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Optimism Abounds in VAI’s Inaugural Survey

April 26, 2017 Alex Woodie

A new customer survey released today by IBM i ERP software vendor VAI shows that companies are extremely optimistic about the future of their businesses. Besides the almost nonexistent pessimism, the survey also highlighted interest in analytics as a way to boost productivity, as well as a commitment to improve security.

The United States’ stock market is in the midst of an historic eight-year bull run that shows no signs of quitting. Since stocks hit their low point in the dark days of March 2009, the buying spree has continued quarter on quarter, with nary a correction (defined as a …
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Surround Tech Keeps IBM i Websites Hip to the Times

April 26, 2017 Alex Woodie

The World Wide Web has changed considerably since the first websites went live more than 20 years ago, and many IBM i shops have struggled to keep up. One midrange vendor helping IBM i shops adapt to the times is Surround Technologies, which has morphed its Web application development environment, called Accelerator, into a full content management system.

In today’s world, having a functional and good-looking website has become a business necessity. In many instances, the website becomes a portal that allows customers, business partners, and employees to access important documents or submit information. In others, the website has effectively …
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Raz-Lee Tackles Excessive Authorities with Free Software

April 26, 2017 Alex Woodie

You can’t do anything on IBM i without the proper authority. Unfortunately, instead of using the tools IBM includes in the OS to set fine-grained policies, most IBM i shops run wide-open when it comes to user authorities. Now Raz-Lee Security hopes reign in this free-for-all with a free tool it just released.

For a glimpse at how bad the use of authorities in IBM i has gotten, check out our coverage of a recent security study of the IBM i marketplace. It’s no secret that there’s widespread abuse of special authorities, such as ALLOBJ and SECADM, among the majority …
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Four Hundred Monitor, April 26

April 26, 2017 Dan Burger

All programming languages gain value from programmers exchanging information the tips and techniques and code samples that get passed around. Open source magnifies this information exchange. Contributing code to make sure that all IBM i languages can benefit is a worthy endeavor, says the business architect of IBM i open source Jesse Gorzinski.

“RPG First” would make a good slogan for lapel pins and bumper stickers. Brian May, a solutions architect at Profound Logic Software, says it’s also good advice to update RPG skills and become a better programmer before taking on another programming language. Learning new languages will be …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 19, Number 15

April 26, 2017 Doug Bidwell

It has been two weeks since the last batch of HIPER PTFs came out, and while the PTF action is a little on the light side, there are a bunch of important updates that are out for IBM i 7.1, 7.2, and 7.3.

As we have explained before in the IBM i PTF Guide, every two weeks Big Blue updates the High Impact and Pervasive, or HIPER, PTFs that are so critical to the system that in Big Blue’s opinion they should be on every system as quickly as possible. In general, any HIPER PTF that affects any operating …
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Optimism Abounds in VAI’s Inaugural Survey

Surround Tech Keeps IBM i Websites Hip to the Times

Raz-Lee Tackles Excessive Authorities with Free Software

Four Hundred Monitor, April 26

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 19, Number 15

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