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Here’s What’s In the Latest IBM i Technology Refreshes

April 15, 2020 Alex Woodie

As expected, IBM today officially unveiled its spring Technology Refreshes for IBM i. Among the goodies that will become available for IBM i 7.4 TR2 or IBM i 7.3 TR8 (or both) are enhancements to Db2 Mirror, a new approach to tape library virtualization, improvements to open source, and new features and functionality around Db2, RPG, RDi, and security, too.

Months ago, IBM execs circled April 14 on their calendars as the day for the big IBM 7.4 TR2 and IBM i 7.3 TR8 reveal, with the idea that the following week’s POWERUp conference in Atlanta, Georgia (now canceled, but …
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Thoroughly Modern: Digital Transformation Is More Important Than Ever

April 15, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan

There are very few things in life that don’t have some kind of distribution across behavior patterns. Some phenomena are driven by bell curves or inverted bell curves or some other kind of distribution – including random. And as such, we all know that the companies that comprise the IBM i base fall on different parts of the spectrum of behavior with regard to how up to date their systems and their applications are.

In normal markets, where some of the pressures are not so intense, it might not matter as much to have a modern system, software, and application …
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IBM i 7.3 Encryption Bolstered With TR8

April 15, 2020 Alex Woodie

Customers running IBM i 7.3 got some good news on the security front when IBM announced that the operating system would get support for the latest Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol, version 1.3. And that’s not the only security-related enhancement this group of users received with the new Technology Refreshes.

Last year, IBM gave IBM i shops the ability to use TLS 1.3, which is strongest publicly available encryption protocol used on the Internet today. TLS 1.3 debuted in the summer of 2018 and has since been adopted by nearly a quarter of sites on the Web, according to surveys. …
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Four Hundred Monitor, April 15

April 15, 2020 Jenny Thomas

While COVID-19 continues to dominate headlines worldwide, there is still much happening in the world of IBM i. Last week we told you about the new CEO of IBM, Arvind Krishna, taking the helm, and this week we fill you in on the latest Technology Refresh on what’s become available for IBM i 7.4 TR2 or IBM i 7.3 TR8. As much as we would all like for all business to get back to usual, it is nice to have some semblance of normal with the Spring announcements. We’ve got that story and the latest news below, followed by our …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 15

April 15, 2020 Doug Bidwell

Big Blue has been busy fixing some issues with the firmware (sometimes called microcode) and licensed internal code (LIC) for Power Systems platforms and the IBM i operating system.

The new firmware is available on the following Power Systems machine types and models: 9008-22L; 9009-22A; 9009-41A; 9009-42A; 9223-22H; 9223-42H. You can find out more about the microcode update at this link.

In addition, IBM has issued the LIC change as well: MA47553 – LIC QPFRADJ Hangs During Main Storage Pool Adjustment. You can learn more at this link, and here is the rundown of the patches by IBM …
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Here’s What’s In the Latest IBM i Technology Refreshes

Thoroughly Modern: Digital Transformation Is More Important Than Ever

IBM i 7.3 Encryption Bolstered With TR8

Four Hundred Monitor, April 15

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 15

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