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How To Contribute To IBM’s GenAI Code Assistant For RPG

July 15, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Back in October 2023, IBM launched its “Project Hopper” Watsonx Code Assistant for Z, which as the name suggests is a programming assistant that will eventually be built into the open source VS Code integrated development environment that was created by Microsoft and that is being explicitly trained to help programmers take applications coded in COBOL and convert them to Java. We speculated back then about how LLMs and GenAI might be used to do similar – and different – things for the IBM i platform, and back in May at the POWERUp 2024 conference Steve Will, the chief …
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Maxava Strengthens Leadership Team With Key Appointments

July 15, 2024 John Dominic

As Maxava positions itself for continued growth and innovation around the world, we are thrilled to announce several key appointments that will enhance our leadership team. These strategic moves are designed to strengthen our operational capabilities, meet complex customer demands, and expand our international market presence in HA/DR, multi-platform monitoring and security.

Sheena Bernard has been promoted to vice president of operations. In her new role, Sheena will oversee the technical, development, and services teams, ensuring that Maxava continues to deliver innovative solutions and support to our clients. Sheena has extensive commercial, business improvement, and operational management expertise, having previously …
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What’s Cooking In Code For IBM i?

July 15, 2024 Alex Woodie

With IBM beginning to pull back on green screen development tools for IBM i, the importance of Code for IBM i to the IBM i development community has never been greater. The good news is that there’s a lot of development activity at the moment around the Visual Studio Code plug-in, with new features to replace some of the outgoing greenscreen functionality.

IBM announced that it was killing off some of the green screen development tools in its Application Development Toolset (ADTS) as part of its Technology Refresh (TR) for IBM i 7.4 and 7.5 in early May. Among the …
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Fans Revving Like Crazy On Your Power10? Check The Firmware

July 15, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan

It doesn’t happen very often, but sometimes a patch to firmware for Power Systems is defective, and when it does happen, we like to point it out.

Defective PTFs happen fairly regularly with IBM i, as defective patches happen for other operating systems. Sometimes the effects of defective PTF patches are dramatic, sometimes they are just weird. Sometimes they are in between.

Both IBM i 7.4 and IBM i 7.5 have a defective patch in the firmware for Power10 systems, and to be super precise it affects machine types 9105-22A (Power S1022), 9105-22B (Power S1022s), 9105-41B (Power S1014), 9105-42A (Power …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 26, Number 27

July 15, 2024 Doug Bidwell

Get your PTF patching fingers all cracked and stretched because you will be doing some typing this week. There are a three security issues you need to cope with and a slew of patches that run the gamut of subsystems on the platform. As usual, let’s start with the security vulnerabilities.

First, we have Security Bulletin: IBM Java SDK and IBM Java Runtime for IBM i are vulnerable to a denial of service and bypassing security restrictions due to multiple vulnerabilities, which you can find out more about here. The patches for this issue, by IBM i release level, …
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How To Contribute To IBM’s GenAI Code Assistant For RPG

Maxava Strengthens Leadership Team With Key Appointments

What’s Cooking In Code For IBM i?

Fans Revving Like Crazy On Your Power10? Check The Firmware

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 26, Number 27

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