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Yet More Announcements On IBM i Software Subscriptions

March 18, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan

In the past two years, Big Blue has done of lot of things to repackage the IBM i software stack, and even its entry Power Systems machinery, to be consistent with the modern world of utility pricing for IT systems. Many are not thrilled by this, of course, and not just because they are resistant to change. While IBM is bundling in many features and add-ons to the stack for free as it shifts to subscriptions, the core IBM i subscriptions are without question more expensive than buying a perpetual license and paying Software Maintenance over a five, six, or …
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Raz-Lee Adds Zero-Trust Features To IBM i Firewall

March 18, 2024 Alex Woodie

IBM i shops that are looking to implement a zero-trust security posture in their IBM i systems may want to check out Raz-Lee Security. The software company has added micro-segmentation capability to its iSecurity Firewall product, giving IBM i shops another level of control over their networks.

Zero-trust is one of the more promising methods to secure an internal network these days, as it requires users to be authenticated, authorized, and continuously validated before being granted access to internal applications or data. It has been widely adopted in corporate networks as one aspect of a strong defense, particularly in Windows …
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The Time Is Now To Get A GenAI Strategy

March 18, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan

I was born a little less than a year after IBM launched its venerable System/360 mainframe platform, arguably the first information technology platform ever created and sold at scale. I graduated from college six months after the AS/400 was launched and was the founding editor of this newsletter you are now reading a little more than a year after Silverlake came to market and showed what a real platform could look like.

I was present during the Unix revolution, the client/server revolution, the commercial Internet revolution, and the big data revolutions, and I was absolutely at the forefront of commercial …
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Sundry IBM Tape Subsystem Announcements

March 18, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan

IBM has been shipping tape drives and tape libraries based on LTO-9 tape cartridge technology for nearly three years, which is why we think it is odd that last week we saw that the TS2290 machine now has a feature code to attach to IBM i or OS/400 systems.

In announcement letter AD24-0463, which is pretty terse as these things go, we see that there is a new feature code 9400 for the TS2290 tape drive, also known as the 3580 Model H9S. This appears to be just a feature code to allow for direct attachment of the TS2290 …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 26, Number 11

March 18, 2024 Doug Bidwell

This week in IBM i is sponsored by security vulnerabilities and precious little else. There are three security vulnerabilities that are new that you need to be aware of, so let’s get to it and let you get back to work.

First, we have Security Bulletin: IBM Db2 Web Query for i is vulnerable to a remote attacker bypassing security restrictions or to denial of service, which you can read more about here. The fixes are as follows:
```
IBM Db2 Web Query for i 		Release		OS Release
5733WQX 		2.4.0		7.4 and 7.5
				SI85982
				SI85987
```
Second, we have Security Bulletin: …
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Yet More Announcements On IBM i Software Subscriptions

Raz-Lee Adds Zero-Trust Features To IBM i Firewall

The Time Is Now To Get A GenAI Strategy

Sundry IBM Tape Subsystem Announcements

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 26, Number 11

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