vCEC2020 Common Europe On-line

IBM i Services are perhaps the best-kept secret of managing and monitoring IBM i. Relatively few users of our favourite platform know what they are and even fewer use them regularly. This is a crying shame as they are truly remarkable. IBM i Services can tell you in seconds what it takes a skilled system operator minutes or even hours to discover. In this session, we explain what IBM i Services are, how you use them and why they can give you a better answer than the tools we had available to us before.

Perhaps a setting was accidentally changed in a firewall or router which exposed your entire internal network to the Internet. Or perhaps other parts of your organization is seeing evidence of inappropriate activity. Do you know what you’d need to examine to determine if your IBM i had been breached? Based on a real-life incident, Carol Woodbury will walk you through the steps she took to determine whether an IBM i had been breached.

LPARKit is a green screen interface which isolate VIOS/HMC layer from IBM i administrator. It allows quick deployment of LPAR and clone IBM i operating system from the template partition. It also allow to manage virtual storage adapters, maping/unmaping vSCSI disks or creating virtual adapters reports in the spool or csv file.
For small customers which use IBM i as the hosting LPAR, it provides a new interface for quick LPAR creation rather than use Virtual Partition Manager in SST. It also provide a mechanism to clone the operating system stored as NWSD object. 
 
The tool can be also used in the private cloud as a native green-screen deployment interface or by business partners. A BP can prepare IBM i image with all PTFs, toolset required by a customer, store it as a binary image and deploy on the customer machine.

An overview of TD/OMS and Gravity applications, going through the development lifecycle