TFH Volume: 34 Issue: 57 Archives

Power11 Takes Memory Bandwidth Up To, Well, Eleven

December 2, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Last week, we went over the roadmaps for the future Power11 processor from IBM and its follow-on, the Power Next chip that we presume will be called Power 12 because, you know, history. This week we want to take a little bit of a deeper dive into the Power11 strategy and what this might mean for the systems that Big Blue will be building in the future.

If IBM’s change in strategy with Power Systems since the Power9 generation has not been obvious to you, it perhaps bears pointing out. In the Power8 and Power9 generations, IBM was trying to …
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Thoroughly Modern: AI Success for IBM i Organizations – Small Beginnings, Big Benefits

December 2, 2024 John Clark

AI is transforming how businesses operate, but for many IBM i users, the path forward feels unclear. Questions pile up: Where does one begin? How do you choose a project that delivers real results? What if AI causes more disruption than benefit?

The challenge is real: large-scale AI projects demand significant time, resources, and expertise. There is new terminology, new skills, and a blizzard of possible tools. For most organizations, this feels out of reach. But the solution lies in starting small.

Small AI projects solve specific problems, provide value, and build confidence without overhauls or unreasonable risk. Learn how …
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Stop Coding In C and C++, Feds Say

December 2, 2024 Alex Woodie

Two federal agencies asked the IT world last month to stop developing applications in memory unsafe languages like C and C++ and to come up with roadmaps to migrate existing apps. While the security alert is unlikely to have a major impact on IBM i application development, the C family of languages does have a presence on the IBM midrange server that will be very tough to remove.

Organizations should immediately stop developing new applications written in memory unsafe languages like C and C++, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) warned last …
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As I See It: Gratitude

December 2, 2024 Victor Rozek

Tech has taken a number of hits this year, and many of them were aptly deserved. The issues are well known and thoroughly documented. What is often obscured, what is often lost amid the outrage, are some of tech’s extraordinary accomplishments. They are overlooked in part because they have become the baseline for our expectations.

In the smartphone, for example, the least among us has access to more computing capacity than powered the first Moon landing. We hold a miracle in our hand, and get annoyed if our text message isn’t promptly delivered.

Imagine, for a moment, living in the …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 26, Number 45

December 2, 2024 Doug Bidwell

It was pretty quiet in PTF Land just after The Four Hundred went on publishing hiatus, and we are still playing catch up getting out the sequential changes to the IBM i patch stack and any security vulnerabilities you may need to be aware of.

The good news this time around is that we have not run across any security issues. So carry on, and have a look at the High Impact/Pervasive (HIPER) and security patches that have been put out for IBM i 7.3, IBM i 7.4, and IBM i 7.5.

Here is the rundown of PTF Groups by …
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Power11 Takes Memory Bandwidth Up To, Well, Eleven

Thoroughly Modern: AI Success for IBM i Organizations – Small Beginnings, Big Benefits

Stop Coding In C and C++, Feds Say

As I See It: Gratitude

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 26, Number 45

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