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Top 5 New IBM i Features to Check Out Now That Fall TRs Are GA

December 7, 2022 Alex Woodie

All of the new features that IBM unveiled earlier this fall with the Technology Refreshes for IBM i 7.4 and 7.5 (as well as another stealth “non-TR” TR for 7.3) are now generally available. Some of them shipped before December 2, but pretty much all of them are now GA. With so much enterprise computing goodness ready to download, what will you adopt first?

We know it’s not Christmas yet. But with so many new features, it can be hard to figure out what to do first. While everybody has their own computing priorities, we have our own ideas for …
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IBM Welcomes COMMON Advisory Councils to Rochester

December 7, 2022 Alex Woodie

One of the hallmarks of a good company is listening to customers. A company may not do everything that its customers wish, but it must show that it’s listening to maintain the relationship. This dynamic was in play during an IBM i meeting that took place last month in Rochester, Minnesota, between IBM and the advisory councils for both COMMON North America and COMMON Europe.

The three-day meeting that took place November 14 through 16 involved a handful of members from the COMMON Americas Advisory Council (CAAC) as well as the COMMON Europe Advisory Council (CEAC). Both advisory councils had …
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IBM Publishes Power10 Performance Optimize Guide

December 7, 2022 Alex Woodie

IBM i shops looking to squeeze the most performance out of their Power10 servers have a lot of options available at their disposal. IBM covers many, if not all, of them in its latest performance paper, titled “IBM Power10 performance optimization for IBM i,” which it released last week.

The Power10 is the most powerful processor IBM ever built. Compared to the Power9 processor, the Power10 delivers 20 percent to 30 percent higher performance per core. And with 25 percent more cores per socket, that means oodles of more processing power to do useful work.

At a system level, the …
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Four Hundred Monitor, December 7

December 7, 2022 Jenny Thomas

We are back from the Thanksgiving break, but not for long. Just because there are only a few weeks remaining on the calendar doesn’t mean there is any shortage of news and happenings in and around our IBM i ecosystem. We’ve got a few news bites for you, as well as some resources that might come in handy as we wind down 2022. We are looking to fill up our calendar in 2023, so please sure to pass any events our way. Four Hundred Monitor will wrap up for the year next week, but before we go, let’s take a …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 49

December 7, 2022 Doug Bidwell

It is another one of those weeks when there are a slew of security vulnerabilities to attend to. Four that we know of, to be precise.

First, there is Security Bulletin: IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty is vulnerable to a denial of service due to Google protobuf-java (CVE-2022-3171, CVE-2022-3509), which you can read more about at this link. This vulnerability affects IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty versions 21.0.0.2 through 22.0.0.12.

Second, there is Security Bulletin: ISC BIND on IBM i is vulnerable to denial of service due to memory leaks and a flaw in resolver code (CVE-2022-2795, CVE-2022-38177, CVE-2022-38178), …
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Top 5 New IBM i Features to Check Out Now That Fall TRs Are GA

IBM Welcomes COMMON Advisory Councils to Rochester

IBM Publishes Power10 Performance Optimize Guide

Four Hundred Monitor, December 7

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 49

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