• FAX/400 And CICS For i Are Dead. What Will IBM Kill Next?

  May 19, 2025 Alex Woodie

  A number of IBM i products and functions were sunsetted and are no longer supported with IBM i 7.6, including some of the greenscreen Application Development ToolSet (ADTS) tools like Screen Design Aid (SDA) and Report Layout Utility (RLU), and more than two dozen others. This shouldn’t come as news, as IBM previously announced its intent. But what products and functions will IBM kill with the next release of IBM i? A cryptic post by IBM on its website has the community talking.

  As part of the May 2024 Technology Refresh (TR) cycle for IBM i 7.4 and 7.5, Big …

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• Fresche Overhauls X-Analysis With Web UI, AI Smarts

  May 19, 2025 Alex Woodie

  Fresche Solutions recently unveiled a new release of X-Analysis, its popular impact analysis tool, which it’s now selling under the Application Intelligence brand. The product has undergone a major overhaul and now sports a new Web user interface as well as hooks to popular AI models to provide code explanation and documentation capabilities for RPG applications.

  Fresche Solutions operates a large application modernization practice and provides an array of products and services to help IBM i customers take their RPG, COBOL, and Java applications from the legacy past into the modern present. However, before a single byte of legacy code …

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• Is It Time To Add The Rust Programming Language To IBM i?

  May 19, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Back in February, IBM announced that it had brought the Rust programming language to its AIX Unix operating system variant. Rust, of course, has long since been available on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. But, thus far, it has not been supported on the IBM i platform, neither in the PASE AIX runtime (which is a common way to get Unix stuff inside of IBM i) or natively recompiled inside of IBM i itself.

  The initial release of the Rust SDK for AIX was based on the stable Rust 1.84 release, and it uses the same LLVM compiler framework that …

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• Is IBM Going To Raise Prices On Power10 Expert Care?

  May 19, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  We have a feeling that Big Blue let the cat out of the bag a little early on a price increase for its Power Expert Care technical support services for the Power10 platform. We have this feeling because IBM on May 1 canceled a price increase in the Americas region in announcement letter AD25-1009 and in the Japan region in announcement letter AD25-1048.

  This is weird, and we are showing you the Americas announcement below in case IBM takes it down:

  

  First of all, the letter number referenced for May 1 does not match the actual letter number, which …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 27, Number 20

  May 19, 2025 Doug Bidwell

  Brace yourselves, everyone. There are seven security vulnerabilities that you have to pay attention to this week for the IBM i platform. Remember, as security guru Carol Woodbury is fond of saying: the IBM i platform is not the most secure platform in the world, but the most securable platform in the world. You must be ever-vigilant and keep it secure by patching holes and killing bugs.

  So, without further fuss, let’s dive in and take them in order.

  One is Security Bulletin: IBM i is vulnerable to a machine-in-the-middle attack due to mishandling error codes when verifying the host …

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• POWERUp 2025 –Your Source For IBM i 7.6 Information

  May 12, 2025 Alex Woodie

  The IBM i community is getting ready for the biggest event of the year, the COMMON Annual Conference, better known as POWERUp 2025. The event, which is being held next week at the Disneyland Hotel in Southern California, is chock full of information relating to IBM i 7.6, the latest release of the operating system.

  It seems like just yesterday the IBM i community was convening on Fort Worth, Texas, for what would be one of the largest and most positive COMMON events in recent memory. In particular, IBM and COMMON were successful in attracting a substantial contingent of …

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• Maxava Consulting Services Does More Than HA/DR Project Management – A Lot More

  May 12, 2025 Yvonne Enselman

  IT organizations have been having to do more with less for so long that it is frankly amazing that anything at all gets done some decades later. And the funny thing is that the To Do list just keeps getting longer – and wider – as the years go by.

  We know exactly how short-staffed and over-burdened IBM i shops are, and that is why Maxava is launching Maxava Consulting Services, a new arm of the high availability software maker that aims to provide a broad and deep set of strategic and tactical services to help IBM i shops get …

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• Guru: Creating An SQL Stored Procedure That Returns A Result Set

  May 12, 2025 Mike Larsen

  Continuing to build out the stored procedure series, I’m going to show how to create an SQL stored procedure that returns a result set. This is very similar to the previous article where I showed how to do this using RPG. In this example, we’re just using pure SQL to achieve the same results.

  I created an SQL script (Figure 1) that selects all rows from the Departments table. The SQL statement is the same as the one I used in the RPG program from the prior article, but I’ll describe it again here. I didn’t add any selection criteria …

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• As I See It: At Any Cost

  May 12, 2025 Victor Rozek

  In more innocent times, advancements and achievements in computer technology were celebrated as human advancements and achievements. Computers were perhaps the ultimate expression of humankind’s aptness for tool making; and the ability to craft tools was indistinguishable from the tool maker. But over time, that linkage gradually eroded. Now, every new development in AI technology (the tool) threatens to bring us all (tool makers) closer to becoming obsolete.

  Who among us, old enough to remember, was not rooting for IBM’s supercomputer Deep Blue to beat Garry Kasparov, at the time the world’s reigning chess champion, considered by many to be …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 27, Number 19

  May 12, 2025 Doug Bidwell

  Welcome to this week in IBM i Land. And we will start out by warning you to watch out for the defective PTFs listing this week.

  And now, to a security bulletin and a patches to fix it and a warning about a vulnerability that has not been patched.

  First the one that has been patched, which is in Security Bulletin: IBM i is vulnerable to an authentication and authorization attack due to incorrect validation processing in IBM i Netserver [CVE-2025-3218] and which you can see more about at this link. The IBM i PTF numbers for 5770-999 contain …

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