TFH Volume: 35 Issue: 22 Archives

Big Blue Raises IBM i License Transfer Fees, Other Prices

June 9, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan

The price increases that may or may not be happening to cover increasing costs at IBM continue apace. Some of the price increases we have seen over the past several months might be driven by increasing costs or the expectation of increasing costs, and others might be initiated to drive services and software revenues higher to push the profit level of the overall Power Systems business.

It is hard to say for sure.

But what we can say for certain is that last week, in announcement letter AD25-1142 dated June 2, Big Blue once again increased prices on various Power …
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Keep The IBM i Youth Movement Going With More Training, Better Tools

June 9, 2025 Alex Woodie

Nobody is going to mistake an IBM i conference for a college campus anytime soon. But if the recent POWERUp 2025 conference at Disneyland was any indication, there is a definite trend toward younger professionals working on the platform. While the IBM i youth movement is real, companies will benefit from some simple ways to attract and retain these new IBM i professionals.

IBM is still working to get IBM i content back into four-year universities through the Power Skills Academy, which has been a struggle. Colleges are reluctant to invest in building a curriculum based on technologies that they …
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Remain Begins Migrating DevOps Tools To VS Code

June 9, 2025 Alex Woodie

For years, Remain Software was 100 percent devoted to Rational Developer for i (RDi) IBM’s flagship development tool for IBM i. It was a good bet, as the bulk of the market used RDi. However, in recent years, popularity of VS Code has soared, and now Remain is embarking upon a major project to redevelop all of its DevOps functionality to work with the browser-based IDE.

Wim Jongman, the managing editor of Remain Software, started working on the company’s flagship change management product for AS/400, TD/OMS back in 1992. During its iSeries years in the early 2000s, Remain pivoted …
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IBM Readies LTO-10 Tape Drives And Libraries

June 9, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan

As the capacities on flash and disk arrays continue to embiggen and the desire to keep data around is at a fever pitch as everyone is trying to figure out how to train generative AI models using all of their data, the need for tape backup for transactional and operational data has never been higher.

Which is why it is good timing for IBM to be rolling out its tape drives based on LTO-10 cartridges.

The IBM 3589 Ultrium LTO-10 cartridges, which are known as Models 554 and 654, have a native capacity of 30 TB, and with 2.5X data …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 27, Number 23

June 9, 2025 Doug Bidwell

It’s pretty quiet this week, which is good. We gave you a lot of stuff to do last week anyway, so now you can really get caught up.

The important thing is a new security vulnerability, which is in Security Bulletin: IBM Rational Developer for i is affected by an unspecified Java runtime encryption vulnerability (CVE-2025-21587). You can find out more about this issue with RDi at this link. The affected releases include Rational Developer for i 9.8.0.0 through 9.8.0.4, and the recommended fix is to install the RDi 9.8.0.5 update.

Here is the rundown of PTF Groups by …
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Big Blue Raises IBM i License Transfer Fees, Other Prices

Keep The IBM i Youth Movement Going With More Training, Better Tools

Remain Begins Migrating DevOps Tools To VS Code

IBM Readies LTO-10 Tape Drives And Libraries

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 27, Number 23

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