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  • One IBM i Shop’s Close Call With Ransomware

    July 28, 2021 Alex Woodie

    Think the ransomware epidemic won’t affect you, that it’s somebody else’s problem? After reading this story about one IBM i shop’s recent experience with cybercriminals, it may have you thinking twice about your approach to security.

    Greg is the IT manager at a midsize distribution company located in the South. IT Jungle is abiding by his request to keep his last name and the name of his company out of this article. But Greg was determined to share his story with the wider IBM i community, in the hopes that it will spur them to take the ransomware threat seriously, …

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  • The Three Challenges To Securing Your IBM i Platform

    July 28, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    Whenever you have to tackle a complex problem, it is best to break it down and then figure out a way to take on the most important and impactful issues first. And when it comes to securing the IBM i platform, nobody knows better than Carol Woodbury, president and chief technology officer at DXR Security, about how to take this “securable” system and lock it down.

    Woodbury spent 16 years at IBM from 1984 through 2000, rising to become security team leader for the AS/400 platform and eventually becoming chief engineering manager for security for the platform. After leaving Big …

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  • IBM i Support Added To IBM Spectrum Protect Backup Software

    July 28, 2021 Alex Woodie

    At long last, IBM has added IBM i support to Spectrum Protect, its enterprise backup product. After numerous requests for IBM i support, IBM quietly made the change in November by presenting Spectrum Protect as an S3-compatible storage repository, which is supported on the IBM i via the Cloud Storage Solutions for i (5733-ICC) offering, IBM product managers said recently.

    For many years, IBM supported IBM i with Tivoli Storage Manager, the flagship enterprise backup offering that eventually was renamed IBM Spectrum Protect. However, IBM let the IBM i support lapse, an event that was noticed by many IBM i …

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  • Four Hundred Monitor, July 28

    July 28, 2021 Jenny Thomas

    It’s been a minute since our last issue of Monitor. Hopefully many of you have been able to enjoy a little summer fun (as we did here in the Jungle) but it’s time to hunker back down as we look forward to a busy fall season. So let’s get down to business. While we use this forum to share relevant and interesting news and events from around the computing world, this week we’d like to point you to a fascinating story of our own. In our Top Story below, editor Alex Woodie talks with an IBM shop that recently survived …

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  • IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 23, Number 30

    July 28, 2021 Doug Bidwell

    Back on May 8, we told you that Access Client Services 1.1.8.7 was being replaced by ACS 1.1.8.8 because of a bug in its code. On May 15, in the following week’s issue, we apologized because what we heard through our channels turned out to not be true. Today, we found the following document, which we are adding to the IBM i PTF Guide, which is dated May 4 and provides three different workarounds for the issue that we thought was going to compel IBM to upgrade to ACS 1.1.8.8.

    Anyway, of the three workarounds recommended for the …

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