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IBM Begins the Purge of Old Greenscreen Utilities

July 10, 2024 Alex Woodie

IBM is prepping the IBM i community to prepare to adapt to some substantial changes that are coming with the next release of IBM i, including the end of support for a large swath of the Application Development ToolSet (ADTS) that ships with Rational Development Studio (RDS). Source Entry Utility (SEU) and Programming Development Manager (PDM) are not among the ADTS tools getting the boot, but that’s not stopping midrange professionals from speculating that their time in IBM i is limited, too.

As part of its May 7 Technology Refresh for IBM i 7.4 and 7.5, IBM issued a “software …
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Where Do RPG Programmers Come From? And Other IBM i Questions

July 10, 2024 Alex Woodie

The IBM i community has faced a skills crunch off and on for the past decade or longer, as Baby Boomers retire and IBM i shops struggle to find replacements. One big reason for the hiring gap is that the old ways of finding new RPG programmers and other IBM i professionals no longer work like they used to, according to IBM i educator Jim Buck.

“What they did for years was they just stole from the guys down the road,” said Buck, who is the president and CEO of IBM i training company imPower Technologies. ‘“I’ll go to …
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IBM Bolsters Data and App Integration with webMethods, StreamSets Acquisitions

July 10, 2024 Alex Woodie

IBM i shops are among the customers that could benefit from IBM’s completion of its acquisition of webMethods and StreamSets, which it announced last week.

In mid-December, IBM announced an agreement had been reached with Software AG and Silver Lake, the private equity firm that owned a majority of Software AG, to acquire webMethods and StreamSets for €2.13 billion, or $2.32 billion per the conversation rate at the time.

The two deals significantly bolster IBM offerings in the fields of data and application integration, which are areas of growing concern due to the rising popularity of artificial intelligence and the …
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Four Hundred Monitor, July 10

July 10, 2024 Jenny Thomas

“The artificial intelligence boom across all industries has fueled anxiety in the workforce, with employees fearing ethical usage, legal risks and job displacement,” according to a recent report from Ernst & Young. AI remains at the top of the news cycle across many industries, and, of course, our IBM i ecosystem is no exception. And that means the people who work on and around the IBM i are also no exception to being concerned. Find out what the biggest AI worries are for employees in our Top Story this week, and then read on to get the round up from …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 26, Number 26

July 10, 2024 Doug Bidwell

After a pretty busy few weeks, you are getting a bit of a break, with only one security vulnerability this week. You can read about it in Security Bulletin: IBM Managed System Services for i and IBM System Management for i are vulnerable to a local user gaining elevated privilege due to unqualified library calls (CVE-2024-38330), with details at this link.

The IBM i PTF numbers for 5770-MG1 and 5770-SM1 contain the fixes for the vulnerability, as follows:
```
IBM i Release	5770-MG1	PTF Number
7.4			SJ01170
7.3			SJ01174
7.2			SJ01175
	5770-SM1	PTF Number
7.4			SJ01325
7.3			SJ01324
7.2			SJ01323
```
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IBM Begins the Purge of Old Greenscreen Utilities

Where Do RPG Programmers Come From? And Other IBM i Questions

IBM Bolsters Data and App Integration with webMethods, StreamSets Acquisitions

Four Hundred Monitor, July 10

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 26, Number 26

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