Session Descriptions

Track 5 iSeries System Management and Administration

Performance Tuning Your System i Applications
Attend this session and discover the most effective ways to increase the performance of your System i applications without spending your entire budget on a hardware upgrade. Identify and solve your most common application performance issues. Get detailed information on everything from traditional record-oriented access, to SQL, to exploring the options in the QAQQINI file. Learn to more efficiently manage your access paths and joined files to boost your application’s performance and productivity. Apply best practices to your normal performance-tuning schedule and rid yourself of any bad habits to maintain the highest-level possible.

Achieving Optimal Security on the System i
This session examines security from both inside and outside the System i and delivers battle-tested advice for locking down your system. Learn how to stop unneeded services, prevent unauthorized users from entering the system using filter tables, and tighten up firewalls and other network devices. Uncover key tips on how to keep inside users from accessing data they shouldn’t be able to access, audit what users are doing on specific objects, and make sure that everything they do is appropriate. If your approach to security hasn’t kept up with the advances in i5/OS then you’re almost certainly at risk. Attend this session and walk away with the latest information so you’re prepared to tackle today’s iSeries security challenges.

Managing Your iSeries PTFs
Get practical lessons for administering and keeping track of your PTFs on the iSeries. Compare the four major types: cumulative PTF, group PTF, Client Access Server, and HIPER, and learn what effect they have on the components of your system. Examine which preventive measures are necessary for effective PTF management, how to find PTFs, which PTFs you actually need, and which ones you might not. Uncover different methods for obtaining PTFs, getting them into your system, and then applying them. Plus, learn how image catalogs can make PTFs easier to load and apply, as well as how to cleanup the objects used in PTF processes. Leave this session equipped with a plan to better manage your PTFs.

Cleaning Up i5/OS Through Disk Cleanup and Storage
How much disk storage do you have on your system? The most common answer is “not enough!” Attend this session and find out where all that space went, what you can clean up, and what should be left alone. Learn about reporting, automating, and managing your disk space on the System i. Develop a deeper understanding of the tools IBM has built into i5/OS and how to leverage them to help keep your system clean. Walk away with a solid understanding of how to clean up your disk space, manage your IFS, and reorganize your files.

Inside the Hardware Management Console
As the System i becomes more powerful, the need for the Hardware Management Console (HMC) continues to grow. Find out why you need it and what you can do with this console. This session addresses the most effective ways to configure multiple partitions and manage capacity on demand. Examine the pieces that the HMC comes in and its basic usage, including starting the HMC, changing the HMC language, and logging off the HMC. Learn the best ways to manage your console, implement software updates, optimize connectivity, and manage user profiles and user capabilities. Also, dive into firmware of the i5 and determine what the right and wrong ways are in dealing with the FSP firmware. Finally, get inside tips on things to watch for and things not to do, and leave this session with the knowledge to get an HMC up and running right away.

Leveraging iSeries Navigator to Boost System i Performance
Whether you’re a programmer or administrators, this session delivers key advice on leveraging the fundamental features of iSeries Navigator in your shop. Explore its functionality and strengths, find out why GUI access to i5/OS should be a priority, and see how it simplifies the maintenance of your system. Learn how iSeries Navigator helps you improve general system access, database management, and development. Wrap your arms around the many useful tools in iSeries Navigator and see how they enable you to be better at your job. Also, get introduced to some changes with V6R1, including the release of IBM’s new Web console, Systems Director Navigator for i5/OS.

Pimp My i
Meet the team behind Frankeni.com and learn firsthand just how far you can push the System i architecture. See photos of the build and a history of the project, including a few cautionary tales. The events depicted in this session should not be attempted on any production system, in any production data center. The things shown are entirely unsupported, and may result in data loss, hair loss, and, under the right circumstances, job loss or loss of limbs. Get ready for some fun, some laughs, and maybe even some ideas for your own Frankeni machine.

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