[[{“value”:”IBM i has the great potential of keeping your data secure at the highest level, but is it configured to take advantage of all the security features the system provides?
On IBM i, many remote servers (e.g., FTP, ODBC/JDBC, SQL, File Server, Telnet, etc.) are turned on by default and can allow users with legitimate system access the ability to bypass their usual application-level security and access whatever they want by using the remote service.”}]] Read More
IBM Power11 is coming, but not announced Simon Hutchinson
[[{“value”:”I do not think I have ever seen IBM do this before. The Vice President of Product Management for the IBM Power Servers, Bargav Balakrishnan, wrote a blog post in the IBM Newsroom about IBM Power11 processors being released next year, 2025.
While his post was not technical, explaining the differences from IBM Power10 and Power11, he did give some details about the performance improvement we could see when comparing these two servers.
He also wrote about integrating the IBM Spyre Accelerator to allow IBM Power servers used to be able the scale AI workloads.
The last section of his post talked about IBM’s AI tool for RPG, RPG code assistant, stating that IBM intends to deliver it next year too.
You can read his blog post here.
This goes to show that 2025 is going to be an exciting year for IBM Power, IBM i and RPG.”}]] Read More
Overview of JOBS Programmers IO
Teaching IBM Power skills in a free online IBM i Internship Program for university students and IT professionals around the world. Read More
Simple IBM i Source Member Version Control Richard Schoen
[[{“value”:”In iForGit V1.25 a new feature has been added to handle simple source member version control for a team that isn’t quite ready for using Git. And once ready for Git, the simple source management commands can still be used to manage moving source between production and development libraries if the source master versions will continue to live on IBM i in source physical files.
Check out a source member copy to their development or test libraries to work on the source.”}]] Read More
Visual Studio Code for IBM i – Compile RPG From My PC Nick Litten
[[{“value”:”At lines of code, with syntax fair,
Deployed to IFS, a digital escape.”}]] Read More
