TFH Volume: 35 Issue: 6 Archives

ACS Password Leaks Are A Security Issue On IBM i

February 17, 2025 Alex Woodie

IBM i shops that are relying on the old WINLOGON process with their Access Client Solutions (ACS) installations will need to find a new way to synchronize passwords between Windows clients and IBM i servers. According to a new report from Silent Signal, the passwords could still be compromised.

In early January, Big Blue published an IBM Support document about problems that IBM i shops were having after they applied the Windows 11 24H2 update, which Microsoft had started rolling out in October 2024. IBM i customers who used the ACS Windows Application Package told IBM they were no longer …
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State Of The Power Systems Base 2025: The Systems

February 17, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan

In last week’s issue, we talked about the upgrade cycle for the IBM i operating systems over more than a decade based on the annual IBM i Marketplace Survey done by Fortra and pretty heavily massaged by us to reflect what we think is closer to reality for the IBM i market at large.

No matter if you look at the raw data from the survey or the more elaborate model we have built derived from the past eleven surveys, one thing is clear: There is a regular pattern for Power Systems upgrades among OS/400, i5/OS, and IBM i shops …
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Guru: AI Pair Programming In RPG With GitHub Copilot

February 17, 2025 Gregory Simmons

If you have been meaning to give VS Code a try, but just haven’t had a chance, I encourage you to avail yourself today. Yes, for you RDi users, it will take a little bit to migrate your favorite settings, code snippets, and compile commands – but I promise, you won’t regret the move.

In my article, Getting Started With The Code 4 i Extension Within VS Code, I offer a few more insights to help get you started. And if you are an SEU user, yes, the switch may seem daunting, but one of the great things about …
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IBM Announcements: Service Price Hikes, HANA Iron As A Service, Rust for AIX And Maybe PASE, And More. . .

February 17, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan

When Big Blue makes big announcements, we break them down and analyze them uniquely. But there are often a lot of little things that happen over the course of a few weeks, and we like to lump these together and give you the rundown. That way you are informed, but you can skim it.

So let’s take a look the things related to Power Systems and IBM i that have happened in the past few weeks since we last did this. Let’s start with a few price changes.

In announcement letter AD25-0140, dated February 3 and effective on March …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 27, Number 7

February 17, 2025 Doug Bidwell

How secure you feeling today? Well, IBM i is generally pretty rock solid, but you have to stay on top of the security vulnerabilities. And there are two of them that are new this week.

First, we have Security Bulletin: IBM Java SDK and IBM Java Runtime for IBM i are vulnerable to a partial denial of service and a JNI function returning incorrect value length due to multiple vulnerabilities. You can find out more about this issue at this link, and here are the patches for it:

IBM i Release                         PTF Group

7.5                                             SF99955 Level 13

7.4                                             SF99665 …
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ACS Password Leaks Are A Security Issue On IBM i

State Of The Power Systems Base 2025: The Systems

Guru: AI Pair Programming In RPG With GitHub Copilot

IBM Announcements: Service Price Hikes, HANA Iron As A Service, Rust for AIX And Maybe PASE, And More. . .

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 27, Number 7

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