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IBM Nears The End of the Road for Server Reliability Improvements

October 21, 2024 Alex Woodie

Reliability has always been one of the hallmarks of IBM big iron, the midrange and mainframe systems hundreds of thousands of companies run their businesses on around the world. These sturdy systems simply don’t go down very often, certainly less frequently than “industry-standard” (i.e. Intel-based) systems. In fact, the System z and Power systems are so reliable that, statistically speaking, there’s very little room for improvement.

For data on uptime and reliability, we turn to Information Technology Intelligence Consulting (ITIC), which is led by longtime IT industry analyst Laura DiDio. ITIC has been conducting an annual server and operating system …
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IBM Previews New Power Tech At TechXchange Event

October 21, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan

I wish we could tell you what was up, but we don’t know what it is. But we do know that all of the top tech brass at Big Blue related to the Power Systems platform are going to be participating in the keynote address at IBM’s TechXchange 2024 event in Las Vegas – what we used to call PartnerWorld – on Tuesday.

Like a bad AI model with not enough parameters and not enough data broken down into tokens, we have to try to infer from first principles what IBM might be announcing and therefore what we might see …
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Guru: Web Concepts For The RPG Developer, Part 4

October 21, 2024 Chris Ringer

The final article in this series is about the JWT (JSON Web Token). If you wish to review the previous articles, you can drill back from part three. For unattended machine to machine (M2M) processes, a JWT string is a formatted container for requesting access to a resource server. I think of a resource server as the applications. And in our case, the JWT has an asymmetric signature.

But really, what is a JWT? It’s similar to a temporary driver’s license. Think about your last visit to a hotel (figure 1).

Steps:
1. You present your ID (JWT) during check-in
…
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IBM Working On Making Enterprise Java Easier

October 21, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Java is important in the enterprise, and getting more important, and IBM wants to help make managing and using Java easier.

At this time last year, there were 26.3 million application developers in the world, and according to CodeNinja, about 20 million of them were reasonably fluent in JavaScript, nearly double the number six years ago. (We are not sure if CodeNinja is counting Node.js as a variant of JavaScript, as it probably should.)

Java, a much older cross-platform language and the lingua franca of business logic in the enterprise, is not as large but is seeing a bit …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 26, Number 41

October 21, 2024 Doug Bidwell

Don’t get hyper about HIPERs, but there are some issues you need to deal with if you have moved to IBM i 7.5. High Impact / Highly Pervasive (HIPER) Issue Potential undetected data loss can occur on LPARs using NPIV with certain Fibre Channel adapters. Potential undetected data loss can occur on LPARs using NPIV over Fibre Channel adapters with the following Feature Codes: EN1E/EN1F, EN1G/EN1H, EN1J/EN1K, EN2L/EN2M, and EN2N/EN2P.

You can read about this HIPER PTF at this link.

Now, there are also two security vulnerabilities on this week’s To Do list.

First, we have Security Bulletin: IBM …
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IBM Nears The End of the Road for Server Reliability Improvements

IBM Previews New Power Tech At TechXchange Event

Guru: Web Concepts For The RPG Developer, Part 4

IBM Working On Making Enterprise Java Easier

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 26, Number 41

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