• IBM i Support Added To IBM Spectrum Protect Backup Software

  July 28, 2021 Alex Woodie

  At long last, IBM has added IBM i support to Spectrum Protect, its enterprise backup product. After numerous requests for IBM i support, IBM quietly made the change in November by presenting Spectrum Protect as an S3-compatible storage repository, which is supported on the IBM i via the Cloud Storage Solutions for i (5733-ICC) offering, IBM product managers said recently.

  For many years, IBM supported IBM i with Tivoli Storage Manager, the flagship enterprise backup offering that eventually was renamed IBM Spectrum Protect. However, IBM let the IBM i support lapse, an event that was noticed by many IBM i …

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• Four Hundred Monitor, July 28

  July 28, 2021 Jenny Thomas

  It’s been a minute since our last issue of Monitor. Hopefully many of you have been able to enjoy a little summer fun (as we did here in the Jungle) but it’s time to hunker back down as we look forward to a busy fall season. So let’s get down to business. While we use this forum to share relevant and interesting news and events from around the computing world, this week we’d like to point you to a fascinating story of our own. In our Top Story below, editor Alex Woodie talks with an IBM shop that recently survived …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 23, Number 30

  July 28, 2021 Doug Bidwell

  Back on May 8, we told you that Access Client Services 1.1.8.7 was being replaced by ACS 1.1.8.8 because of a bug in its code. On May 15, in the following week’s issue, we apologized because what we heard through our channels turned out to not be true. Today, we found the following document, which we are adding to the IBM i PTF Guide, which is dated May 4 and provides three different workarounds for the issue that we thought was going to compel IBM to upgrade to ACS 1.1.8.8.

  Anyway, of the three workarounds recommended for the …

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• Awaiting The Power10 Rollout And The New Sales Cycle

  July 26, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  It is difficult to be patient but before too long IBM will begin shipping Power10-based systems and the product line, which has been bumping along at the tail end of the Power9 cycle, will start growing again. With IBM having a new microarchitecture as well as a new foundry partner, Samsung Electronics, which is making its very first server chip with the Power10 and implementing its first large-scale chip with a 7 nanometer process, the stakes are high and IBM is being a little extra cautious in getting the Power10 chip out the door.

  Enterprise customers are risk averse, and …

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• Giving IBM i The Storage Of Last Resort

  July 26, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Every IT ecosystem has its niche players, and they are a vital part of that ecosystem just as are niche players as in the natural ecosystem. Lots of companies bridge the gaps between products and allow customers to do something that would be hard for them to replicate on their own. This brings real value.

  Entrepid Corporation is one such niche player in the IBM i and broader Power Systems market, and it bridges the gap between IBM’s Power-based systems commonly used as database and application servers in midrange and large enterprises and the storage offered by EMC before and …

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• Guru: Getting Meaningful Audit Information from a Journal

  July 26, 2021 Paul Tuohy

  Journaling is an invaluable tool that is used for data recovery, data replication, commitment control and, of course, auditing. But getting at the audit information in an easy-to-use manner can be cumbersome. In this article I want to introduce you to a stored procedure that will create an audit table for any table/physical file and a corresponding view that can be used for easy auditing of changes.

  For example, if I am auditing the EMPLOYEE table (I will be using the EMPLOYEE table in the standard Db2 Sample Database) for a change to the SALARY column, I would use the …

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• Innovating And Thriving with IBM i

  July 26, 2021 Alex Woodie

  You may have noticed that the IBM i server has developed a certain reputation, and it’s not always a good one. There are folks among us who consider IBM i to be a “legacy” platform, something that should be invested in as little as possible and moved away from at the earliest convenience. But as a panel of experts at the recent OCEAN conference demonstrated, it is possible to not only innovate on the IBM i, but to create a culture where the business and its employees can thrive.

  The Orange County Educational Advancement Network, or OCEAN, pulled together …

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• IBM Thwarts Ransomware in FlashSystem with New Data Safeguard

  July 26, 2021 Alex Woodie

  The steep uptick in ransomware attacks this summer has gained the full attention of business and tech leaders at businesses of all sizes. It also has the attention of IT vendors, including IBM, which last week added a new data protection mechanism to FlashSystem intended to help thwart ransomware attacks.

  Ransomware, which has been simmering on the security backburner for years, has roared to life this summer, thanks to several high-profile attacks that caused severe business disruptions, including Colonial Pipeline, JBS, and Scripps Health, among others. While the attacks on these large companies were headline-grabbing, they bely the full …

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• Time To Design – And Deliver – The Application System/360

  July 19, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  The stupidest thing IBM ever did was create a system other than the System/360. It had the perfect name and it had the right idea of creating a compatible line of small, medium, and large enterprise systems that ran a widening variety of operating systems and workloads, often concurrent on the same machine. The AS/400 really should have been the third generation of System/360 machines, and the systems today would be somewhere around the sixth of seventh or even tenth generation, however you want to think about it.

  Every decade or so in IBM’s history, it has tried to converge …

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• How IBM i Fits Into a Zero-Trust Security Framework

  July 19, 2021 Alex Woodie

  One of the hot new trends in cybersecurity these days is the zero-trust security model. Instead of implicitly trusting network traffic behind the firewall, zero-trust demands that traffic have explicit permission to be there. But how does that model work with the strange beast known as IBM i? IT Jungle recently sat down with PJ Kirner, the CTO and co-founder of zero-trust software provider Illumio, to find out.

  Illumio is an eight-year-old venture-backed startup based in Sunnyvale, California, that is working in the field of zero-trust security. It develops an offering, called Illumio Core, that allows companies to begin implementing …

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