TFH Volume: 31 Issue: 45 Archives

Historical, Functional, And Relevant

July 12, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan

The purpose of The Four Hundred, which entered its 33^rd year of publication this week, is to support the community of companies and their IT staffs – and ultimately the end users and the success of those companies – who have deployed their mission critical applications on System/38, System/36, AS/400, AS/400e, iSeries, System i, and now IBM i platforms for a decade longer than we have been around. My mentor, Hesh Wiener, and various colleagues who worked for other publications that covered the System/38 and System/36 from the time before I came onto the scene in July 1989, …
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Thoroughly Modern: Augmenting Your Programming Today, Solving Staffing Issues Tomorrow

July 12, 2021 Leo Lymberopoulos

Do you have a back-up for when your programmers are on vacation? If not, where would you look to fill the decades of knowledge that is needed to support your RPG or COBOL applications? Who are you going to turn to when your star IBM i programmer – your only programmer – announces plans to retire at the end of this year?

Organizations that run IBM i applications have found themselves in some tricky situations. IBM i is a robust platform and your programmers have spent decades building and maintaining your applications to fit your business. However, as skilled RPG …
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Guru: Web Services, DATA-INTO and DATA-GEN, Part 3

July 12, 2021 Jon Paris

In this tip I’m going to discuss some of the options used with DATA-GEN and DATA-INTO to deal with the fact that element names in JSON and XML frequently contain characters that are not legal in RPG names.

This is important because RPG’s -INTO and -GEN operations rely on names to map elements. So if the document we are processing uses names that are not legal in RPG how can we handle that? As you will see, when dealing with -INTO operations they are quite easily handled. DATA-GEN, on the other hand, presents a different problem and we will get …
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Ransomware Attacks Hit Closer To Home

July 12, 2021 Alex Woodie

Fifteen hundred organizations around the world had their data locked up in the latest ransomware attack, including grocery store chains and schools. It’s unclear if any IBM i shops were included in the attack, which a Russian hacking group claimed credit for. But it’s clear that ransomware is a growing threat to all organizations, including IBM i shops.

On July 2, as hundreds of millions of Americans hunkered down for the long Independence Day holiday weekend, hackers using the REvil were just getting started. The Russian-affiliated hacking group had already done the hard work of exploiting a five-year-old security flaw …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 23, Number 27

July 12, 2021 Doug Bidwell

With the July 4^th holidays in the United States, it was a pretty quiet time for PTF updates from Big Blue. There were some High Impact and Pervasive (HIPER) and security patches released, and we took the time to update a few links within the IBM i PTF Guide spreadsheet, which we try to do during these quiet times. All four releases, including IBM i 7.1, had tweaks.

Here is the rundown of PTF Groups by IBM i release level:

PTF Groups 7.4:
- HIPERs
- Security
PTF Groups 7.3:
- HIPERs
- Security
PTF Groups 7.2:
- HIPERs
- Security
PTF Groups 7.1:
- HIPERs
…
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Historical, Functional, And Relevant

Thoroughly Modern: Augmenting Your Programming Today, Solving Staffing Issues Tomorrow

Guru: Web Services, DATA-INTO and DATA-GEN, Part 3

Ransomware Attacks Hit Closer To Home

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 23, Number 27

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