TFH Volume: 35 Issue: 17 Archives

IBM Unveils Manzan, A New Open Source Event Monitor For IBM i

May 5, 2025 Alex Woodie

IBM developers have created a new open source event monitor for IBM i. Dubbed Manzan, the project, which was spearheaded by IBM i open source guru Jesse Gorzinski, promises to provide a versatile way to ingest and redistribute a variety of IBM i event data types to downstream tools, thereby consolidating event monitoring for a wide range of use cases behind a single pane of glass.

There are no shortages of ways that users can monitor what is going on in their IBM i server. There are job logs to look at, message queues to inspect, and even stream files …
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Say Goodbye To Downtime: Update Your Database Without Taking Your Business Offline

May 5, 2025 Donna Westmoreland

Downtime is costly, impacting productivity, revenue, and customer trust. For retailers and financial institutions, even a few minutes can mean significant losses. This is why enterprises rely on IBM i Db2 for mission-critical systems. IBM i offers 99.999 percent availability, high stability, robust failover strategies, and real-time monitoring to reduce unplanned downtime.

However, planned downtime for critical updates and projects is also necessary. The challenge lies in scheduling this maintenance and upgrades without disrupting business applications. So, how can we utilize new functionality and optimize systems with minimal disruption?

Database File Updates

It is not surprising that businesses tend to …
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i-Rays Brings Observability To IBM i Performance Problems

May 5, 2025 Alex Woodie

One of the new IBM i products that POWERUp 2025 attendees will get to check out later this month is i-Rays. Developed by the Polish software company Omnilogy, i-Rays is an observability tool that helps customers to detect performance issues with their IBM i server, investigate the causes, and then get a machine learning-based recommendation on how to fix it.

Performance issues are rare on the IBM i, which is generally a tireless transactional workhorse, but they can happen. When legitimate performance problems do crop up, it can be difficult to track down the source of the problem unless you …
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Another Non-TR “Technology Refresh” Happens With IBM i TR6

May 5, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan

As you know, Big Blue released IBM i 7.6 and IBM i 7.5 Technology Refresh 6 (TR6) on April 8, with the expectation that both would ship to customers on April 18. IBM i 7.6 was detailed in announcement letter AD25-0031 and IBM i 7.5 TR6 was revealed in announcement letter AD25-0077. We’re all good there. And many of the features in IBM i 7.6 were backcast as a refresh into IBM i 7.5 with TR6, if you read the announcement letters.

IBM i 7.6 was available on April 18 as expected, but we know a bunch of people …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 27, Number 18

May 5, 2025 Doug Bidwell

Welcome to May, and we start out with PH65941, a notice from Big Blue that IBM WebSphere Application Server is vulnerable to server-side request forgery (CVE-2025-27907 CVSS 4.1). You can check out this link for more details. IBM says that the fix for this APAR is set to be included with WebSphere Application Server 8.5.5.28 and 9.0.5.24. We are not sure when that will happen.

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

PTF Groups 7.6:
- HIPERs – High Impact Pervasive
- Group Security
- Performance Tools
- IBM HTTP Server for i
- Content
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IBM Unveils Manzan, A New Open Source Event Monitor For IBM i

Say Goodbye To Downtime: Update Your Database Without Taking Your Business Offline

Database File Updates

i-Rays Brings Observability To IBM i Performance Problems

Another Non-TR “Technology Refresh” Happens With IBM i TR6

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 27, Number 18

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