Archive - Power DevOps Substack

What should I do with my mksysb if I have no NIM?

I have a small environment and no NIM server!

Feb 27

Make System Backup!

The best feature, that AIX has and Linux is missing

Feb 20

So many NIM resources!

Why don't use mksysb?

Feb 13

Playbooks to create NIM resources on IBM AIX

Last Friday I wrote about NIM clients, lpp_sources, SPOTs, and many other resources

Feb 11

2 playbooks to automate usual AIX NIM tasks

But not every task!

Feb 6

Playbook to setup AIX NIM server

What did I write about last Friday? Ah, yes, about NIM configuration!

Feb 4

January 2026

17 Ansible tasks to create an AIX NIM server

Or more. Or less. It depends how you count them.

Jan 30

Do we need anything more for NIM automated installations?

YES! We need more resources!

Jan 23

NIM image.data resource

The full file from the last newsletter

Jan 21

Forgotten NIM resource type

but still important if you want to automate your deployments

Jan 16

Advertisement! Yes, it is! But you want it

Why not to advertise good things?

Jan 9

Everyone starts with zero...

resources on the NIM server

Jan 2

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