TFH Volume: 31 Issue: 22 Archives

Don’t Be A Blowhard

March 22, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan

One of the things that made the AS/400 a great system, as well as the System/36 and the System/32 and System/34 before it, was that there were entry machines that had enough oomph to support the data processing and storage needs of small businesses within a reasonable budget and in a system that didn’t need a datacenter or even a data closet. They could be tucked under a desk, or left to run beside them.

Way back in the dawn of time, there were special machines, even smaller than the original AS/400-B10 and AS/400 -B20, that were even smaller and …
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As Data Security Deteriorates, Reconsider Your Exposure

March 22, 2021 Alex Woodie

The shift towards digitalization wrought by COVID-19 and the associated lockdowns has given new life to cybercriminals, who are exploiting the changes in computer access patterns to steal data and enrich themselves. For IBM i shops, the time to lock down vulnerable endpoints in the system-of-record was yesterday.

If you’re not feeling a sense of urgency about the data security situation, then you’re not paying attention. Since the start of the year, numerous reports from security professionals have alerted the IT community to new and evolved dangers that are lurking online.

Consider a report due this week from SlashNext Threat …
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Guru: QCMDEXC Makes A Good CPP

March 22, 2021 Ted Holt

I’m a fairly decent typist, and chances are you are, too. A person doesn’t sit at a keyboard for decades and not improve. At the same time, I don’t get paid to type, and I do everything I can to reduce the number of keystrokes I have to produce while carrying out the duties of the job.

If you find yourself keying the same old long commands over and over — and who doesn’t? — I’ve got a tip for you. I have an easy way to reduce long commands to just a few keystrokes. Maybe it will save you …
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It’s Harder To Hear The Pulse In The Server Market

March 22, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan

More than any other piece of equipment that does into the datacenter, the server is an indicator of health and wealth. Over the more than three decades that The Four Hundred has been published, we have spent a lot of effort and time to understand how the world is investing in what kinds of servers, including Big Blue’s midrange systems running OS/400 and IBM i, and how the trends change over time. And we are committed to doing that going forward, even though it has just gotten a little bit more difficult.

For the past several decades – I honestly …
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IBM i Wish List: Add A Virtual IBM i Platform Like System z Wazi

March 22, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Serendipity is a funny thing; part serene and part dippy, I suppose. I was poking around for something interesting that might be relevant to the IBM i platform, and ran across announcement letter 221-122, which was for something called IBM Wazi Developer for Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces. I had recently heard of CodeReady Workspaces because of the recent Power Systems announcements, but I had no idea what Wazi was.

What I now know is that I want this in an IBM i flavor.

There is no such thing as a portable and cheap and ubiquitous System z mainframe environment, …
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Don’t Be A Blowhard

As Data Security Deteriorates, Reconsider Your Exposure

Guru: QCMDEXC Makes A Good CPP

It’s Harder To Hear The Pulse In The Server Market

IBM i Wish List: Add A Virtual IBM i Platform Like System z Wazi

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