• Four Hundred Monitor, April 20

  April 20, 2022 Jenny Thomas

  Arvind Krishna recently participated in an interview on the evolving role of business and technology. While you don’t have to be IBM’s CEO to recognize how rapidly computing is changing the way we do business, his perspective is definitely of interest to our readers. In our Top Story this week, you can read what he had to say as he looks back and what he thinks is to come on the road ahead. Spoiler Alert: Hybrid cloud, AI, and cybersecurity all play an important role.

  Top Stories From Outside The Jungle

  (The Wall Street Journal) IBM’s CEO gives his predictions …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 16

  April 20, 2022 Doug Bidwell

  It is a new week, and there are two new security vulnerabilities in the IBM i platform. First, there is Security Bulletin: IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty for IBM i is vulnerable to spoofing and clickjacking attacks due to swagger-ui (CVE-2018-25031, CVE-2021-46708), which you can read more about here. The IBM i PTF numbers containing the fix for the CVEs:

  IBM i Release      5770-SS1 PTF Number      PTF Download Link

  7.4                          SI78971                                https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ptf/SI78971

  7.3                          SI78972                                https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ptf/SI78972

  7.2                          SI78973                                https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ptf/SI78973

  Then there is Security Bulletin: OpenSSL for IBM i is vulnerable to a denial of service due to a flaw in …

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• Inflation Finally Comes To IBM i Platform Prices

  April 18, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  With the inflation rates rising around the world, and particularly strongly in the United States, it was bound to happen sooner or later: IBM is raising prices on key software for Power Systems machines as well as on selected Power9 hardware.

  With entry and midrange machines based on Power10 iron just around the corner – probably announced in May around the COMMON POWERUp 2022 conference in New Orleans from May 23 through 26 and shipping sometime in June – it might seem like a weird time to be raising Power9 hardware prices. But there could be a logic to it. …

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• How Good Are Your Backups? Wait, Don’t Answer Too Quickly

  April 18, 2022 Pete Massiello

  It’s probably a good day to review your backup strategy and your backup itself. If you haven’t done a backup in a while, set some time for either later today or this weekend to get a good backup. Remember, your recovery is only as good as your backup. If you have never tested your recovery, it’s probably a good time to look at that as well.

  Over two months ago, Russia invaded Ukraine, and then the United States and its allies put some crippling sanctions on Russia. For every action, there is usually a corresponding reaction. The news is abuzz …

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• Top Five Failures In State of IBM i Security For 2022

  April 18, 2022 Alex Woodie

  HelpSystems last week officially unveiled its annual State of IBM i Security report, the 18th straight year for the series. Like with past reports, the 2022 version highlights some of the continuing challenges that IBM i customers face when trying to secure their systems. A few key areas stand out above the rest.

  The IBM i server is a bit of an enigma when it comes to security. While it is widely perceived to be one of the most secure computing platforms on the planet – and “virus-proof” to boot – the reality is that a good number of IBM …

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• As I See It: Transitions

  April 18, 2022 Victor Rozek

  Over the past two years, as many of us sequestered, masked-up in public, dodged strangers, and kept friends at arm’s length, our socially distanced conversations shared a common, oft-expressed yearning: “I just want my life back.”

  Now that we’re in a lull between variant fronts, millions of us are anxious to reclaim our old, comfortable and predictable lives. They may not have been perfect, but they were at least manageable, set in a world we knew how to navigate.

  Beyond familiarity, our old lives were even more central to our identity. As sociologist Anthony Giddens notes: “A person’s identity is …

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• Systems Of Record On Premises, Systems Of Engagement In The Cloud

  April 18, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words. I guess it all depends on the words, and the picture. But sometimes, when you see a bit of market data that displays an industry trend, it nails exactly what the anecdotal evidence suggests is going on in the real world. It saves a lot of words in that regard, particularly if you are looking for some kind of confirmation that your own strategy is one that is prevailing out there in the IT market at large.

  So it was with a chart that we came across recently in …

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• Connectria, Now A Top AWS Partner, Primed For Hybrid Push

  April 13, 2022 Alex Woodie

  Amazon Web Services has lots and lots of servers and storage — enough to supply the IT needs of more than 1 million customers around the world, including one rather large e-commerce site. The cloud giant also has more than 125,000 business partners helping it to scale out to meet those customer needs. Now, thanks to a recent promotion, IBM i hosting specialist Connectria won’t get lost in the AWS partnership jungle.

  Last week, Connectria announced that AWS has named it a Premier Consulting Partner, the highest echelon in the AWS Partner Network. With just 120 members, the move into …

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• IBM Ships ACS Version 1.1.9.0

  April 13, 2022 Alex Woodie

  IBM this week delivered an update to Access Client Solutions (ACS), the popular Java-based utility that many IBM i professionals use to interact with the platform. IBM is delivering several enhancements with ACS version 1.1.9.0, some of which came through the request for enhancement (RFE) process. It also defaults to opening IBM’s new Navigator for i, rather than the old one, which is susceptible to the Log4j security vulnerability.

  ACS is the universal Java-based utility that IBM unveiled 10 years ago this August to replace older Client Access products, including the ones for Windows, Linux, and Mac. The software, which …

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• Springing Anew: IBM i Tech Refresh Expected Soon

  April 13, 2022 Alex Woodie

  If you’ve been waiting for the spring IBM i Technology Refreshes, you’re not alone. We’re nearly a month into spring, but IBM has yet to embark upon the bi-annual pilgrimage of operating system enhancements. The good news is that the good news is nearly here.

  “Big IBM i Announcements Coming Soon,” Steve Will, the chief architect of IBM i, wrote in 22.5 point font on his “You and i” blog, which was recently resurrected on TechChannel, the online successor to the now-defunct IBM Systems Magazine, where his column ran for years.

  “It’s time to hint at things that …

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