Month: January 2025

​[[{“value”:”The new year is shaping up to be a big one for IBM i. A new release of the operating system is expected, as is a new processor and new servers built with them. Old utilities are slated to get the axe, but no one is quite sure how far IBM will cut. And then of course there’s what will happen in the IBM i community, which is where we turn for insight into what comes next.
We start this year’s batch of IBM i predictions with Charlie Guarino, the president of Central Park Data Systems and the resident expert …
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​[[{“value”:”Last month, IBM began selling subscriptions to Migrate While Active, a new offering designed to speed and simplify the migrations of IBM i workloads from customers’ on-prem installations to Power Virtual Server running in IBM Cloud. Big Blue also last month hosted an online Guided Tour webinar that provided some much-needed answers to questions about the new offering.
IBM launched the Migrate While Active in late October, a couple of weeks after unveiling the latest Technology Refreshes for IBM i 7.4 and 7.5. IBM didn’t provide a lot of initial information on the new offering, which was designed to …
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​[[{“value”:”Welcome to 2025, everybody. Nothing too big has happened on the IBM i front as far as we know, excepting the appointment of a new vice president for product management for the Power Systems line, which we report on elsewhere in this issue. But a lot of little thing have happened in recent weeks that bear pointing out, including a whole lot of patching that you can get caught up on in the IBM i PTF Guide also elsewhere in this issue.
Let’s go through the IBM announcements relative to the Power Systems and IBM i customer base that we …
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​[[{“value”:”With The Four Hundred on hiatus for the holidays in late December and early January, we are playing catch up with editions of the IBM i PTF Guide. This week, we will close out 2024 with the final three editions put together in December.
Let’s start with Volume 26, Number 48, which came out December 7. It starts with Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in IBM® Java SDK affect IBM WebSphere Application Server and IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty due to October 2024 CPU, which you can learn more about here. The affected products include WebSphere Application Server 8.5 and …
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