[[{“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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State Of The Power Systems Base 2025: The Systems Timothy Prickett Morgan
[[{“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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ACS Password Leaks Are A Security Issue On IBM i Alex Woodie
[[{“value”:”IBM i shops that are relying on the old WINLOGON process with their Access Client Solutions (ACS) installations will need to find a new way to synchronize passwords between Windows clients and IBM i servers. According to a new report from Silent Signal, the passwords could still be compromised.
In early January, Big Blue published an IBM Support document about problems that IBM i shops were having after they applied the Windows 11 24H2 update, which Microsoft had started rolling out in October 2024. IBM i customers who used the ACS Windows Application Package told IBM they were no longer …
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IBMi COBOL: Using data queues: QCAPCMD gave Error CPF0008 (Value in option control block not valid). Fit_Reference_7165
[[{“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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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 27, Number 7 Doug Bidwell
[[{“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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