TFH Volume: 35 Issue: 19 Archives

FAX/400 And CICS For i Are Dead. What Will IBM Kill Next?

May 19, 2025 Alex Woodie

A number of IBM i products and functions were sunsetted and are no longer supported with IBM i 7.6, including some of the greenscreen Application Development ToolSet (ADTS) tools like Screen Design Aid (SDA) and Report Layout Utility (RLU), and more than two dozen others. This shouldn’t come as news, as IBM previously announced its intent. But what products and functions will IBM kill with the next release of IBM i? A cryptic post by IBM on its website has the community talking.

As part of the May 2024 Technology Refresh (TR) cycle for IBM i 7.4 and 7.5, Big …
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Fresche Overhauls X-Analysis With Web UI, AI Smarts

May 19, 2025 Alex Woodie

Fresche Solutions recently unveiled a new release of X-Analysis, its popular impact analysis tool, which it’s now selling under the Application Intelligence brand. The product has undergone a major overhaul and now sports a new Web user interface as well as hooks to popular AI models to provide code explanation and documentation capabilities for RPG applications.

Fresche Solutions operates a large application modernization practice and provides an array of products and services to help IBM i customers take their RPG, COBOL, and Java applications from the legacy past into the modern present. However, before a single byte of legacy code …
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Is It Time To Add The Rust Programming Language To IBM i?

May 19, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Back in February, IBM announced that it had brought the Rust programming language to its AIX Unix operating system variant. Rust, of course, has long since been available on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. But, thus far, it has not been supported on the IBM i platform, neither in the PASE AIX runtime (which is a common way to get Unix stuff inside of IBM i) or natively recompiled inside of IBM i itself.

The initial release of the Rust SDK for AIX was based on the stable Rust 1.84 release, and it uses the same LLVM compiler framework that …
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Is IBM Going To Raise Prices On Power10 Expert Care?

May 19, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan

We have a feeling that Big Blue let the cat out of the bag a little early on a price increase for its Power Expert Care technical support services for the Power10 platform. We have this feeling because IBM on May 1 canceled a price increase in the Americas region in announcement letter AD25-1009 and in the Japan region in announcement letter AD25-1048.

This is weird, and we are showing you the Americas announcement below in case IBM takes it down:

First of all, the letter number referenced for May 1 does not match the actual letter number, which …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 27, Number 20

May 19, 2025 Doug Bidwell

Brace yourselves, everyone. There are seven security vulnerabilities that you have to pay attention to this week for the IBM i platform. Remember, as security guru Carol Woodbury is fond of saying: the IBM i platform is not the most secure platform in the world, but the most securable platform in the world. You must be ever-vigilant and keep it secure by patching holes and killing bugs.

So, without further fuss, let’s dive in and take them in order.

One is Security Bulletin: IBM i is vulnerable to a machine-in-the-middle attack due to mishandling error codes when verifying the host …
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FAX/400 And CICS For i Are Dead. What Will IBM Kill Next?

Fresche Overhauls X-Analysis With Web UI, AI Smarts

Is It Time To Add The Rust Programming Language To IBM i?

Is IBM Going To Raise Prices On Power10 Expert Care?

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 27, Number 20

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