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Kisco Names Two IBM i Fellowship Winners, Expands Program

August 7, 2024 Alex Woodie

Kisco Systems last month unveiled the next batch of recipients for its unique IBM i fellowship program. The individuals, who hail from Oklahoma and Georgia, will receive IBM i training from imPower Technologies and attend COMMON conferences in Florida and California at Kisco’s expense. The company also announced that it will expand the fellowship to three recipients next year.

Justin Loeber, who purchased Kisco Systems from his father Richard in 2021, started the Richard C. Loeber Fellowship for Careers in IBM i last year as a way to incentivize the development of IBM i skills outside of the university setting. …
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NGS Bolsters Excel Integration in New Release

August 7, 2024 Alex Woodie

As far as legacy IT products go, Excel is right up there. Microsoft launched the spreadsheet tool back in 1985, making it three years older than the venerable IBM AS/400. For companies that run both of those products – well, the IBM i server, anyway – an upgrade of New Generation Software (NGS)’s flagship business intelligence tool will have users singing a happy tune.

While the IBM midrange server is a bit of a niche platform, Microsoft Excel is about as mainstream as you can get. The software is estimated to be used by 750 million people, or about one …
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IBM Launches AI-Powered Security Assistant

August 7, 2024 Alex Woodie

IBM this week launched a new AI-based security tool that’s designed to help security professionals who are deluged by data. Dubbed the IBM Consulting Cybersecurity Assistant, the new offering is based on IBM’s watsonx technology and is available (as the name would suggest) to IBM consulting clients.

Security professionals are constantly bombarded with alerts to the point where they are overloaded. A recent survey by CybSafe found that more than 25 percent of security professionals say they’re often or always feeling overwhelmed with information, while another 46 percent say they occasionally feel that way. A 2021 survey by Trend Micro …
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Four Hundred Monitor, August 7

August 7, 2024 Jenny Thomas

If you’ve been avoiding the onslaught of news of late, your friendly neighborhood Monitor is back to offer you a sampling of industry specific news to give you a break from all that is happening around the world. Of course, AI remains at the top of our news cycle, and we have an interesting prediction from Gartner on GenAI projects to share in our Top Stories below. But it’s not just all about AI, there is actually a lot happening out there in our ecosystem. Read on for all the latest from around the industry, and don’t miss some additions …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 26, Number 30

August 7, 2024 Doug Bidwell

Sometimes, you have to work really hard to try to figure out if you are going to have to do a lot of patching on the systems this week – and then you find out, to your pleasant surprise, that the hardest work you had to do was to find out that you really didn’t have to worry about much. Such is this week.

Basically, there are just new defective PTFs this week and that is about it.

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

PTF Groups 7.5:
- None
PTF Groups …
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Kisco Names Two IBM i Fellowship Winners, Expands Program

NGS Bolsters Excel Integration in New Release

IBM Launches AI-Powered Security Assistant

Four Hundred Monitor, August 7

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 26, Number 30

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