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Surprise! There’s a Tech Refresh 13 For IBM i 7.3

December 5, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Well, we bet you were not expecting that. Or, based on past history, maybe you were. But when IBM put out the two Technology Refresh updates for IBM i 7.4 and IBM i 7.5 last Friday on December 2 as planned – that would be TR1 for the latter and TR7 for the former – the company also sneaked out an unofficial TR13 update to IBM i 7.3. With this Tech Refresh, IBM i 7.3 has many of the same updates that came to the two more current releases of IBM i.

If you look at the IBM i Technology …
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Thoroughly Modern: A Swiss Army Knife For IBM i Developers

December 5, 2022 Robert Arce

Our strength as developers and programmers lies not only in the code we write, but also in the tools we choose to surround ourselves with. The right tools are often the determining factor in how productive, efficient and accurate we can be – especially when working with large applications that we didn’t even write.

Long gone are the days of just managing a handful of programs, technologies, languages or databases, and relying on tribal knowledge to make critical business decisions isn’t just risky, it’s irresponsible. Especially when more and more experienced IBM i (AS/400) developers are changing jobs or retiring …
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Finding IBM i’s Place In Data Fabrics And Data Meshes

December 5, 2022 Alex Woodie

The commercialization of the Internet kicked off an unpredictable series of developments in the computing world. One of those is the proliferation of Web applications, each with its own data silo, bringing chaos to data management and data governance. Application architects are now seeking to tame that data chaos through novel infrastructure architectures, including the data mesh and the data fabric.

While the lure of digital transformation gives companies hope that they, too, can benefit from breakthroughs in analytics, machine learning, and IoT, the data at most companies is in such a state of mess that in most cases it’s …
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SOAP Web Services Fail After WebSphere Liberty Patched

December 5, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

If you had not yet gotten around to putting the October 2022 HTTP Group PTF patches for the WebSphere Liberty web application server on your IBM i system, that may turn out to be a fortunate thing. There is something wonky about SOAP web services running in conjunction with Integrated Web Services (IWS v2.6) and Integrated Application Server (IAS v8.5) middleware on the IBM i platform that is causing SOAP fault errors.

This error is documented here by IBM, and the techies that we know are trying to figure out the full extent of the issue. Doug Bidwell, our …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 48

December 5, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

To start right off, there is a security vulnerability in the Hardware Management Console, so those of you who have larger Power Systems that have their logical partitions managed by this out-of-band controller had better listen up. Specifically, check out Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in Bind (CVE-2021-25219) affects Power HMC, which you can read about more here.

The fixes for this security vulnerability are as follows:
```
Product		VRMF			APAR			Remediation/Fix	
Power HMC	V9.2.950.0 SP3 ppc	MB04373		MH01944
Power HMC	V9.2.950.0 SP3 x86	MB04372		MH01943
Power HMC	V10.1.1020.0 SP1 ppc	MB04363		MF70302
Power HMC	V10.1.1020.0 SP1 x86	MB04362		MF70301
```
As we …
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Surprise! There’s a Tech Refresh 13 For IBM i 7.3

Thoroughly Modern: A Swiss Army Knife For IBM i Developers

Finding IBM i’s Place In Data Fabrics And Data Meshes

SOAP Web Services Fail After WebSphere Liberty Patched

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 48

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