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LTO-9 Specs Reveal Compromise

September 16, 2020 Alex Woodie

The three companies behind the linear tape-open (LTO) tape standard released the specifications for LTO-9 last week. Those looking for a doubling of capacity over LTO-8, which was the plan according to the group’s product roadmap, will be disappointed.

Tapes based on the just-released LTO-9 specification will be able to store 18TB without compression and 45TB of data with 2.5-to-1 compression turned on, the LTO Program announced last week.

Those capacities represent just a 50 percent increase over LTO-8’s specifications. However, according to the LTO Program roadmap published in 2017, the group had been targeting 30TB of native capacity and …
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Creating Web Services APIs Can Be Easy On IBM i

September 16, 2020 Andrew Ireland

Many IBM i customers are taking a hard look at how they can bring their heritage applications, along with all the significant business value they contain, into a modern world. There are a number of different approaches to do that, and in reality, these methods work together and complement each other. There is no one single route, but rather a combination of approaches that leads to the best results at the lowest cost and the least grief.

The average IBM i customer has something in the order of five million lines of code that embody their mission critical applications. Companies …
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OpenLegacy Expands Big Data Partnerships

September 16, 2020 Alex Woodie

Over the past few months, OpenLegacy has established new partnerships with a handful of tech firms patrolling the big data waters, including Talend, Collibra, and BigID. According to the legacy application modernization specialist, it’s all part of an effort to help its IBM i and mainframe customers upgrade their applications and experiences.

OpenLegacy is unique among IBM i modernization vendors in its approach. The company’s software allows customers to expose legacy applications, such as those written in RPG, via APIs and Web services.

Now the company is bringing several partners into that API-driven approach. For instance, its partnership with Talend …
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Four Hundred Monitor, September 16

September 16, 2020 Jenny Thomas

Virtual POWERUp 2020 is happening this week, the first time ever being completely online, and possibly the first time ever attending an online conference for many of you. Personally, I like the travel and seeing people in person, plus who doesn’t like the happy hours in the exhibit hall? But we are all learning to adapt and it seems almost fitting that COMMON is celebrating a “quarantine” birthday as so many of us have done this year. At 60 years young, COMMON has quite a legacy of serving the members of this community with education and resources to enhance their …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 37

September 16, 2020 Doug Bidwell

This week, we find some potential security threats lurking in the Apache Web server that is embedded in IBM i and just about every other datacenter operating system in the world. To be specific, take a look at Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in Apache HTTP Server affect IBM i, which you can find at this link. The fixes for this security vulnerability are:
- Release 7.4: SI74088
- Release 7.3: SI74074 and SI74087
- Release 7.2: SI74073
Now, without further ado, here’s the PTF rundown by release:

PTF Groups 7.4:
- QMGTOOLS
PTF Groups 7.3:
- QMGTOOLS
PTF Groups 7.2:
- QMGTOOLS
PTF Groups 7.1: …
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LTO-9 Specs Reveal Compromise

Creating Web Services APIs Can Be Easy On IBM i

OpenLegacy Expands Big Data Partnerships

Four Hundred Monitor, September 16

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 37

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