this webinar you'll see: How Sequel makes your KPIs accessible in powerful dashboards How many ways users can analyze their data in client...

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Your Power Half Hour—From Query to BI with Sequel

By Mike Stegeman

Your IT team is asked to provide IBM i data to people from all over the organization. Upper management wants big picture stats to see how your organization is doing with key performance indicators. Operational users need detailed information—sometimes even down to the minute—to improve operations. Sales needs customer information to provide better service and metrics to make data-driven decisions....

Article

If It Has Moving Parts, Someday It's Going to Fail.

Sat, 11/03/2018

Check out IBM's new READ INTENSIVE SSDs. This is a note to highlight some of the pros and cons - and dig a little deeper into one of the cons - of IBM's recently announced new class of solid state disk drives, "read intensive" (RI) SSDs. The new RI-SSD comes in one flavor, a 1.86 TB drive. The new concept to wrap your head around is that the drive will "wear out" if you write too much over the...

Guide

How to Right-Size Your Power10 Capacity and Configuration

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How to Modernize Your IBM i Queries with Sequel

By Mike Stegeman

You don't have to move your data off of IBM i to modernize your queries and give users real-time information in a modern environment. Sequel can help.

Blog

Access Data While Maintaining IBM i Security

Tue, 10/16/2018

Why do you need extra data access security on IBM i? Find out. Plus, learn how to secure data access, let users analyze data, and distribute data securely.

Datasheet

Powertech Multi-Factor Authentication

Powertech Multi-Factor Authentication is a robust MFA solution for IBM i (AS/400, iSeries), it is a simple and effective way to ensure the users accessing your systems are who they say they are. Schedule a demo today.

Guide

Data Access in a Big Data World: How to Access Big Data so You Can Use It

With organizations collecting more customer, transactional, and relational data than ever before, data volumes are beginning to expand past their system’s processing capacity. But big data doesn’t have to be alarming. Go beyond the hype and conquer your IBM i data.

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Creating Simple Yet Powerful Queries with Sequel

By Mike Stegeman

Query-building should be functional and flexible to fit your organization's needs. Sequel helps you build powerful and simple queries for better data access.

Datasheet

Sequel Data Warehouse

Complete integrated suite of tools to build and manage data warehouses and data mart environments.

Article

How to Download an ODBC Driver

Wed, 07/25/2018

Performance Navigator® requires an ODBC connection to connect to your IBM i system, but it does not come with your PC’s operating system. IBM has a downloadable they’ve titled Access Client Solutions, which we recommend our customers use to get that ODBC connection.

Datasheet

Powertech Multi-Factor Authentication Compliance Datasheet

Comply with Security Standards, Including PCI DSS The latest version of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard requires multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all administrator access into the cardholder data environment (CDE), even from within a trusted network. MFA also simplifies compliance with mandates concerned with data privacy, like HIPAA and GDPR. Powertech Multi-Factor...

Article

FAQs about Performance Navigator

Thu, 07/12/2018

Will this product hurt the performance of my IBM i®? You will not even notice that the product is working. The data gathering software is already part of the OS. I currently have a subscription to IBM's PM for Power service. How is Performance Navigator compared to PM? Glad you asked... Performance Navigator uses exactly the same input as PM for Power, Collection Services. Performance Navigator...