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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 23, Number 19

As The Four Hundred reported last week, there is a major bug in Access Client Solutions 1.1.8.7, and IBM is pulling it and replacing it soon with ACS 1.1.8.8. We were expecting it last week, but it did not happen. So stick with ACS 1.1.8.6 for the time being.

Here is the rundown of PTF Groups by IBM i release level:

PTF Groups 7.4:

HIPERs (High Impact/Pervasive)
SAP support

PTF Groups 7.3:

HIPERs (High Impact/Pervasive)

PTF Groups 7.2:

HIPERs (High Impact/Pervasive)
SAP support

PTF Groups 7.1:

HIPERs (High Impact/Pervasive)
Security

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Application Modernization on IBM i with Containers & Red Hat OpenShift – Demo Architecture Overview

In this demonstration, see how to position and use containers in the app modernization journey on IBM i. Live Demo here : https://youtu.be/cHWDmc4J6NI
Based on real customer requests, It is a good conversation starter illustrating the use of the latest technologies on a live environment (#ShowNotTell)and a fictive company ‘AcmeAir’: app development and test of a microservice application running on OpenShift 4.x on Power integrated with a ‘customer’ (CRM) microservice running on IBM i / Db2 Mirror for i. Stateless and Stateful: Best of both worlds.
– Introduction: IBM Hybrid Multi Cloud approach-OpenShift & IBM i Integration
– jdbc or REST API-Db2 Mirror for i (HA Solution for the database), consumption from front-end containerized apps (Web, Mobile)
-Automation & DevOps: Image build and S2i, Git, Jenkins Pipeline, IBMiOSS, Ansible for i.

Code used in the demo: https://github.com/bmarolleau/acmeair-customerservice-java-jdbc
Presentation : https://ibm.box.com/s/0bwk4h6lvoznqdcpnhrtux8iqng8ffge
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