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Youthful IBM i Optimism In Fort Worth

June 3, 2024 Alex Woodie

The IBM i community showed up in force last month for COMMON’s annual conference. And they sure didn’t drive or fly to Fort Worth for the weather, which was hot and muggy. The POWERUp 2024 attendees – all 1,100 of them – came to the show to learn about the platform, which may be in the early stages of – dare we say it? – a youth moment.

First things first: the attendance number. COMMON was shooting for about 1,000, which is about where its annual spring conference has been for the better part of a decade (the fall conferences …
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ARCAD Breaks Up Monolithic Code With New Transformer Tool

June 3, 2024 Alex Woodie

There are many different aspects to application modernization: moving from 5250 greenscreens to Web interfaces, adopting the SQL database engine, and using DevOps techniques. Another part of modernization is breaking up monolithic codebases into smaller, more manageable chunks that can be more readily integrated using APIs and Web services, and that’s the goal of a new version of its Transformer product line launched recently by ARCAD Software.

ARCAD Software already offers several capabilities under its Transformer brand, including Transformer RPG for converting fixed-format RPG to free-format RPG; Transformer DB for converting DDS files to modern DDL tables; Transformer Field for …
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Guru: With Procedure Driven RPG, Be Precise With Options(*Exact)

June 3, 2024 Gregory Simmons

Introduced to the RPG language in V7R2 TR1 and V7R3 TR7, the Options(*Exact) enables RPG programmers to adopt a more defensive coding style. Defensive coding is something all developers should be practicing.

DISCLAIMER: The edibility of the mushrooms listed in my test program are purely to give the program a little context and make it interesting. Their edible status is from the publication by the Missouri Department of Conservation called A Guide to Missouri’s Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms. Before foraging for and/or consuming any wild mushroom, do your research and be safe.
```
**Free
Ctl-Opt Main(Test_Exact_Options);
Ctl-Opt Debug Option(*SrcStmt:*NoDebugIO);
```
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A Match Made In The Midrange: IBM i And FlashSystem

June 3, 2024 Steven McIver

If you are only looking at IBM i from the “green screen,” not much has changed over the years. We run mostly the same commands and access the same operating system menus. It can seem like time has stood still and IBM i has not changed at all.

However, from the infrastructure point of view, that is certainly not the case. In this article, I want to focus on the popular external storage option for IBM i systems, which is FlashSystem. There have been some great new features that have been added lately to make the storage administrator’s life easier. …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 26, Number 20

June 3, 2024 Doug Bidwell

Here is something you need to be aware of: IBM i APAR and PTF records have migrated to Known Issues records and Fix Information records to be consistent with other IBM patching systems for other platforms and software. So read up on it at this link here.

And, as often happens, we also have three new security vulnerabilities to cope with.

First, we have Security Bulletin: IBM WebSphere Application Server and IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty are vulnerable to an XML External Entity (XXE) injection vulnerability (CVE-2024-22354), which you can find out more about here. Here are the …
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Youthful IBM i Optimism In Fort Worth

ARCAD Breaks Up Monolithic Code With New Transformer Tool

Guru: With Procedure Driven RPG, Be Precise With Options(*Exact)

A Match Made In The Midrange: IBM i And FlashSystem

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 26, Number 20

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