Month: May 2024

​[[{“value”:”Kisco Systems has acquired DXR Security, the company co-founded four years ago by IBM i security expert Carol Woodbury. The deal immediately boosts Kisco’s position in the IBM i security space, and gives Woodbury an opportunity to cement her midrange legacy.
Woodbury started her computer security career in Rochester, Minnesota back in 1984, when she was hired to work on securing IBM’s midrange platform. Over a 16-year career, she eventually rose to the position of AS/400 Security Team Leader and Chief Engineering Manager for Security when she retired in 2000.
Known simply by the community as the AS/400 security architect, …
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​[[{“value”:”Here is a riddle for you, or even two. Why did IBM buy systems software maker HashiCorp for $6.4 billion? And what on Earth, if anything, will this mean for IBM i customers, or even Power Systems customers in general?
If you want to get a deeper background into HashiCorp, check out the Related Stories link at the bottom of this story for the detailed analysis I have done on the company over at The Next Platform. In the meantime, a short overview of HashiCorp and its tools is in order.
Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar, the co-founders of …
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​[[{“value”:”Some of the links in the IBM i PTF Guide appear to be broken, but don’t worry about them. IBM is in the process of changing the format of the Cover page for IBM i patches and a few of the links are stuck in the middle. We will attempt to get them back in synch by the next issue. This is the effect of the latest in IBM’s efforts to make the web information for IBM less verbose and more accessible. Any comments on such, please share!
And now, some security vulnerabilities for IBM. Four, to be precise.
First, …
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​[[{“value”:”IBM is transforming the IBM i business. In the initial phase, IBM i software licensing is in process of transitioning to Subscription Term licensing for Power9 and Power10 machines at the P05 and P10 tiers.
More information from IBM …”}]] Read More 

​[[{“value”:”In this video, I’d like to talk about how we can improve our programs and our database, by using variable-sized character fields, instead of fixed length character fields.
I show you a few examples both in RPG programming and in the database for improving them.”}]] Read More