THE FOUR HUNDRED - Power Systems & IBM i Insights

1. IBM “Price Harmonization” Increases For Power Systems Coming In The New Year

   When we look back a few years from now, in like maybe 2032 or so, we will look at 2026 as the year of the price increase. Big Blue, along with other system makers and the component makers whose gear goes into those systems, have all had price increases – often very large ones, and sometimes with what looks to me like opportunistic pricing. That’s when vendors raise prices by more than you would think was warranted.

   Sometime in early September – I think it might have been on September 1, 2, or 3 – IBM announced a price harmonization …

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2. Code For i Continues To Grow. Here Is What’s New

   Code for i has been the hottest open source project in the IBM i community for several years, and that popularity is not dropping. In fact, the community behind the red hot project continues to improve the VS Code-based development environment, including new functionality that we can expect to see released in the future.

   Code for i is a VS Code plug-in originally created by Liam Allan in 2021 to make Web-based development possible for ILE developers on IBM i. The project has exploded in popularity over the past five years, with nearly 93,000 installs recorded on the Microsoft Marketplace …

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3. PowerSC: Your One-Stop Shop For Security On IBM i – And Beyond

   Keeping on top of changing security threats is difficult, to say the least. It is even harder to map changing threats to changing configurations on your IBM i server. When your IT network also includes AIX and Linux systems, the difficulty gets multiplied. For these types of environments, IBM provides a tool called PowerSC.

   When IBM launched PowerSC (which stands for security and compliance) as an IBM Lab Services product way back in 2010, it was primarily designed for setting up security configurations and running audits on AIX. That is not the case today, as the tool provides a plethora …

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4. As I See It: You’ve Been Flocked

   Perhaps you have had a similar experience. You’re hiking in a park or in a wilderness area and since it’s ungodly hot, you’ve taken care to eat well and hydrate. Now you’re miles from the trailhead and the nearest bathroom and you have to poop. Into the bushes you go. Ordinarily, not an event worthy of mention or concern. But these days, on at least one occasion, I’ve had a disquieting thought: I wonder if there’s a trail cam filming me?

   Privacy, if not dead, is on life support. It’s a safe bet that wherever you are and whatever you’re …

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5. IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 28, Number 32

   Another week, and another bunch of security vulnerabilities for the IBM i platform. Plus a slew of stuff to update IBM i 7.3 through IBM i 7.6. Let us start with the security issues and patches, as we always do, and count them off to 11 so we can keep track of them.

   1. Security Bulletin: IBM Db2 Mirror for i is vulnerable to Authentication Bypass by Spoofing [CVE-2026-18065], which you can read HERE. Affected Products and Versions:

   IBM i Release	5770-DBM 	PTF Numbers
   7.6				SJ11475
   7.5				SJ11474 
   7.4				SJ11471 
   

   2. Security Bulletin: IBM i Is Affected By Multiple …

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