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IBM “Harmonizes” Power Systems, Storage, And Software Prices Upward

November 28, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

The worsening economic conditions and the strengthening of the U.S. dollar against other currencies is forcing companies to do two things: Raise their prices in the United States in some cases, and raise their prices a little more than that in Canada, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Japan.

Last week, IBM did the latter on Power Systems and storage hardware and software, with the price increase taking effect on January 1, 2023. So if you are outside of the United States, you have time to close whatever deals you have in progress at the lower prices if you hustle …
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Get Help To Batten Down The Hatches On Your IBM i

November 28, 2022 John Fehr

If you have a person on your IT staff that understands the complexities of aggressive malware, ransomware, viruses, and other kinds of hacking and is actually jazzed by this sort of thing – in a good way, a white hat kind of way – and who knows how to use security tools and a deep knowledge to defend your IBM i (and probably your Window Servers ) against such attacks, well bully for you. And if they work for next to nothing, you must be living in some sort of dream world.

For the rest of the IBM i community, …
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IBM Alleges Micro Focus Stole CICS Code

November 28, 2022 Alex Woodie

IBM last week sued Micro Focus over the alleged theft and reverse-engineering of its CICS software that runs on IBM’s mainframe systems. Micro Focus denied the claim, stating it believes it is “without merit.”

In IBM’s suit, which was filed November 21 in U.S. District Court in New York, Big Blue alleges that Micro Focus illegally copied its IBM CICS Transaction Server for z/OS software and reverse engineered it to create the Micro Focus Enterprise Server and Micro Focus Enterprise Developer products.

In its lawsuit, which you can read here, IBM says Micro Focus took advantage of a …
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IBM To Stop Unencrypted Fix Downloads In February

November 28, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

We have caught word from the IBM business partner community that starting on February 15, 2023, Big Blue will stop allowing customers to get operating system software patches that are not encrypted.

The notification, which you can see here, was sent to business partners on November 23, just before the Thanksgiving Day holiday in the United States. Various IBM support methods, including IBM Electronic Fix Distribution (EFD), IBM Electronic Customer Care (ECC), and IBM Fix Central are all affected by this change.

“Many leaders of the internet industry – such as World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Internet Engineering Task …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 47

November 28, 2022 Doug Bidwell

It is a busy, busy week for the IBM i PTF Guide, folks. So get some coffee. There are a bunch of security vulnerabilities that you need to take a look at, and there are also some recommended fixes that are not included in either the PTF groups or the cumulative PTF updates.

First, there is Security Bulletin: IBM Transform Services for IBM i is vulnerable to denial of service, buffer overflow, and allowing attacker to obtain sensitive information due to multiple vulnerabilities, which you can read more about at this link. The fixes for this vulnerability can …
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IBM “Harmonizes” Power Systems, Storage, And Software Prices Upward

Get Help To Batten Down The Hatches On Your IBM i

IBM Alleges Micro Focus Stole CICS Code

IBM To Stop Unencrypted Fix Downloads In February

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 47

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