Tim Rowe is the Business Architect for IBM i responsible for System Management and Application Development.
Scott Forstie is a Senior Technical Staff Member within IBM i development and spends most of his time working as the Db2 for i Business Architect. Read More
October presentations Simon Hutchinson
This month I get to be the first speaker for a new Local User Group, LUG, and then I am off to an in-person conference as a guest speaker. IBM i Midwest User Group (iMWUG) COMMON Sweden Read more » Read More
Guru: TryIT – You’ll Like It Ted Holt
I have watched children play Whac-a-mole, but I’ve never played it myself, perhaps because the game unpleasantly reminds me of programs that I have had to work on. I fix one bug, only to see another bug rear its ugly little head. Life’s too short to endure such nonsense. Besides, it is embarrassing for someone to tell me that the program I supposedly just fixed is still broken. Suppose you’re working on a 4,000-line RPG program and you comment out lines 650-660. What you don’t realize at the time is that a variable used in line 2755 has to … The post Guru: TryIT – You’ll Like It appeared first on IT Jungle. Read More
IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 40 Doug Bidwell
In case you have been sleeping under a rock, or under an apple tree, or under a bridge, the IBM i 7.3 operating system release reached its end of standard support this Saturday on September 30. So now if you plan to keep IBM i 7.3 in production, you have to pay for an extended support Software Maintenance contract with Big Blue. You also have to do the math on whether it is worth it to hang back or to move to IBM i 7.5, which has been generally available since May 2022. Here is the rundown of PTF Groups … The post IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 40 appeared first on IT Jungle. Read More
How to create a certificate request (CSR), sign it by external or own CA and import it into DCM using OpenSSL
This document provides basic steps to create your own Certificate Authority (CA), sign a CSR (certificate signing request) and create a PKCS12 formatted certificate for import to DCM, by using IBM i OpenSSL (Portable Utilities 5733-SC1).Additional information about X.509 V3 extension parameters can be found: https://www.openssl.org/docs/man1.1.1/man5/x509v3_config.html Read More
