TFH Volume: 33 Issue: 14 Archives

You Ought To Be Committed

March 13, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan

There is a phrase that we learn as teenagers, concomitant with the kinds of peer pressure that close friends can bring to bear early in our lives to nudge us, that applies in an inverse way to a portion of the IBM i customer base, or probably more precisely, to the upper management at a portion of the company that thinks – erroneously – that getting off the IBM i platform is somehow going to magically fix their particular IT problems.

All talk and no action.

Don’t get us wrong. We are not trying to get people to move off …
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Thoroughly Modern: What You Need to Know About IBM i Security

March 13, 2023 Fresche Solutions

On a weekly basis, the security experts at Fresche receive calls from IBM i organizations asking for help with ransomware and cyberattacks. These calls are from a broad range of organizations across the spectrum of industries and company sizes.

The IBM i platform has a very strong reputation of being secure, but it’s a dangerous misconception that it is secure out of the box. We can’t tell you how many times we’ve seen an enormous lack of security configuration on the system. It’s often due to a lack of security knowledge and skills on IBM i. But many people still …
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Spring Brings Events To IBM i Community, And More

March 13, 2023 Alex Woodie

As the calendar flips over from winter to spring, the IBM i community begins to stir in anticipation of in-person get-togethers. Many of the events continue to be virtual, but some, like COMMON’s POWERUp and WMCPA’s iCON, are expected to draw hundreds of people. And the calendar shows that IBM’s spring Tech Refresh can’t be too far away.

The in-person fun kicks off tomorrow as members of the IBM i community descend on the Lake Lawn Resort in Delavan, Wisconsin, which is playing host to the Wisconsin Midrange Computer Professional Association (WMCPA) and its Spring Conference 2023.

The three-day …
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As I See It: AI-AI-O

March 13, 2023 Victor Rozek

Unless you think encouraging people to eat glass is a good thing, or you happen to revel in being compared to Hitler, you probably weren’t all that impressed with the recent Big Tech AI roll out. To say it was unimpressive would be a kindness. Arguably, it was a grade A, prime time, gold-plated disaster.

Take Meta Platform’s online tool Galactica. Please. It was quickly yanked offline when, according to The Washington Post, “users found Galactica generating authoritative-sounding text about the benefits of eating glass, written in academic language with citations.” I have to admit, the citations were …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 10

March 13, 2023 Doug Bidwell

Here is what is new this week: Fixes. To be specific: Long Term Support release: 9.2.0.10 client install image for IBM MQ on IBM i release level: 9.2.0.10-IBM-MQC-IBM_i. IBM MQ is also known as WebSphere MQ also known as MQ Series, and it is the message queuing middleware that Big Blue has been selling since 1993. Yup, that is 30 years ago, and this tool is one of the foundations of the microservices movement. It is Kafka-esque. Or, more precisely, Kafka is MQ-esque.

Anyway, here is the rundown of PTF Groups by IBM i release level since we last …
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Situation Wanted

March 13, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan

There have been a tremendous number of layoffs in the tech sector in the past several months, and we are grateful that the IBM i market is part of the economy but also somewhat set apart from the go-go tech sector that sometimes engages in irrational exuberance. But we also know there is a talent shortage and a skills gap in this IBM i market. The question is, what can we do about it?

Well, The Four Hundred can do one simple and easy thing: We can start a Situation Wanted column, which are doing today to help get people …
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You Ought To Be Committed

Thoroughly Modern: What You Need to Know About IBM i Security

Spring Brings Events To IBM i Community, And More

As I See It: AI-AI-O

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 10

Situation Wanted

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