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Power Systems Turns In Another Great Quarter
We have been saying for some time that we think that Big Blue can get the Power Systems hardware business, including servers and operating systems but not including various kinds of tech support, to rise above $2 billion in annual sales. And by all indications, now that IBM has…
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Big Blue Is Right On Schedule With Fall 2026 IBM i Tech Refreshes
After delaying the spring Technology Refreshes for three months earlier this year, IBM is back on track with the fall TRs. IBM i shops will find a raft of new capabilities in the newly announced IBM i 7.6 TR3 and 7.5 TR9, including new services for tracking security patches,…
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Guru: Environment Variables – Global Variables Wearing Hiking Boots
Sometimes a program knows one tiny piece of information that another program, several calls farther down the stack, needs to know. The obvious solution is to add another parameter. But sometimes that requires that new parameter added to one or more programs in the call stack.…
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A New IBM i Entity Takes Shape: Power By Fortra
Attendees of the COMMON NAViGATE conference last week were able to catch a glimpse of a new organization making its way in the IBM i world: Power by Fortra. The entity is not a separate company from Fortra. Rather, it’s a virtual carveout of sorts of all of Fortra’s IBM i…
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 28, Number 38
Welcome to this week, where the IBM i platform has two issues you need to be aware of as well as a security bulletin. Yup, we said “a” there, meaning only one, meaning it looks like people were out trick or treating instead of bug hunting. Which is fine. The first issue is…
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Critical PHP2Shell Security Vulns Evoke ‘Black October’
AI helped uncover a pair of critical security vulnerabilities in PHP that can be used to execute code, including on IBM i servers, sent administrators around the world scrambling to install patches on a large swath of the Internet’s Web servers before cybercriminals can get to…
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Why Fortra Partnered with FalconStor to Launch Continuity Care: A Validated Recovery Service for IBM i
With over 7,000 Power Systems customers, Fortra is one of the largest software conglomerates serving the IBM i and AIX communities and it is by far the largest supplier of systems software for Power Systems. The company is also a key development partner of Big Blue, having nine…
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Guru: Analyzing User Session Statistics, Part 2
In part one of this tip, I showed how to determine the number of times a user signed in and signed out of IBM i for a given period. In this tip, I will show how to get the days a user signed in, and how long their session was active. I use the same table function,…
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Fresche Launches OpsIQ, a Free AI-Based Operation Assistant for IBM i
IBM i developers have embraced AI-based coding tools, such as IBM’s Bob and Anthropic’s Claude Code, but IBM i administrators so far haven’t benefited from the AI productivity boost in the same way. That is starting to change, and one of the first AI-based administrative helpers…
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 28, Number 37
Well, brace yourself. We have two things you need to be aware of and a slew, an absolute slew, of security vulnerabilities in the IBM i stack. To begin with, IBM System Planning Tool for POWER processor-based systems – SPT Version 6.26.286.0 is available for download. You can…
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Fall TRs Expected Next Week At Combined IBM-COMMON Conference
Big Blue delayed its spring Technology Refreshes for IBM i earlier by three months this year so that it could simultaneously announce the new entry level Power server. It seems very unlikely that we’ll see such a delay for the fall TR, however, as IBM gears up for its…
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GenAI Brings A New Kind Of Agile Computing That Needs Controls Even More
As if trying to make use of a whole new computing architecture and coming up with the budget to experiment and roll features into production were not enough, there are a slew of issues when bringing GenAI to the IBM i datacenter. There are those who say that people cannot learn…
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IBM i, AI, And The Cost Of “We’ve Always Done It That Way”
I’ve spent more than 30 years in the IBM i community, and I’ve heard one phrase more times than I can count: “We’ve always done it that way.” Sometimes it’s a perfectly reasonable explanation. Other times, I think it might be one of the most dangerous things we can say about a…
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Infor Says IBM i Customers Are Welcome To Use New AI
This month, Infor launched new AI software designed to help its ERP customers automate specific business processes in industry verticals. While the AI capability uses Infor’s cloud environment, customers that run Infor’s IBM i-based ERP software on-prem can also partake of the…
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 28, Number 36
Just a reminder that with IBM i 7.6 TR2 and IBM i 7.5 TR8, there is a virtual Ethernet connectivity advisory. IBM is currently investigating a reported issue affecting systems running IBM i 7.6 TR2 or IBM i 7.5 TR8. Installing the Technology Refresh (TR) can cause a complete…