TFH Volume: 30 Issue: 39 Archives

You’re Only As Old As The Applications You Feel

June 24, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan

You didn’t actually think that we would have forgotten that Sunday, June 21^st, was the 32^nd birthday of the Application System/400, did you? Of course we didn’t forget.

It was also Father’s Day and the first day of summer, and to be perfectly frank (Soltis), I got a new smoker from my wife and I spent the afternoon learning about the joys of hickory smoked barbeque ribs. It is a gift that just keeps giving, because I made about 40 pounds of meat in various kinds and flavors because I needed to try everything all at once. …
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IBMiUnit Moves RPG Unit Testing Forward

June 24, 2020 Alex Woodie

As IBM i shops break up their monolithic programs into more reusable chunks, it’s reasonable to assume that they would adopt unit testing to make sure those chunks are working properly before promoting them into production. Unit testing hasn’t been widely adopted on the IBM i platform, which is why RPG developers who are looking for a unit testing tool may be interested in a new framework called IBMiUnit.

IBMiUnit is an open source project that helps programmers test any RPG-based program, subprocedure, or method, including RPG-based SQL. The software, which is modeled off the popular JUnit and xUnit frameworks, …
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An Investment In APIs For IBM i From Remain Software

June 24, 2020 Alex Woodie

Application programming interfaces (APIs) are not new. But API creation and consumption has surged in recent years as developers adopt more modular and extensible architectures for new and modernized applications. IBM i developers are getting into the act, too, which is leading vendors like Remain Software to cater to them with new tools, like its recently announced API Studio.

A recent survey by API marketplace provider RapidAPI concluded that almost 67 percent of developers expect their API use to increase in 2020 compared to 2019. The company’s CEO, Iddo Gino, said the survey results confirm what the company has seen …
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Four Hundred Monitor, June 24

June 24, 2020 Jenny Thomas

This will be our last Monitor until after the Fourth of July break, which marks the halfway point in the year for us, and this seems like a good time to look back at what 2020 has been for computing. Thanks to the global pandemic (which we are not happy about), we have seen entire workforces move to a remote format and conferences got virtual practically overnight. Sure there have been bumps in the road, but by and large, our ecosystem has been able to overcome and survive. It will be interesting to see how many people go back to …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 25

June 24, 2020 Doug Bidwell

We’ve got some movement this week on the PowerHA front – new PTFs are available! Get more information here.
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7.2 PowerHA (for IBM i 7.2 and 7.3)	SI73520
7.4 PowerHA				SI73521
```
Also, don’t miss this fix: MF67243 – IPL-SRCB6005122-UNPRED SYSTEM HALT DURING IPL TO APPLY PTFS

This isn’t a HIPER yet, but, sometimes you just have to put these on. Sometimes a fix lets you put on other fixes and this is one of those.

Security Bulletin: OpenSSL for IBM i is affected by CVE-2020-1967
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5733-SC1	7.1 – SI73429
		7.2, 7.3 & 7.4 – SI73430
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Security Bulletin: …
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You’re Only As Old As The Applications You Feel

IBMiUnit Moves RPG Unit Testing Forward

An Investment In APIs For IBM i From Remain Software

Four Hundred Monitor, June 24

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 25

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