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  • Book A Date With Your DR Plan

    July 14, 2021 Alex Woodie

    Chances are, you’ve been through a lot in the past year, from a personal, a professional, and a public health perspective. Your company’s IT estate has probably gone through some changes, too. To keep your IBM i and open systems resilient and able to withstand misfortune, it’s a good idea to revisit your disaster recovery plan to make sure it reflects current reality.

    During COMMON’s recent NAViGATE event, IBM i DR expert Richard Dolewski provided a great description of why it’s so important to check your DR plan now. With so much turmoil caused by COVID, it’s simply too …

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  • Comarch’s PowerCloud Gives IBM, Microsoft, And Google A Run For The Money

    July 14, 2021 Tomasz Wachnicki

    If you are looking for a cloud provider that has expertise in Power-based systems and that has datacenters in the United States, Europe, and Asia – so they are local to those geographies – and yet available on a truly global basis, and backed by deep experience in managed services for IBM i and AIX platforms, you have an option that you might not be aware of. The company is called Comarch, and it is taking on IBM, Google, and Microsoft/Skytap for IBM i and AIX business in the cloud.

    For those of you who are unaware of Comarch, it …

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  • Altova Updates Db2 for i Support Across Product Line

    July 14, 2021 Alex Woodie

    IBM i shops that use data and development tools from Altova will be happy to know that the software vendor has added support for the latest release of Db2 for i among several of its tools.

    Altova is a Beverley, Massachusetts, company that develops a series of software tools and utilities for developers. The company is arguably best known as the creator of XMLSpy, an IDE that allows developers to create XML-based Web services using standards like WSDL; it later added support for JSON data and the modern SOAP protocol.

    In 2010, Altova added support for IBM i in MissionKit, …

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  • Four Hundred Monitor, July 14

    July 14, 2021 Jenny Thomas

    The biggest computing news that happened while IT Jungle was on holiday last week was the REvil ransomware attack, which infected thousands of victims in at least 17 countries. The attack was largely through firms that remotely manage IT infrastructure for multiple customers, a scary thought for our IBM i ecosystem. We often site stories here in Monitor about ransomware and other types of cybercrime, and we hope your organization is taking steps to protect its precious data and systems. Our top story this week looks at why ransomware is becoming so prevalent, and don’t miss our own Alex Woodie’s …

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  • IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 23, Number 28

    July 14, 2021 Doug Bidwell

    We are finally done playing catch up after the Independence Day holiday in the United States with this week’s issue of the IBM i PTF Guide, which is now current. First, there is updated microcode for Firmware 940, which you can read about at this link. There are also new defective PTFs on DTAQ Host servers for IBM i 7.4.

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

    PTF Groups 7.4:

    • Download WAS 9.0 from Passport Advantage Online
    • Download WAS 9.0.5 from Passport Advantage Online
    • High Availability for ibm i
    • QMGTOOLS

    PTF Groups 7.3: …

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