• ManageEngine Bolsters Password Sync Tool

  December 9, 2014 Alex Woodie

  A new release of ManageEngine‘s cross-platform password synchronization tool, ADSelfService Plus, should make it easier for administrators to ensure that native password changes made from Windows are propagated to all other supported systems, including IBM i. ADSelfService Plus is a password management tool that does two things. First, it provides a Web-based interface where end users can reset their own passwords, as defined in Microsoft Windows Active Directory, which is the main repository of access control information for many companies (including IBM i shops). Secondly, ADSelfService Plus contains a password sync component that will automatically propagate those Active Directory

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• ManageEngine Bolsters Password Sync Tool

  December 9, 2014 Alex Woodie

  A new release of ManageEngine‘s cross-platform password synchronization tool, ADSelfService Plus, should make it easier for administrators to ensure that native password changes made from Windows are propagated to all other supported systems, including IBM i. ADSelfService Plus is a password management tool that does two things. First, it provides a Web-based interface where end users can reset their own passwords, as defined in Microsoft Windows Active Directory, which is the main repository of access control information for many companies (including IBM i shops). Secondly, ADSelfService Plus contains a password sync component that will automatically propagate those Active Directory

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• IBM: CMOD for i ‘Alive and Well’

  December 9, 2014 Alex Woodie

  In last week’s The Four Hundred, we ran a story titled “Content Manager OnDemand For i Withdrawn In 2016.” It turns out that the product is very much alive. “It is alive and well,” Tim Rowe, the business architect for application development and systems management for IBM i at the IBM lab in Rochester, Minnesota, told us. For a while, it seemed clear enough that CMOD for i was dead. According to IBM U.S. Withdrawal Announcement 914-242 dated November 11, all of the CMOD for i products that IBM sells under the product ID number 5770-RD1 were

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• IBM: CMOD for i ‘Alive and Well’

  December 9, 2014 Alex Woodie

  In last week’s The Four Hundred, we ran a story titled “Content Manager OnDemand For i Withdrawn In 2016.” It turns out that the product is very much alive. “It is alive and well,” Tim Rowe, the business architect for application development and systems management for IBM i at the IBM lab in Rochester, Minnesota, told us. For a while, it seemed clear enough that CMOD for i was dead. According to IBM U.S. Withdrawal Announcement 914-242 dated November 11, all of the CMOD for i products that IBM sells under the product ID number 5770-RD1 were

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• IBM Issues More POODLE Patches, Warns Not to Use SSLv3

  December 9, 2014 Alex Woodie

  IBM i shops that continue to use SSLv3 to encrypt their communications are susceptible to the POODLE security vulnerability and could have their data compromised, IBM warned today in a security bulletin. IBM also issued new security patches that disable SSLv3 in IBM i’s Java runtime. While IBM recommends moving to the newer TLS protocol, many IBM i applications still require SSLv3 and will likely break when it’s disabled, IBM warns. IBM started patching its various systems against the POODLE vulnerability over a month ago when it became clear that SSLv3 needed to go. Applications patched in November include the

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• IBM Issues More POODLE Patches, Warns Not to Use SSLv3

  December 9, 2014 Alex Woodie

  IBM i shops that continue to use SSLv3 to encrypt their communications are susceptible to the POODLE security vulnerability and could have their data compromised, IBM warned today in a security bulletin. IBM also issued new security patches that disable SSLv3 in IBM i’s Java runtime. While IBM recommends moving to the newer TLS protocol, many IBM i applications still require SSLv3 and will likely break when it’s disabled, IBM warns. IBM started patching its various systems against the POODLE vulnerability over a month ago when it became clear that SSLv3 needed to go. Applications patched in November include the

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• Most Innovative IBM i Products: A FHS Year in Review

  December 9, 2014 Alex Woodie

  Where will IBM i products go in 2015? They will likely look a lot like 2014, which was heavy on mobile and Web development technologies, open standards, and security. Let’s take a stroll through the Four Hundred Stuff (FHS) archive, now 13-years strong, and recount the top new, improved, or innovative IBM i products that we saw over the past 12 months, from a purely non-objective, editorially biased, seat-of-one’s pants standpoint. January: Open Display Files The year started with looksoftware (now Fresche Legacy) unveiling an offering based on the Open Display File (ODF) standard. IBM‘s Rational Open Access:

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• Most Innovative IBM i Products: A FHS Year in Review

  December 9, 2014 Alex Woodie

  Where will IBM i products go in 2015? They will likely look a lot like 2014, which was heavy on mobile and Web development technologies, open standards, and security. Let’s take a stroll through the Four Hundred Stuff (FHS) archive, now 13-years strong, and recount the top new, improved, or innovative IBM i products that we saw over the past 12 months, from a purely non-objective, editorially biased, seat-of-one’s pants standpoint. January: Open Display Files The year started with looksoftware (now Fresche Legacy) unveiling an offering based on the Open Display File (ODF) standard. IBM‘s Rational Open Access:

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• BCD Advances PHP-on-i Development in WebSmart

  December 9, 2014 Alex Woodie

  BCD Software has supported the PHP language with its WebSmart suite of IBM i development tools for several years. But with the last week’s unveiling of WebSmart version 10.6, the Chicago-based company is allowing PHP coders to do more advanced development using object-oriented techniques thanks to the addition of Zend Framework 2 (ZF2) and PHP data object (PDO) templates. WebSmart’s support for ZF2 is aimed at more advanced developers who are looking to build enterprise-grade applications that incorporate a model-view-controller (MVC) architecture and object-oriented (OO) coding techniques. ZF2 provides this core MVC layer, and now BCD supports ZF2 in its

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• BCD Advances PHP-on-i Development in WebSmart

  December 9, 2014 Alex Woodie

  BCD Software has supported the PHP language with its WebSmart suite of IBM i development tools for several years. But with the last week’s unveiling of WebSmart version 10.6, the Chicago-based company is allowing PHP coders to do more advanced development using object-oriented techniques thanks to the addition of Zend Framework 2 (ZF2) and PHP data object (PDO) templates. WebSmart’s support for ZF2 is aimed at more advanced developers who are looking to build enterprise-grade applications that incorporate a model-view-controller (MVC) architecture and object-oriented (OO) coding techniques. ZF2 provides this core MVC layer, and now BCD supports ZF2 in its

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