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OS/400 PTFs Aim to Plug TCP/IP-SNMP Security Holes
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
IBM last week released a set of PTFs that plug security
holes in its TCP/IP networking software on OS/400 V4R5 and V5R1. These patches presumably have to do
with vulnerabilities in the SNMP protocol, commonly used in server operating systems, which we detailed
last week. The
cover letters to the PTFs say only that IBM has uncovered a security exposure and that all OS/400
customers are strongly encouraged to apply these PTFs.
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Native AIX Rumored for iSeries Logical Partitions
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
According to sources familiar with IBM's plans, the
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servers, possibly as soon as the July release of OS/400 V5R2, possibly sometime in 2003. The support of
AIX partitions on the iSeries platform will make the machine more attractive to customers and potentially
to software vendors, too. Support for native AIX is seen by some as further evidence that IBM will
eventually merge the iSeries and pSeries server lines.
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Midrange Security Software Vendors Attract Venture Capital
by Alex Woodie
Predicting IT spending is a notoriously difficult game. If money followed hype, many more billions of
dollars would have been invested in wireless technology and application hosting. In this post-dot-com era of
financial belt-tightening and technological cynicism, security software is one area where venture capitalists
are willing to open up their wallets. Two prominent security-software providers in the iSeries marketplace
recently completed rounds of funding totaling $15 million, a positive indication that the smart money
believes companies will be increasing IT security expenditures.
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Sector7 Salivating to Migrate HP 3000 Users to iSeries
by Alex Woodie
The thought of 30,000 Hewlett-Packard HP 3000
customers forced to move off the platform has the folks over at Sector7 absolutely giddy with delight. Sector 7, an Austin, Texas,
company that specializes in migrating applications and data to IBM's eServer lineup, is looking to do business with a good chunk of
that HP installed base and, from the sound of it, wants to move them to the IBM platform that could
provide them with the most comfort and security: the iSeries.
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IBM Releases Fix for the Killer Domino PTF Fix
by Joe Hertvik
In January we told you about the defective OS/400 V5R1 PTF that will crash Domino servers running on iSeries or
AS/400 server. IBM has released a new PTF, MF27639, that fixes the problems caused by MF27530.
This PTF can be downloaded from the Internet. It will also be automatically installed to an OS/400 V5R1
system when you load the newest V5R1 cumulative PTF tape, C2036510, which was just released on
February 11. According to IBM, once this PTF is loaded
on your system, it should correct the problem.
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Population of iSeries Nation Reaches 45,000
by Dan Burger
John D. Rockefeller, a businessman of some historical note, has many times been quoted. One of his better-
known business axioms is, "A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on
friendship." The thought rings true when applied to the iSeries Nation, an organization that takes its name
from the midrange computer that plays a critical role in an estimated 250,000 businesses worldwide. To say
that fanaticism is a prerequisite for membership in the Nation is only a few lines of code from the absolute
truth.
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ICOM Informatics Offers Web-to-Host Subscription Licensing
by Joe Hertvik
Connectivity software vendor ICOM Informatics has
announced a new annual subscription-licensing pricing scheme for its Winsurf Mainframe Access Web-to-
host solution. The new licensing is a competitive move designed to lure customers who have large corporate
deployments of over 500 users away from traditional desktop emulator packages, such as IBM Personal Communications or NetManage RUMBA software, to ICOM's server-deployed and
browser-based emulation.
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As I See It: Sam I Am
by Victor Rozek
The last time this happened, the search was conducted with military secrecy, complete with code names. In
what The Wall Street Journal called "the biggest corporate beauty contest ever," 125 candidates
were considered. The chosen one was christened "Able," which turned out to be prescient, if lacking in wit,
since the definitive name for the head cracker at Nabisco could be nothing other than "Baker."
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Reader Feedback and Insights
We value your feedback and your insights into the OS/400 market.
Feel free to drop us a letter to the editor and we will post
them in a reader feedback column associated with this newsletter.
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Corrections
Guild Companies strives to publish accurate information at all times. Minor errors of spelling, punctuation,
and the like will be corrected on our Web site without notice. When we correct significant errors of fact or
substance, we will note the correction on the page containing the corrected version of the original article, as
well as in the next issue of the newsletter.
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Editor
Timothy Prickett Morgan
Managing Editor
Shannon Pastore
Conributing Editors:
Joe Hertvik
Shannon O'Donnell
Victor Rozek
Alex Woodie
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