• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 3

  January 16, 2023 Doug Bidwell

  Last week was pretty quiet in PTF Land, as many of you might have expected. And considering that we were dealing with the Log4J vulnerability nonsense this time last year, we will take that as a bonus and just have Volume 24, Number 2, of the IBM i PTF Guide as a placeholder of sorts. This week is a bit more interesting, but nothing too big as yet. We have another 49 weeks in the year, so no hurry.

  Just a reminder to read and heed: IBM Electronic Fix Distribution / IBM Fix Central systems will end support for unencrypted …

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• Loopback Hackathon Set for Next Week

  January 11, 2023 Alex Woodie

  The Loopback Hackathon organized by Common Europe last fall was such a hit that the organization is teaming up with COMMON North America for another hackathon next week. And like the previous hackathon, this one is also focused on using IBM i with Loopback, a popular Node.js framework for rapid development of REST APIs.

  Mark Irish, an advisory software developer with the IBM lab in Rochester, Minnesota, was tapped to lead the first Loopback Hackathon, which took place in the Netherlands. Spearheaded by Common Next Gen, a youth-oriented group that’s part of Common Europe, the event was a big …

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• Lessons from Southwest’s IT Debacle

  January 11, 2023 Alex Woodie

  During the historic Christmas Blizzard of 2022, air traffic came nearly to a standstill across the United States. Most major airlines rebounded before the ice fully melted, but Southwest Airlines was unable to get its Boeing 737s back up in the air. The main reason cited may have a familiar ring to it for IBM i shops: An overreliance on outdated, legacy technology.

  Not all the details are known about what went on at Southwest Airlines during the week that followed the winter storm that decimated the eastern half of the country for several days, starting on Christmas Eve. But …

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• Is Julia Coming to IBM i Next?

  January 11, 2023 Alex Woodie

  IBM has brought several popular open source languages to the IBM i operating system over the years, including PHP, Node.js, R, and Python. Now some are speculating that Julia, a high-performance general purpose language that has been widely adopted in data science, may be next.

  Julia is a high-level programming language that is applicable to a range of fields, but has mostly been used for technical computing, such as numerical analysis, scientific computing, and data science. Originally developed in 2009 by a group of MIT researchers, the language was designed to be fast and efficient, with a just-in-time (JIT) compiler …

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• Four Hundred Monitor, January 11

  January 11, 2023 Jenny Thomas

  Happy New Year! It’s been a few weeks since we last published Monitor, and we hope you enjoyed some downtime over the holidays. (We certainly were grateful for the break.) Breaktime is officially over, however, and we are happy to be back at it this week. It seems like we aren’t the only ones who are charging full steam ahead into 2023. There are lots of new items on the Calendar below for you to review, plus some recent news and resources to peruse along the way. We are looking forward to another year of keeping you informed, so let’s …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 1

  January 11, 2023 Doug Bidwell

  The New Year is always marked with celebration, but this year we also celebrate 25 years of the PTF Guide! The best way I can think of for you to celebrate is to make sure you are up to date on your PTF work.

  We start off 2023 with a series of Security Bulletins. First up, IBM Navigator for i is vulnerable to log file access, obtaining file attributes, and SQL Injection attacks due to multiple vulnerabilities. Get the details HERE.

  IBM i Release		5770DG1 IBM HTTP Server for i Group PTF
  7.5				SF99952 - 05
  7.4				SF99662 - 

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