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Technical Debt: The Silent Killer

October 27, 2021 Alex Woodie

There’s a dangerous malady afflicting companies that rely on the IBM i server to run their business applications. Left undiagnosed and untreated, it can debilitate an IT shop, rendering it unable to take advantage of new opportunities and respond to challenges. It’s called technical debt, and you or an organization you know may be suffering from it as we speak.

Technical debt is a concept that is credited to Ward Cunningham, the American programmer and the co-author of Manifesto for Agile Software Development. “If you develop a program for a long period of time by only adding features but …
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Quantum to Help IBM Develop LTO-10

October 27, 2021 Alex Woodie

IBM and Quantum last week announced they have entered into a partnership to jointly develop the next generation of Linear Tape-Open (LTO) technology, LTO-10, which is currently under development and likely will come to market in 2024 or 2025.

The announcement was unusually terse in its wording. “Under the terms of the agreement,” Quantum stated in its October 19 press release, “Quantum will collaborate with IBM in its development of LTO-10 tape drives and media in order to accelerate time-to-market, capacity, and performance. The specific terms of the agreement are confidential and will not be disclosed.”

The fact that IBM …
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Remain Bolsters Change Management Suite

October 27, 2021 Alex Woodie

In the market for change management software? One of the most active vendors in the IBM i space, Remain Software, this month announced the delivery of several new releases of its software, including TD/OMS version 14, Gravity version 7, and a new release of its API Studio.

Remain develops and supports its application lifecycle management (ALM) software for IBM i and open system platforms out of its headquarters in The Netherlands. It has several partners in the United States and other countries, giving it a global reach with its flagship TD/OMS offering and supporting cast of tools.

In early October, …
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Four Hundred Monitor, October 27

October 27, 2021 Jenny Thomas

The year isn’t quite over yet, but already businesses are starting to look back and take stock of how successful – or not – 2021 was for all aspects of their organization. With Big Blue heading into its Big Separation with its spin-off Kyndryl next month, the road may get a little more rough before everyone settles in to IBM’s new normal. This is probably why we see a lot of news and commentary focusing on IBM right now as we all watch and wait to see what happens next. Keep checking back here for more developments, and to find …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 23, Number 43

October 27, 2021 Doug Bidwell

It’s time for another security alert. Check out Security Bulletin: IBM Java SDK and IBM Java Runtime for IBM i are affected by CVE-2021-2369 and CVE-2021-2432, which you can see at this link. Here are the patches by release:
- Release 7.4 – SF99665 level 12
- Release 7.3 – SF99725 level 23
- Release 7.2 – SF99716 level 33
- Release 7.1 – SF99572 level 47
Here is the rundown of PTF Groups by IBM i release level:

PTF Groups 7.4:
- HIPERs (High Impact/Pervasive)
- Backup Recovery Solutions
PTF Groups 7.3:
- Backup Recovery Solutions
PTF Groups 7.2:
- Backup Recovery Solutions
PTF Groups 7.1: …
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Technical Debt: The Silent Killer

Quantum to Help IBM Develop LTO-10

Remain Bolsters Change Management Suite

Four Hundred Monitor, October 27

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 23, Number 43

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