Month: July 2024

​IBM Managed System Services for i and IBM System Management for i are vulnerable to a local user gaining elevated privilege due to programs making unqualified library calls as described in the vulnerability details section. This bulletin identifies the steps to take to address the vulnerability as described in the remediation/fixes section. Read More 

​[[{“value”:”Highlights from a recent AI roundtable featuring IBM i experts Charlie Guarino, Jesse Gorzinski, Alex Roytman and Thomas DeCorte
The post AI on IBM i: A POWERUp Roundtable appeared first on TechChannel.”}]] Read More 

​[[{“value”:”This is a historic post, article number 600 rolls of the print press! Here we celebrate this exciting feat. The number 600 pops up in various contexts, here are some interesting facts that have the number 600.
The post Article 600! first appeared on PowerWire.”}]] Read More 

​[[{“value”:”As part of the latest Technology Refreshes, IBM i 7.5 TR4 and 7.4 TR10, comes an addition to the variable and data structure definitions. It is now possible to use the constant keyword as part of those definitions to protect them from being changed.
Why would I want to do that?
There are times I want to use a variable, rather than a constant. It might be to contain a date. I would not want this to be changed, either on purpose or by accident.
Below is an example:

01 **free
02 dcl-s StartDate date inz(*sys) const ;
03 dsply StartDate ;
04 StartDate = d’2024-07-04′ ;

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​[[{“value”:”Now that we have basic SQL tables that are still RPG-friendly, let’s start to make them more recognizable (and usable) for non-RPG developers by adding some typical SQL features, like keys, default values for optional columns, etc.
SQL can specify unique keys that are generated by the database engine.”}]] Read More