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JD Edwards Customers Face Support Decisions

August 3, 2022 Alex Woodie

JD Edwards was the gold standard for ERP software on the IBM midrange server for many years. But with end-of-support dates looming from Oracle, many JD Edwards customers – especially users of the World package – must make some decisions about the future of their ERP system.

In April, as it has planned for years, Oracle ceased providing premiere support for JD Edwards World, the older, RPG-based ERP package originally developed. This marks the first time in decades that the World product is not under mainstream support from its owner.

However, the software giant will continue to honor extended support …
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Security, Automation, and Cloud Top Midrange IT Priorities, Study Says

August 3, 2022 Alex Woodie

Improving cybersecurity continues to be the number one overall priority for IT teams at midsize companies going into the second half of the year, but automation and cloud migrations are not too far behind, according to a recent study from Kaseya. Legacy concerns also are viewed as a drag on productivity.

Kaseya last month published its 2022 IT Operations Report, in which it surveyed 1,877 IT professionals from around the world in April to learn about the top priorities and challenges where they work. The company surveyed only employees at organizations with fewer than 3,000 employees, which is Kaseya’s cut-off …
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Cleo and SrinSoft in Integration-Modernization Link Up

August 3, 2022 Alex Woodie

Modernization is a hot topic among organizations that run ERP and industry-specific applications on mature platforms, like the IBM i. But other parts of the stack need modernizing too, including the integration layer, which is the subject of a new partnership between integration software provider Cleo and SrinSoft.

Cleo provides a range of data and application integration solutions as part of its Cleo Integration Cloud (CIC) offering, which connects to backend IBM i systems. The Rockford, Illinois-based company supports API, EDI (AS2), and file-based integration methods via CIC, which is available in Express, Essentials, Business, and Premium versions.

SrinSoft, …
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Four Hundred Monitor, August 3

August 3, 2022 Jenny Thomas

Summer is heating up, but you won’t catch IBM lounging in the shade. Big Blue has been busy with more than Power10. As we look around our ecosystem this week, we see IBM has its hands in many pots, with Arvind Krishna being named one of the most influential executives of 2022. You can catch up with all the IBM news below, plus we have some new resources and calendar items for you. And if you haven’t been following our coverage of Power10, you should take a minute go on the deep dive with our very own Tim Prickett Morgan. …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 31

August 3, 2022 Doug Bidwell

As often happens with systems software these days, there are a bunch of new security vulnerabilities with the IBM i stack that you need to be aware of.

First, there is Security Bulletin: OpenSSL for IBM i is vulnerable to arbitrary command execution (CVE-2022-2068), which you can find out more about at this link. The IBM i PTF numbers contain the fix for the vulnerability:
```
IBM i Release	5733-SC1	PTF Number
7.5		SI80588
		7.4, 7.3, 7.2	SI80587
```
Then there is Security Bulletin: IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty is vulnerable to Identity Spoofing (CVE-2022-22476), which you can find out more …
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JD Edwards Customers Face Support Decisions

Security, Automation, and Cloud Top Midrange IT Priorities, Study Says

Cleo and SrinSoft in Integration-Modernization Link Up

Four Hundred Monitor, August 3

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 31

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