• Four Hundred Monitor, August 21

  August 21, 2024 Jenny Thomas

  The temperatures are high, the kids are going back to school, and the team at IT Jungle is about to go on a brief end-of-summer hiatus to rest, restore, and get ready for the rush to the end of the year. There is a lot of news to look forward to as fall conference season gets underway next month, but for now let’s get caught up on the news of the week, starting off with IBM’s continued role in the U.S. Open. Then be sure to make your way to the Calendar to make your final conference plans for the …

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• Getting A Handle On What GenAI Might Cost

  August 21, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Because of my other day job at The Next Platform, I can give you a pretty good idea about what it costs to train an AI model or run inference against it once it is trained. But I have seen very little data that tries to give any of a sense of what it costs to add generative AI functionality to applications.

  But interestingly, Gartner analysts embedded some such data in a report about how it expected many GenAI projects to be abandoned by the end of 2025 after their proofs of concept fail. That so many PoCs will …

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• IBM Kills Off Fax/400, But Alternatives Are Available

  August 19, 2024 Alex Woodie

  IBM will cease supporting Facsimile Support for i, commonly known as Fax/400, with the next release of the IBM i operating system, it announced last month. That tees up an opportunity for third-party vendors like Fresche Solutions and others to fill the void for a communication technology that is still used by businesses.

  The IBM Facsimile Support for i (5798-FAX) product was not among the group of 16 IBM i products that IBM initially withdrew from sales and support with its discontinuance of support letter back on May 7, the same day that it announced the latest technology refreshes (TRs) …

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• AI In The Cloud: The PowerVS Advantage

  August 19, 2024 Tom Horan

  The relentless advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) necessitates a robust infrastructure that can manage complex data, deliver powerful processing, and scale efficiently. While traditional on-prem solutions have their merits, the cloud model is modern. By fusing the control and performance of best-in-breed high-performing systems in the cloud with the flexibility and scalability of the model, organizations can elevate their AI workloads to new heights of efficiency and innovation.

  The foundation of this strategy is PowerVS, IBM’s robust cloud platform for running enterprise applications. Watsonx.ai is IBM’s generative AI and scientific data platform that enables the use of AI models. PowerVS …

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• IBM Kills Off Entry Power Server Hardware Subscription, Old Features

  August 19, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Big Blue has been talking about offering a complete IBM system, including hardware, software, and support, as a single offering and under a single price, for more than two years now. The company talked about it back in July 2022, and we got the full scoop on pricing on the IBM i System Subscription, the first instantiation on the Power S1024 server, back in September 2022.

  This looked like the wave of the future, with a single per user cost of around $50 per month per user for a machine, which as we pointed out at the time, is …

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• IBM Tweaks Power10 Hardware: Fatter Memory, Other Stuff

  August 19, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  We haven’t seen a lot of hardware announcements this year from Big Blue for the Power Systems platform, and you really should not expect much in the way of new hardware when Power11 systems are expected to be launched in 2025 and the Power10 machines have been in the field since late 2021 for the Power E1080 and since July 2022 for the rest of the line.

  To be fair, we did have the entry “Bonnell” Power S1012 machine come out in May this year. So it has not been a total drought. But hardware launches are not on an …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 26, Number 32

  August 19, 2024 Doug Bidwell

  You knew that this was not going to last forever. We had a few weeks where there were not any security vulnerabilities in the IBM i stack, and now you have three you need to attend to this week. There are some patches for WebSphere middleware as well.

  Let’s start with the security issues.

  First, we have Security Bulletin: Multiple Vulnerabilities in IBM Java SDK affect IBM WebSphere Application Server and IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty due to July 2024 CPU, which you can read all about here. The affected products include:

  Affected Product(s)					Version(s)
  IBM WebSphere Application Server			

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• Some Thoughts On Big Blue’s GenAI Strategy For IBM i

  August 12, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  In a world that has gone half mad with generative AI, it is refreshing to see the people who control the IBM i platform being skeptical, hopeful, and practical about how the technology might be used to help the companies who choose Power Systems running IBM i as the platform for their mission critical applications.

  IBM Rochester has always been practical and often innovative when it comes to adopting hardware and software technologies, so the strategy that IBM i chief technology officer Steve Will laid out in a recent IBM i & AI – Strategy & Update as part of …

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• Untangling Legacy Spaghetti Code To Cook Up Microservices

  August 12, 2024 Michel Mouchon

  At this point in the history of programming, everyone pretty much knows what microservices are and everybody is more than acquainted with the legacy code – and often monolithic code – that has been created over decades by countless programmers who have evolved corporate applications to fit new conditions and new demands.

  It is often called spaghetti code, and for good reason. The code is often a tangled mess of business logic and data – presumably the data is the meatballs and the user interface is the sauce in this metaphor. (It is important to not take a metaphor too …

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• Guru: Creating A Web Service With Basic Authentication

  August 12, 2024 Mike Larsen

  I have been working with web services for many years, and I usually use IBM’s IWS (Integrated Web Service) tool to create them. The tool provides a wizard-based interface that allows me to quickly create a web service from an RPG program. Recently, I created a web service that uses basic authentication, and I want to share my experience.

  I am assuming that you are already familiar with creating a web server and a web service, so I am just going to show the steps that need to be taken to add basic authentication functionality. If you would like me …

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