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​[[{“value”:”IBM also refreshed the badges it distributes as part of the related IBM Rising Champion Advocacy program.
“I’m thrilled to receive the news that I’ve been recognized as an IBM Champion once again in 2025,” Josh Patterson, a solutions architect at managed service provider Lightedge, said on LinkedIn.”}]] Read More 

​[[{“value”:”Here is a simple test to reckon the value of the applications that run your company. Walk down to the datacenter, or over to the datacloset, or SSH out to the cloud, and turn the physical or logical machine running those applications off. What happens next?
Aside from a lot of animated conversations and possibly some cursing, not much until you turn the machine back on and the system, databases, and applications reboot. You already knew this, but now everyone else has discovered, rather suddenly, how the very existence of the business and the livelihoods of the employees is dependent …
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​[[{“value”:”Rocket Software has rolled out Secure Host Access, a new terminal emulator for utilizing the classic greenscreen interfaces of heritage IBM i, mainframe, and Unix applications. The new offering consolidates multiple emulators acquired by Rocket over the years into a single offering, while delivering much-needed security features that the previous emulators largely lacked.
Rocket Software’s Secure Host Access is a terminal emulator that provides a full array of TN5250, TS3270, and VT connectivity from PCs, Web browsers, and mobile devices. The Java-based product offers all the features and capabilities that you would expect to find in a mature emulator, …
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​[[{“value”:”It is a quiet week as far as security vulnerabilities go, so if you are in North America, or you like American football, we hope you enjoyed Super Bowl LIX and know that there is nothing too serious you need to handle right now with your IBM i system. There are some new HIPERs and patches to Java and the Apace Web server.
Here is the rundown of PTF Groups by IBM i release level since we last published:
PTF Groups 7.5:

HIPERs (High Impact/Pervasive)
Java
IBM HTTP Server for i

PTF Groups 7.4:

HIPERs (High Impact/Pervasive)
Java
IBM HTTP

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​[[{“value”:”When Poersch was hired, his new boss enrolled him in imPower Technologies IBM i Concepts and Operations (maximum 8 weeks in length) and Programming in ILE RPG (maximum 10 weeks in length) courses, taught by Jim Buck, a top IBM i educator with online course offerings.
For this conversion, he’s using TARGET/400, a program developed in the 1980s by John Caine and a partner that enables IBM i shops to convert their RPG 2 to RPGLE.”}]] Read More