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Getting Offensive With The Legacy Label

April 24, 2017 Dan Burger

It’s not that we don’t care about CIOs with concerns. But what concerns us more are solutions to those concerns. It’s just a matter of fact that we hear a lot more about problems than we do about solutions. Members of the IBM i community share many of the same concerns, although each has their individual fingerprints.

To start off down the problem-solving path, it’s not a bad idea to talk about common concerns with colleagues and experts. That’s the path we’re on today as we talk with Alan Seiden, a PHP on IBM i consultant, open source advocate, …
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State Of IBM i Security: Seven Areas That Demand Attention

April 24, 2017 Alex Woodie

The latest installment of the annual State of IBM i Security was released last week by HelpSystems, and the results were about what you would expect: most IBM i servers are basically wide open for abuse.

In a webinar last week, HelpSystems director of security technologies Robin Tatam discussed the findings of the report, which was based on security assessments conducted on 332 systems during 2016. He broke the findings down into seven core areas that should be addressed, including system security levels; administrative privileges; passwords and user profiles; data and program permissions; network access and exit programs; audit trails; …
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Guru: Three Ways To Manage Unmatched Data

April 24, 2017 Ted Holt

Heaven forbid that I would ignore a failed RPG CHAIN (random read) operation. I always take appropriate action. Which action I take depends on the situation. The same applies to outer joins that don’t find matching data in a secondary table. Here are three ways to deal with unmatched data in an outer join using SQL.

To illustrate, let’s use three tables from an overly simplified general ledger system. The first is a table of departments into which the business is divided. The second is a chart of accounts. The third is a transaction file that feeds the general ledger. …
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As I See It: In the Land Of Lost Listeners

April 24, 2017 Victor Rozek

“I should sell my tongue and buy a thousand ears.” – Rumi

Rumi would not do well on social media. Not much listening going on there. We are a culture of speakers. From the advent of email through the current suite of thumb-enabled apps, all are designed to amplify the mouth. From sea to shining sea, we have become one long declarative sentence fragment.

Let’s face it: Most of us speak because we want to be heard. Only a priest in a confessional begins a conversation in anticipation of listening to someone blather on about their dysfunctions. But that’s the …
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The Power Systems Decline Did Not Have To Be This Bad

April 24, 2017 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Thirteen weeks ago, when IBM reported its financial results for its final quarter of 2016, we said that the Power Systems business would decline in every quarter ahead of the Power9 launch, and while this is not a hard thing to predict, it has certainly turned out to be true in the first quarter of 2017. Both IBM’s Power Systems and Systems z machines and their related operating systems were hit by gut-wrenching declines.

The good news, as we have pointed out time and again, is that IBM’s true systems business is distinct from and is a superset that …
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Getting Offensive With The Legacy Label

State Of IBM i Security: Seven Areas That Demand Attention

Guru: Three Ways To Manage Unmatched Data

As I See It: In the Land Of Lost Listeners

The Power Systems Decline Did Not Have To Be This Bad

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