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Want To Influence IBM i’s Direction? Consider Joining An Advisory Council

December 12, 2022 Alex Woodie

Do you want to make your mark on the future of IBM i? If so, there may be a volunteer position available to you on one the two advisory councils run by COMMON and COMMON Europe, which play important roles in advising IBM what new features and technologies should be added to the platform.

Members of the COMMON Americas Advisory Council (CAAC) and the COMMON Europe Advisory Council (CEAC) play an important role shaping what new features and functionality are added to the IBM i platform. The two councils work closely with IBM to review and prioritize customer requirements submitted …
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Capture Point Restore: The Perfect Companion For High Availability

December 12, 2022 Ash Giddings

Businesses are constantly challenged by cyberattacks, coupled by their ever-increasing diverse nature. Ransomware and malicious data deletion or corruption can originate from both inside or outside of the business and staying out of the headlines by preventing attacks or at worst limiting the impact is high on the agenda for many.

There’s seemingly never a day goes by without a prominent attack being reported, damaging both the tangible capabilities to conduct business at the time, combined with intangible ongoing damage to business reputation that these destructive incidents invariably bring.

Many businesses have wisely invested in high availability for their IBM …
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A Smattering Of Power Systems Announcements

December 12, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

We keep saying that IBM is winding down its announcement stream as 2022 comes to a close, but there is still a trickle of things being announced by Big Blue, both new products and withdrawals, that relate to the Power Systems platform and its adjacent external storage.

First of all, in announcement letter 122-134, IBM is allowing customers – as promised back at the COMMON POWERUp event in October – to run the AIX and Linux operating systems on that special configuration of the Power 1022s machine that has two four-core Power10 dual chip modules (DCMs) in the box …
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As I See It: Ghosting Productivity

December 12, 2022 Victor Rozek

Recently, the Department of Labor announced that worker productivity fell to a level not seen since 1947. Like the proverbial fart in the elevator, it got everybody’s attention but no one could identify its source. Economists, CEOs, and government officials were all frantic for a fix but, speculation aside, nobody could identify the precise reason for the precipitous drop.

All the usual – and some unusual – suspects were trotted out. The pandemic, the shift to working from home, the Great Resignation, quiet quitting and, when in doubt, blame the wobbly work ethic of Gen Z. But these unusual factors …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 50

December 12, 2022 Doug Bidwell

It is another week of interesting security vulnerabilities in the IBM i world, so brace yourself for some research and patching. There are a slew of vulnerabilities that affect the Hardware Management Console for Power Systems, which means any of you IBM i shops that are using relatively large Power machines. There are five new ones, above and beyond the ones we have covered in recent weeks.

First, there is Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in Bind (CVE-2021-25219) affects Power HMC, which you can read about here.
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Affected Product(s)	Version(s)
HMC V10.1.1010.0	V10.1.1010.0 and later
HMC V9.2.950.0		V9.2.950.0 and later
Product		
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Want To Influence IBM i’s Direction? Consider Joining An Advisory Council

Capture Point Restore: The Perfect Companion For High Availability

A Smattering Of Power Systems Announcements

As I See It: Ghosting Productivity

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 50

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