IBM Suddenly Pulls The Plug On Db2 Web Query for i Timothy Prickett Morgan

​Well, that was a bit of a surprise, but to be fair we had a few days of forewarning about it before it happened so it really wasn’t. Yesterday, on October 10, IBM abruptly announced the end of marketing for all variations of the Db2 Web Query for i data analytics tool. You can read about it in announcement letter AD23-0691. But don’t get too excited. That announcement letter doesn’t tell you much. On Friday, October 6, we got a message from a director of information technology at a logistics and business services provider that his IBM business partner … The post IBM Suddenly Pulls The Plug On Db2 Web Query for i appeared first on IT Jungle. Read More 

IBM WebSphere Application Server v8.5 on IBM i Fails to Start Or TLS/HTTPS Fails After Updating IBM i Java Group PTF

​After installing the IBM i Java Group PTF level updating JDK 8.0 to SR8 F5 (8.0.8.5), IBM WebSphere Application Server v8.5.5.22-8.5.5.24 server instances running on the IBM i OS may either fail to start or fail to initialize TLS/HTTPS. The “java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No cryptographic provider to support protocol TLSv1.3” exception will be written to an FFDC and/or SystemOut.log file for the server instance. This issue does not affect IBM WebSphere Application Server v9.0 server instances on IBM i 7.5, 7.4, and 7.3 OS. IBM i Java Group PTF levels installing Java 8.0.8.5 (SR8 FP5): IBM i 7.4 – SF99665 level 19 IBM i 7.3 – SF99725 level 29 Read More 

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