TFH Volume: 31 Issue: 24 Archives

In The IBM i Trenches With: Computer Plus

March 29, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Welcome to a new series in The Four Hundred called In The IBM i Trenches.

We spend a lot of time talking to people at IBM and at the key suppliers of systems software, application software, and development tools for the IBM i platform. But the ecosystem is a lot bigger than these players. There are thousands of resellers, each serving tens to hundreds to sometimes thousands of customers, depending. There are suppliers of third party maintenance as well as technical support and all kinds of programming and system management services. And there are an increasing number of hosting …
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Controlling IBM i Access With Exit Points

March 29, 2021 Bill Hammond

Today, the job of managing security on IBM i can be complicated, requiring dynamic technologies and processes that can respond quickly to ever-evolving threats and new regulations. Ransomware and other malware can, and has, infected IBM i systems and effective access control is a major weapon in the battle to secure your IBM i. There are many different approaches and technologies you can use to keep your IBM i secure.

Using the exit points provided by the IBM i operating system can be a powerful tool to monitor and secure four important levels of access within the IBM i:
- Networks
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Guru: Stub Testing And SQL

March 29, 2021 Ted Holt

A stub program is a program that does nothing but stand in as a place holder for a real program, which may or may not exist yet. I have used them for years to help me test program changes. There are also stub subroutines, stub subprocedures, etc. What I want to talk about today is how to use a similar concept for SQL queries.

You can use your favorite search engine to learn about stubs, but I’ll give you an example to increase the chances that you’ll know what I’m talking about. Let’s say that I am modifying a CL …
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OpenShift Provides One Path To IBM i Modernization

March 29, 2021 Alex Woodie

The crown jewel in IBM’s $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat arguably is OpenShift, which is a Kubernetes-based container management system for running “cloud-native” applications. While it’s unlikely OpenShift will ever integrate directly with IBM i and its applications, IBM has high hopes the software will help usher in a new wave of application modernization and innovation among IBM i customers.

IBM Power engineer Joe Cropper laid out the case for IBM i shops to get going with OpenShift two weeks ago during the IBM i Futures conference, which was hosted by COMMON. Cropper, you will remember, made a …
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Some More Power Systems Stuff Swept Into The Dustbin

March 29, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan

With the Power10 machines starting to come out later this year, the Power9 machines in the field for three years or so depending on the make and model, and the Power8 machines looking long in the tooth (but still technically and economically viable), you have to expect that Big Blue will wind down the sale of more and more older features.

In announcement letter 923-035, IBM has done just that. Nothing too big, but we think you need to be made aware of it just the same. And as you might expect, IBM also put a plug into the …
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In The IBM i Trenches With: Computer Plus

Controlling IBM i Access With Exit Points

Guru: Stub Testing And SQL

OpenShift Provides One Path To IBM i Modernization

Some More Power Systems Stuff Swept Into The Dustbin

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