• ISE Grows MSP Business With Maxava’s Monitor Mi8

  September 16, 2024 Ash Giddings

  Maxava, the global provider of innovative monitoring, high availability, and disaster recovery software and services solutions for the IBM i platform, announced today that Information Systems Engineering (ISE) is finding success using Maxava’s Mi8 to monitor its clients IBM i systems.

  ISE, which provides consulting, software, and managed services for IBM i clients, was founded in 1984. The company’s specialty is working with the Infor XA (MAPICS) line of ERP software. The company also owns Paper-Less, a manufacturing execution solution (MES). Experts in the IBM i, ISE employees have over 300 years of RPG programming experience and over 70 years …

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• Big Blue Makes The Case For IBM i P05 And P10 Subscriptions

  September 16, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  We have been chronicling the transformation of the IBM i software stack from perpetual licenses with tech support to the more modern and now more normal subscription pricing that we have for both commercial and consumer software and other services these days.

  The last program in the stack to move from perpetual to subscription for the IBM i P05 and P10 software tiers was Backup, Recovery and Media Services for i (5770-BR1), which was sunsetted on August 27 in announcement letter AD24-0665, and on January 1, 2025, you will not be able to order a perpetual license to BRMS …

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• CICS Transaction Server For IBM i Is Sunsetted

  September 16, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Way back during the Y2K crisis at the turn of the century, there were a lot of IBM mainframe shops that decided to port their COBOL applications and their related CICS transaction monitoring software to OS/400 rather than try to move to a new language and a new transaction monitor.

  Mainframe COBOL and CICS are a bit different from OS/400 – and now IBM i – COBOL and CICS, but there was enough similarity that companies with large COBOL/CICS estates could make the jump from the ES/9000 to the AS/400 and IBM i platform, and thousands of such companies – …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 26, Number 36

  September 16, 2024 Doug Bidwell

  The Apache Web server and the WebSphere middleware that runs on top of it are not working together well. We have caught wind of the HTTP Apache Server Failing to Start After WebSphere 9.0 Fixpack Update. ‘HTP8091 HTTP Server post-configuration step failed’ Error in the HTTP Server Joblog, which you can find out more about here. After a WebSphere 9.0 fixpack update is applied, HTTP servers associated with a WebSphere 9.0 server fail to start and throw a “HTP8091 HTTP Server post-configuration step failed” error. Click on link above to see resolution.

  Also, there is a security vulnerability you …

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• IBM Clarifies Where It’s Going with IBM i Subscriptions, Product Realignment

  September 11, 2024 Alex Woodie

  As an avid IT Jungle reader, you’re probably aware that IBM is moving its IBM i software stack from a traditional licensing scheme to one based on subscriptions. The company is in the middle of the move at the moment, and it’s also in the middle of a product realignment, which has been the source of some confusion. IBM hosted a webinar recently that helped to clarify where it’s at now with the shift to subscriptions and the product realignment, and where it’s going in the future.

  IBM first announced back in May 2022 that it was shifting to subscription-based …

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• The Power of Three-Dimensional Thinking in Disaster Recovery

  September 11, 2024 Richard Dolewski

  The flow of information and commerce means around-the-clock access to “data” because business never sleeps. The transformative impact of today’s generative AI is shaping unparalleled customer expectations, driving consumers’ appetite for unmatched levels of digital infrastructure availability and self-service.

  IT must think in terms of resilience, operational continuity, and data protection to support today’s digital transformation. We must keep pace with the speed and needs of today’s economic climate, with an emphasis on security and resiliency.

  “Data Center Down.” These dreaded words are something business leaders never want to hear. Losing your cloud or on-premise engine room underlying business operations …

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• COMMON to Kick Off First of Two Fall NAViGATE Shows

  September 11, 2024 Alex Woodie

  What’s better than having one fall COMMON conference to learn new IBM i skills and meet with other midrange folks? The answer, of course, is to hold two NAViGATE shows – one in sizzling Florida next week, followed by a second event in November in the cooler climate of Toronto, Ontario.

  The IBM i community will converge on the Gulf Coast of Florida next week for NAViGATE 2024 Bonita Springs, which is being held at the Hyatt Regency Coconut Point from Monday September 16 through Wednesday September 18.

  Hundreds of attendees are expected at the fall COMMON conference next week, …

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• Four Hundred Monitor, September 11

  September 11, 2024 Jenny Thomas

  We are back after the Labor Day break, and it is finally time to settle back into familiar routines as we make the final push to the end of the year. But if you feel like this year has gotten away from you and the goals you set for yourself, you still have time to add to your resume or brush up on some skills. We have some new learning opportunities on our Calendar below, and our friends at Manta Technologies are having a back-to-school sale on any combination package, including the complete IBM i Training Library. You can find …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 26, Numbers 34 And 35

  September 11, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  It is not only a relatively quiet time still for PTFs, but it is also Ketchup Week since The Four Hundred has been on a light publishing schedule during the past several weeks of the summer.

  We do have one security vulnerability and a few patches to deal with. First, we have Security Bulletin: IBM i Modernization Engine for Lifecycle Integration is vulnerable to multiple vulnerabilities, which you can find out more about here. The affected products include IBM i Modernization Engine for Lifecycle Integration 1.0 through 1.4.8 and 2.0 through 2.0.2.

  Here is the rundown of PTF Groups …

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• IBM Shutters Systems Research And Development Labs In China

  September 9, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  What a change four decades makes, and what a bigger change even a decade has made, when it comes to the relationship between the United States and China.

  Four decades ago, when Big Blue started to do business for real in China, the only reason to believe that the Middle Kingdom might one day rival the United States economically and militarily was the vastness of its population, the breadth and depth of its natural resources, and the patience and tenacity of its command economy. China was the anchor economy of the so-called BRICS – Brazil, Russia, India, and China – …

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