Month: December 2023

​Websphere Fixpacks:https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/715553Websphere iFixes:https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/611243https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/715559IBM J9 Java:https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/1117839https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/sdk-java-technology/8?topic=introduction-java-virtual-machineAfter the latest J9 Java and Websphere Application Server v8.5.5 or v9.0.5 fixpack update, you receive HTTP500 error on the web page and gsk 406 error in the plugin.log file.IHS plugin log location: ${CONFIG_ROOT}/logs/<lpar_IHSinstance>/plugin.logERROR: lib_security: logSSLError: str_security (gsk error 406): Error occurred in TLS processing, check the errno value.ERROR: lib_security: initializeSecurity: Failed to initialize GSK environment. Secure transports are not possible.To validate CMS version the plugin-key.kdb, we want to view the object in hex (F10). Review the 3rd byte value on the second line. This value identifies what CMS version that the key database file version has. If you see 06, in return means CMSV6 or 03 would mean CMSV3 and so on.WRKLNK ‘${CONFIG_ROOT}/cells/<lpar_APPServer>/nodes/<lpar_APPServer/servers/<IHS_Instance>/plugin-key.kdb’NOTE: We want to ensure that the CMS keystore is CMS version 4 or below. The IBM i System TLS APIs (that initialize the gskit secure environment) can only handle CMSv4 keystores. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.5?topic=concepts-secure-socketshttps://www.ibm.com/docs/en/was/8.5.5?topic=scus-keystore-configurations-ssl-1 Read More 

​Over the past ten years RPG has transformed itself into a modern free form language. In recent the recent releases, 7.4 and 7.5, there have been additions there have been enhancements made that have passed many people by. Simon will demonstrate his favorite additions. Read More 

​Dear IBM i Friends,
 
This Friday December 22, will be my last day with Service Express, the company which purchased iTech Solutions in July of 2022. I am… | 27 comments on LinkedIn Read More 

​Within the latest Technology Refreshes, IBM i 7.5 TR3 and 7.4 TR9, are a couple of new RPG Built in Functions, BiF, that can make it easier to get the leftmost or rightmost characters from another variable.
The new BiF are:

%LEFT:  gets the leftmost characters
%RIGHT:  gets the rightmost characters

The syntax is the same for them both:

Result = %left(< string or variable > : < number of characters to get > :
< charcount constant >) ;

Result = %right(< string or variable > : < number of characters to get > : < charcount constant >) ;

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​AAA Life Insurance integrates its IBM i Data into AWS with Precisely  Precisely Read More