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  • A Hacker’s Dozen: 11 New Security Vulns Reported in IBM i

    August 23, 2023 Alex Woodie

    IBM on August 18 reported 11 new security vulnerabilities in IBM i’s Java stack, including two critical Java flaws that should be patched immediately. The new batch of vulns continues what has been an active summer for security flaws on the platform.

    IBM revealed the existence of the 11 Java security flaws in IBM i version 7.2 through 7.5 and the availability of emergency program temporary fixes (PTFs) on the security bulletin section of its IBM Product Security Central webpage.

    The security bulletin shows 11 flaws, CVE-2022-21426 through CVE-2023-21968, impacting various components of the Java stack, including the Java Software …

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  • Generative AI Is Part Of Application Modernization Now

    August 21, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    Generative AI is funny in that it is both an application in its own right when equipped with a chatbot interface and some intelligent prompting with guardrails to keep it from hallucinating and it can also be used as a tool to either generate chunks of applications based on large language models tweaked with a library of code.

    This is the first time that we can think of where the application is the tool or the tool is the application, and it presents a kind of chicken and egg conundrum for IT departments all over the world. Mainly: Where do …

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  • IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 34

    August 21, 2023 Doug Bidwell

    It is still summer, and the big news again this week in PTF Land is a security vulnerability. This time the hole is in the WebSphere Liberty middleware from Big Blue. See Security Bulletin: IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty is vulnerable to a denial of service (CVE-2023-38737), which you can find out more about at this link. IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty versions 22.0.0.13 through 23.0.0.7 are affected.

    Here is the rundown of PTF Groups by IBM i release level since we last published:

    PTF Groups 7.5:

    • HIPERs (High Impact/Pervasive)
    • Security
    • Java
    • IBM HTTP Server for i
    • SAP support
    …

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  • To Kill SEU Or Not Kill SEU – That Is The Question

    July 12, 2023 Alex Woodie

    It was a simple question posed by Liam Allan on Ryver: Should IBM stop shipping SEU? The dozens of answers it generated exposed a stark divide when it comes to the use of legacy technology in the IBM i ecosystem and to what extent it’s okay for IBM to force its customers to adopt new technology.

    There is no denying that IBM’s Source Entry Utility (SEU) is still in widespread use in the IBM i world. Statistics are tough to come by, but evidence suggests a majority of IBM i developers still use the greenscreen development tool for at least …

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  • Making Git Part of Your Modernization Strategy

    June 26, 2023 Daniel Magid

    Maybe the most important part of your IBM i modernization strategy should be modernizing the tools you are using to develop and maintain your applications. Most of the application development world has moved to tools centered around using Git for version control. There is no reason IBM i developers cannot do the same thing. IBM is solidly behind this strategy with their new Merlin product and most of the change management vendors have some kind of Git integration.

    By adopting Git for version control, IBM i applications can be managed with the same tools that are being used for development …

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  • IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 25

    June 19, 2023 Doug Bidwell

    Happy 35th birthday to the AS/400! We hope that you take a moment and commemorate this wonderful platform that has given us so much over the years, and that we all have given so much to.

    It is one of those mercifully quiet weeks, so enjoy.

    The news this week is that Navigator will now use Java 17 if available (on 7.4 and 7.5).  Install Java 11 or Java 17 and latest Java group PTF to run Navigator with these versions of Java. Details on Java at: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6437873

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

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  • Thoroughly Modern: Proven Strategies For Innovating IT And IBM i In A Digital Age

    June 12, 2023 Chris Koppe

    Over the past 20 years I’ve worked with countless organizations on their IBM i modernization and transformation strategies, enabling them to harness the value derived from their mission-critical applications. Transforming outdated RPG, COBOL and CA 2E (SYNON) applications not only lowers costs and mitigates risks, but it also unlocks new capabilities to innovate and future-proof your business. How are today’s organizations focusing their modernization and transformation efforts? Where should you start?

    What is Driving Innovation On IBM i?

    It’s important to begin by examining IT’s role in innovation. Over my 35+ years in the industry, I’ve worked with dozens …

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  • SBOMs Will Come to IBM i, Eventually

    June 7, 2023 Alex Woodie

    The Biden Administration’s push to make software bills of material (SBOMs) mandatory may not be moving ahead as quickly as hoped. But the SBOM requirement is still marching ahead for federal agencies and the vendors who supply them with software – running on IBM i or any other platform – with a major self-attestation deadline.

    The federal government’s SBOM push began back in 2018, when the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s (NTIA), an agency within the Department of Commerce, spearheaded SBOM work with private-sector partners in an attempt to get better visibility into security vulnerabilities.

    The SBOM movement got a …

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  • IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 22

    June 5, 2023 Doug Bidwell

    Welcome back after the Memorial Day holiday, and our thanks to all who have served and who currently serve.

    There is a slew of security issues that you need to deal with on the IBM i platform. So let’s get to it.

    First, we have Security Bulletin: IBM Java SDK and IBM Java Runtime for IBM i are vulnerable to exposing sensitive information due to flaws and configurations (CVE-2023-30441), which you can find out more about here. The vulnerability can be fixed by applying the latest Java Group PTF.  Releases 7.5, 7.4, 7.3, and 7.2 of IBM i will …

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  • Remain Launches AI Chatbot to Assist with Development on RDi

    May 17, 2023 Alex Woodie

    Developers who code in Eclipse-based environments such as Rational Developer for i (RDi) now have access to Ai Chat, a free ChatGPT-based chatbot launched last month by Remain Software. According to Remain CTO Wim Jongman, the coding copilot displays the programming chops of a seasoned RPG developer.

    The AI revolution continues to unfold at an unprecedented clip, driven in large part by large language models (LLMs) such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Bard, and Facebook’s LLaMA, among others. Trained on massive corpuses of data culled from the Internet, these LLMs “learn” what words are likely to go with one another, …

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