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2022: An IBM i Year in Review, Part One
December 14, 2022 Alex Woodie
Well, it’s that time of year again – time to look back on the year and contemplate what happened. It was another eventful year in the midrange, with new servers and new operating systems. The IBM i user and vendor communities also worked to make it a rewarding year.
2021 started innocently enough back in . . .
January
Cybercriminals earned a gazillion demerits for their early 2021 Christmas present to cybersecurity professionals: Log4j, the most critical security vulnerability to hit the IT world in years. With a perfect CVSS severity rating of 10, Log4j sent security professionals scrambling in …
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7 Reasons To Be Thankful For IBM i
November 16, 2022 Alex Woodie
Despite problems around the nation, Americans still have a lot to be thankful for. We have really good schools, a strong U.S. dollar, and a tech sector that’s the envy of the world. And while the IBM i server plays a smaller role in the day-to-day running of our country than it used to, there are still many reasons to be thankful for platform.
IT Jungle will take a break from publishing next week to rest, eat turkey, and think about what we’re thankful for, which definitely includes the IBM i. Thankfully, we have prepared a list ahead of time …
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OpenSSL Flaw No ‘Heartbleed,’ But Other New Vulns Detected
November 2, 2022 Alex Woodie
The cybersecurity world has been sitting on pins and needles for the past 48 hours, ever since news of a potentially devastating new flaw in OpenSSL started to leak out early Monday morning. That flaw turned out to be not as bad as initially feared, but that shouldn’t stop IBM i shops from patching other recent flaws, including some pretty serious ones in WebSphere Liberty, Java, the CCA, and Zlib.
News started to emerge earlier this week of a critical OpenSSL flaw that required the utmost attention. The flaw could be a concern for just about everybody, including IBM, …
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When Choosing Your Path To Modernize Your IBM i, Use A Guide
October 26, 2022 Jose Caso Jacobs
When you are moving into a new frontier, it always helps to have a guide who has been there before and who knows the lay of the land and literally where all of the pitfalls are. We have just such pathfinders, and they want to help.
One guide is Mike Mahan, who is global sales director at LANSA and who has a wide range of sales and management experience across many IT vendors in his more than three decades in the industry. The other guide is Eugene King, who is a senior sales engineer at LANSA.
If your IT organization …
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Use A Pathfinder And Choose Your Path To Modernize Your IBM i
October 24, 2022 Jose Caso Jacobs
When you are moving into a new frontier, it always helps to have a guide who has been there before and who knows the lay of the land and literally where all of the pitfalls are. We have just such pathfinders, and they want to help.
One guide is Mike Mahan, who is global sales director at LANSA and who has a wide range of sales and management experience across many IT vendors in his more than three decades in the industry. The other guide is Eugene King, who is a senior sales engineer at LANSA.
If your IT organization …
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How The Latest TRs Bolster App Dev For IBM i
October 17, 2022 Alex Woodie
From Merlin and VSCode to RDi and RPG, good IBM i boys and girls who do their own development will get new toys to play with before Christmas, thanks to a range of new features and functions unveiled by IBM last week as part of its latest Tech Refresh for IBM i.
The introduction of the IBM i Modernization Engine for Lifecycle Integration, or Merlin, was the big attraction this spring with the launch of IBM i version 7.5 and 7.4 TR6 (it was later made available for IBM i 7.3). The offering, which combines a lightweight VSCode development environment …
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Software Supply Chain Attacks Are A Growing Threat
October 3, 2022 Alex Woodie
There’s a lot going on in the world right now, so you probably don’t need something more to worry about. But the cat-and-mouse world of cybersecurity never sleeps, and one of the threats keeping the good guys up at night right now is the growing risk of software supply chain attacks. Unfortunately, security through obscurity won’t provide as much protection for the IBM i server this time around.
Just what is a software supply chain attack? According to the U.S. government’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), a software supply chain attack occurs when “a cyber threat actor infiltrates a …
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Smart Modernization Is The Answer To IBM i Talent Shortage
September 28, 2022 Jose Caso Jacobs
When we are at the COMMON POWERUp 2022 conference a few months ago, we were amazed by the number of IT managers that approached us because of a shortage of IBM i programming talent. The dearth of programmers that are experienced with the business as well as legacy and modern programming techniques has pushed a lot of businesses up against the wall, with lost agility and in some cases delayed projects.
As bad as that is, the situation could be worse. We have all heard the horror stories, where the executive suite or upper IT management push to switch away …
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Four Hundred Monitor, September 28
September 28, 2022 Jenny Thomas
Podcasts are all the rage right now. You can find one on most any topic, and it seems just about everyone has one. Podcasts aren’t just for the famous, anyone can have one. But if you’ve visited your favorite platform for music and looked at the podcast category, you probably felt a little overwhelmed. There are so many podcasts out there, it’s hard to know where to start. So to that end, in this edition of Monitor, instead of Top Stories, we sought out some podcasts relevant to our industry that you might want to give a try during your …
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Four Hundred Monitor, September 21
September 21, 2022 Jenny Thomas
Is it me or is everyone noticing how busy life has been lately? With everyone seemingly running in all different directions, it’s almost impossible to keep up with it all. Here in the Jungle, our goal is to help you by organizing all the latest IBM i, and related, news and notable events into a digestible package. If you have something you want to share with us, we are all ears so please be sure to send it our way. And now, read on as we share with you the latest news of the week, and some events that …
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