TFH Volume: 33 Issue: 13 Archives

The IBM i OS Base Is Older Than We Think, But Moving Ahead

March 6, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Hardware upgrades are costly in terms of money and while it is always exciting to get a new system with that “new computer smell” – and you know what we are talking about – at least IBM i operating system and systems software upgrades don’t carry such a high price – provided you are on Software Maintenance and you do proper testing on your software before you make a jump to a new release.

The other great thing about IBM i systems software is that any given release not only runs on the current new Power Systems hardware at the …
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Rocket Rolls Out IBM i Modernization Bundle

March 6, 2023 Alex Woodie

Rocket Software last week unveiled a new collection of tools designed to help IBM i shops elevate their game across multiple IT disciplines. Dubbed the Rocket Modernization Suite for IBM i, the new bundle brings together existing Rocket offerings in the DevOps, APIs, test automation, HA/DR, terminal emulation, and Web-enablement spaces. It’s all about lowering the barrier to adopting Rocket tools and improving customer productivity when they do, the company says.

Like other software vendors in the space, Rocket Software has accumulated somewhat of a disparate collection of tools for the IBM i server. The Massachusetts vendor started its IBM …
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We Know Security Is A Concern, But What Is Actually Going On?

March 6, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan

It is an uncomfortable truth that security is a very high concern among IBM i shops – and consistently has polled as the most important concern for the past several years – but that concern does not always translate into dedicating more resources to security tools or the expertise of others with managed services who can help.

It is one thing to know that security is top of mind, but it is another thing entirely to have a sense of the relative prevalence of different kinds of attacks and the actions of hackers in the wake of a successful attack. …
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Four Hundred Monitor, March 6

March 6, 2023 Jenny Thomas

The topic of artificial intelligence has really heated up in recent weeks. ChatGPT took over the news cycle recently, and not just because it has teachers pulling their hair out as they try to contend with how to prevent students from plagiarizing essays. We’re seeing AI make headlines in our industry this week, which isn’t as surprising, but we must admit the story of a giant 3-D printer building a neighborhood in Texas did catch our attention. (You can find that one in the Top Stories below.) And another reminder to check out all that is available to you on …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 9

March 6, 2023 Doug Bidwell

We are still playing catch up and will be back in synch soon. We wanted to remind you about an important bug issue, which is ADMIN4 Job Terminates Suddenly When A User Profile Without *ALLOBJ and *IOSYSCFG Authority Accesses the IBM Web Administration GUI, which you can look at here.

This issue is introduced after applying the following IBM i HTTP Group PTF levels:
- IBM i 7.5: SF99952 level 5
- IBM i 7.4: SF99662 level 25
- IBM i 7.3: SF99722 level 42
Download and apply the following 5770-SS1 PTF to prevent the ADMIN4 job from ending suddenly. The PTF …
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The IBM i OS Base Is Older Than We Think, But Moving Ahead

Rocket Rolls Out IBM i Modernization Bundle

We Know Security Is A Concern, But What Is Actually Going On?

Four Hundred Monitor, March 6

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 9

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