TFH Volume: 31 Issue: 23 Archives

Quantum Computing and IBM i

March 24, 2021 Alex Woodie

At first glance, IBM i servers and quantum computers appear to be worlds apart. But considering the rapid advance of quantum computing today and the midrange server’s place in a long line of advances in business computing, they may not be as far removed as one might think.

That’s the general conclusion one could draw from listening to Jack Woehr and Jesse Gorzinski discussing the topic of quantum computing during Woehr’s presentation, “From Hamilton to Hollerith: What’s the Use of Quantum Computers?” during last week’s IBM i Futures Conference, which was sponsored by COMMON.

In addition to writing IBM …
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Locking Down Exit Point And IFS Vulnerabilities On IBM i

March 24, 2021 Pauline Brazil Ayala

It’s true that the IBM i server is among the most securable servers on the planet. But all too often, customers do not take the time to secure their environments properly. This is particularly true for two of the most oft-neglected components of the IBM i environment: exit points and the IFS.

IBM introduced exit points with the launch of OS/400 V3R1 way back in 1994. We remember that version well here at Trinity Guard, because soon after that, we developed the industry’s first exit point monitoring software for the AS/400 at PentaSafe, the spiritual predecessor of our company. …
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RevSoft Leans On ‘Shadowing’ To Ensure Speedy Job Scheduler Failovers

March 24, 2021 Alex Woodie

There are several things that can prevent a high availability failover from executing quickly on an IBM i server, including data synchronization issues, communication failures, and other problems. With the “shadowing” feature in its job scheduler, RevSoft is determined that issues with synching job schedulers do not make that list.

Jobs demand special treatment in the IBM i high availability world. Care must be taken to ensure that active jobs, including jobs that are in the job queue as well as jobs that are scheduled to run in the job scheduler, are replicated from the primary server to the backup …
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Four Hundred Monitor, March 24

March 24, 2021 Jenny Thomas

IBM is all about the hybrid cloud these days, and it is frustrating that there is never much said about our favorite platform. Of course we all know it’s humming away taking care of business somewhere in the background, but wouldn’t it be nice if once in awhile IBM did a little dreaming about what might be in the future of the IBM i? That’s one of the many reasons we appreciate our IT Jungle editor in chief, Tim Prickett Morgan, who enjoys the occasional daydream about what he’d like to see, which is why we’re sharing his latest wish …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 23, Number 12

March 24, 2021 Doug Bidwell

While WebSphere Application Server V9.0 has been available for IBM i and other operating systems for many years, it is now getting the same treatment by the PTF People at Big Blue and now this latest version is being offered as a big bang upgrade to V9.0 through a PTF mechanism, just like all of the open source tools are. (Don’t get the wrong idea though. IBM has not open sourced WebSphere Application Server.) As you can see below, all four current releases are being offered a PTF update for WAS. IBM i 7.4 has some patches for Db2 for …
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Quantum Computing and IBM i

Locking Down Exit Point And IFS Vulnerabilities On IBM i

RevSoft Leans On ‘Shadowing’ To Ensure Speedy Job Scheduler Failovers

Four Hundred Monitor, March 24

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 23, Number 12

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