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  • Overdue Upgrades Perplex IBM i Shops

    January 31, 2018 Dan Burger

    When decision makers describe their IT environments by saying the more we know, the less we understand, there’s a problem that needs to be solved. Maybe you have the brains on staff to figure out how to put heat-resistant handles on this steaming pot. Maybe not. But the problem isn’t going to solve itself and those who don’t search for an answer become part of the problem.

    This specific problem bubbles to the surface when organizations fall behind on unsupported versions of the operating system and unsupported software. It’s risky business and a gamble that has little chance of paying …

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  • IBM i Gets More PTFs for Meltdown and Spectre

    January 31, 2018 Alex Woodie

    IBM on Friday issued a second set of program temporary fixes (PTFs) for the IBM i operating system that address the Meltdown and Spectre processor vulnerabilities that were disclosed earlier this month. Meanwhile, IBM i customers are beginning to wonder about the performance impact that the patches will bring to production workloads.

    At about 11 a.m. Eastern time on January 26, IBM posted a message to the PSIRT Blog to let customers know that “IBM i has released PTFs in response to the vulnerabilities known as Spectre and Meltdown.” (We’ll assume that the urgent nature of the message led to …

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  • Rocket Gits Hip to Emerging IBM i Tech

    January 31, 2018 Alex Woodie

    When it comes to managing traditional IBM i development environments, Rocket Software has its bases covered. But as younger technologies and younger developers find their way onto the platform, Rocket found that it had some work to do to ensure that DevOps – or application lifecycle management (ALM), if you like — runs as smoothly as its enterprise customers expect. That’s the case with the vendor’s announcement today around Git.

    Rocket Software today announced that it’s now supporting Git with the Aldon Lifecycle Manager (Enterprise Edition), the company’s ALM product for open systems environments like Windows, Linux, and Unix. The …

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  • Four Hundred Monitor, January 31

    January 31, 2018 Dan Burger

    It is important for all decision makers familiarize themselves with current and emerging IT landscapes. Now is the best time to be thinking through future scenarios. A favorite saying of one of my mentors is: “In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”

    This week, Monitor hooks up readers with articles that cover important IT trends, the avoidance of training failures, the changing roles of CIOs, and the legal dangers that lurk within …

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  • IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 20, Number 4, The Spectre Of Meltdowns

    January 31, 2018 Doug Bidwell

    As we have pointed out, the Spectre and Meltdown speculative execution security vulnerabilities have been classified by IBM’s Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) as having a “High Severity” level.

    This week’s update is somewhat chilling. IBM announced additional PTFs to be fully protected, meaning you have to do both, and also do the firmware fix.

    But wait, there’s more. . . . The HIPER and Security groups for each release were re-released over the weekend, but only the first of each set below is included in the Security group. So, if you order and download the latest HIPERs …

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