• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 28

  July 13, 2022 Doug Bidwell

  It has been quiet week in Lake Bugsbegone. The corn tassels are popping out of the stalks and you can hear them rustle in the wind, crinkly from lack of rain. Off in the distance, a rooster is crowing in the still of the afternoon, and a lone cow is lowing, unhappy with the dry cud. Rain will come soon enough, and then we will all be busy mowing the hay, with sweet corn for dinner. Take your downtime when you have it, and in the shade at that.

  Here is the rundown of PTF Groups by IBM i release …

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• The Power10 Machines That Will Take IBM i To 2025

  July 12, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  IBM i shops that have been waiting for an upgrade path that will take them to the other half of this decade do not have to wait any longer. Finally, after a change of foundry (to Samsung) and process technology (from 10 nanometers down to 7 nanometers) as well as a new implementation of the Power instruction set packed with all kinds of vector and matrix math goodies that are perfect for embedding AI into commercial applications, Big Blue is ready to start shipping the entry and midrange Power Systems machines based on the Power10 processor.

  We made it, despite …

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• Thoroughly Modern: With Cloud, You Need To Crawl, Walk, Then Run

  July 12, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  The idea that all workloads are going to move to the cloud is a fallacy, and so is the idea that there will be only one cloud.

  Some workloads will, by necessity due to issues of governance and data sovereignty, remain in the corporate datacenter; some will run in hybrid mode across local and cloud infrastructure; and some will be in the cloud for the rest of their electronic lives. And because of the breadth and depth of applications in the enterprise and the long-established relationships that companies have with their IT suppliers and business partners, there will be many …

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• Merlin Development Framework Now Supports IBM i 7.3

  July 12, 2022 Alex Woodie

  Big Blue has decided to support IBM i version 7.3 with Merlin, the new application development framework that was introduced in May as part of the IBM i 7.5 launch. The decision should help widen the potential user base for Merlin, even while discouraging operating system upgrades.

  Merlin is a new software package from IBM designed to enable IBM i developers to create new ILE programs from scratch or to modernize existing ones. The software, which is officially called Modernization Engine for Lifecycle Integration, is based on a mix of open source and proprietary tools from IBM, Red Hat, …

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• Reader Feedback On Guru: The Finer Points of Exit Points

  July 12, 2022 Bruce Bading

  Hey, Alex:

  Hope you are doing well. I was reading this article about exit points and found some technical inaccuracies.

  The Socket Exit can be used to cover the following: You can use exits block all unwanted ports blocked. I will be happy to talk with author of this article to explain how this works.

  • Not all services have exit points available.
  • User defined ports do not have exit points associated.

  Best regards,

  — Tony Perera, Trinity Guard, a division of Fresche Solutions

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  Hey, one and all:

  As the article states, exit points are an enhancement to cybersecurity on the …

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• IBM Mulls Using DataMigrator as Cloud Warehouse Pipeline

  June 29, 2022 Alex Woodie

  IBMers are playing around with an update to a little-known ETL tool called DataMigrator for i that would make it easier for IBM i shops to move transactional data to cloud-based data warehousing platforms. The update would use Apache Kafka for the final connection to the cloud.

  DataMigrator ETL Extension, as the product is formally known, is an extract, transform, and load (ETL) tool created by IBM back in 2015. The product was developed to work with Db2 Web Query, the Java-based business intelligence tool that it OEMed from Information Builders (now owned by TIBCO).

  DataMigrator for …

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• PowerTech AV Automatically Detects Ransomware Activity

  June 29, 2022 Alex Woodie

  IBM i shops that are concerned about ransomware attacks may be interested in a new release of PowerTech Antivirus from HelpSystems, which can automatically detect ransomware activity on the IBM i system and block it before it can cause damage. There’s also a nifty new “canary file” feature that will hopefully keep IBM i users from falling down the coal mine.

  PowerTech Antivirus, which formerly carried the Stand Guard Anti-Virus label, was originally developed by Bytware to detect and prevent viruses from infecting the IFS on IBM i. The software, which HelpSystems obtained in a 2008 acquisition, uses an …

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• Infor Puts CM3 Project On Hold

  June 29, 2022 Alex Woodie

  Infor is no longer developing an on-premise and containerized version of M3, its ERP system that’s popular with IBM i customers. While the CM3 project is apparently dead, the company is working to certify the latest release of the ERP system on IBM i version 7.5, IT Jungle has learned.

  Like other ERP vendors with large legacy installed bases, Infor has struggled to get customers to move to its cloud offerings. In particular, its customers who run the M3 ERP system on IBM i have not migrated to the cloud version of the product in the numbers that Infor expected. …

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• Four Hundred Monitor, June 29

  June 29, 2022 Jenny Thomas

  It’s hard to find a lot of good news these days. That’s why we hope you find some respite in the enthusiasm with which we cover the IBM i and its community. Where else can you find a deep-dive series on subscription pricing on the IBM i stack, complete with stacks of data and analysis? The only place you can find that is in the Jungle, and you can catch up on it starting in the Top Story below. As we head into July, you will notice lots of new learning and networking opportunities coming up on the Calendar below, …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 26

  June 29, 2022 Doug Bidwell

  There have been some remediations for some issues with the MQSeries message queuing middleware for the IBM i platform, including IBM MQ Version 9.2.4 CD and IBM MQ Version 9.2.5 CD. You can find out more here. As for remediation or fixes, this issue was resolved under APAR IT40453. Upgrade to IBM MQ Version 9.3, there are no workarounds and mitigations.

  And then, of course, there is a new security vulnerability. Check out Security Bulletin: IBM MQ is vulnerable to multiple Eclipse Jetty issues, so please see more at this link, and see CVE-2021-28169, CVE-2021-34428, CVE-2021-28163, CVE-2021-28164, CVE-2021-34429, …

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