Month: February 2025

​[[{“value”:”In last week’s issue, we talked about the upgrade cycle for the IBM i operating systems over more than a decade based on the annual IBM i Marketplace Survey done by Fortra and pretty heavily massaged by us to reflect what we think is closer to reality for the IBM i market at large.
No matter if you look at the raw data from the survey or the more elaborate model we have built derived from the past eleven surveys, one thing is clear: There is a regular pattern for Power Systems upgrades among OS/400, i5/OS, and IBM i shops …
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​[[{“value”:”If you have been meaning to give VS Code a try, but just haven’t had a chance, I encourage you to avail yourself today. Yes, for you RDi users, it will take a little bit to migrate your favorite settings, code snippets, and compile commands – but I promise, you won’t regret the move.
In my article, Getting Started With The Code 4 i Extension Within VS Code, I offer a few more insights to help get you started. And if you are an SEU user, yes, the switch may seem daunting, but one of the great things about …
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​[[{“value”:”When Big Blue makes big announcements, we break them down and analyze them uniquely. But there are often a lot of little things that happen over the course of a few weeks, and we like to lump these together and give you the rundown. That way you are informed, but you can skim it.
So let’s take a look the things related to Power Systems and IBM i that have happened in the past few weeks since we last did this. Let’s start with a few price changes.
In announcement letter AD25-0140, dated February 3 and effective on March …
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​[[{“value”:”How secure you feeling today? Well, IBM i is generally pretty rock solid, but you have to stay on top of the security vulnerabilities. And there are two of them that are new this week.
First, we have Security Bulletin: IBM Java SDK and IBM Java Runtime for IBM i are vulnerable to a partial denial of service and a JNI function returning incorrect value length due to multiple vulnerabilities. You can find out more about this issue at this link, and here are the patches for it:
IBM i Release                         PTF Group
7.5                                             SF99955 Level 13
7.4                                             SF99665 …
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​[[{“value”:”I followed the IBMi 7.5 “Example in ILE COBOL: Using data queues” https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.5?topic=eudquq-example-in-cobol-opm-ile-using-data-queues (Last Updated: 2024-10-07).

Compilation issues The version of QUSEC OF QSYSINC-QLBLSRC at my site contains two structures, both with BYTES-PROVIDED fields. So you have to specify MOVE 16 TO BYTES-PROVIDED OF QUS-EC to get it to compile. Similarly BYTES-AVAILABLE OF QUS-EC.
CALL QCAPCMD gave Error CPF0008 (Value in option control block not valid). IBM copybook structure QCA-PCMD-CPOP0100 at my site contained CCSID-COMMAND-STRING. This is not initialized in the IBM example. MOVE 0 TO CCSID-COMMAND-STRING OF QCA-PCMD-CPOP0100. This should fix the CPF0008 error from QCAPCMD.

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