• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 27, Number 47

  December 1, 2025 Doug Bidwell

  We start this week with performance anxiety. Well, more like performance degradation. As you will see at this link, if you have installed IBM i 7.4 TR12 or IBM i 7.5 TR7, SQL query plans might be spending more time waiting for I/O pending faults and therefore are performing poorly. There are actually two different but related issues and two different fixes that resolve this issue.

  This week, there is also a security vulnerability. See Security Bulletin: IBM i is affected by obtaining information without proper authority [CVE-2025-36371], with more information available here. The fixes for this vulnerability, …

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• Stacking Up Power10 And Power11 Systems Price/Performance

  November 17, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  We have been on the hunt to get you pricing on entry Power11 machines in the P10 and P20 IBM i software tiers to give you a sense of the relative price/performance of the Power11 machines compared to their Power10 predecessors. There are dozens of possible configurations of entry, midrange, and enterprise machines in these two families, and without an official and public price list, as Big Blue provided for many years, it is very difficult for even business partners to get pricing.

  In fact, they need to use IBM’s official configurator, and they need to have a Power System …

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• Where Infor Is Headed With Its ERPs For IBM i

  November 17, 2025 Alex Woodie

  As the largest provider of IBM i-based ERP systems that isn’t named Oracle or SAP, Infor wields a significant amount of influence over the midrange marketplace. Companies that run XA, LX, and System 21 rely on Infor to keep their ERP systems up-to-date and viable with changing business and technology requirements. To that end, Infor shared some of its roadmap items with the user community during the recent inPOWER 2025 event.

  More than 450 people attended the inPOWER 2025 conference, which took place in late September in Pewaukee, Wisconsin. The event was sponsored by the XA, LX, System 21, and …

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• Rocket Delivers More DevOps Capabilities For IBM i

  November 17, 2025 Alex Woodie

  Rocket Software recently put the finishing touches on a range of updates for Rocket DevOps, its suite of automation, change management, and testing solutions for IBM i. The top enhancements customers will find are two-way Git integration, AI-powered anomaly detection, unit testing enhancements, and support for IBM i DevOps workflows in Microsoft Azure Pipelines.

  It’s been a 2.5 years now that Rocket Software completed the rebrand from the old Aldon change management products, which it obtained with its 2011 acquisition, to Rocket DevOps. That Rocket DevOps rebrand involved taking the old Aldon Lifecycle Manager products – which helped automate …

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• A Few More Power Systems Announcements Before Year End

  November 17, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  We don’t expect a lot of announcements from IBM at this point in the year relating to the Power Systems platform, and in fact, we don’t expect a lot of announcements from Big Blue at all. Except maybe for the usual end-of-year “workload rebalancing,” the 2025 edition of that we saw recently being reported in the Wall Street Journal with very little details.

  Here is a weird one. In announcement letter AD25-1276, IBM is reselling an AMD W6499 graphics card, which is based on its RDNA 2 architecture and which has 4 GB of GDDR6 frame buffer memory, …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 27, Number 46

  November 17, 2025 Doug Bidwell

  Last week, we told you about two security vulnerabilities with Java on the IBM i platform, and this week we have another one that you need to cope with.

  This vulnerability is Security Bulletin: IBM i is affected by Remote Code Execution, Deserialization of Untrusted Data, and Improper Access Controls vulnerabilities in IBM Java SDK and IBM Java Runtime [CVE-2025-50106, CVE-2025-30749, CVE-2025-30761, CVE-2025-30754], and more information about it can be found here. Here are the remediation and fixes for this latest Java issue by IBM i release:

  IBM i Release	5770-JV1 PTF Number(s)			
  7.6	7.5		7.4		7.3
  SJ06886	SJ06885	

  …

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• Bang For The Buck On Entry Power10 And Power11 Machines

  November 10, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Back in early October, after IBM released detailed performance specifications for Power11 machines running IBM i, we put together a detailed matrix of processor configurations from Power8 through Power11 machines, marking every different processor combination for all machines. There are dozens of possible server form factor and processor configurations across those four generations of machines, and it would be very difficult to get pricing information out of Big Blue for all of them.

  We poked around the IBM site for Power10 many months ago ahead of the Power11 announcements in July and then did it again after the Power11 …

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• A Hardware Refresh Is The Perfect Time To Re-Evaluate Your HA/DR Strategy

  November 10, 2025 Ash Giddings

  For most IBM i shops, hardware refresh cycles arrive with a mix of excitement and apprehension. New generations of IBM Power Systems like the recently announced Power11 machines offer the chance to increase power, improve efficiency, and take advantage of the latest features.

  But along with the upside, upgrades also trigger some tough decisions, particularly around software licensing. High availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR) solutions are often near the top of that list. These tools are critical for helping businesses to maintain resilience and continuity, yet many customers find themselves paying significantly more for their HA/DR software after a hardware …

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• Fresche Taps AI For New RPG-To-Java Conversion Tool

  November 10, 2025 Alex Woodie

  Fresche Solutions has launched X-Modernize AI, a new offering that uses generative AI technology to convert legacy RPG and Synon code to modern Java. The software, which is based on large language models and its X-Analysis cross-reference and code understanding tool, will speed up code conversion projects by a significant amount, the company claims.

  Fresche Solutions is no stranger to legacy modernization projects and tools that convert RPG code into languages like Java, PHP, and .NET. In fact, the company’s very first announcement after it changed its name from Speedware to Fresche Legacy way back in 2012 was the acquisition …

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• Gartner Raises 2025 IT Spending Forecast, Puts Out 2026 Prediction

  November 10, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  If you have your boss pegging your pay increases to the growth in the IT market, you are going to outpace the inflation that is helping to buoy IT spending worldwide. The spreadsheet wizards and economists at Gartner have just raised their forecast for IT spending for the third time this year for 2025, and have also recently put out an initial forecast for what IT spending will look like in 2026.

  As a refresher, here is how Gartner pegged IT spending by the major categories back in its July forecast for both 2024, which had ended, and for 2025, …

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