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Without Further Ado: Power10 Entry Server Pricing

September 26, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

We have been through the new Power10 entry servers from just about every angle imaginable, which has been our great pleasure. And now, we come to the moment we have all been waiting for: What is the bang for the buck of a Power10 machine? As is usually the case when you ask any question, the answer is: It depends.

To try to figure this out, we put together pricing information for all of the different variations of processors for the Power8, Power9, and now Power10 entry servers with one of two processors. And when we say all of …
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What CMOD Functions You Can Access Via New Nav

September 26, 2022 Alex Woodie

IBM made a lot of news in May with the launch of IBM i 7.5 and Technology Refreshes for IBM i 7.4 and 7.3. One of the items that you may have missed in the avalanche of news was the unveiling of a new interface in IBM Navigator for i (a.k.a., New Navigator) that gives access to Content Manager OnDemand for i (CMOD) functionality.

CMOD, as you probably know, is a licensed application from IBM that has been around for decades, which means there has to be a good number of customers using it for essential business functions. While paper …
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Guru: Beware of SQL Precompiler Variables

September 26, 2022 Ted Holt

In a famous Henny Youngman joke, a patient says, “Doctor, it hurts when I do this,” to which the doctor replies, “Then don’t do that.” Corny jokes aside, I have spent decades trying to identify programming practices that hurt when I do them, and having identified them, cease to do them. A case in point is the misuse of the variables that the SQL precompiler defines in my RPG programs, variables such as SQLCODE, SQLSTATE, and SQLER3.

“So what,” I hear you ask, “is the problem with these variables? ” Well, they’re global, and global variables are evil. Global …
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It’s Time To Take The IBM i Marketplace Survey

September 26, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

The 9^th annual IBM i Marketplace Survey that HelpSystems does every fall is open, and if we hope to get some insight into what is going on in the base and report back on it in January 2023, we need you to take a few moments right now to take the survey and tell us about your IBM i shop.

This survey, which was conceived of by the late Dan Burger of IT Jungle and Tom Huntington of HelpSystems, was started nine years ago because we were all frustrated by the lack of insight about the IBM i base. …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 39

September 26, 2022 Doug Bidwell

Another week, another security vulnerability. This one could be a biggie, so pay attention. Security Bulletin: IBM Common Cryptographic Architecture (CCA) is vulnerable to denial of service (CVE-2022-22423), which you can find out more about here. The vulnerability can be fixed by applying a PTF to IBM i. Releases 7.5, 7.4, 7.3, and 7.2 of IBM i will be fixed. Each PTF bundles updates to CCA 5.x MTM for 4767 and CCA 7.x MTM for 4769, bringing their respective firmware levels to 5.7.12 and 7.3.44 or later, respectively.

Here are the fixes for this particular vulnerability:
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Without Further Ado: Power10 Entry Server Pricing

What CMOD Functions You Can Access Via New Nav

Guru: Beware of SQL Precompiler Variables

It’s Time To Take The IBM i Marketplace Survey

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 39

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