• 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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• Profound Goes Low Code with Node.js Framework

  June 30, 2021 Alex Woodie

  Profound Logic is now shipping a new release of Profound.js, its Node.js-based application framework for IBM i and other platforms. The big new feature with version 5.3 is the adoption of a low-code paradigm that eliminates the need for developers to get their hands dirty writing and maintaining code. However, developers can still go behind the scenes and write code if they need to.

  While there may be other low-code tools advertised in the IBM i community, Profound.js is the IBM i community’s first true low-code development environment, according to Alex Roytman, the founder and CEO of Profound Logic. …

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• So You Want To Do Containerized Microservices In the Cloud?

  June 30, 2021 Alex Woodie

  As a modernization consultant working in IBM’s Rochester, Minnesota, lab, Amy Anderson gets to hear from some of the most tech-savvy IBM i shops in the world. Her job requires her to know where shops are now, listen to where they want to go, and chart a path that takes them there. That can sometimes be quite a challenge, especially considering the rapid pace of technological change at the moment.

  “One of the things that we’re seeing now is the whole industry now is focused on modernization,” Anderson said during her session at the recent NAViGATE conference hosted by COMMON …

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• Illumio Adds IBM i Support with Zero-Trust Security

  June 30, 2021 Alex Woodie

  Illumio this week announced that it now supports IBM i with its zero-trust security framework, which is designed to isolate data and applications with “microperimeters” that prevent the spread of malware and hackers once they have breached the corporate firewalls.

  The zero-trust security model is gaining steam as organizations attempt to stop hackers from infiltrating their networks and pilfering valuable data or encrypting data as part of a ransomware attack.

  Previously, security experts recommended that the best way to keep bad guys out of internal networks was to implement multiple overlapping levels of security. This approach incorporated network security devices …

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• Four Hundred Monitor, June 30

  June 30, 2021 Jenny Thomas

  Before the IT Jungle gang heads out for a much-needed break over the Fourth of July week, we take a quick look at what’s been happening around the IBM i ecosystem and the bigger computing world. And while clouds are clearing as we head into the heat of summer, the cloud continues to dominate headlines across the board. As we look ahead to the Fall, we are seeing more training opportunities coming up – live and virtual – so be sure to check the Calendar listings below. In particular, don’t miss out on the final RPG & DB2 Summit, which …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 23, Number 26

  June 30, 2021 Doug Bidwell

  Attention all IBM i shops. You may not be aware of it, but FTP is changing to FTPS/SFTP (secure) before the end of June or in early July 2021. (It’s not clear.) All orders submitted just prior to the change will be removed.

  Also, many thanks to Ron Schmitz for the IMGCLG link that I added to the IBM i PTF Guide sheet this week, which you will see below in its usual place.

  And finally, for those of you who are in the United States, happy July 4^th holiday, and for those of you who are not, why …

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