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ACS, Merlin Hit With Serious Security Vulnerabilities

December 11, 2023 Alex Woodie

Three serious security vulnerabilities in IBM i Access Client Solutions and six in Merlin were disclosed and patched by IBM last week. The flaws could allow attackers to commit a range of crimes, from executing arbitrary code and denial of service attacks, to obtaining sensitive data on IBM i conducting phishing attacks. All of the flaws – including another three reported by IBM in November – should be patched immediately.

IBM published a security bulletin December 8 covering all three of the ACS flaws, which impact ACS versions 1.1.2 through 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.3 through 1.1.9.3. The fix is to download …
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Many Different Kinds Of Cloud, Very Big Piles Of Money

December 11, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan

From the very beginning, there have been many kinds of clouds. Yes, Amazon Web Services started out with the Simple Storage Service (S3) object storage service in March 2006, and quickly followed it up with the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service, and even though it cannot decide if service is part of a product name or not, AWS set the stage for how infrastructure services (IaaS) and then platform (PaaS) and application software (SaaS) services would be layered on top of raw, virtualized iron.

Many observers thought that in the end, everything would go PaaS and SaaS and IaaS would …
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Happy Holidays To You And Yours From Us And Ours

December 11, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan

First of all, thank you.

It is a great privilege and an honor to do the work we do for the IBM i and Power Systems customer base and the software vendors, hardware sellers, and service providers who also serve customers like you. If history has demonstrated nothing else in the more than five decades of IBM midrange computing, it is that we are one single ecosystem, that we are all in this together and always have been.

We did a little bit more content earlier this year, and so that means we can get our Christmas break a little …
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As I See It: Riffing On Retirement

December 11, 2023 Victor Rozek

It didn’t take long after my father retired for him to start getting bored. There were suddenly lots of unstructured hours to fill and no prescribed way to fill them. So, he did what many retired men do: He stayed home and annoyed his wife. But after several months of straining my mother’s tolerance for togetherness, he settled on a novel solution.

The back of our property was bordered by a very tall hedge which shaded portions of the lawn. During the rainy season the shaded areas never fully dried and became saturated. So my father decided to replace patches …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 50

December 11, 2023 Doug Bidwell

Well, there are two new security vulnerabilities in the IBM i stack, as we report elsewhere in this issue of The Four Hundred. And there is also an update to the System Planning Tool. Let’s do the latter first and the former last.

The System Planning Tool, version 6.23.340, is now available for download at this link. The System Planning Tool is used by customers and business partners to build valid system configurations for Power Systems machines and their software stacks. You can look at the release notes for various SPT generations here.

Now on to the …
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ACS, Merlin Hit With Serious Security Vulnerabilities

Many Different Kinds Of Cloud, Very Big Piles Of Money

Happy Holidays To You And Yours From Us And Ours

As I See It: Riffing On Retirement

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 50

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