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Sundry Hardware Announcements Accompany IBM i TR Updates

October 14, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan

With high-end Power10 machines coming out in September 2021 and most of the Power10 lineup coming in July 2022, we don’t expect much in the way of substantial Power10 system announcement at this point in that processor’s lifecycle. The “Bonnell” entry Power S1012 machine from this year May is, in fact, probably the last Power10 machine to come out the door until Power11 systems come out next year some time.

But IBM is always tweaking things here and there when it comes to hardware features and bundles, and so it is with the October IBM i platform updates. We saw …
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How To Have The Wisdom Of Experts Woven Into Your Code

October 14, 2024 Nicholas DeLessio

No matter how far you are down the road with your DevOps automation journey, or even if you’re not yet starting that journey, it’s probably a good idea to have a code checker; not everyone can have a Linus Torvalds review their work (as famously happens with the open source Linux kernel), but there are automation tools available for various languages and platforms that do static code analysis and they are the next best thing.

These tools, sometimes called “code linters” (because they remove the fuzzy bits out of application logic like actual linters remove imperfections stuck to our clothing), …
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Big Blue Bolsters Navigator For i With New Stuff

October 14, 2024 Alex Woodie

Changes are afoot with Navigator for i, the Web-based administrative tool for the IBM i platform, which gains a range of new capabilities with the latest Technology Refresh. Some of the more visible additions to Navigator include complete support for the Advanced Job Scheduler and expanded support for new security journal data mart. But not to be overlooked are the retirement of the old Web Admin GUI (with replacements in Navigator), and enhancements to PDI.

Navigator for i is IBM’s strategic Web-based console for administrating the IBM i server. The product enables administrators to monitor and manage various components of …
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Power Systems Management Stack Updated Alongside TR Updates

October 14, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan

If there are Technology Refreshes for the IBM i stack and new Technology Levels for AIX, then that means IBM has also updated a slew of systems software and middleware that runs atop these stacks. This being the fall, then we knew that TRs were coming for IBM and we therefore knew that updates were coming for PowerVM, VIOS, PowerVC, Cloud Management Console, and the Hardware Management Console.

The enhancements for these collections of software were part of the October 8 announcements, were detailed in announcement letter AD24-0630, and will be available for electronic download on December 12 this …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 26, Number 40

October 14, 2024 Doug Bidwell

First off this week, there is a security vulnerability for you to deal with in your IBM i systems. Specifically, we have Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in MD5 Signature and Hash Algorithm affects IBM i (CVE-2015-7575), which you can read more about here. IBM i releases 6.1, 7.1. and 7.2 are supported and will be fixed as follows:

5770-999, 5770-SS1:
- Release 6.1.1 – MF60292
- Release 7.1 – SI59229, MF61242, MF60291
- Release 7.2 – SI59230, MF61243, MF60290
5770-UME:
- CIM 1.3: SI59244
- CIM 1.4: SI59193
Also, be aware of changes to data upload for IBM Support – Preparing customer firewalls and proxies …
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Sundry Hardware Announcements Accompany IBM i TR Updates

How To Have The Wisdom Of Experts Woven Into Your Code

Big Blue Bolsters Navigator For i With New Stuff

Power Systems Management Stack Updated Alongside TR Updates

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 26, Number 40

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