TFH Volume: 29 Issue: 20 Archives

What New Language Will IBM i Support Next?

March 27, 2019 Alex Woodie

The prospect of a new language coming to a platform is always reason for excitement. New languages bring new capabilities, or at least faster ways to tap into existing capabilities. The question for those living and working on the IBM i platform is what language will come next?

RPG remains the go-to language used by the vast majority developers on the IBM i platforms. According to the 2019 survey by HelpSystems, 84 percent of coders on the box use RPG. COBOL, RPG’s partner in legacy crime, is also supported in the Rational Development for IBM i RDi, along with …
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Trinity Guard Launches Third IBM i Product

March 27, 2019 Alex Woodie

Three is the magic number for Trinity Guard, the Houston, Texas-based security software company that just delivered its third security product for IBM i. TGDetect is a monitoring tool that alerts administrators of security issues, and also integrates with third-party SIEM solutions.

Trinity Guard was founded several years by two former Micro Focus employees, Tony Perera and Pauline Ayala, who trace their roots back to the Pentasafe and NetIQ days. Perera and Ayala left Micro Focus to develop IBM i security software at Trinity Guard. The company has been slowly rewriting the old Pentasafe products, starting with TGAudit.

TGAudit was …
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What’s the State of Your Backup?

March 27, 2019 Alex Woodie

If you’re like most IT professionals, you scarcely noticed that this Sunday, March 31, is World Backup Day. But now that you do know, you’re going to immediately do all you can to ensure that your company’s most valuable asset – its data – is sufficiently protected from the powers of destruction. The next question is: What does that mean for your IBM i server?

As anybody who has ever lost an important document, database, or set of files knows, losing stuff hurts. And the more one loses, the more it hurts. That’s why it’s so critical to ensure that …
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Four Hundred Monitor, March 27

March 27, 2019 Jenny Thomas

I think we’re all pretty tired of being lectured about security. I mean, there can’t be anyone left who doesn’t understand the importance of protecting data from all of the virtual predators who are out to steal and exploit it. And yet, week after week, the news headlines continue to be dominated by security breaches, sometimes perpetrated by hackers and sometimes by stupidity. This week we take a look at just a few of the recent security headlines in our top stories, but we leave it to you to make sure you’re doing everything you can to protect your data …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 21, Number 12

March 27, 2019 Doug Bidwell

So brace yourself. HIPERs, Backup and Recovery, and QMGTOOLS are all new this week, and there is this little gem of a security bulletin: Vulnerabilities CVE-2018-5407 and CVE-2018-0734 in OpenSSL affect IBM i. That second one is elegant but deadly!

The link for this fix can be found here, and the fixes are here:
- Release 7.2/7.3 – SI68727
- Release 7.1 – SI68726
And don’t forget about this security bulletin: Vulnerabilities CVE-2019-5739 and CVE-2019-5737 in Node.js that affects IBM i. The link for this vulnerability is here, and this affects IBM i 7.3, 7.2, and 7.1. For Node.jsv6, SI69165 …
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What New Language Will IBM i Support Next?

Trinity Guard Launches Third IBM i Product

What’s the State of Your Backup?

Four Hundred Monitor, March 27

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 21, Number 12

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