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Townsend Looks to Spread 2FA Far and Wide
August 19, 2014 Alex Woodie
Under normal circumstances, user authentication products don’t attract a lot of attention. But thanks to Russian hackers, the Heartbleed vulnerability, and Target’s security breach, millions of people are wondering if their passwords are safe (newsflash: they’re probably not). With these security fears as a backdrop, Townsend Security is looking to accelerate the adoption of its new IBM i two-factor authentication (2FA) software.
Last month, Townsend made two announcements that demonstrate its plans for Alliance Two Factor Authentication, the IBM i-based 2FA software that it introduced in January. The 2FA offering prevents a user from logging onto the IBM i
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OpenVMS Spinout A Possible Prelude To An IBM i Future?
August 11, 2014 Timothy Prickett Morgan
There are a few operating systems in the world that get both the tags “legacy” and “venerable” attached to them, one denoting a kind of dismissal or outright disdain and the other connoting respect and maybe even sometimes awe. IBM‘s MVS platform, which has also been called OS/390 and more recently known as z/OS, is certainly venerable and legacy if you don’t want to be accurate or generous, and so is OS/400, formerly known as i5/OS and now IBM i. And so is the VMS operating system for VAX, Alpha, and Itanium systems from Digital Equipment Corp,
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Decisions, Decisions: Templates Or Snippets?
July 30, 2014 Susan Gantner
All you RSE (a.k.a., RDi, RDP, WDSC) users out there: Do you prefer templates or snippets?
For some of you, the response may be “What’s a Template?” Or “What’s a Snippet?” For those readers, I’ll direct you to first learn more about the basics of both topics via earlier tips from Paul Tuohy, when he wrote about creating templates and creating snippets. If your answer to my original question about templates vs. snippets is “Yes” (meaning you like both), perhaps you don’t need to read the rest of this tip.
As with several capabilities of the Rational toolset, these
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Porting A User Profile From One IBM i Machine To Another
July 23, 2014 Hey, Joe
We’re consolidating our IBM i partitions on another Power 7+ machine that belongs to my parent company. They want to move and install some special-purpose user profiles from of their partitions to one of our partitions. What’s the best way to port a user profile from one partition to another?
–Tim
You have two choices here. 1) You can either take a printout of the user profiles in question and manually recreate them on your target machine; or 2) You can back up and restore the user profiles from one machine to another.
My preference is to back up and
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Admin Alerts: Old IBM i Backups, New Tricks
July 9, 2014 Joe Hertvik
If you’re like most IBM i administrators, your backup routine is probably set in stone and you don’t really need to change it all that much. It’s solid and it works. But sometimes things happen and you may need to tweak your backup to accommodate new situations or needs. This week, let’s look at three different scenarios where you might have to change or modify your backup solution.
Our Backup Scenarios
Here are three different backup situations you may encounter that could force you to make some small but significant changes to your backup routines.
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Need Apps for IBM i 7.2? Check the GSD
July 8, 2014 Alex Woodie
IBM i version 7.2 has been out for about a month now, providing more than 100,000 users of the midrange server with a variety of helpful new features, not to mention all fixes to date. While IBM doesn’t run a certification program for the new OS, ISVs are expected to begin listing their IBM i 7.2-compatible applications on the Global Solutions Directory (GSD) website.
IBM runs the Global Solutions Directory effectively to provide a searchable index of solutions designed to run on its various platforms. Business partners maintain their own listings in the directory, so it’s not the same as
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Need Apps for IBM i 7.2? Check the GSD
July 8, 2014 Alex Woodie
IBM i version 7.2 has been out for about a month now, providing more than 100,000 users of the midrange server with a variety of helpful new features, not to mention all fixes to date. While IBM doesn’t run a certification program for the new OS, ISVs are expected to begin listing their IBM i 7.2-compatible applications on the Global Solutions Directory (GSD) website.
IBM runs the Global Solutions Directory effectively to provide a searchable index of solutions designed to run on its various platforms. Business partners maintain their own listings in the directory, so it’s not the same as
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Four-Core Power8 Box For Entry IBM i Shops Ships Early
June 16, 2014 Timothy Prickett Morgan
The hardware resellers, software peddlers, and IBM i shops that have modest processing needs and generally modest system budgets have all been waiting for it. And IBM did not say a word about it when the initial Power8 systems were launched back in April. But, all of us in the IBM i community knew, without a doubt, that Big Blue would have to put out a four-core machine with an IBM i P05 software tier.
The reason is simple: More than 95 percent of the IBM i installed base has workloads that can easily fit into an entry P05 system,
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Profound UI 5 Expands What i Can Do
May 20, 2014 Dan Burger
RPG development teams are being pushed to their limits as the scope of development projects expands with a greater emphasis on Web and mobile. Time is a great teacher, but there never seems to be enough time to meet the demands. Profound Logic, an IBM i application tool vendor with a warehouse full of development experience gained during years of application development and modernization projects, is on the hunt to keep RPG developers ahead of the demands.
The newest in a long line of enhancements that support RPG Open Access and “top down” RPG programming are aimed at simplifying
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Profound UI 5 Expands What i Can Do
May 20, 2014 Dan Burger
RPG development teams are being pushed to their limits as the scope of development projects expands with a greater emphasis on Web and mobile. Time is a great teacher, but there never seems to be enough time to meet the demands. Profound Logic, an IBM i application tool vendor with a warehouse full of development experience gained during years of application development and modernization projects, is on the hunt to keep RPG developers ahead of the demands.
The newest in a long line of enhancements that support RPG Open Access and “top down” RPG programming are aimed at simplifying