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  • IBM Sharpens Its Edge With “Bonnell” Entry Power10 System

    May 8, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    Through the many years that we have been following the OS/400 and IBM i platform, we have always been an advocate for powerful entry machines that act as a feeder into the larger machines into which customers might grow. Somewhere between 1988 and 2008, Moore’s Law outpaced the capacity increases that most small IBM i shops needed, and it has been difficult to make a machine that is small enough to be useful and cheap enough to be attractive yet expensive enough to make it all worth IBM’s while.

    Back in February 2017, Big Blue announced what we called the …

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  • Lost Data – The Silent Killer

    May 8, 2024 Richard Dolewski

    DATA is the BACKBONE of today’s organization. INFORMATION is the most valuable asset of the CORPORATION. When data is lost, held RANSOM, or simply unavailable, it negatively affects (and potentially halts) all desired business outcomes.

    Today’s dynamic business environments are based on a seamless flow of information. Organizations have invested in IT because they rely on technology to conduct business to sustain profitability.

    Systems of record that previously functioned in the background, include self-service and real-time connections, with endless application endpoints spanning across numerous clouds. Transaction flow of data now originates and is completed across numerous cloud interactions vs …

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  • Spring 2024 IBM i Technology Refresh Unveiled by IBM

    May 8, 2024 Alex Woodie

    IBM today took the wraps off the latest Technology Refresh for the IBM i platform. When IBM i 7.5 TR4 and 7.4 TR10 ship on June 14, customers will find enhancements such as Merlin version 2, new features in Navigator and ACS, security improvements, a couple of RPG enhancements, HA and DR enhancements, and a host of new SQL-based database services, among other capabilities.

    In addition to new features, which we’ll get to in a second, the launch of IBM i 7.5 TR4 and 7.4 TR10 is important for an unexpected reason: It will mark the beginning of IBM’s transition …

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  • Four Hundred Monitor, May 8

    May 8, 2024 Jenny Thomas

    Yesterday was announcement day for IBM, which is always an exciting day for our community. We were right on top of it here in the Jungle, releasing two breaking news pieces to cover the launch of Power S1012 and the latest Technology Refresh for the IBM i platform. You can read both articles in our Top Stories section below, and you can be assured that it is only the beginning of our coverage as we will continue to dissect what we’ve learned and research more details for you. Enjoy this week’s edition of Monitor!

    Top Stories From Around The Jungle

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  • April Showers Bring May IBM i Security Vulnerabilities

    May 8, 2024 Alex Woodie

    IBM has patched more than a dozen security flaws in IBM i and related products this spring, including serious flaws in the operating system proper and the compilers, and a critical vulnerability in Administrative Runtime Expert that landed a nearly perfect CVSS Base score.

    In the interest of time, let’s cover the security vulnerabilities in descending order of severity. That means we’re starting with the worst and then moving on to the slightly less worse.

    ARE Flaw

    The flaw reported in the Administration Runtime Expert for i (ARE), which IBM launched in 2010 to make it easier to manage IBM …

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