Tag: i525

Upgrade From 720 To i525 – Slash Backup Times

14 December 2007 No Comments by Computer Merchants

Success Story We recently had an email from a very happy customer who had bought a new IBM System i model 525 from us to replace his AS/400 model 720. Here’s an edit of what came through: Good afternoon Norm and Warwick, Well you have sold me a dud!!!!!! Now that I’ve got your attention… [...]

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Hot Tips for our IBM Customers – Consoles

16 October 2007 No Comments by Computer Merchants

CONSOLES! Any of us that has ever had to set up an operations console, or change your System i from Twinax to operations console, would know that sometimes it can be a challenge. Refer to this link for troubleshooting a console. Recently I was configuring a HMC on a new i525, with HMC 7.3 installed. [...]

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Upgrading The 170 To An i515 A No Brainer

15 October 2007 No Comments by Computer Merchants

The i515 proved to be a life saver for one organisation recently when their 9406-170 almost ground to a halt.

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IBM’s New Licencing On Models 515 And 525

15 June 2007 No Comments by Computer Merchants

IBM have introduced new i5/OS licensing on the new IBM System i models 515 and 525. This was done to allow customers to take advantage of the full capability of the operating system on these newer models. It works by simply licensing the number of concurrent-only authenticated users on i5/OS. Importantly, an i5/OS user is [...]

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IBM 5250 Bar Code Scanning

14 June 2007 No Comments by Computer Merchants

As an IBM user with an Inventory System, our processes need to track over 5,000 items in our warehouse plus the items on their way to you, our customers. We do this by the use of Bar Codes All of our Applications run on an IBM iSeries. The challenge we had was to interface the [...]

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