The international IBM i community descended upon Denver this week for COMMON’s annual POWERUp conference, which continues through tomorrow. By all accounts, the show was a success among attendees, educators, exhibitors, and IBM. Here are a few observations on the show.
COMMON’s top-notch education was the big draw in the High Plains of Colorado, with more than 300 sessions planned over the four-day event. Sessions containing information about the latest Technology Refreshes (TRs) of IBM i, including 7.5 TR2 and 7.4 TR8, were well attended, including those from IBM i CTO Steve Will and his business architects, including Scott …
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Four Hundred Monitor, April 26 – IT Jungle
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35th IBM i Anniversary: time to move forward
I think this also will help IBM to give us a better operating system even if the have to “maintain” two versions because the old one will not change much and the new one will be simpler to test as it will have less things included.
SEU is not getting updates for the new additions to the languages but many people still use it because it is available and they are used to it, some customers are using the System 36 environment even that has not been supported by years… Read More
IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 17 Doug Bidwell
There are a lot of PTFs that you need to be aware of this week, but before we get into them, there are two security vulnerabilities, one affecting the IBM i platform’s integrated Apache Web server and the other affecting the combination of IBM i Access Client Solutions combined with the IBM Toolbox for Java. Let’s get into the security bulletins to start.
First, we have Security Bulletin: IBM HTTP Server (powered by Apache) for IBM i is vulnerable to HTTP response splitting and denial of service attacks (CVE-2022-37436, CVE-2006-20001), which you can find out more about at this link …
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A Common Market, A Common Currency, A Common Theme Timothy Prickett Morgan
It seems like forever since I went to a COMMON midrange user group, and yes, I know it is called PowerUp 2023 and I know everyone shouts POWER in their POWERUp but I don’t. When someone SHOUTS IN THIS NEWSLETTER, I want you to see it. Marketeers don’t get to change the way language and typography works just because they have a love of ransom notes.
I am very much looking forward to going to PowerUp, even though I am not all that excited to drive from Boone at 3:30 a.m. in the morning to catch a 6:30 a.m. boarding …
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