THE FOUR HUNDRED - Power Systems & IBM i Insights

1. SEU’s Fate, An IBM i V8, And The Odds Of A Power13

   At COMMON’s recent POWERUp conference, IT Jungle got a chance to sit down with IBM executives to talk about the IBM i business, upcoming Power announcements, and sundry other topics, like is IBM preparing to finally kill SEU, when will we see IBM i 8.0, and does IBM feel lucky enough to launch Power13? Here’s a brief accounting of what was said.

   IBM Rochester has been in a housecleaning mode for a while now, clearing out the dead wood and rejiggering the product library for the 21st century. As part of this work, it’s moved to a subscription model and …

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2. Tandberg Bankruptcy Leaves A Hole In IBM Power Storage

   A problem has been brewing for back and archiving needs for entry and some midrange IBM i shops, and we did not know about it until the spit hit the fan last week. Had we known earlier, we could have warned you. And maybe Big Blue could have and should have warned you directly more immediately a few months ago instead of in the announcement that came out last week and that did not actually explain what was going on even a little bit.

   In announcement letter AD25-0836, dated May 27, IBM said that effective that day it was …

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3. RPG Code Generation And The Agentic Future Of IBM i

   IBM is making progress with Watsonx Code Assistant for i, which is on track to become available as a public preview next month. And while IBM perhaps is running into some challenges with generating RPG code, the long-term potential of agentic AI on IBM i is brighter than ever.

   As we previously reported, IBM is now taking names for the folks who will be given access to the public preview of WCA for i, which you can sign up for here. According to IBM i CTO Steve Will, the preview will deliver RPG code understanding capabilities, which is …

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4. A Bunch Of IBM i-Power Systems Things To Be Aware Of

   Sometimes you get a bunch of big announcements for the IBM i platform or the Power Systems machinery it runs on, and sometimes there are some smaller things that are interesting to a smaller group of people but no less important in their worlds than the big stuff.

   So it is this week.

   In announcement letter AD25-0887 dated May 27, which is where we also saw the withdrawal of marketing of RDX disk backup units and which we reported on elsewhere in this issue, we also see that the 1 TB and 2 TB removable disk cartridges are being removed. …

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5. IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 27, Numbers 21 And 22

   It is once again “ketchup week” here at The Four Hundred thanks to the Memorial Day holiday last week in the United States, and that means you get two IBM i PTF Guides for the price of one this week.

   So let’s start with Volume 27 Number 21 dated May 24. There is a whole bunch of stuff to deal with.

   First, there is a flash alert: IBM i HTTP Server Validation List Authentication Suddenly Fails After IBM i HTTP Group PTF Apply. You can find out more about this here. IBM says: “If you have applied one of …

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