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Plotting Out Power Systems And IBM i To 2040 And Beyond

April 8, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan

It may be hard to believe, but with the launch of IBM i 7.6 today, it has been 13,440 days since OS/400 V1R1 was announced on June 21, 1988, and Big Blue has delivered 27 distinct releases of the OS/400 and IBM i platform with dozens of Technology Refresh interim updates between releases in the IBM i 7.X series.

It took nearly three years to go from OS/400 V1R1 to OS/400 V2R1, and there were no interim releases and Technology Refreshes were not going to be invented for a long time. With the V2 series, hardware and software releases in …
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IBM i 7.6 Delivers “Massive Security Improvement” With Built-In MFA

April 8, 2025 Alex Woodie

Big Blue today announced IBM i 7.6, the first new release of the operating system in three years. While version 7.6 brings a range of enhancements, arguably the biggest new feature is the addition of multi-factor authentication directly into the operating system, which will make adopting MFA simple and represent a “massive security improvement” at no additional cost to IBM i shops, the IBM i security architect said.

MFA has emerged as an industry requirement to improve security and prevent unauthorized access to applications and data. Most North American banks require customers to enter additional codes that are texted or …
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Oft-Requested SQL Function Coming In IBM i 7.6

April 8, 2025 Alex Woodie

IBM i engineers and product managers have no shortage of feature requests to wade through, some of which make it into the platform and many of which do not. With the upcoming delivery of IBM i 7.6, IBM will be delivering one of the most often requested features: Support for UPDATE and DELETE statements in the data-change-table-reference clause of a SQL statement.

While the capability to update and delete statements with data-change-table-reference may not sound like a big deal, it actually represents a significant improvement that will simplify database programming tasks for developers, according to Scott Forstie, IBM’s Db2 for …
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IBM Buys Snowflake Expert Hakkoda To Speed Data Modernization For AI

April 8, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan

The company may be best known for selling systems and software, but IBM still has a pretty large consultancy and services business even after spinning off a lot of outsource and hosting businesses as Kyndryl several years ago. Expertise is important to any consultancy, which means having the knowledge about how to solve pesky problems that can be applied to many clients, speeding up their projects and bolstering IBM’s revenues and profits.

That, in a nutshell, is what IBM’s acquisition of Hakkoda, consultancy founded as a partner to help IT shops move to Snowflake, the cloudy data warehouse system provider, …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 27, Number 14

April 8, 2025 Doug Bidwell

If you need a little something to wake you up, or a little night reading before you drift off to sleep, check out the Known Issues And Fix Information database at Big Blue for the IBM platform, which you can see here. The IBM i PTF Guide is meant to save you from having to be familiar with this, of course. But it can’t hurt to be aware of this database.

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

PTF Groups 7.5:
- HIPERs (High Impact/Pervasive)
- Java
- Backup Recovery Solutions
- Content Manager
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Plotting Out Power Systems And IBM i To 2040 And Beyond

IBM i 7.6 Delivers “Massive Security Improvement” With Built-In MFA

Oft-Requested SQL Function Coming In IBM i 7.6

IBM Buys Snowflake Expert Hakkoda To Speed Data Modernization For AI

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 27, Number 14

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