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The Top 10 IBM i Security Exposures, Part 1
by Wayne O. Evans

In today's highly security-conscious network environment, it's important that you be aware of some of the common security exposures that could lead to a security breach of your systems. Even though there are excellent security features built into IBM i, today's network environments often open your systems to exposures not even dreamed of a few years ago. READ MORE >

Case-Sensitive SQL Identifiers
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Like most people who use SQL, I have never bothered worrying about which case a field name is written in. Case never seemed to matter. However, while performing a data fix, I discovered an instance where it does. (Fortunately, I was using test data!) READ MORE >



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Admin Alert: Prototype Instructions for Running TCP/IP in i5/OS Restricted State
by Joe Hertvik

A reader recently wrote asking how to configure i5/OS to use TCP/IP communications while in restricted state. Here are my prototype instructions for accomplishing this task. Due to constant uptime demands on my machines, however, I haven't yet been able to fully test this process. But I invite any interested readers to test these instructions and write in with suggested changes. I'll publish the best comments in a future article. READ MORE >


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The Four Hundred
Whaaa? IBM Gets Stingier with Power Systems Deals

iManifest U.S. Adds Halverson to Build Membership, Awareness

Legacy-Loving Attachmate Shells Out $2.2 Billion for Novell

As I See It: There's No Place Like Work

IBM Tosses In Freebie RHEL Linux with Power Express Servers

Four Hundred Stuff
Solarsoft Drives IBM i ERP Software Development Forward

Shield Overhauls HA Product, Gives It New Name

RUMBA 8.1 Delivers Integration with MS Office

Halcyon Adds Real-Time Notification to Audit Journal Manager

Cat Likes ACOM for Shipping Labels

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System i PTF Guide
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September 11, 2010: Volume 12, Number 37

September 4, 2010: Volume 12, Number 36

August 28, 2010: Volume 12, Number 35

August 21, 2010: Volume 12, Number 34

TPM at The Register
Big iron, x64 refresh goose server sales

Oracle erects mystery Sparc SuperCluster

Mellanox gobbles up Voltaire for $218m

Shuttleworth's Ubuntu makes like Space Shuttle

IBM gloats over HP, Oracle takeouts

Numascale brings big iron SMP to the masses

Attachmate: Novell's openSUSE project is 'safe'

ZT Systems boots eight-node Ubuntu ARM server

HP doesn't miss a beat in fiscal Q4

Attachmate gobbles up Novell for $2.2bn

Supercomputers take efficiency up another notch

IBM uncloaks 20 petaflops BlueGene/Q super

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
The Top 10 IBM i Security Exposures, Part 1

Case-Sensitive SQL Identifiers

Admin Alert: Prototype Instructions for Running TCP/IP in i5/OS Restricted State

Four Hundred Guru

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