i-UG i-Power Conference 2026

Following on from his session at the last i-UG conference, "Did a recent unfortunate event at JLR (Jaguar Land/Rover) resonate with anybody?|, at the last i-UG conference, Eddie has been asked back to put some more meat on the bones of the highly effective and largely 'FREE' IBM SafeGuarded copy, Ransomware protection solution from IBM.

Eddie pointed out that this well matured and highly effective IBM offering would have saved JLR many, many millions of pounds and allowed JLR to return to production in a fraction of the time it actually took them?

In this follow-on education session, Eddie Chaffin of ABP will show how ABP Food Group has successfully implemented IBM's SafeGuarded Copy solution, and show you how to go about implementing the sam on your system. You will be able to grab immutable copies of your whole system at scheduled times in the day (Without interrupting production), 'roll back' to any one of these multiple daily points before the Hack or Virus kicked in! It looks like sorcery, but it is REAL.

So successful has the solution been, and so incredible the compression and therefore the space saving been, that ABP now uses the same technology to do scheduled backups, test upgrades within minutes and, if necessary, roll back to the previous image in minutes too. At will, you can run up new partitions and enable testing whilst the production just carries on.  We can even test restore recent hard-copy backups for verification... all without interrupting production.

This is standard IBM software and you can have it too...

Back in April 2021 the Query Supervisor was announced in IBM i 7.4 and IBM i 7.3 Technology Refresh 10. This tool is part of the SQL Query Engine. Maybe you have heard about it and started using it, most likely you only heard about it and never had the time to give a good look. After attending this workshop, that will change as this tool is perfect to detect and handle run-away queries. During this workshop you will learn what this tool can do and how to get started. With the knowledge of this tool under your belt you will get back control and will be able to avoid long running queries jeopardising your LPAR.