TechChannel Rising Star recipient, Megan Olson took part in a roundtable discussion to share her experience as a newcomer to the IBM i industry.

Performance management is often made to look cumbersome and complex, but we’ve distilled the process down to three essential steps.

To cope with system issues, you want easy yet comprehensive solutions that handle your performance, messaging, and remote management needs, but what you really need are integrated solutions for universal control. See where Robot Monitor fits in.

When you apply rules to system events, automation software like Robot Console works like the autopilot on a boat or plane—it steers the system through the night or the weekend while you rest.

You might think VIOS is set and forget, but it’s not. Luckily, VIOS includes a number of command line utilities to help you obtain performance-related information from your VIOS partitions.

PCI DSS now includes requirements for strong encryption of cardholder data. Learn how key management is an essential element of preventing unauthorized data access.

    As you consider taking your IBM i to the cloud, cybersecurity will no doubt top your list of concerns. And for good reason. It’s important to remember that the cloud is kind of a lie. Your sensitive data is simply being sent to someone else’s server, and that server has a physical location somewhere. Just like on-prem cybersecurity, IBM i cloud security can be divided...

Need to make a case to introduce PowerVM into your Power Systems environment? Read this article!

Proving that you are meeting service-level agreements shouldn’t be a wasted effort. In fact, it should strengthen your relationship with clients and help your team manage performance in the future. See how.

Log File Monitor can monitor the contents of files in the integrated file system (IFS) and raise alerts based on this content. Read on to learn more.

Typically, there are two main issues with monitoring a system manually: having to go out deliberately (and repeatedly) and check to see if something has happened; and the fact that you are most likely looking for the proverbial needle in a haystack of logged events.

Robot Console leverages the power of Fortra' dashboards containing browser access! Mobile-friendly dashboards allow you to combine key message summary and resource status data into a single, intuitive view. Read on to learn more.

When it comes to security on IBM Power Servers running IBM i, a common challenge for many organizations is the number of users with too much power. These users can potentially circumvent application controls, override security restrictions for themselves and others, change critical server configuration settings, and even cover their tracks while they do it.

While everyone likes to feel special, we need to be more selective when it comes to data access. As we discussed last month, many users have privileges far beyond their business requirements and simply need to have their access reduced to more reasonable levels.

Ask any security professional which area of IBM i security is most often ignored and chances are that the unanimous response is a chorus of “the Integrated File System.” Although it’s been around since V3R1, the Integrated File System, or IFS, remains a shrouded mystery that represents significant risk to many IBM i organizations.

You have the afternoon off—but not the responsibility of monitoring your system for issues. This includes responding to application and system messages as they occur on your production IBM i jobs. You don’t want to carry your laptop around just in case you need to VPN back to answer a message that is waiting on your month-end process. What option do you have?