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  • ALL400s Survey Paints a Picture of IBM i Community

    April 20, 2022 Alex Woodie

    It’s been three years since John Rockwell ran an ALL400s survey, which he periodically ran several times before. At the urging of members of the IBM i community, Rockwell recently ran another survey, and he shared his conclusions with IT Jungle.

    At first glance, the results of the latest ALL400s survey, which includes responses from more than 600 people, shows what you might expect. For starters, we all know the IBM i community is getting older, with retirements looming for some. That shouldn’t come as a surprise. But as one drills down into the results themselves, a more nuanced …

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  • REPL Tool Gives RPG Developers Immediate Feedback

    April 20, 2022 Alex Woodie

    If you’ve ever wanted to quickly know what a small snippet of RPG code does but do not want to take the time to compile a test program and go through the debugging process, then you might be interested in rpgle-repl, a new open source Read-Evaluate-Print-Loop (REPL) utility that was recently shared with the IBM i community.

    Tom Sharp, a senior developer at a financial software provider in the UK, says he created rpgle-repl after receiving numerous requests from his colleagues about what particular pieces of RPG code actually did.

    “The first place to check would always be the IBM …

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  • Infor CM3 to Provide On-Prem Alternative to Cloudy M3

    April 20, 2022 Alex Woodie

    For years, Infor has been leading with the cloud when it comes to M3, the ERP system formerly known as Movex. But now, the software giant is readying a new hybrid deployment option called CM3 that will run in a Linux or Windows container and IBM i.

    Long before Infor completed its Lawson acquisition in April 2012 — even before Lawson finished its acquisition of Intentia in 2006 — plans were solidly in place to migrate the core RPG code underpinning the Movex suite to Java, thereby opening the software to run on platforms besides just IBM i, its historical …

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  • Four Hundred Monitor, April 20

    April 20, 2022 Jenny Thomas

    Arvind Krishna recently participated in an interview on the evolving role of business and technology. While you don’t have to be IBM’s CEO to recognize how rapidly computing is changing the way we do business, his perspective is definitely of interest to our readers. In our Top Story this week, you can read what he had to say as he looks back and what he thinks is to come on the road ahead. Spoiler Alert: Hybrid cloud, AI, and cybersecurity all play an important role.

    Top Stories From Outside The Jungle

    (The Wall Street Journal) IBM’s CEO gives his predictions …

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  • IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 16

    April 20, 2022 Doug Bidwell

    It is a new week, and there are two new security vulnerabilities in the IBM i platform. First, there is Security Bulletin: IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty for IBM i is vulnerable to spoofing and clickjacking attacks due to swagger-ui (CVE-2018-25031, CVE-2021-46708), which you can read more about here. The IBM i PTF numbers containing the fix for the CVEs:

    IBM i Release      5770-SS1 PTF Number      PTF Download Link

    7.4                          SI78971                                https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ptf/SI78971

    7.3                          SI78972                                https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ptf/SI78972

    7.2                          SI78973                                https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ptf/SI78973

    Then there is Security Bulletin: OpenSSL for IBM i is vulnerable to a denial of service due to a flaw in …

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