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What’s Up with Open Source on IBM i?

March 27, 2024 Alex Woodie

Open source software has become a steadfast component of the IBM i stack. But what open source software are IBM i shops using today? Results from Fortra’s recent IBM i Marketplace Survey provide answers.

It may seem odd now, but open source hasn’t always been a staple of the IBM i server’s software diet. Until PHP arrived on the platform two decades ago, proprietary software was the only option for IBM i shops.

But today, IBM i shops have hundreds of open source products to choose from. Thanks to the IBM i server’s openness, just about any product that can …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 36

September 13, 2023 Doug Bidwell

This issue of the IBM i PTF Guide was put together the Sunday before the Labor Day holiday in America, and as you might imagine, there is not a lot going on. But there are a few things.

First, the DIG or NSLOOKUP tool, which is used to validate DNS entries and which has been around for a while, doesn’t work anymore without PTFs. You can find out more at this link, and the PTFs you need to apply to make it work are as follows:
```
• V7R5M0: SI84411
• V7R4M0: SI84419
• V7R3M0: SI84438
```
And of course, there …
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Remain Buys MiWorkplace, Integrates It Into TD/OMS

March 10, 2021 Alex Woodie

In 2020, Remain Software quietly acquired MiWorkplace, a lightweight integrated development environment (IDE) for IBM i. Last month, the company announced that it has completed the integration of MiWorkplace into TD/OMS, its change management system for IBM i. It also rolled out new releases of TD/OMS, Remain API Studio, and Gravity.

MiWorkplace is a Java-based IDE out of Germany that’s been building a user base among the IBM i customer base for a few years. The software, which runs on Windows, Mac OS, and Linux, was developed primarily to provide a better coding experience for SEU users, not as a …
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A Simple Web Service Framework from Core-I Solutions

May 20, 2020 Alex Woodie

It can sometimes be difficult for IBM i shops to communicate with the outside world. RPG developers can get lost in the weeds of trying to figure out how to move data off IBM i to another platform. One potential solution is a new REST/Web services framework called Corei RSt that its creator says will simplify APIs.

According to Core-I Solutions principal Jefferson Vaughn, a senior software engineer based in South Carolina, the Corei RSt framework streamlines the process of exposing IBM i data to business partners, customers, and outside developers who aren’t inside the company’s intranet.

The framework leverages …
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Samba Patch Caps Busy Year for IBM i Security

December 4, 2019 Alex Woodie

IBM last week patched a moderately severe security flaw in IBM i’s Samba implementation that could enable hackers to access data they really shouldn’t be able to access. The disclosure caps a rather busy second half of the year for security patches on IBM i that saw 26 emergency PTFs and Yum updates for Node.js, Python, the Apache HTTP Server, OpenSSL, ISC Bind, IBM Navigator, and even Db2 Mirror for IBM i.

On November 26, IBM issued this security bulletin to let people know about the new flaw in the Samba client. The flaw could allow a hacker to not …
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What’s New With IBM i Customer Support

September 25, 2019 Alex Woodie

IBM is making big changes to its support program that will have a major impact on how IBM i customers interact with Big Blue, for both software and hardware support. Two weeks ago it announced that IBM i customers would be switched over from the old IBM Service Request tool to the new IBM My Support site. IBM is also expanding support for open source software on IBM i.

IBM has been testing the new IBM Support site, www.ibm.com/mysupport, for over a year for various customer groups and geographies. On September 14, the company announced that it was cutting …
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Q&A With IBM i’s AppDev Architect

June 18, 2018 Alex Woodie

During COMMON’s recent POWERUp18 conference in San Antonio, Texas, IT Jungle got a chance to sit down with Tim Rowe, the IBM i business architect for application development and systems management at IBM, to talk about what’s going on with application development on the platform. Here’s an edited version of that conversation.

IT Jungle: So what’s happening in IBM i application development? What’s new up there in Rochester?

Tim Rowe: In between all sorts of fun development stuff that we got going on back in the lab, I spend quite a bit of time talking with customers. We continue to …
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What’s Up with Open Source on IBM i?

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 36

Remain Buys MiWorkplace, Integrates It Into TD/OMS

A Simple Web Service Framework from Core-I Solutions

Samba Patch Caps Busy Year for IBM i Security

What’s New With IBM i Customer Support

Q&A With IBM i’s AppDev Architect

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