TFH Volume: 34 Issue: 20 Archives

Drilling Down Into New IBM i Perpetual And Subscription Pricing

April 15, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan

As we reported in last week’s issue, Big Blue increased pricing on its pricing for per-core perpetual software licenses, per user licensing fees, Software Maintenace, and subscription prices back on January 1. We missed the change – again, apologies for that – and let you know about the basics of these and other hardware and software price changes. This week we are going to look at the effect of these changes on the cost of the base IBM i systems software stack.

To review: On September 9 last year, IBM announced the price increases that went into effect as …
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Securing The Crown Jewels When Intruders Break Into The Glass House

April 15, 2024 Ash Giddings

Recognizing the importance of proactive cybersecurity, Maxava is proud to announce the launch of Maxava Security, a ground-breaking solution set to revolutionize IBM i data protection. Departing from conventional reactive measures prevalent in many IBM i security solutions, Maxava Security heralds a proactive paradigm shift, prioritizing heightened visibility along with swift recovery over the traditional incident-response model.

The IBM i server has long been a workhorse in the business world. Renowned for its reliability, stability, and ability to secure, it hums away in the background, running key applications while housing mission critical data for countless organizations. Yet, no system is …
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Guru: Fooling Around With SQL And RPG

April 15, 2024 Gregory Simmons

Editor’s Note: This was originally scheduled to be published on April 1. No joke. And for a lot of complex reasons, that could not happen. But, it’s still fun, so enjoy.

I started out one morning, purely interested in having a bit of fun. Honest. In RSS within ACS, I often like to run this SQL:
```
 select *
 from json_table(
      QSYS2.HTTP_GET('https://icanhazdadjoke.com/',
              '{"header": "Accept,application/json", "sslTolerate":"true"}'),
              'lax $' columns ("joke" varchar(200) CCSID 1208)
      )
```
Okay, that was fun. This is harmless, good fun. But then I thought, what if I put this into a simple RPG program? Then I …
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As I See It: With Deepfakes, Nothing Is Real Except The Consequences

April 15, 2024 Victor Rozek

With an election looming that promises to be conducted with snake-oil ethics, the Congress recently turned its attention from its usual dysfunctional finger pointing to hear testimony about the growing plague of deepfakes.

The usual suspects were represented, in this case Google and Meta, by a spokesman from the industry-funded lobbying group NetChoice. Not surprisingly, they wrapped themselves in the First Amendment and accepted little or no responsibility for what their users post online. They argued that existing laws governing fraud and harassment were sufficient to protect targets (aka victims) of deepfakes.

Standing against the “it’s-not-our-fault” brigade was the mother …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 26, Number 15

April 15, 2024 Doug Bidwell

Hey, this is interesting. We have no security vulnerabilities to report on this week for the IBM i platform. And this is also interesting. There is a new version of Access Client Solutions, called V1.1.9.5. We will be putting together a news story to talk about this, but in the meantime, we thought you should know that it is out. There ain’t a lot else going on, as you will see.

Here is the rundown of PTF Groups by IBM i release level since we last published:

PTF Groups 7.5:
- IBM i Access Client Solutions V1.1.9.5
- QMGTOOLS
PTF Groups 7.4: …
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Drilling Down Into New IBM i Perpetual And Subscription Pricing

Securing The Crown Jewels When Intruders Break Into The Glass House

Guru: Fooling Around With SQL And RPG

As I See It: With Deepfakes, Nothing Is Real Except The Consequences

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 26, Number 15

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