• Progress And Frustration With IBM i Security, Fortra Finds

  June 8, 2026 Alex Woodie

  Thanks to tougher default configurations by IBM and general awareness, the state of IBM i security has improved somewhat, Fortra says in the 2026 installment of the State of IBM i Security report. But other aspects of security show little to no improvement, leading to frustration among the company’s IBM i security experts.

  For its 23rd annual State of IBM i Security report, Fortra analyzed the security configurations of 163 IBM i server partitions. The anonymous real world data came from Fortra customers and prospects who either agreed to allow the company perform a security scan on their IBM i …

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• In The Trenches With: JAMS Software

  June 8, 2026 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  In a world where applications and workflows are spread across multiple on premises systems and across the clouds, keeping track of how those applications and workflows are performing, fixing them when they stall or fail, and making sure everything is monitored and governing properly is a big job. And probably one that you don’t want to take on with so many other things going on.

  JAMS Software, which has been selling workload scheduling software for more than four decades, wants to help. JAMS was spun out of systems software conglomerate Forta a year ago last week, and has a …

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• Guru: Where’s The Table?

  June 8, 2026 Ted Holt

  It began with an irritation. I considered it a simple request. “Which file did my SQL query read?” I was using the Run SQL Scripts tool to modify an SQL query with unqualified table names. And yet I knew of no ready way to determine the schema (library) name of any of the files. How was I to know which tables I had just queried?

  Let me back up a bit. My SQL client of choice is the Run SQL Scripts tool, which is part of IBM’s Access Client Solutions (ACS). It is not unusual for me to copy and …

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• Lightedge To Start Selling IBM PowerVS to IBM i Customers

  June 8, 2026 Alex Woodie

  Lightedge, one of the largest private cloud providers serving the IBM i market, recently announced that it is going to begin offering IBM’s public cloud service, Power Virtual Server, to its customer base. The move comes amid solid growth in PowerVS and tough competition in the private cloud business.

  Lightedge (formerly LightEdge Solutions) started out in 1996 as an Internet service provider selling networking solutions from its headquarters in Des Moines, Iowa. As Lightedge chief revenue officer Sean Stenger explained to IT Jungle in a 2023 interview, the company slowly started adding additional services served out of co-location facilities …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 28, Number 20

  June 8, 2026 Doug Bidwell

  Welcome to this week, where we are getting closer and closer to both the beginning of summer and the AS/400’s 38^th birthday. There are a bunch of changes that Big Blue is making to various technical support services that customers and partners need to be aware of. And a bug in Java you need to contemplate.

  First, let’s start with the Java bug, which is Java 21 (64-bit) Applications Fail After Updating IBM i 7.5 Java Group PTF SF99955 to Levels 19 or 20, which you can read about here. The affected IBM i Java Group PTF Levels …

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• Big Blue Unveils Bob Premium Pack For IBM i

  June 1, 2026 Alex Woodie

  Early Bob users who were frustrated with the inability to work with source code residing on IBM i will be happy to hear that the functionality will soon be available in the Bob Premium Package, which IBM announced in May and will start shipping in June. The Premium Pack also includes some other new capabilities that will be useful for IBM i developers, including new modes, skills, and tools.

  The first version of IBM’s Bob, the AI tool that help developers understand, document, and generate code in RPG and other IBM i languages, generally has been well-received by the IBM …

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• Midrange Dynamics Sees Solid Git Adoption On IBM i

  June 1, 2026 Alex Woodie

  The arrival of AI tools to the IBM i community is helping to drive Git adoption, according to Michael Morgan, the chief executive officer of Midrange Dynamics, a provider of application management software for IBM i. But even without the AI push, the IBM i community is moving solidly toward modern development techniques and tools, Morgan said in an interview.

  “We’re seeing the management expectations that shops use Git as the bigger driver for our customers versus AI,” Morgan told IT Jungle. “AI is a smaller driver of those wanting to get to Git. Even without AI, the movement …

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• Guru: SQL Sequences In RPG Let Db2 Handle The Counting

  June 1, 2026 Gregory Simmons

  There is something deeply satisfying about letting the database do the counting for you. In a world where we have spent decades hand-rolling identifiers, guarding them with locks, and hoping no job collides with another, SQL sequences feel like discovering a patch of mushrooms that quietly regenerate overnight. You stop worrying about scarcity and start focusing on what matters.

  In a procedure driven RPG system, this is exactly the kind of responsibility we want to isolate. Generating a new identifier is not business logic. It is not validation. It is not formatting. It is a single, well-defined action that deserves …

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• From Green Screens To Smart Factories: Explaining DevOps To The Next Gen IBM i Developers

  June 1, 2026 Gaurav Khanna

  Over the past few years, many IBM i teams have encountered a surprising challenge when onboarding new developers. It isn’t platform complexity. It isn’t system performance. And it certainly isn’t reliability. The challenge is explaining how modern software development practices – things like CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and centralized repositories – fit into traditional IBM i development workflows.

  This gap often shows from both directions. For developers who grew up with Git and cloud-native tools, concepts like manual object promotion and library-based deployment can feel unfamiliar. At the same time, experienced IBM i professionals often hear terms like “shift-left testing” …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 28, Numbers 18 And 19

  June 1, 2026 Doug Bidwell

  Welcome back to the IBM i PTF Guide! After traversing across the country to our new abode, we are ready to get back in the saddle and rustle up all of the patches and security vulnerabilities for you.

  Let’s start, as we often do, with the security stuff. First, we have Security Bulletin: IBM WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Application Server Liberty are affected by multiple vulnerabilities when using when using Web Server Plug-ins (CVE-2026-8633, CVE-2026-8620), which you can read about at this link. The affected products for this are Web Server Plug-ins for WebSphere Application Server and …

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