• IBM I PTF Guide, Volume 19, Number 18

  May 10, 2017 Doug Bidwell

  This week in PTFs is all about HIPERs, Security, and Hardware patches. For the HIPERs, the biggie is excessive VLOGing fixes, plan cache tweaks, and cloud-init open source issues have been fixed. On the security front, there is a PTF that corrects RFC 2328 ambiguities and vulnerabilities.

  As for the hardware patches, there are a bunch, including:

  • MF63396 – Slider SES Firmware: 4170
  • Improved error handling during SES FW updates to prevent
  • possible device errors, such as SRCxxxx3002. Enhancements to connector Fault LED functionality
  • Diagnostic improvements for expander to power supply communication and failure detection
  • Improved error handling and reporting

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• Watson Puts On A Show At COMMON

  May 8, 2017 Dan Burger

  Watson, the anthropomorphic face of IBM cognitive computing, is used to being on the big stage. Fame came quickly and easily with the TV quiz show Jeopardy! Then there was recognition for work in cancer research and fighting cybercrime. IBM has invited Watson to all its major conferences and even changed the name, and some of the focus, of its Power Systems group into the Cognitive Systems business unit.

  Yesterday, Watson showed up at the COMMON Annual Meeting and Exposition, the world’s largest gathering of IBM i professionals. The first impression was a good one. It emphasized easy integration …

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• IBM Brings Cloud Management In-House with New Console

  May 8, 2017 Alex Woodie

  Don’t be surprised to see the cloud seeping into your data center, because it’s all part of IBM’s plan. Yesterday during the COMMON Opening Session in Orlando, Florida, IBM executives gave the IBM i faithful a preview of a new Cloud Management Console that’s designed to enable customers to monitor and (eventually) manage their Power Systems environments from the comfort of the cloud.

  Steve Sibley, IBM‘s director of worldwide product management for IBM’s Power Systems line, gave IT Jungle a preview of the new Cloud Management Console, which was expected to be one of three products announcements he planned …

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• Guru: The Three Ways to Insert

  May 8, 2017 Ted Holt

  The INSERT statement is THE (as in the only) SQL way to add new data to a relational database table. At the risk of sounding like a GEICO commercial, “Everybody knows that.” Well, did you know that the INSERT statement supports three distinct ways to add new rows to a table?

  To illustrate the three forms of INSERT, imagine that you and I work for a small company that stores goods in, and ships goods from, a warehouse. Since the company has only one warehouse, there has never been a need for a warehouse ID column in any of …

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• COMMON Opening Session Highlights Excellence

  May 8, 2017 Dan Burger

  IBM i innovation and community service were singled out during the opening session of the COMMON Annual Meeting and Expo, which opened yesterday and continues through Wednesday in Orlando, Florida. Anan Ayyad, a recent graduate of Purdue University Northwest was the top student innovator for his work on an automotive data acquisition system. The Grand Rapids, Michigan, Association of Realtors received the Innovation Award for a modernization of its website that included WordPress running on IBM i and open source development in conjunction with RPG.

  COMMON president Jeff Carey and IBM Cognitive Systems executives Stephanie Chiras and Steve Sibley presented …

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• Clearing The Decks Ahead Of The Power9 Launch

  May 8, 2017 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  It is ever the way: In with the new and out with the old. With the Power9 processors set for their debut sometime this summer, and shipments beginning in the second half of the year, Big Blue is looking to clear out the inventory of older Power Systems equipment it has sitting around in the barn and to remove older items from its catalog to make room for a slew of new gear.

  Over the past several months, IBM has been doing some spring cleaning, and we thought we would round all of these marketing withdrawals for Power Systems equipment …

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• IBM Bolsters Disaster Recovery With GDR For IBM i

  May 3, 2017 Alex Woodie

  IBM next month plans to start selling a new disaster recovery product to IBM i shops. Called Geographically Dispersed Resiliency, or GDR, the new offering is designed to give companies an easy and affordable way to recover production IBM i LPARs on remote machines. IBM’s resiliency guru Steve Finnes gives IT Jungle the lowdown on the new tech.

  GDR provides DR protection by essentially taking a production logical partition (LPAR), also called a virtual machine (VM), from one IBM i server and restarting it on another IBM i server. The VMs involved in a GDR switch must be stored on …

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• Multi-Platform App Dev Capabilities Tops List Of Midrange Dynamics Priorities

  May 3, 2017 Dan Burger

  Most of the time, we don’t go looking for the unexpected. And maybe the last place you’d look for it is in the IT department of an IBM i shop, where things are normally predictable. That mold is being broken though by organizations moving forward with multi-platform development environments.

  There’s a new playing field and Midrange Dynamics is hearing about it from the most innovative shops in its customer base. “Since IBM now supports distributed version control systems such as Git on IBM i, progressive development organizations like to have options regarding where their native and non-native source repositories are …

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• Infor Bolsters Cloud Analytics Play with Birst Buy

  May 3, 2017 Alex Woodie

  IBM i shops that run applications from Infor will be interested to know that the ERP giant has acquired Birst, a business intelligence and analytics software vendor with a large cloud presence. The Birst solutions will definitely be sold into Infor’s large IBM i installed base, the company informs IT Jungle.

  Birst is a soup-to-nuts platform that provides many of the software capabilities companies need to build analytic applications that can turn large masses of data into actionable insight. The San Francisco-based company was founded as Success Metrics back in 2004 with a cloud-first strategy and a goal to target …

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• Four Hundred Monitor, May 3

  May 3, 2017 Dan Burger

  Watson is a hive of activity with a swarm of across-the-board capabilities released rapid fire. One of the latest examples, Cognitive Visual Inspection, is designed to help manufacturers streamline their assembly line inspection process by finding and classifying faults in the manufacturing process. We have that story inside this week’s Monitor along with a few others that should be on your radar.

  Did you know it’s been five years since IBM last recorded an increase in revenue on its quarterly financial reports? That’s one heck of a losing streak. How long can that continue? Plus stories on old programs, old …

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