TFH Volume: 32 Issue: 13 Archives

IBM Accelerates New Nav Development Following Log4j Issue

February 23, 2022 Alex Woodie

When IBM launched the new version of Navigator for i last fall, executives figured they had time to fill out the new product’s functionality as customers gradually adopted it. But those plans were upended when Log4j rendered the old version vulnerable to a serious security flaw, and now IBM finds itself needing to accelerate the build out of New Nav while simultaneously ramping up promotion and outreach.

IBM launched the new version of Navigator for i back in September 2021, when it announced the latest Technology Refreshes (TRs) for IBM i 7.3 and 7.4. New Nav, as the product …
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The State Of The IBM i Base 2022, Part Two: Upgrade Plans

February 23, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

It is always good for the IBM i ecosystem when there are new machines on the horizon with new processors, a lot more performance, and much better bang for the buck. This is, in many ways, what has drive the System/3X, AS/400, and IBM i midrange business forward for more than four decades.

But you have to admit, the kind of excitement that we used to have in the early years of the AS/400, when performance needs often outstripped what Big Blue – and indeed, any system supplier – could afford, is not prevalent in the IBM i base today. …
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Love Your ERP or List It?

February 23, 2022 Alex Woodie

When it comes to business applications, companies are strangely attached to them. According to a recent Forrester study, more than two-thirds of organizations are happy with a range of existing core business applications and don’t plan to leave them. But the upside of digital transformation beckons, leading the analyst group to wonder whether application owners are better off loving their ERP systems or leaving them.

Forrester tackled the challenge of digital transformation in a creative way with a recent report, titled “On Premise ERP: Love It or List It,” which compares a company’s business application stay-or-go decision to the popular …
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Four Hundred Monitor, February 23

February 23, 2022 Jenny Thomas

One of the things we like about Monitor, in addition to having the opportunity to share a selection of news items we think might be of interest or entertainment to our readers, is this weekly column gives us the opportunity to watch for trends in our ecosystem and the ones around us. Since the year began, and especially in the last few weeks, it has been exciting to watch our Calendar filling up with opportunities to learn and connect. There is something for everyone, with in-person and online events, and we like to think it’s an indication of the health …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 8

February 23, 2022 Doug Bidwell

Wake up! There is a new security vulnerability in the Java stack within IBM i. See Security Bulletin: IBM Java SDK and IBM Java Runtime for IBM i are affected by CVE-2021-234, which you can read at this link. The IBM i Group PTF numbers containing the fix for the CVE follows. Future Group PTFs for Java will also contain the fix for this CVE:
- Release 7.4: SF99665 level 13
- Release 7.3: SF99725 level 24
- Release 7.2: SF99716 level 34
To help you with the Log4j security vulnerability, we have created a supplemental spreadsheet as a companion to the …
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IBM Accelerates New Nav Development Following Log4j Issue

The State Of The IBM i Base 2022, Part Two: Upgrade Plans

Love Your ERP or List It?

Four Hundred Monitor, February 23

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 8

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