Month: April 2024

​[[{“value”:”Way back in the 1990s, I recall accessing data with only RPG III F-Specs. But nowadays some of that critical data may live in the cloud. The good news is tools like HTTPAPI and RXS and SQL functions like SQL HTTP are available to access that remote data from the IBM i. But what you may not know is how to actually format components in those HTTP requests.
Here I will discuss some techniques to build those components in an HTTP request before sending it across the web.
HTTP Get Versus Post
The two most common methods for an HTTP …
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​[[{“value”:”It is an interesting time out there in PTF Land, so brace yourself. There are four security bulletins and two security warnings about potential denial of service vulnerabilities. Let’s do the security bulletins first and then the denial of service issues.
First, we have Security Bulletin: IBM i Access Client Solutions is vulnerable to an infinite loop or out of memory error due to vulnerabilities in Apache Commons Compress, which you can find out more about at this link. The affected product(s) include IBM i Access Family versions 1.1.2 – 1.1.4, and versions 1.1.4.3 – 1.1.9.4. The issue can …
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​Maxava’s Ash Giddings and Martin Norman offer expert insights on high availability and reveal key features of Maxava’s cutting-edge HA/DR solution for IBM iFrom: TechChannel Read More 

​Reg Harbeck, IBM Champion and chief strategist at Mainframe Analytics Ltd, and Al Saurette, president at MainTegrity Inc, dive into how to protect your mainframe and recover from malicious attacksFrom: TechChannel Read More 

​CM First’s John Rhodes and Roger Hammer on modernizing enterprise COBOL applicationsFrom: TechChannel Read More