IBM AS/400, iSeries (System i) Systems

How's the health of your IBM AS/400, iSeries or System i System?

Do you have any of these symptoms?

• Users having to wait and complaining of performance issues? 
• Batch jobs taking longer and longer? 
• Backup starting to encroach on your working day? 
• Disk usage high? 
• CPU usage high? 

A few questions:

• Do you know when your disk will be full?  
• Is your disk balanced for optimum performance?  
• Do you know exactly what's on disk?  
• How old are objects? Are they used still?  
• Do you know when your CPU will suffer?  
• Do you have enough memory/disk/CPU for a balanced system?  
• Is your backup complete?  
• Do you have a full system-save in case of system failure?  
• Is your system secure internally and externally?  
• Are you up to date with PTFs?  
• Is your operating system still supported?  
• Are your operational skills up to scratch?  
• Do you get recurring SYSOPR messages?  

If you have any concerns with your system then book an onsite health check. You may be surprised what's going on in there and how much better your system can be made with analysis and simple remedial action. It can give you some breathing space before you ask the FD to open the cheque book!

You will be getting an independent IBM qualified iSeries specialist with many years of iSeries Technical, Development and Management skills. View my CV here and my profile on LinkedIn. The following services are offered:

• Large and small iSeries environment management 
• Performance analysis and recommendation 
• Disk usage, trend and balancing 
• System monitoring and alerting 
• Security and Authorisation 
• Training (On-Site) 
• • Operations, Command and Control Language education and hands-on training (1, 2 and 3 day courses according to experience). 

Analysis of your system usually takes two days which includes a written system report.

Please send an email to: brent@bdmcc.co.uk