IBM has patched several security vulnerabilities in the IBM i OS recently, including some lingering problems with OpenSSL, as well as new ISC BIND Delegation Handling vulnerability. The vulnerabilities affect multiple releases of the IBM i OS, and could enable an attacker to successfully crash impacted servers, so go get your PTFs applied as soon as possible.

The more critical vulnerabilities are related to the ISC BIND Delegation Handling vulnerabilities, which impact the Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) software, specifically the Domain Name Service (DNS). Two BIND-related flaws were discovered in December 2014, according to the Internet Systems Consortium,

IBM next week will begin delivery of DataMigrator for i, a new extract, transform, and load (ETL) solution unveiled in February that’s designed to work with DB2 Web Query software. DataMigrator for i will give customers a better and more automated way to feed their IBM i-based BI and analytics applications with data originating from (gasp!) outside the platform.

The ongoing explosion of data is driving organizations to adopt new business intelligence and analytics solutions designed to help grow sales, reduce costs, improve marketing, and increase customer satisfaction. While the IBM i server is typically utilized for transaction processing, it

Multi-platform application development is often paired with modernization projects that are lighting up the project scoreboards in the IBM midrange. Companies rank modernization as one of their top priorities. Application modernizations are more business logic oriented and more frequently involve database programming as well. Midrange Dynamics, a provider of application development software and consulting services, has all this in mind with the release of a new product and an update to its reputable CMS.

MDRapid, the new database tool for deploying upgrades, and Midrange Dynamics change management (MDCMS) work in concert to curtail business application downtime and risk as

Don’t look now, but OAuth, the open standard for authentication first described by Twitter for allowing people to share data without using a password, is making its way into the enterprise. It’s even becoming adopted in the IBM i ecosystem, where a number of vendors, including BVS Tools, are adopting it as a standard authentication system for IBM i communication utilities.

The folks at Twitter initially started developing OAuth nine years ago to provide a way to share files over the Web without passing user IDs and passwords. Instead of sharing credentials, the OAuth protocol allows users to approve

Organizations that are looking for an affordable way to monitor their IBM i servers may want to check out the new iEventMonitor product unveiled this month by Kisco Information Systems. For less than $400, the software will automatically send an alert to administrators when it detects potential problems, as manifested through message queues.

Many of the tasks that humans used to do have been automated. For example, stock brokers and assembly line workers have largely been replaced by computers and robots, respectively. In the IBM i world, the entry-level job of system operator has largely fallen by the wayside,