Month: October 2021

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Guru: Fall Brings New RPG Features (And So Did Spring!)

When I first sat down to write this tip my focus was on introducing you to the new RPG features that were added alongside the latest September Technology Refresh (TR). However, when I tried to reference one of the enhancements from the spring enhancements, I quickly discovered that I had never written those up for the Guru column!

Oooopppps! As a result, this “tip” will cover all the RPG enhancements added this year, both in the April and September announcements. It will be in two parts. This first part will cover the array-oriented features.

RPG’s range of array-processing options has …

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015 Becki Wagoner Keeps May Trucking on the Road with IBM i

015:  On the show this week we have Becki Wagoner in the house.  Becki is the VP of Strategic Innovation and Technology, for May Trucking Company and they have been running IBM i for more than 30 years.  Becki shares her love for the platform, and her passion for making business better!  Becki talks about leveraging proven business applications, modernization and upgrading to new hardware. Becki’s contact information and social:Email: [email protected]://www.linkedin.com/in/becki-wagoner-aabb4462/https://techchannel.com/SMB/09/2019/may-truckingOne incredible Th(i)ng!  Products, gadgets, recipes, music, or things we are loving right now.Tony’s picks for this week:Tony’s favorite Comic Appshttps://www.marvel.com/unlimitedhttps://www.dcuniverseinfinite.comhttps://www.comixology.com/Peg’s pick for the week:   Fanny packs are BACK!  My favorite bag is Lululemon’s Everywhere Belt Bag! Becki’s pick for the week:Becki loves photography and she wins this weeks best One incredible Thing!  Jones Soda selected one of Becki’s photo, “Alpaca My Lunch” for their Bubblegum Blue Soda!  Let us know if you find Becki’s photo out there.   Upcoming Events: POWERUp21 A virtual event is scheduled for October 4-7, 2021. COMMON provides the best in Power Systems and IBM I education – come learn from the most celebrated industry experts in the field.  Head over to COMMON.org for more information. RPG & DB@ Summit October 20-26, 2021A virtual event focused exclusively on IBM i developers. Join RPG, database and open source experts for 5+ days of live, interactive, online in-depth sessions for developers. Check out the sessions and the expert speakers and see for yourself. This episode is sponsored by… COMMON https://www.common.org/home Midrange Dynamics Change Management Software – Built for IBM i modernization! https://www.midrangedynamics.com/Interested in sharing your IBM i story?  Want to sponsor the podcast?  We want to hear from you!  Reach out to Peg at [email protected] 

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Default passwords and the dangers they pose

What are default passwords ?

Default passwords can be either the system delivered default password or a password that’s exactly the same as the username.

IBM i comes with a couple of ‘service users’ that are used for applications such as the HTTP server, WebSphere application server, dial-home, and much more. Some of these users have never been changed and are lurking to be misused in many ways.

Additionally, over the years users have been created that have the same password as the user and have never been changed.

Why should you care?

Well suppose we have our end-user Eddy. His user profile is called EDDY. And of course, his password is EDDY as well. And for the sake of convenience, we just copied another profile with security officer rights to make this profile.
This is dangerous as this profile has the rights to do almost everything on the system, including deleting whatever they want.
Oh and did I mention that Eddy is no longer working for the firm but his user profile is still enabled and can be misused at any time ?

Be aware!

The good news is, there’s a very handy little command that can give you a nice overview of the user profiles that have default passwords. The command is called ANZDFTPWD. This will give you a list of all the user profiles on your system that have default password and whether they are enabled or not.

Try it out

Try the command out and have a look on your system. It takes only a few seconds and you may have some user profiles with default password that you weren’t even aware of.

A real life example

Below you will find a real example of such a list. For security and privacy reasons I have blanked out the user profiles and system name. Yet, there were 26 user profiles with default passwords, 24 users were still enabled and 11 of them had *SECOFR rights. Talking about a dangerous situation.
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