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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 Community Predictions For 2022, Part 1
January 10, 2022 Alex Woodie
While the month and year ostensibly are just values in the date field, when the calendar flips over from December to January, things feel different. There’s a greater sense of hope and optimism for what the new year will bring. Coming off another calamitous year filled with COVID-19, perhaps it’s we need that even more so this year.
It has become an IT Jungle tradition to ask members of the IBM i community at the start of the year for their predictions. This year is no different, and so we’ll kick off the first part of our (most likely) two-part …
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IBM i Developer Day This Week
November 10, 2021 Alex Woodie
IBM i developers of all stripes are welcome to IBM i Developer Day, a free virtual event that’s scheduled to take place next Friday, November 19, at 1 p.m. ET. Organized by Liam Allan, the event will feature a heavy dose of Visual Studio Code (Allan’s favorite IDE) plus discussions hosted by IBMers on the future of IBM i and its role in the cloud.
The world of application development is moving fast, but many IBM i pros are still stuck in the past when it comes to the tools, technologies, and techniques they use. While RPG and COBOL development …
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Four Hundred Monitor, July 28
July 28, 2021 Jenny Thomas
It’s been a minute since our last issue of Monitor. Hopefully many of you have been able to enjoy a little summer fun (as we did here in the Jungle) but it’s time to hunker back down as we look forward to a busy fall season. So let’s get down to business. While we use this forum to share relevant and interesting news and events from around the computing world, this week we’d like to point you to a fascinating story of our own. In our Top Story below, editor Alex Woodie talks with an IBM shop that recently survived …
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What’s In the Top 5 Hottest IBM i RFEs
March 17, 2021 Alex Woodie
The IBM i platform’s greatest strength is its committed user base, whose long-lasting loyalty is unique in the annals of the business computer industry. IBM encourages its committed customers to get involved with shaping the future of the platform through the Request for Enhancement (RFE) process, which plays out in the public for all to see.
IBM’s RFE process also supports the ability for users to submit requests privately, and there are undoubtedly plenty of these requests made. Obviously, we have no insight into these private RFEs (although they would be fun to read). Among the public RFEs, there …
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IBM i Startup Tackles “Awkward” Git Integration
September 30, 2019 Alex Woodie
If you have ever felt that working with Git on the IBM i platform was a little awkward and could be refined to fit your native IBM i development experience on RDi or SEU just a bit better, then you might be interested in learning about a new utility called iForGit that was recently released by IBM midrange veteran Richard Schoen and his new startup, MobiGoGo.
Git came to the IBM i three years ago, and there’s no denying that it has been a hit. Since Linux developer Linus Torvalds released it nearly a decade-and-a-half ago, the open source …
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Big Blue’s Software Gurus Rethink Systems
January 30, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan
The AS/400 Division and its affiliated Rochester Lab and manufacturing facility has brought some of the key innovations in systems to market ever created by IBM–dense DRAM, magnetoresistive disk heads and dense disk drives, 64-bit PowerPC processor, relational database technology, server virtualization hypervisors, the list goes on–and that made Big Blue a player in the systems market when they were on the cutting edge and that still make it a player today. But the reality of the situation is that Rochester is no longer a center of gravity for systems in the way it was in the past.
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Guru: Web Concepts For The RPG Developer, Part 4
October 21, 2024 Chris Ringer
The final article in this series is about the JWT (JSON Web Token). If you wish to review the previous articles, you can drill back from part three. For unattended machine to machine (M2M) processes, a JWT string is a formatted container for requesting access to a resource server. I think of a resource server as the applications. And in our case, the JWT has an asymmetric signature.
But really, what is a JWT? It’s similar to a temporary driver’s license. Think about your last visit to a hotel (figure 1).
Steps:
- You present your ID (JWT) during check-in
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 26, Number 41
October 21, 2024 Doug Bidwell
Don’t get hyper about HIPERs, but there are some issues you need to deal with if you have moved to IBM i 7.5. High Impact / Highly Pervasive (HIPER) Issue Potential undetected data loss can occur on LPARs using NPIV with certain Fibre Channel adapters. Potential undetected data loss can occur on LPARs using NPIV over Fibre Channel adapters with the following Feature Codes: EN1E/EN1F, EN1G/EN1H, EN1J/EN1K, EN2L/EN2M, and EN2N/EN2P.
You can read about this HIPER PTF at this link.
Now, there are also two security vulnerabilities on this week’s To Do list.
First, we have Security Bulletin: IBM …
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Power Systems Management Stack Updated Alongside TR Updates
October 14, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan
If there are Technology Refreshes for the IBM i stack and new Technology Levels for AIX, then that means IBM has also updated a slew of systems software and middleware that runs atop these stacks. This being the fall, then we knew that TRs were coming for IBM and we therefore knew that updates were coming for PowerVM, VIOS, PowerVC, Cloud Management Console, and the Hardware Management Console.
The enhancements for these collections of software were part of the October 8 announcements, were detailed in announcement letter AD24-0630, and will be available for electronic download on December 12 this …
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