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The End is Near for Zend Server Basic PHP

May 20, 2020 Alex Woodie

Zend Server Basic, the free PHP runtime used by thousands of IBM i shops, will cease being offered starting in July 2021. That’s the word from Perforce, the company that now owns Zend and its lineup of PHP tools and technologies. The replacement, of course, is the new community edition of PHP that became available via RPM in late 2019.

Starting in 2006, Zend Technology began to develop a special version of its PHP runtime for IBM i, which was then called i5/OS. This offering, dubbed Zend Core for i5/OS, provided a familiar way for users of the iSeries server …
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A Simple Web Service Framework from Core-I Solutions

May 20, 2020 Alex Woodie

It can sometimes be difficult for IBM i shops to communicate with the outside world. RPG developers can get lost in the weeds of trying to figure out how to move data off IBM i to another platform. One potential solution is a new REST/Web services framework called Corei RSt that its creator says will simplify APIs.

According to Core-I Solutions principal Jefferson Vaughn, a senior software engineer based in South Carolina, the Corei RSt framework streamlines the process of exposing IBM i data to business partners, customers, and outside developers who aren’t inside the company’s intranet.

The framework leverages …
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Raz-Lee Launches Web Interface for iSecurity Suite

May 20, 2020 Alex Woodie

Green screen interfaces were just fine in the old days of the AS/400. But today, many IBM i administrators would prefer a little more color with their screens. For IBM i shops that use software from Raz-Lee Security to police their system, they now have the option of using a Web-based graphical user interface (GUI) to interact with the company’s entire suite of tools.

Raz-Lee has included GUIs in its offerings for many years. In the 2000s, it developed a Java-based interface for certain components of its iSecurity Suite. More recently, it developed an Eclipse-based product called the iSecurity GUI …
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Four Hundred Monitor, May 20

May 20, 2020 Jenny Thomas

Depending on where you reside, you may be seeing some changes in the stay-at-home order most of us have been living under since March. In some parts of the U.S., restaurants and gyms have re-opened, while in other places, like here in southern California, we only just allowed back to our beaches (surfers and walkers only, no sitting on the sand) and all while under cover of masks. What does seem to be more common is the desire to get back underway again, with many businesses doing whatever is necessary to adapt and open their doors in some fashion. Hopefully …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 20

May 20, 2020 Doug Bidwell

It has been a weird week in PTF Land. The respin of the operating systems is temporarily unavailable from IBM’s Entitled Systems Support and as far as we can tell the Technology Refreshes – that’s IBM i 7.3 TR8 and IBM i 7.4 TR2 – are not yet available. We are trying to get to the bottom of the issue. There’s something weird going on.

In the meantime, there are recommended High Availability fixes for IBM i 7.2., IBM i 7.3, and IBM i 7.4. There is also a Security Bulletin: Vulnerability CVE-2020-4345 in SQL that affects IBM i, 7.4, …
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The End is Near for Zend Server Basic PHP

A Simple Web Service Framework from Core-I Solutions

Raz-Lee Launches Web Interface for iSecurity Suite

Four Hundred Monitor, May 20

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 20

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