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IBM i Salaries: Underpaid, Yet Highly Valued And Hard To Replace

March 7, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

It is a funny old world. In many cases, the applications that are running on the IBM i platforms of the world are trapped in a kind of time warp and so are the people who created and who maintain them. This is the only plausible explanation for the fact that salaries in the IBM i real world also seem to be in a time warp. And here we are riding up a huge wave of inflation, in something of a war footing thanks to COVID and the war in Ukraine, and it is not yet clear to any of …
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IBM i High Availability: A Met Need?

March 7, 2022 Alex Woodie

Data from the IBM i Marketplace Survey suggests an interesting phenomenon may be playing out when it comes to high availability and disaster recovery: As the usage of HA solutions goes up, the percentage of users expressing concerns about HA and DR goes down.

After peaking at 66 percent in HelpSystems IBM i Marketplace Survey for 2020, the percentage of IBM i users declaring high availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR) a concern has dropped each of the past two years. For the 2022 survey, which was released last month, only 59 percent of survey participants declared HA/DR to be a …
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Guru: IBM i Experience Sharing, Case 1 – Object Authority Check And Batch Job Performance

March 7, 2022 Satid Singkorapoom

Batch processes are perennial in virtually all kinds of business processing. From time to time, customers have to deal with batch runs that take too long, and many factors influence run time. One such factor in IBM i is how you assign object authority access rights for user profiles to the libraries and objects that are accessed by batch jobs. The importance of this factor can be found in the following case study.

Many years ago, a customer asked me to determine why batch run time took too long. The customer ran 25 concurrent batch jobs in the batch process …
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The Low-Down On IBM’s Power Systems Sales

March 7, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Late last year, IBM, under the new regime of Arvind Krishna and in the wake of the acquisition of Red Hat and the spinout of the Kyndryl managed services business, reorganized its businesses and the financial reports it gives to Wall Street investors. Generally speaking, the way Big Blue is talking about itself, from a financial perspective, is more accurate than the reorganization it did after Ginny Rometty had been at the IBM helm for a bit. Which is good. But the one downside is that we lost visibility into the Power Systems platform.

We lamented this when looking at …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 10

March 7, 2022 Doug Bidwell

This week, there are a bunch of security bulletins about yet more new vulnerabilities, this time in the HTTP Server and the Samba Windows file server clone that are embedded in the IBM i operating system. There is also a partial mitigation against Log4j/Log4Shell vulnerabilities, and you may get a laugh or a cry out of this one. Maybe both. OK, probably both. Let’s go through them all.

First, there is Security Bulletin: IBM HTTP Server (powered by Apache) for i is vulnerable to CVE-2021-44224, which you can read about here at this link. With this vulnerability, the Apache …
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IBM i Salaries: Underpaid, Yet Highly Valued And Hard To Replace

IBM i High Availability: A Met Need?

Guru: IBM i Experience Sharing, Case 1 – Object Authority Check And Batch Job Performance

The Low-Down On IBM’s Power Systems Sales

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 10

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