10 February 2010
In my blog in November of last year I asked, “How reliant is your Company on EDI?” I have 2 further questions for you.
What would happen if you were trying to get month end through and your system just stopped?
What about those time critical orders? What would happen if your EDI system couldn’t process them?
This week, one of our TrustedLink iSeries (TLI) support consultants made the comment that she had come across 6 companies in 1 week who had problems after not regularly running a purge.
If you want to avoid that dreaded IBM message: ‘Maximum numbers of objects reached,’ which is an OS/400 restriction, then devote a little time to setting up the concurrent purge now available in TLi V6.3
Gwyn Madsen posted a blog in November last year promoting additional functionality in the latest version of TrustedLink iSeries (TLi) V6.3.
Improved TLi Data and Object Management
- Run 24/7, 365 days a year without interruption as the purge/archive process can now be executed concurrently with normal TLi operations running.
- Communication Session Retention Settings & IFS Purge inclusion
So there are no excuses; run a purge today to stop problems in the future.
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Posted by trobertsoninovis
9 February 2010
Ever needed to bounce ideas off of someone else who is using TrustedLink iSeries on a regular basis? Did you know that there is a TLi User Group that may be able to help you?
The TLi User Group is a discussion group dedicated to the users of Inovis’ TrustedLink series of EDI Translation Software. No matter which version you have – this group is all about Inovis TrustedLink i-series (for the IBM System I or I-series or whatever they’re calling it this time). You can hopefully learn new tricks and techniques, find information, get a question answered or even – better yet – share your tricks & techniques and information and answer a question or two!
Also take a look at the Community pages on the Inovis Customer Portal. This area provides you the ability to create, converse, and collaborate with peers in your user community. Some of the exciting new features existing within this section include:
• Support Knowledge Base
• Wiki
• Customer FAQ Channel
• Latest Inovis News and Events
• Discussion section for our User Communities.
The Customer Portal will also allow you to access the Inovis Knowledge Base and the latest documentation.
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Posted by trobertsoninovis
28 January 2010
I had an email from iNEWSWire yesterday with the exciting news that IBM has extended the withdrawal date of OS/400 V5R4 to January 07, 2011 .
Here is the full EMEA announcement letter.
TrustedLink iSeries (TLi or EDI400) is compatible with V5R4, since it was released and the current versions of TLi (v6.1.4, v6.2.0, v6.2.1 and v6.3.0) are all QA-ed on this OS/400 version.
If you are on TLi V5 or EDI400 V2 (Premenos), there are upgrade paths to migrate you to TLi V6, so your existing EDI system can be used on the V5R4 as well.
If you are running OS/400 lower than V5R4 you should talk with your IBM representative to arrange for an upgrade.
Learn more about TLi or visit the customer portal for more information.
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Posted by trobertsoninovis
4 December 2009
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IBM marked the one year anniversary of the launch of Smarter Planet.
In November 2008, IBM launched Smarter Planet as a corporate initiative, which declared that information technology can be used to make the world’s systems and industries more efficient and productive.
Is this a new idea? Well, no. Whatever happened to the idea of the paperless society, which has been talked about since the 80s? EDI was one of the solutions to this idea, to push the documents around electronically, but you wonder how many companies have followed through on a 100% implementation of EDI throughout their trading community.
In 1999 Microsoft researcher Bill Hill explained how electronic books can radically transform society by making books available anytime, anywhere. Well that took more than a few years to really take off, but we seem to be getting somewhere now. Although that being said
I think I’ll stick to books, as I spend enough time looking at screens.
So while we all try to work smarter, just remember it all takes time.
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