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Top Three Reasons Mobile Data Access Will Be Your Savior

Tue, 11/22/2022

In today’s business world, you need data access beyond the green screen and GUI. Read this article to learn how mobile data access in a friendly browser interface will save you.

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5 Things to Try During Your Sequel Data Access Trial

By Stacy Jensen on Mon, 12/13/2021

Ready to start your Sequel Data Access business intelligence (BI) software trial? Here are five things you need to try.

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5 Reasons IT Teams Purchase Sequel Data Access

Thu, 12/09/2021

IT teams are under a lot of pressure to keep up in today's business world. Sequel can help relieve the pressure. Learn how.

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5 Time-Saving Tips for Smart Data Access on IBM i

By Stacy Jensen on Wed, 11/17/2021

Is there too much on your IT department’s plate? Get five tips for saving time today with smart data access on IBM i.

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13 FAQs on Switching from Query/400 to Sequel

By Heath Kath on Wed, 10/20/2021

Find out why you should choose Sequel Data Access for your IBM i queries—and leave Query/400 behind.

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Virtual Tape Considerations for IBM i

By Tom Huntington on Mon, 06/28/2021

This article examines some of the most popular IBM VTL (virtual tap library) solutions for IBM i and other platforms. You'll also learn what to consider to determine if VTL is right for you.

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FAQ: How Does Sequel Data Access Go Beyond SQL?

Mon, 08/10/2020

Got questions about moving beyond SQL to Sequel Data Access? Get answers, and get the business intelligence your organization needs from your IBM i data.

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Robot Save Restricted State Utility (RSU)—Get Your Weekends Back!

By Chuck Losinski on Tue, 06/02/2020

There are processes that are required on your IBM i that need to run with the system in what is called a “restricted state” condition. A restricted state is when all subsystems are inactive and new jobs cannot enter the system. Only the system console might be active.

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Three Advanced Scripting Tips That Help Solve Reporting Challenges

By Heath Kath on Fri, 05/08/2020

See how Sequel scripts make it easy to link together multi-step processes rather than manually running a series of steps to accomplish a complex task.

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Why Relying on Scripted Operations Can Be a Problem for Your Business

By Steve Brasen on Tue, 03/31/2020

Scripting provides a powerful platform to automate simple tasks, but overusing custom scripts is hazardous for your business.

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IBM on IASP for PowerHA Implementations

By Chuck Losinski on Tue, 03/03/2020

You’ve heard about IASP technology many times over the years, but you’ve been ignoring it, haven’t you? Steve Finnes confirms that it’s past time we “get to know it, understand it, and not be afraid of it.”

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How to Prove Your IBM i is Recoverable without a Real DR Test

By Tom Huntington on Thu, 02/27/2020

How good do you feel about your backup strategies? Did you know you can perform a simple operation two to four times a year to put much of your uneasiness to rest? It’s true. Simply audit your backups.

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FlashCopy: Pros and Cons

By Tom Huntington on Wed, 02/26/2020

IBM System Storage FlashCopy might seem like magic. But do the benefits for IBM i business continuity outweigh the hidden costs? Read on to find out.

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Backup Basics: Saving Your Data and Your Job

By Tom Huntington on Mon, 02/24/2020

You need a backup strategy to test your company’s disaster recovery plan and, despite its reputation for reliability, administrators still need to back up their IBM i. A sound backup strategy should also restore individual user objects to account for human error.

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Managing Your IBM i Audit Data

By Robin Tatam on Wed, 08/01/2018

Let’s face it; system administration remains a largely thankless task. From scheduling jobs to balancing workloads to answering messages in QSYSOPR, administrators and operators work diligently behind the scenes to ensure that IBM i servers are available to run mission-critical applications.

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How to Get Your BI Project Approved

Fri, 09/22/2017

Your organization needs business intelligence. But how will you sell upper management on your BI project?

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Use Conditional Logic in Sequel Data Access to Convert Data into Meaningful Information

By Mike Stegeman on Thu, 03/30/2017

Let’s face it, the amount of data that we have is only continuing to grow, which will become harder to manage and understand. Per IDC Research, 90 percent of data in the world today was created in the last two years, and in 2016, we entered the zettabyte era . A huge challenge for everyone is finding the best way to convert all their data into meaningful information. But that can be tricky. If you...