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Steve Will Lifts the Curtain On “Major IBM i Announcement,” But Just A Smidge

March 3, 2025 Alex Woodie

If you haven’t heard yet, here it is: IBM is planning to make a major IBM i announcement soon. IBM i chief architect Steve Will said as much during his recent IBM i Guided Tour. While Will shared a general outline of what IBM has in mind for the major announcement, specifics still are few and far between.

Will, who also holds the titles of IBM i CTO and IBM distinguished engineer, teased the IBM i community with his one-hour February 12 presentation, which is titled IBM i in 2025 – A Strategic Preview. You can access a recording …
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What the Fall ’23 TRs Bring Navigator for i

October 18, 2023 Alex Woodie

The releases of IBM i that ship next month will bring enhancements to Navigator for i, the Web-based interface for accessing, monitoring, and managing IBM i. However, without some functions that have yet to arrive, the transition from the legacy Navigator tool will take more time.

It’s hard to believe, but the new Navigator for i offering is only two years old. You will recall that the introduction of New Nav, as IBM called it, was the biggest news with the launch of IBM i TR 7.3 TR11 and 7.4 TR5 in the fall of 2021. Not only was the …
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Fall 2023 IBM i Tech Refresh Brings Something For Everyone

October 11, 2023 Alex Woodie

As expected, IBM yesterday unveiled its fall Technology Refresh (TR) for IBM i, with updates starting to become available on November 17. IBM announced no new products as part of the fall 2023 TR cycle, but it did spread the love around by giving just about everybody something to cheer about in IBM i 7.5 TR3 and 7.4 TR9.

Lots of different products that make up the IBM i environment will see some pretty meaningful enhancements with this release. If you spend a lot of time in Navigator for i or ACS, you will see new stuff. We haven’t had …
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IBM i Fall 2023 Event Calendar Shaping Up

September 11, 2023 Alex Woodie

The next variant of the coronavirus might try to stage a viral comeback, but that’s not stopping IBM i professionals from packing their bags and gearing up for a busy fall conference season, which starts this week with the IBM TechXchange in Vegas.

IBM TechXchange is a major conference that offers hundreds of sessions for developers, data scientists, IT architects, operations professionals, and infrastructure architects, among other personas. The event, which takes place September 11 -14 at the MGM Grand resort in Las Vegas, Nevada, is expected to draw more than 5,000 attendees for educational and training sessions on AI, …
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Multiple Vulnerabilities Pop Up In Navigator For i

January 23, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Why do we network computers again? Remind me.

A new security bulletin was released for the Navigator for i system management interface for the IBM i platform on January 18, which rolls up four different vulnerabilities for Navigator for i that leave it open to log file access, to obtaining file attributes, and to SQL Injection attacks due to multiple other vulnerabilities.

You can read about this security bulletin at this link. The most severe of the issues is the SQL injection attack, which has a CVSS Base score of 6.3 out of 10. According to the bulletin: “IBM …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 4

January 23, 2023 Doug Bidwell

Here are some reminders to start off the IBM i PTF Guide this week.

First, there are new releases for Access Client Solutions and the ODBC database driver. (See ACS_NAV in the Guide for the links.) The funny bit – funny odd, not funny hilarious – is that version 26 of ACS did not allow companies to create a database source for ODBC, which is serious shortcoming. Now, there is a new version 27 that will let you do it. Here is the updated software:
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Description				   Version
IBM i Access Client Solutions (1.1.9.1)	   1.1.9.1
ACS Windows App Pkg English (64bit)	   
```
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Multiple Security Vulnerabilities Patched on IBM i

June 22, 2022 Alex Woodie

In recent weeks, IBM has disclosed a handful of vulnerabilities in its IBM i operating system and related IBM i products, including Db2 Mirror, WebSphere, Navigator for i, the Java development and runtime tools, and OmniFind Text Search Server. IBM has shipped PTFs for the security problems, which range in severity from medium to high.

IBM warned of security holes in the HTTP Server (the one powered by Apache) in a June 13 security bulletin. The flaws, identified as CVE-2022-22720 and CVE-2022-22721, carry the risk of a HTTP request smuggling that could poison the Web cache, bypass firewalls, and …
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Guru: IBM i Experience Sharing, Case 2 – Dealing With CPU Queuing Wait Time

March 21, 2022 Satid Singkorapoom

When we drive our cars, we hope to avoid red lights and traffic jams, because we all hate waiting immobile in traffic. I’m sure that you are aware, fully or subtly, that active jobs in any computer system can encounter wait as well. The IBM i developer team has categorized many types of wait.

In this article, let’s look at CPU Queuing wait time. Let’s see how we can interpret and address it in a sensible way to resolve poor performance. I’ll try to provide you with a useful approach to wait time analysis using a gloriously useful performance reporting …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 5

February 2, 2022 Doug Bidwell

Another week, another security vulnerability. This time, there is one in the Db2 stack for IBM i. Specifically, we present to you Security Bulletin: IBM Db2 Mirror for i is vulnerable to denial of service due to gson 217225, which you can read in full at this link. As the Db2 Mirror database clustering technology is only available on IBM i 7.4, this is the only IBM i release that is affected.

The IBM i Group PTF number containing the fix for this vulnerability follows: Release 7.4 – SF99668 level 17.

Just a reminder that there is a new …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 4

January 26, 2022 Doug Bidwell

A new Oracle JCE Code Signing CA was recently implemented in the IBM JDK to resolve APAR IJ26310. Specifically, this is related to IBM JDK 8.0 SR6 FP25, JDK 7.1 SR4 FP75, and JDK 7.0 SR10 FP75, whereby Java applications running on the IBM i operating system might encounter the error messages “JCE is not installed properly” or “JCE cannot authenticate the provider XX” or “xyz.jar is not signed by a trusted signer” after upgrading to the following IBM i Java Group PTF level or newer.

The following IBM i Java Group PTF levels install 8.0 SR6 FP25.
- Release 7.1:
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