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Long-Term Impacts of COVID-19 Predicted for IBM i Shops

March 17, 2021 Alex Woodie

The COVID-19 pandemic and the associated economic lockdown will have a long-term impact on how IBM i shops operate, a panel of experts said during the IBM i Futures Conference yesterday. From being innovative and agile to the importance of security and disaster recovery, there are lessons to learn across the board.

It’s been exactly a year since governments around the world instituted severe lockdowns to, ostensibly, stop the spread of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19. The lockdowns have come, gone, and come again in many parts of the world, injecting a level of uncertainty into our work lives …
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What’s In the Top 5 Hottest IBM i RFEs

March 17, 2021 Alex Woodie

The IBM i platform’s greatest strength is its committed user base, whose long-lasting loyalty is unique in the annals of the business computer industry. IBM encourages its committed customers to get involved with shaping the future of the platform through the Request for Enhancement (RFE) process, which plays out in the public for all to see.

IBM’s RFE process also supports the ability for users to submit requests privately, and there are undoubtedly plenty of these requests made. Obviously, we have no insight into these private RFEs (although they would be fun to read). Among the public RFEs, there …
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SAP on IBM i to S/4 HANA Migration: ‘No Need to Rush’

March 17, 2021 Alex Woodie

Organizations that run SAP applications on IBM i servers have about nine more years of maintenance and support available from SAP, and should be in no rush to move to SAP’s preferred application environment, S/4 HANA, IBM SAP on IBM i expert Christian Bartels told the community last month. “There is still a lot of time to go, so there is no need to migrate right now,” he said in a webinar.

The SAP on IBM i community, which numbers around 1,500 or so organizations around the world, has expressed concern about SAP’s plan for the IBM i environment, particularly …
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Four Hundred Monitor, March 17

March 17, 2021 Jenny Thomas

For most of us, it was just about one year ago that the world came screeching to a halt and we scrambled to upgrade our home Wi-Fi in order to join the work from home workforce. It’s a safe bet that more than one of our IT peers had a sleepless night or two as they adapted to managing an entirely remote workforce overnight. What started as a temporary arrangement to get organizations through a few weeks has become a mainstay as many workers have no plans to return to work in an office, if a brick-and-mortar building is even …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 23, Number 11

March 17, 2021 Doug Bidwell

Hello everyone out there in the IBM i community. There are two important things you need to know about right off the bat. First, there is updated microcode for machine types 9008-22L, 9009-22A, 9009-41A, 9009-42A, 9223-22H, and 9223-42H. You can read all about it at this link. Second, take a look at Security Bulletin: OpenSSL for IBM i is affected by CVE-2021-23840 and CVE-2021-23841. Read more about that at this link here, and the PTFs for this are:
- For IBM i 7.1: SI75593
- For IBM i 7.2, 7.3, and 7.4: SI75594
Here is the rundown of PTF Groups …
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Long-Term Impacts of COVID-19 Predicted for IBM i Shops

What’s In the Top 5 Hottest IBM i RFEs

SAP on IBM i to S/4 HANA Migration: ‘No Need to Rush’

Four Hundred Monitor, March 17

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 23, Number 11

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