• Guru: SIEM Is Only Part Of IBM i Cybersecurity

  March 28, 2022 Bruce Bading

  Many times, we hear from IBM i business owners that their SIEM – that’s short for Security Information and Event Management – is their cybersecurity solution for the IBM i. But that can’t be true, and I want to explain why it is part of the security shield but certainly not all of it.

  Let’s start with SIEMs and how they fit into cybersecurity frameworks. SIEM is mentioned in the PCI appendix, but not once in the core of the 250+ PCI DSS requirements, likewise, the NIST Cybersecurity Framework lists event monitoring as one of the 100s (1/100s) of NIST …

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• As I See It: Two Front War

  March 28, 2022 Victor Rozek

  History records that the Second World War began when Germany invaded Poland, breaching its western border on September 1, 1939. For the Poles, however, that accounted for only half of their unfolding misery. Largely forgotten, 16 days later, the Russians invaded Poland from the East.

  Being situated between Germany and Russia in the war-ravaged 20th century turned out to be geographically inauspicious. Long after the Germans were defeated, the Russians stayed. Opportunistic invasion turned into long-term occupation.

  A similar story is unfolding in Ukraine, where a two-front war is being waged: one analog, the other digital. Weeks before tanks and …

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• Yet More Trimming In The IBM Power Systems Catalog

  March 28, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  It is hard to say what is really happening at this point, but either IBM has simply run out of features for Power8 and Power9 servers, it can’t get anyone to manufacture any more of them, or it simply wants to use every means it can to get the market ready to move to Power10 machines when they come out in May or June.

  Perhaps it is a bit of all three, eh?

  In announcement letter 922-018 last week, IBM said that effective on March 22 it was no longer selling the RISC-to-RISC data migration feature #0205 for the Power …

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• IBM Drives AIOps Into License Management

  March 23, 2022 Alex Woodie

  IBM last week announced an expansion of its partnership with Flexera that will see IBM’s AIOps solutions integrated with Flexera’s software asset management software. The integration will give customers more insight into customers’ software licensing and SaaS subscription entitlements, from the cloud all the way to Power servers and mainframes, IBM says.

  The new integration specially targets IBM’s Turbonomic application resource management (ARM) software and the Flexera One offering from Flexera. According to Dinesh Nirmal, general manager of IBM Automation, the integration will close the gap that existed between what software and SaaS solutions customers are entitled to …

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• With IBM i Security, You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know

  March 23, 2022 Ron Venzin

  It is not enough to be worried late into the night about the security of your mission critical systems. The IT managers who are in control of the infrastructure at IBM i shops, who also have a lot of Windows Server infrastructure and a smattering of Linux and AIX systems, too, need to actually do something about security. And they have to do something more than just rely on the legendary security of the IBM i platform.

  Security software for the IBM i platform has been around since the early days of the commercial Internet, and while a handful of …

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• Rocket Launches New DevOps Solution for IBM i

  March 23, 2022 Alex Woodie

  Rocket Software last week took the covers off a newly branded solution aimed at bringing IBM i development processes into the future. Dubbed Rocket DevOps, the offering is based on the existing Rocket Aldon offering and is designed to enable IBM i shops to adopt the latest CI/CD development and operations practices. The suite also will welcome a new testing solution next month.

  Rocket DevOps was created to be a soup-to-nuts DevOps solutions that gives development and delivery teams everything they need to develop and deploy high quality and secure IBM i code in an efficient manner. In addition to …

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• Four Hundred Monitor, March 23

  March 23, 2022 Jenny Thomas

  We love bringing you stories from the IBM i community, and while our regular readers may be familiar with our bylines, we haven’t had the opportunity to meet many of you in person. Now you have a chance to get to know prolific writer and IT Jungle co-editor Alex Woodie. Alex was recently a guest on The incredible i Show podcast, where he tells his story of how he got started reporting on the IBM i, and gives his commentary and perspective on industry news and happenings. Find the link and listen in in the top spot in the Redbooks, …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 12

  March 23, 2022 Doug Bidwell

  And the security vulnerabilities just keep on a-coming. This time, it is with the WebSphere Application Server. Check out Security Bulletin: IBM WebSphere Application Server and IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty are vulnerable to Clickjacking (CVE-2021-39038), which you can read all about here. The affected products are WebSphere Application Server Liberty, versions 17.0.0.3 through 22.0.0.2 and WebSphere Application Server versions 9.0 through 9.0.5.11.

  Also, here some information: The default location of ACS is updated whenever there is a Cumulative update or upgrade to a OS level. (\\&SystemName\root\QIBM\ProdData\Access\ACS\Base). Here are fixes for this:

  • IBM i 7.4: SI77377 – ACS 1.1.8.8

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• In The IBM i Trenches With: LaserVault

  March 21, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  When somebody says they have been doing the same job for three or four decades, that is a big deal in the 21^st century because that kind of long-term employment is just not something anyone counts on. In the OS/400 and IBM i market, such constancy and longevity is, well, normal. Unremarkable. Expected. Good.

  So it is with Brad Jensen, the founder and chief executive officer of Electronic Storage Corporation, a company that is perhaps best known for its LaserVault virtual tape library software, but since the company was founded in 1989 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, it …

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• It Is Time To Take The 2022 State Of IBM i Survey

  March 21, 2022 Miranda VanHorn

  The market for IBM i platform – previously known as the AS/400, the iSeries, and the System i – has seen some remarkable changes over the last decade. New capabilities, including graphical user interfaces and support of open-source languages, have ensured that the platform is more than capable of supporting the needs of today’s businesses.

  The annual Profound Logic State of IBM i Modernization Survey looks at trends and attitudes that shape the IBM i modernization market. The data collected gives the entire community a better understanding of the current state of IBM i and the priorities of businesses with …

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