I have been regularily checking in to Foursquare for the last 2 or 3 months and have yet to work out what it is all about. OK, I have all sorts of badges and I am mayor of some strange places but the question is why? I can post to Twitter and Facebook everywhere I [...]
I travel a lot on business and one thing I always do is to sign up for any loyalty scheme that I think may be useful. Today showed how useful this can be as I made the journey to one of my clients sites in The Netherlands. I used my KLM gold card (soon to [...]
More and more companies are now specifying that all of their customers and suppliers must use electronic methods to replace all paper documents, faxes and emails used in the supply chain process. I have many years of implementing EDI and B2B solutions and integrating these with your existing business applications. From orders to invoices and [...]
You should be ordering and applying cumulative PTF (Program Temporary Fix) packages regularly but did you know that many PTFs never make it as far as a cumulative package. You should also be ordering and applying Group PTF packages on a regular basis
Well after about two months I am back. The reasons I have been away include taking a few weeks holiday and re-organising my internet access and domains setups. Even tonight I am having problems accessing the internet as the WiFi in the hotel is up and down as usual. At the moment it is down [...]
For years the hardware I have worked on has been called the AS/400 and the operating system has been called OS/400, but not any more. The hardware has undergone a number of name changes from AS/400 to AS/400e, iSeries, System i and now Power Systems. Similarily, the operating system name has changed from OS/400 to [...]
Have you upgraded to Version 6 Release 1 of IBM i yet and if not, why not? V6R1 has been available for over a year now and provides loads of new features which can be used by everyone. If you are on V5R4 or V5R3 you can upgrade directly to V6R1 but versions before V5R3 [...]
At the moment my main client is an American company called Warnaco who are based in Holland about 100km south of Amsterdam. In Europe, Warnaco are the distributors of Calvin Klein underwear, jeans and accessories. In the US, they also distribute brands such as Speedo and Chaps while they have a number of other brands [...]
Hello! I am a Freelance IT consultant, based in Newcastle upon Tyne in the North East of England. I provide IT Consultancy, Project Management and Software Development (using RPG) services to all sizes of businesses. I specialise in IBM i (AS/400, iSeries) servers and have an interest in all things IT related, particularly B2B, Cloud, [...]
