Rudi van Helvoirt
After having started as a System/38 programmer in 1986, in 1989 the switch was made to system programming and systems management.
Being passionate about systems management he founded van Helvoirt Automatisering in 1993.
Rudi enjoys helping IBM i customers ever since for running their business applications.
He is an early adopter of the IBM i GUI’s, System Object Access that later evolved into System i Navigator and recently Navigator for i.
He has been involved in IBM i BRMS for the past 20 years, helping to improve the backup strategy of IBM i data.
Rudi is member of the COMMON Europe Advisory Council, an IBM and End User Experts strategy think tank for the IBM i.
On top of that IBM made him an IBM Champion since 2020.
In 2020 van Helvoirt Automatisering was acquired by EASI in the Netherlands.
Recently he left Easi Netherlands adding a new chapter to his IBM i career.
Sessions
Using Navigator to manage your IBM i…
How to migrate from BRMS 5770BR1 to 5770BR2
What is i-Chi? It is about thinking differently about IBM i System Management, embracing new ideas, automating processes and monitoring, using IBM i functions in ACS, Nav4i, ARE, IBM i Services, and Integrating IBM i SysAdmin with other platforms and reducing your reliance on the 5250 command line.
In this session, we give practical examples of how to do this that you can start to use today on your systems using tools that are free to use, already installed on your systems, and all without the use of the 5250 green screen.