When doing an upgrade to IBM i, it’s more work to plan the upgrade than to make the upgrade itself. Once you have a plan, the actual upgrade is simple.Pete Massiello, former president of COMMON and current president of iTech Solutions, has helped many IBM i users make the move. Pete joins Tom Huntington to share 50 plus years of combined experience with IBM i. They’ll get you on the right path to an upgrade by helping you answer key questions.

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How to Upgrade to IBM i 7.3

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Your Presenters
Tom Huntington
Executive Vice President
of Technical Solutions
HelpSystems
Pete Massiello
President
iTech Solutions

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Agenda
• Why Upgrade?
• Tips and Procedures
– Pete Massiello
• What’s New at HelpSystems?
– Tom Huntington

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• IBM dropped normal support for V5R4 in September 2013
• IBM dropped support for 6.1 in September 2015
• Java runs faster on 7.1, 7.2, and 7.3
• SQL runs faster on 7.1, 7.2, and 7.3
• Support of newer hardware for POWER7 or POWER8
– SAN, VTL
• New security features of 7.3
Why Upgrade?

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• Why Upgrade?
• Tips and Procedures
– Pete Massiello
• What’s New at HelpSystems?
– Tom Huntington
Agenda

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Next up: Pete’s Presentation
Pete Massiello
President
iTech Solutions

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• Why Upgrade?
• Tips and Procedures
– Pete Massiello
• What’s New at HelpSystems?
– Tom Huntington
Agenda

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HelpSystems At-A-Glance

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Delivered April 15, 2016
IBM i 7.3 Compatibility Testing for All Brands

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• Tango/04; February 2016
– Spain and Argentina for greater geographic reach
– Alignia—Monitor and align IT and business processes
 Potential for future product offering
• Linoma Software; June 2016
– Go Anywhere—Managed file transfers
– Crypto Complete—IBM i database encryption
– Fits very well into our cybersecurity solutions
Two Acquisitions

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GoAnywhere MFT
IBM i, Linux, AIX MFT

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Crypto Completetm
Through Authorization Lists, users
can be granted access to the fully
decrypted field values, restricted
to the masked values, or can be
completely denied access.
Key Management
Security Controls
Audit Logs & Alerts
FieldProc Programs
Key Rotation
Policy Settings for
PCI
Crypto Complete and Field Procedures
IBM i-based
data-at-rest
encryption

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BI Deliveries
Sequel 11.4
April 2016
• Improved Excel add-in and support
for Excel 2016
• Support for Windows 10 in
ViewPoint
• View Builder improvements
• New *ADS Security setting, to
enforce use of Advanced Database
Security (row/column security
rules)
Sequel Data Warehouse
January 2016
• Change management
• Security/authority enhancements
• Integrate Esend
• Enhanced error reporting
• Event subscriptions

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• 13th Annual State of IBM i
Security Study
• New Security Scan format for
both English and Spanish
• New Policy Minder for AIX
and Linux
Security Deliverables

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Intermapper 6.0
April 2016
• Alerting on interface
performance
– Port monitoring
– Ability to set thresholds
for link utilization, errors,
and discards
• Ability to set up defaults
based on link speeds
• Ability to consolidate
interface list and alert status
on a device
• Ability to view map status
with overall status both links
and devices
Network Monitoring

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• Security services
– Risk assessments
 Our security experts will run an assessment and uncover vulnerabilities on your system
– Penetration testing
 We can come to your site and prove which security vulnerabilities leave you at risk
– Security architecture
 We’ll create a detailed plan on how to
remediate your vulnerabilities
– Remediation
 We can work with your security
administrator to execute the plan created
during security architecture
Professional Services at HelpSystems

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• Managed services
– Managed Security Services
 Standard Managed Security Services
– We monitor 10 key metrics monthly
– We deliver the monthly summary report to you
– We will perform an annual Risk Assessment
 Premium Managed Security Services
– Includes the standard Managed Security Services
– 5 additional key metrics
– Plus 1 hour of services per system or partition each month
» To be used for remediation or anything else you need help with
Professional Services at HelpSystems

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Robot Monitor
Now – Dashboards with Views
Monitor view
Short-term history view
Detailed history view
History summary view
Accounting summary view
Disk summary view
Dashboard views can
contain multiple types of
information
Monitor elements
Short-Term
history elements
Disk summary,
etc. elements
Text element
Image element

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Robot Monitor
New Dashboard View

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Robot Monitor
Problem Determination – CPU Usage

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Robot Monitor
Drill Down to Details

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Contact Information
Tom Huntington, HelpSystems
+1952-563-1606
Tom.huntington@helpsystems.com
Pete Massiello, iTech Solutions
+12037447854
pmassiello@itechsol.com
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