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IBM i 7.3 Loses Standard Support On September 30, 2023

October 3, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Big Blue just got the IBM i 7.5 operating system and system software stack out the door for Power9 and Power10 machines back in May, and from that moment the clock was ticking on regular support for the IBM i release that came out in April 2016 and that represents the second most popular release on primary machines based on data from the most recent IBM i Marketplace Survey.

Most operating system makers – there are not that many of them left in the datacenter these days – offer standard support for their releases and versions for seven years …
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Software Supply Chain Attacks Are A Growing Threat

October 3, 2022 Alex Woodie

There’s a lot going on in the world right now, so you probably don’t need something more to worry about. But the cat-and-mouse world of cybersecurity never sleeps, and one of the threats keeping the good guys up at night right now is the growing risk of software supply chain attacks. Unfortunately, security through obscurity won’t provide as much protection for the IBM i server this time around.

Just what is a software supply chain attack? According to the U.S. government’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), a software supply chain attack occurs when “a cyber threat actor infiltrates a …
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Guru: Aliases — Underused and Unappreciated

October 3, 2022 Ted Holt

One of the first things I learned about programming in the RPG II language was that field and variable names had to be six characters or less and they did not have to be pronounceable. I accepted this without question, as I was new to computers and figured that everything that had to do with computers was arcane and other-worldly. It wasn’t until I began work toward my computer science degree and was privileged to learn Pascal that I came to appreciate the value of longer identifier names, and of clarity of source code in general.

You don’t have to …
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We Need Some Insight From You

October 3, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

What you are doing – and what you are not doing – with you IBM i platform is important to us. And that is why we are asking you to take the 9^th annual IBM i Marketplace Survey that HelpSystems does every fall.

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.

The data that this survey gathers is invaluable, and long-time readers of The Four Hundred know full …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 40

October 3, 2022 Doug Bidwell

It’s the fall now, and in the wake of the September IBM i announcements, upgrade season has begun. Now, we will see if companies are in a mood to upgrade before the end of the year or will push it out into 2023.

This week, we want to let you know that QMGTOOLS and FTP Credentials required for Enhanced Customer Data Repository (ECuRep), which you can find out more about here.

Now, here is the rundown of PTF Groups by IBM i release level since we last published:

PTF Groups 7.5:
- IBM MQ for IBM i – v9.2.0/v9.3.0
- TCP/IP
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IBM i 7.3 Loses Standard Support On September 30, 2023

Software Supply Chain Attacks Are A Growing Threat

Guru: Aliases — Underused and Unappreciated

We Need Some Insight From You

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 40

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