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Ethical Hackers Discuss Penetration Work On IBM i

September 16, 2024 Alex Woodie

The IBM i server is heralded as a secure platform, but in reality, it is susceptible to a range of attacks, including common ones and others that are unique to the platform. To help push the security ball forward and encourage secure IBM i configurations, researchers from Silent Signal recently discussed their latest work during a European ethical hacking conference.

In just a few years working on IBM i, Bálint Varga-Perke and Zoltan Panczel, the co-founders of the Hungarian company Silent Signal, have identified a handful security vulnerabilities on the platform, including a moderate security flaw in DDN in …
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ISE Grows MSP Business With Maxava’s Monitor Mi8

September 16, 2024 Ash Giddings

Maxava, the global provider of innovative monitoring, high availability, and disaster recovery software and services solutions for the IBM i platform, announced today that Information Systems Engineering (ISE) is finding success using Maxava’s Mi8 to monitor its clients IBM i systems.

ISE, which provides consulting, software, and managed services for IBM i clients, was founded in 1984. The company’s specialty is working with the Infor XA (MAPICS) line of ERP software. The company also owns Paper-Less, a manufacturing execution solution (MES). Experts in the IBM i, ISE employees have over 300 years of RPG programming experience and over 70 years …
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Big Blue Makes The Case For IBM i P05 And P10 Subscriptions

September 16, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan

We have been chronicling the transformation of the IBM i software stack from perpetual licenses with tech support to the more modern and now more normal subscription pricing that we have for both commercial and consumer software and other services these days.

The last program in the stack to move from perpetual to subscription for the IBM i P05 and P10 software tiers was Backup, Recovery and Media Services for i (5770-BR1), which was sunsetted on August 27 in announcement letter AD24-0665, and on January 1, 2025, you will not be able to order a perpetual license to BRMS …
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CICS Transaction Server For IBM i Is Sunsetted

September 16, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Way back during the Y2K crisis at the turn of the century, there were a lot of IBM mainframe shops that decided to port their COBOL applications and their related CICS transaction monitoring software to OS/400 rather than try to move to a new language and a new transaction monitor.

Mainframe COBOL and CICS are a bit different from OS/400 – and now IBM i – COBOL and CICS, but there was enough similarity that companies with large COBOL/CICS estates could make the jump from the ES/9000 to the AS/400 and IBM i platform, and thousands of such companies – …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 26, Number 36

September 16, 2024 Doug Bidwell

The Apache Web server and the WebSphere middleware that runs on top of it are not working together well. We have caught wind of the HTTP Apache Server Failing to Start After WebSphere 9.0 Fixpack Update. ‘HTP8091 HTTP Server post-configuration step failed’ Error in the HTTP Server Joblog, which you can find out more about here. After a WebSphere 9.0 fixpack update is applied, HTTP servers associated with a WebSphere 9.0 server fail to start and throw a “HTP8091 HTTP Server post-configuration step failed” error. Click on link above to see resolution.

Also, there is a security vulnerability you …
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Ethical Hackers Discuss Penetration Work On IBM i

ISE Grows MSP Business With Maxava’s Monitor Mi8

Big Blue Makes The Case For IBM i P05 And P10 Subscriptions

CICS Transaction Server For IBM i Is Sunsetted

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 26, Number 36

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