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Old PHP and Other PASE Apps Break on IBM i 7.5

November 15, 2023 Alex Woodie

Customers running old versions of PHP and other PASE applications like Node.JS may run into compatibility issues when running on IBM i 7.5. The issue is due to an upgrade in OpenSSL support in the latest release of the IBM i operating system, according to Alan Seiden.

Seiden, the principle of Seiden Group, first sounded the alarm in July about the problems running older, non-RPM versions of PHP and Node.JS on IBM i 7.5, which was upgraded from OpenSSL version 1.0.2 to version 1.1. In October, he recently published a blog post restating the issue.

“While [the OpenSSL upgrade …
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Jack Henry Reiterates IBM i Support “For The Foreseeable Future”

July 31, 2023 Alex Woodie

Jack Henry & Associates has been tied to the IBM i and its predecessor platforms for its entire life. The company’s flagship RPG-based product for community banks, Silverlake, is the same name IBM used for its AS/400 development project. And while Jack Henry is developing applications in other technologies and other platforms, the IBM i will be supported for the foreseeable future, the company says.

Like many companies in the IBM i ecosystem today, Jack Henry has a modernization strategy, and that modernization strategy involves several, interrelated components.

For starters, the company wants to move away from the old style …
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Data Is Streaming Into The Cloud, Including From IBM i

November 14, 2022 Alex Woodie

We are in the midst of a vast migration of data into public clouds, as companies seek to leverage technological innovation occurring in the cloud for competitive advantage. While there are no IBM i runtimes in the public cloud yet, IBM i shops are still getting value by moving their valuable Db2 for i data into the cloud, often using streaming technologies and tools like Apache Kafka and Apache Camel, as well as an updated ETL offering from IBM.

It is tough to understate the magnitude of the transition to the public cloud is having on the $4 trillion IT …
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Kafka, JSON, DevOps: Future Proof Your IBM i With Secure, High Performance APIs

October 26, 2022 Daniel Magid

It is an exciting time to be working with an IBM i! The Rochester lab and IBM partners are rapidly pushing out new technology options that allow you to do anything with the IBM i that you can do on any other platforms. The latest in web and mobile user interfaces, the most modern languages, comprehensive security, machine learning, data visualization, internet of things, APIs – are all available to IBM i users. When combining all that technology with the unmatched reliability, ease of management and low cost of ownership of IBM i, you can be confident that your company …
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In Search of Multi-Modal Data Integration

May 5, 2021 Alex Woodie

As the number of data sources that companies use goes up, so too does the complexity of the data pipelines that bring it all together. Instead of using a mix of different tools and technologies for ETL, ELT, and batch integration, some users are seeking a single multi-modal data integration tool that can deliver multiple integration approaches.

One company providing multi-modal data integration is Equalum. The company’s DataOps offering works in various methodologies, including capturing real-time database updates using change data capture (CDC) technology; batch-based extract, transform, and load (ETL) and ELT; and REST- and SOAP-based data integration using …
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What The Open Source Roadmap Holds For IBM i In 2021

March 15, 2021 Alex Woodie

2020 was whirlwind of a year when it comes to open source on IBM i, with many major new open source products coming to the platform. The roadmap for open source software in 2021 may not be quite as active as last year, but there will be some compelling new technology to play with, coming from IBM and the community, IBM’s open source guru Jesse Gorzinski tells us.

“Last year was a pretty big year for open source,” says Gorzinski, whose official IBM title is senior business architect for open source software on IBM i. “In 2021, we’re going to …
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Apache Kafka And Zookeeper Now Supported On IBM i

September 9, 2020 Alex Woodie

IBM quietly added support for two open source technologies, Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper, on IBM i. Both projects are critical elements of emerging distributed computing frameworks in the big data space, although they have very different uses.

Apache Zookeeper is a core underlying technology for enabling distributed computing and ensuring that applications running atop Zookeeper are highly resilient. The software functions as a centralized service for keeping track of nodes in a cluster, and for synchronizing data and services among the different nodes.

All of the nodes in a Zookeeper cluster have access to a shared hierarchical namespace. If …
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Old PHP and Other PASE Apps Break on IBM i 7.5

Jack Henry Reiterates IBM i Support “For The Foreseeable Future”

Data Is Streaming Into The Cloud, Including From IBM i

Kafka, JSON, DevOps: Future Proof Your IBM i With Secure, High Performance APIs

In Search of Multi-Modal Data Integration

What The Open Source Roadmap Holds For IBM i In 2021

Apache Kafka And Zookeeper Now Supported On IBM i

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