V5R4 CL Enhancements, Revealed and Detailed
by Ted Holt

Version 5 Release 4 of i5/OS continues the tradition that V5R3 began--that is, making a liar of me. Before V5R3, I would have bet my last Federal Reserve Note that IBM would never enhance the i5/iSeries Control Language (cleverly known by its acronym, CL), and I would have lost the bet. Like V5R3, V5R4 introduces several new CL features. I would like to thank Guy Vig of IBM for telling me about them. Now I'd like to share them with you. READ MORE >

iSeries Security Journal Receiver Management, Part 1
Hey, Steve:

We were recently subjected to an audit of our iSeries security practices under the auspices of Sarbanes-Oxley due to the fact that we are a publicly traded company. Believe it or not, it was the first time we had ever had any outside party review our iSeries security! Ignoring that glaring security exposure and getting right to the point, we were cited by the auditors for not having the security audit journaling function activated on our production iSeries system. (I know, an even worse security exposure!) We have been hesitant to activate the audit journal due to things we have heard from other installations, particularly about the impact security auditing has had on their disk utilization. Can you share some of the basics on security journal management according to your experiences and possibly alleviate our concerns about the receivers? READ MORE >