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Exploring Security Applications for IBM i OLAP

July 13, 2022 Alex Woodie

The IBM i platform is typically thought of as a transactional server, and it does that job very well. But it also has solid analytical capabilities, thanks in large part to new OLAP features added many years ago with IBM i 7.3. Now the platform’s database guru, Scott Forstie, is looking for ways to promote greater use of these OLAP capabilities, and security is emerging as a top application.

Sometimes it takes a while to figure out what a good thing you have. This appears to be the case with IBM i 7.3, which launched way back in 2016 and …
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Give Me A Fulcrum And A Lever Long Enough, And I Can Move Your Data

July 13, 2022 Brad Jensen

An old adage about the power of mechanics and physics illustrates perfectly how we feel about virtual tape libraries, and not just the ones made by us, but about other VTL wares out there in the field: Give me a fulcrum and a lever long enough and I can move the world.

We know that there are other good VTL tools out there, and it is good because the competition keeps us all honest. The important thing is that using VTL brings IT organizations out of the Stone Age of managing data archives and backups.

First off, if you are …
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More IBM i Security Flaws Revealed

July 13, 2022 Alex Woodie

The summer slowdown might have started in your particular business, but things are just getting warmed up IBM security researchers, who disclosed a series of new vulnerabilities across IBM i products over the past couple of weeks, including IBM i Merlin, WAS Liberty, OpenSSL, the Digital Certificate Manager, and Zlib.

On June 27, IBM disclosed that the collection of open source and proprietary tools and technology it’s brought together as IBM i Modernization Engine for Lifecycle Integration (Merlin) suffers from no fewer than 16 separate security flaws.

Among the most series of these flaws is a CVE-2022-22965, a data binding …
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Four Hundred Monitor, July 13

July 13, 2022 Jenny Thomas

In the Jungle, our editors keep you informed by talking to the industry movers and shakers and relaying what they learn. (In fact, if you missed Tim’s inside scoop on Power 10, be sure to read the Top Story below.) Next week, you have the opportunity to ask your own questions of IBM i Chief Architect Steve Will during an Able One webinar on July 19. You can get the details and link for the webinar in the Chats, Webinars, Seminars, Shows, and Other Happenings section below, and take the opportunity to ask your Power10 and IBM i 7.5 questions. …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 28

July 13, 2022 Doug Bidwell

It has been quiet week in Lake Bugsbegone. The corn tassels are popping out of the stalks and you can hear them rustle in the wind, crinkly from lack of rain. Off in the distance, a rooster is crowing in the still of the afternoon, and a lone cow is lowing, unhappy with the dry cud. Rain will come soon enough, and then we will all be busy mowing the hay, with sweet corn for dinner. Take your downtime when you have it, and in the shade at that.

Here is the rundown of PTF Groups by IBM i release …
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Exploring Security Applications for IBM i OLAP

Give Me A Fulcrum And A Lever Long Enough, And I Can Move Your Data

More IBM i Security Flaws Revealed

Four Hundred Monitor, July 13

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 28

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