• Have You Patched Those 35 Java Vulns on IBM i?

  July 19, 2017 Alex Woodie

  IBM i shops that take security seriously will want to know that IBM has issued a number of security patches over the past several months. The patch count since March includes fixes for security vulnerabilities in various technologies supported in IBM i 6.1 through 7.3, including 35 alone in Java, as well as flaws in Python, Samba, BIND, and the integrated Web server.

  Implementing security patches, or program temporary fixes (PTFs) in IBM jargon, is one of the easiest ways to ensure your system is kept up-to-date against vulnerabilities that are constantly being exposed by the hacker community. It’s also …

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• Open Source On IBM i: Let It Grow

  May 15, 2017 Dan Burger

  The evaluation of open source software is nowhere near conclusive when it comes to enterprise grade application development. Decisions remain in the exploratory phases. Roadmaps are incomplete. Most are without clear routes to a destination. Some are without destinations. However, it would be wrong to assume roads are not being built.

  There is no way that the future of application development – on IBM i or anywhere else – can handle everything that is coming down the pike without open source. That’s not a mandate to jump on a band wagon. It’s an awareness wake-up call. The IBM i community …

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• Unwinding Python’s Data Science Potential On IBM i

  February 13, 2017 Alex Woodie

  There’s a revolution occurring in the world of big data analytics and data science at the moment, and Python is playing a starring role. Python is one of the languages that IBM has brought to the IBM i platform, so that’s clearly a good thing for midrange shops. But is enough being done to grow Python’s potential on IBM i? The answer to that question is not clear.

  Python was originally conceived by Guido van Rossum as a “hobby” programming language to keep him busy over the 1989 Christmas break. “My office. . .would be closed, but I had a …

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