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Don’t Have A Conniption If Big Blue Goes All Subscription

August 14, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Big Blue has been pretty clear that it is not only going to put Power Systems machinery in its own cloud as well as those run by its business partners, but that it going to offer hardware and systems software alike under a cloud consumption model with as much of a unified pricing scheme, based on subscriptions, for on premises, IBM Cloud, and partner cloud deployments.

As we have already reported back in February, the IBM i operating system and its integrated Db2 for i relational database is already available under subscription pricing, which includes the license to use the …
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A Simple Plan To Boost IBM i Visibility

August 14, 2023 Alex Woodie

If you are a consumer of mainstream news, it can be hard to find anything about IBM i. The proprietary business platform isn’t marketed by IBM in advertisements and it receives very little coverage in mainstream IT publications. But a salesman for an IBM i business partner has come up with an easy yet compelling way to boost the visibility of the platform.

Earlier this month, Josh Bander, who is an enterprise account executive at Briteskies, shared a recent conversation he had through his LinkedIn page .“Over the weekend, I spoke to a few of my friends in IT, …
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Guru: Retrieving The Long And Short Object Name

August 14, 2023 Bob Cozzi

Many releases ago, IBM i received “Long SQL Names” for files and libraries. These new longer names (up to 128 characters) were well received by SQL enthusiasts, but largely ignored by the mainstream IBM i developer. As each version of IBM i emerged, more and more shops experienced one or more objects with a longer-than-10-character name.

Recently I created a file named BOAT_TRAFFIC. This name is clearly longer than 10 characters. I used SQL DDL (the CREATE or REPLACE TABLE statement) to create the file. Using SQL DDL is the only real way to create an object with a long …
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AWS: A Temperate Zone Among A Global Climate Of Other Clouds

August 14, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan

It might feel like Amazon Web Services has a monopoly on the cloud, but it does not. As it turns out, AWS does not even come close to having a monopoly, which means having somewhere north of 80 percent of the revenue and probably damned near all of the profits in any given market according to our definition.

Synergy Research has just put out its latest quarterly report on cloud revenues by vendor, and AWS is amazingly consistent over the past six years with about a third of revenues across the hundreds of suppliers of infrastructure services, platform services, and …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 33

August 14, 2023 Doug Bidwell

You can tell that it is still summer, and one of the last weeks before the holiday season is over, by the dearth of patches to the IBM i platforms. That said, we do have two new security vulnerabilities this week as well as some patches for the High Availability group within IBM i 7.5.

First, we have Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in IBM Java SDK affects IBM WebSphere Application Server due to CVE-2022-40609, which you can find out more about here. The affected releases are WebSphere Application Server 8.5 and 9.0.

Second, we have Security Bulletin: IBM Facsimile Support …
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Don’t Have A Conniption If Big Blue Goes All Subscription

A Simple Plan To Boost IBM i Visibility

Guru: Retrieving The Long And Short Object Name

AWS: A Temperate Zone Among A Global Climate Of Other Clouds

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 33

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