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Adventures In IBM i Encryption

September 17, 2018 Tom Woolaway

Are you impacted by the New York Cybersecurity Requirements for Financial Services Companies? If you are a banking, insurance, or brokerage firm that uses a license to operate in New York, these regulations require specific cybersecurity practices be implemented. Section 500.15 Encryption of Nonpublic Information requires encryption at rest of non-public information. Or perhaps you have other reasons to want to encrypt your IBM i drives.

This article focuses on encryption at rest of the disk drives of IBM i systems using 57XX-SS1 Option 45 – Encrypted ASP Enablement, where you end up with an unencrypted system ASP 1 and …
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IBM Tweaks Power Iron, Pulls Software, Adds Proactive Support

September 17, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Big Blue announced the “ZZ“ Power9 entry systems back in February, the “Boston” entry machines in May, and the midrange “Zeppelin” and high-end “Fleetwood” machines in August, which is the full product line. But IBM is still nipping and tucking the product line as customers react to it and want slightly different things than what initially came out with the systems.

In announcement letter 118-079, IBM made a few tweaks that will be interesting to IBM i shops. First of all, the mainstream Power S924 system, a 4U rack or tower system with two Power9 processors, …
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Guru: Phonetic Functions In SQL, Part 1

September 17, 2018 Paul Tuohy

In my next two articles I am going to discuss the use of phonetic functions in SQL. You can use phonetic functions to select or order rows based on the phonetic sound of a string as opposed to the actual characters in the string. The obvious use of phonetic functions is with names, but they can be used with any string columns.

I must admit that this touches on one of my pet peeves — the spelling of my surname. I have lost count of the number of times I have had to spell my name two, three, or four …
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As I See It: Estimable Hiring

September 17, 2018 Victor Rozek

One of the consequences of being wildly successful is that others are eager to imitate you. In a culture worshipful of winners and disdainful of losers, nothing, it seems, guarantees credibility quite as much as raging success. Whether expounding on mangos or mergers, the opinions of the successful always receive rapt attention. Their brains are picked, their writings analyzed, and every budding entrepreneur wants to harness the secrets of their success.

So when Jeff Bezos, arguably the most successful man on the planet, says that hiring the right people is “the single most important element” in ensuring Amazon’s continued success, …
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Where There Is A (Steve) Will, There’s An (IBM i) Way

September 17, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Being the chief architect of the IBM i platform is at the same time a difficult and an easy job, and Steve Will, who has been at this job for more than a decade, has been tireless in not only guiding the platform through the massive technology changes that the IT industry is constantly undergoing, but also in communicating the message that this platform is not the AS/400 as we knew 30 years ago.

People often complain that the IBM i platform does not have a chief marketing officer or even a marketing budget, but as far as I can …
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Adventures In IBM i Encryption

IBM Tweaks Power Iron, Pulls Software, Adds Proactive Support

Guru: Phonetic Functions In SQL, Part 1

As I See It: Estimable Hiring

Where There Is A (Steve) Will, There’s An (IBM i) Way

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