IT CONSULTANT FOR IBM i BASIS TECHNOLOGY

Simon Steinberger

Are you looking for an IBM i professional for basic operation projects? I would be happy to advise you on topics such as OS release changes, PTF changes, LPAR migrations, IBM i access, monitoring, single sign-on and system connections.

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Over 15 years of IBM i Basis experience

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About me

For 15 years I have been actively involved in IBM i base technology. I have helped customers in hundreds of projects to overcome challenges in the operation of their IBM i so that they could focus on their core competence, services and products. Before I went freelance in 2021, I worked for two IT systems consulting firms with a wide range of customers, mainly in the industrial and furniture sectors. The customers were supported in data center operations as a managed service and on-premise. In data center operations, my projects focused on monitoring, continuous service maintenance and high availability. For on-site customers, the focus was on OS release changes, PTF updates and hardware changes as well as system connections, e.g. to an Active Directory for single sign-on operation.

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Projects
in the area of
IBM i

06/2024 – Jetzt

  • Rolle: Solution Architekt
  • Aufgaben: Planung und Sizing Hardware Refresh hochverfügbarke POWER10 Landschaft in zwei Rechenzentren, Vergleich mit IBM PowerVS Betrieb
  • Technologien: IBM POWER S1014, IBM FS5045, HMC, VIOS, Dell EMC Data Domain VTL

05 – 06/2024

  • Role: Technical Consultant
  • Tasks: Download of media, preparatory measures, implementation of HMC upgrade V9R1 to V10R1 SP1030, shutdown of all LPARs, POWER9 microcode update VL950_131, VIOS update 3.1.4.21, implementation on the production and backup environment, restart of all LPARs
  • Technologies: HMC 7063CR1, HMC V9, HMC V10, POWER S914 VL950, VIOS 3.1.4.21

04/2023 – 05/2023

  • Role: Technical Consultant
  • Tasks: Preparatory measures, pre PTFs, license keys, SAP on i notes, backup, technical implementation of release changes, reworking
  • Technologies: IBM i 7.3 - IBM i 7.5, IBM Backup and Recovery Media Services for i, IBM BRMS for i, IBM FSFC , IBM Storwize

10/2021–10/2022

  • Role: Sub-project manager IBM i LPAR
  • Tasks: Primary contact person, coordination of requirements in the area of TCP/IP, applications incl. license keys, system parameters
    Technical implementation Migration to new machine
  • Technologies: IBM i 7.2 - IBM i 7.4, IBM Backup and Recovery Media Services for i, IBM
    BRMS for i, IBM VIOS, IBM Storwize, IBM System Storage Tape Library, Dell EMC Data Domain

09/2022

  • Role: Sub-project manager IBM i
  • Tasks: Preparation of BUS4i switchover script, upgrade of backup machine 7.3 -> 7.4, switch-over to backup machine, upgrade from old prodsystem 7.3 -> 7.4
  • Technologies: IBM i 7.3-7.4, TSP BUS4i HA, IBM POWER9

03/2022–06/2022

  • Role: Sub-project manager IBM i LPAR
  • Tasks: Primary contact person, coordination of requirements in the area of TCP/IP, applications incl. license keys, system parameters
    Coordination of test takeover, technical implementation, transfer of backup data to own data center
    Support during GO Live
  • Technologies: IBM i 7.2 - IBM i 7.4, IBM Backup and Recovery Media Services for i, IBM
    BRMS for i, IBM VIOS, IBM Storwize, IBM System Storage Tape Library, Dell EMC Data Domain

Projects
in the area of SAP on IBM i

08/2023

  • Role: Technical Consultant
  • Tasks: Downloads and preparation of the media, compilation of the Instguides & instructions for measures, backup of transaction data, deletion of the DB, restore of the DB from the productive system using SWPM, restore of the specific parameters
  • Technologies: SAP Netweaver ABAP, ECC6 EHP7, IBM i 7.4, SWPM

04/2023 – 05/2023

  • Role: Technical Consultant
  • Tasks: Performing the kernel patch, downloading and preparing the media, compiling the instguides & instructions for measures, importing the SP stack using SUM, reworking profile parameters
  • Technologies: SAP Netweaver ABAP, ECC6 EHP8, IBM i 7.3, SUM1.0

08/2022–11/2022

  • Role: Technical Consultant
  • Tasks: Performing the kernel patch, downloading and preparing the media, compiling the Instguides & information measures, performing the EHP8 upgrade using SUM, reworking profile parameters
  • Technologies: SAP Netweaver ABAP, ECC6 EHP8, IBM i 7.3, SUM2.0

07/2022

  • Role: Speaker
  • Tasks: Conducting the workshop with 10 participants Topics: IBM i OS, database and file system and access tools, SAP on IBM i environment setup, Manage SAP on IBM i, SAP on IBM i miscellaneous, performance
  • Technologies: SAP Netweaver ABAP, ECC6 EHP7, IBM i 7.4, IBM ACS, Navigator for i

Further
projects

01/2014-Today

  • Role: Senior Technical Consultant
  • Tasks: Preparatory measures, checking PAM, downloading SAP binaries, importing SAP required PTFs, performing kernel patch/upgrade, performing migration of SAP systems using SWPM, system copy using SWPM, implementing SAP Single Sign-On on IBM i, EHP upgrade, importing SP stack
  • Technologies: SAP Netweaver, ECC6, IBM i 7.1-7.5, SWPM

2008 - Today

  • Role: Sub-project manager IBM i LPAR
  • Tasks: Sizing of LPAR
    Primary contact person, coordination of requirements in the area of TCP/IP, applications incl. license keys, system parameters
    Coordination of test transfer, technical implementation, transfer of backup data to own data center
    Support during GO Live
  • Technologies: IBM i 5.3 - IBM i 7.5, IBM Backup and Recovery Media Services for i, IBM
    BRMS for i, IBM VIOS, IBM Storwize, IBM System Storage Tape Library, IBM
    Spectrum Virtualize, IBM i SSO, IBM i Single Sign-on, Dell EMC Data Domain

09/2008 - Today

  • Role: Sub-project manager IBM i
  • Tasks: Preparatory measures such as coordination of application requirements, procurement of OS license keys, installation files, installation of required PTFs, implementation of release changes, reworking
  • Technologies: IBM i 5.3 - IBM i 7.4, IBM Backup and Recovery Media Services for i, IBM BRMS for i, IBM Image Catalog

01/2015-Today

  • Role: Subproject manager IBM i / Productowner
  • Tasks: Creation of desired monitoring points, coordination with application managers, transfer of desired functions to the development team for implementation, coordination with Icinga team, connection to the support desk, mapping of services, hosts and SLA
  • Technologies: IBM i 7.3, Icinga 2, SAP Solution Manager

10/2019-01/2020

  • Role: Sub-project manager IBM POWER i
  • Tasks: Calculation and sizing of POWER servers and Storwize storage, RACK planning, cabling planning, coordination and setup of IBM POWER9 and Storwize system environment in new data center co-location
  • Technologies: IBM i 5.3 - IBM i 7.3, IBM POWER9, Storwize V5000, IBM SAN24B, IBM System Storage Tape Library, IBM VIOS

10/2019-01/2020

  • Role: Sub-project manager IBM POWER i
  • Tasks: Coordination of maintenance windows, shutdown of all systems, RACK planning, cabling planning, coordination, transport of hardware, new setup of IBM POWER7 and Storwize system environment in target RACK, start of all systems
  • Technologies: IBM POWER7, Storwize V5000, IBM SAN24B, IBM Storwize V3700, IBM System Storage Tape Library

09/2019-11/2019

  • Role: Sub-project manager IBM i
  • Tasks: Coordination of LPAR takeover, coordination of preparatory measures and implementation of the high availability solution, coordination of switch-over
  • Technologies: IBM POWER9, IBM i 7.3, TSP BUS4i, Menten iEffect

01/2015-Today

  • Role: Subproject manager IBM i / Productowner
  • Tasks: Summary of the desired system information and performance data, coordination with application managers, transfer of the desired functions to the development team for implementation, coordination with report team, connection to CMDB, mapping of services, hosts and SLAs
  • Technologies: CMDB, IBM i, MS SQL Server

10/2018-12/2018

  • Role: Senior Technical Consultant
  • Tasks: Inventory of physical tapes, sizing of the VTL, implementation of the VTL in the data center, connection of the VTL to IBM i LPARs, adaptation of the BRMS environment, duplication of the physical tapes into virtual tapes
  • Technologies: IBM i 6.1 - 7.3, DELL EMC Data Domain, IBM TS3500

08/2018-10/2018

  • Role: Senior Technical Consultant
  • Tasks: Creation of migration instructions, test run migration of sessions, keyboard layouts, macros, data transfers, DB connections, creation of migration script, creation of ACS update script
  • Technologies: IBM i Access Client Solutions, Citrix, Windows Terminal Server, Windows OS

08/2015-12/2015

  • Role: Sub-project manager IBM POWER i
  • Tasks: Calculation and sizing of POWER servers and Storwize storage, RACK planning, cabling planning, coordination and setup of IBM POWER7 and Storwize system environment in new data center co-location
  • Technologies: IBM i 5.3 - IBM i 7.3, IBM POWER7, Storwize V3700, IBM SAN24B, IBM System Storage Tape Library, IBM VIOS

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