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Project Aims to Port .NET Framework to Power

March 16, 2022 Alex Woodie

IBM and its Red Hat subsidiary are working with Microsoft to port the .NET Framework to Power, IT Jungle has learned. The project has been underway for a while, and the first bits of beta code should be available for developers to play with later this year.

Ever since it released .NET Compiler Platform codenamed “Roslyn” at the Build conference in April 2014, which it followed up with the release of .NET Core back later that year, Microsoft has been courting the open source world with its flagship development environment. This represented a big shift in strategy for the Redmond, …
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Remain Unifies Its Products with New Framework, Dubbed ‘Octo’

March 16, 2022 Alex Woodie

The folks at Remain Software have been cranking out the code all winter, and the fruits of their labor are now here for all to view. Chief among the new deliverables is Octo, which the Dutch company describes as a Web-based orchestration layer and framework that will unite its various products and provide a common dashboard. Updates of other products, including the flagship TD/OMS offering, are now available, too.

The headliner for Remain Software’s second milestone delivery of the current release cycle (which spans from summer to summer) arguably is Octo. Short for Open Core for Technology Orchestration, Octo …
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Git Is A Whole Lot More Than A Code Repository

March 16, 2022 Jeff Tickner

It is funny to think that two of the most transformative technologies to hit the datacenter in the past several decades are based on projects created by Linus Torvalds. The first, of course, is the Linux kernel, which is the heart of the Linux operating system and which first rolled out in 1991 but didn’t become a real server-class platform until the Dot Com Boom in the late 1990s. The second thing that Torvalds created, out of necessity to help better manage the development and patching of the open source Linux kernel, was the Git repository and version control system. …
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Four Hundred Monitor, March 16

March 16, 2022 Jenny Thomas

Hopefully you are pleased to see Four Hundred Monitor back from its brief hiatus. We are definitely pleased to be back, and we have lots of news to share, including a bunch of new listings in the Calendar at the bottom of the page. But enough with the chit chat for now. Let’s get caught up on what’s happening in and around the IBM i ecosystem.

Top Stories From Outside The Jungle

(Fast Company) IBM makes Fast Company’s list of the most innovative companies of 2022.

(WRAL Tech Wire) IBM consolidates locations in New York City.

(Business Insider) Russia warns …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 11

March 16, 2022 Doug Bidwell

This Log4j security vulnerability just keeps being more and more pesky. If you haven’t seen it yet, there is an update to a Security Bulletin called Due to use of Apache Log4j, OmniFind Text Search Server for DB2 for i is vulnerable to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2021-4104), which you can read all about at this link.

The patches for each release are described in full here:

OmniFind V1R5M0:
- SI78753
- SI78754
- SI78755
OmniFind V1R4M0
- SI78756
- SI78757
- SI78758
OmniFind V1R3M0
- SI78751
- SI78759
- SI78760
- SI78761
To help you with the Log4j security vulnerability, we have created a supplemental spreadsheet as a companion …
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Project Aims to Port .NET Framework to Power

Remain Unifies Its Products with New Framework, Dubbed ‘Octo’

Git Is A Whole Lot More Than A Code Repository

Four Hundred Monitor, March 16

Top Stories From Outside The Jungle

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 11

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