What Degree? Kisco’s RCL Fellowship Spotlights Value of Training, Hard Work – IT Jungle

​[[{“value”:”Justin Loeber started the RCL fellowship program in late 2023 to honor his father and to spotlight the importance of training and hard work in the IBM i community.
“The point is, I feel like my dad and I are both doing okay, even though he didn’t have a college experience, and I took a non-traditional career path,” said Loeber, who had a successful IT career before buying Kisco from his father in 2021.”}]] Read More 

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 26, Number 16 Doug Bidwell

​[[{“value”:”It is an interesting time out there in PTF Land, so brace yourself. There are four security bulletins and two security warnings about potential denial of service vulnerabilities. Let’s do the security bulletins first and then the denial of service issues.
First, we have Security Bulletin: IBM i Access Client Solutions is vulnerable to an infinite loop or out of memory error due to vulnerabilities in Apache Commons Compress, which you can find out more about at this link. The affected product(s) include IBM i Access Family versions 1.1.2 – 1.1.4, and versions 1.1.4.3 – 1.1.9.4. The issue can …
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Guru: Web Concepts For The RPG Developer, Part 1 Chris Ringer

​[[{“value”:”Way back in the 1990s, I recall accessing data with only RPG III F-Specs. But nowadays some of that critical data may live in the cloud. The good news is tools like HTTPAPI and RXS and SQL functions like SQL HTTP are available to access that remote data from the IBM i. But what you may not know is how to actually format components in those HTTP requests.
Here I will discuss some techniques to build those components in an HTTP request before sending it across the web.
HTTP Get Versus Post
The two most common methods for an HTTP …
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LightEdge Acquires Connectria To Round Out Each Other’s Power Play – IT Jungle

​[[{“value”:”In 2021, private equity firm GI Partners, which is famous for creating the Digital Realty datacenter operator, acquired LightEdge from Anschutz for an undisclosed amount and said that LightEdge company would be the kernel on which it would grow its investments in cloud service providing.
If there is a large group of IT customers who pay a premium for a premium product but who are also going to be experiencing a skills shortage in the coming years, then you want to be in the position of selling them networking, compute, and storage capacity in the cloud or in co-location facilities.”}]] Read More 

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