TFH Volume: 34 Issue: 12 Archives

PUB400: Your Free IBM i Playground

March 4, 2024 Alex Woodie

Search the Web for “free Linux server” and hundreds of results pop up. Do the same for “free IBM i server” and your results are much more limited. But what the universe of free IBM i servers lacks in quantity it makes up in quality thanks in large part to PUB400, a free IBM i instance that has been serving the midrange community for nearly a quarter century.

Many IT Jungle readers undoubtedly are familiar with PUB400.com, which was started by Holger Scherer on a little AS/400 Model 150 back in 1999. Over the years, the site and the …
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Focusing On People: Strengthening Cybersecurity In IBM Power Systems

March 4, 2024 Tom Horan

In the digital realm, cybersecurity is crucial, particularly for essential infrastructures like IBM Power Systems. These machines support various business functions and are prime targets for cyberattacks. Even the most fortified tech defenses can crumble due to one human error. This concise guide highlights the critical importance of the human element in safeguarding IBM Power Systems from cyber threats and outlines key strategies for implementing a people-centric security framework.

Understanding The Threat Scene

The cyber threat landscape is constantly evolving and becoming increasingly complex, with hackers continuously devising new, innovative tactics to exploit vulnerabilities. Among the emerging trends are ransomware …
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More Critical Security Vulns Reported In IBM i Components

March 4, 2024 Alex Woodie

The run of serious security vulnerabilities in IBM i components continues in early 2024, as IBM reported 10 new flaws exist across OpenSSH, the Apache Web Server, ISC, and Facsimile Support for IBM i in February and early March. All of the flaws impact IBM i 7.2 through 7.5 and all have been patched by IBM via PTFs.

The most critical of the recent batch of security flaws exists in OpenSSH, the open source security utility for establishing encrypted communications between hosts and clients. As described by IBM in this February 23 security bulletin, the vulnerability (CVE-2023-51385) is caused …
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Some Clarity – Well Actually Less – On IBM i Subscriptions

March 4, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan

As we pointed out a few weeks ago, it looks like at least some aspects of Big Blue’s subscription model for pricing hardware and systems software is a work in progress. We accidentally saw an IBM document dated February 15 that had updated some aspects of the subscription pricing for machines in the IBM i P05 and P10 software tiers and said that others would be updated on May 7.

In the time that it took us to write that story, which wasn’t long, IBM took the PDF down and said that it needed to make edits to that …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 26, Number 9

March 4, 2024 Doug Bidwell

IBM i 7.2 has been superseded a long time ago, but there is still a lot of it in the Power Systems installed base and Big Blue is still making updates to it for those customers who are stuck on the 7.2 release and who are stuck paying for extended support, which is very expensive. To that end, there is a new 720 Group HIPER, level 242, rolled up in PTF patch SF99719, which you can read about here.

There are also two new security vulnerabilities for the IBM i stack.

First, we have Security Bulletin: IBM WebSphere Application …
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PUB400: Your Free IBM i Playground

Focusing On People: Strengthening Cybersecurity In IBM Power Systems

Understanding The Threat Scene

More Critical Security Vulns Reported In IBM i Components

Some Clarity – Well Actually Less – On IBM i Subscriptions

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 26, Number 9

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