THE FOUR HUNDRED - Power Systems & IBM i Insights

1. The Power11 IBM i P05 Entry Machine Finally Arrives

   The new entry “Bonnell+” Power S1112 server, based on the Power11 processor that IBM introduced a year ago in all of the other Power Systems machines, was revealed last week and will be shipping almost everywhere in the world starting on July 24. The exceptions are that the Power S1112 will ship in Taiwan on September 14 and will ship in China and India starting December 11.

   The other members of the Power11 server family were announced on July 8 last year, and the Power11 lineup has been without a machine that is in the lowest P05 software tier …

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2. Big Blue Finally Unveils First IBM i Tech Refreshes Of 2026

   Well, that took a little longer than usual.Last week, IBM finally made its first IBM i Technology Refresh announcements of 2026, formally unveiling the group of updates that collectively will make up IBM i 7.6 TR2 and 7.5 TR8. With the fall TR ostensibly just three months away, the good news with the two new TRs is that the general availability date is this Friday.

   Since IBM moved to the TR cycle back in 2010, it has traditionally given the IBM i community two big updates per year, one in the spring (normally April) and one in the …

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3. Guru: Analyzing User Session Statistics, Part 1

   I wanted to report on user activity on our IBM i. Knowing that there is a wealth of SQL table functions available to me, I knew it wouldn’t be hard to find something that would help me. For this report, I wanted to see how many times a user logged into the system during a certain timeframe.

   The table function I used is QSYS2.HISTORY_LOG_INFO. I’ll show the code I built, followed by a breakdown of what is does.

   Here is the SQL statement to determine the number of times a user signed in:

   SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT DATE(MESSAGE_TIMESTAMP)) AS DAYS_LOGGED_IN
   FROM

   …

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4. Relion Solutions Launches With A Focus On Customer Service

   Customer service sure isn’t what it used to be. Instead of helpful customer service representatives who pick up the phone before the second ring, you have overgrown phone trees, unhelpful AI agents, and ticketing systems that seem designed to shield customers from companies and companies from customers. You won’t find any of this at Relion Solutions, a new IBM midrange business partner that launched earlier this month with a desire to focus relentlessly on serving the needs of its IBM i customers.

   Relion Solutions was co-founded by Heather Dinho and Richie Palma, two IBM i veterans with years of experience …

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5. IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 28, Numbers 23 And 24

   It is Ketchup Week here at the IBM i PTF Guide once again, and Big Blue made it a little more interesting by announcing the Technology Refreshes for IBM i 7.6 and IBM i 7.5 last week.

   Let’s dive in, starting with Volume 28, Number 23, dated July 11 and beginning with two bugs and two security vulnerabilities you need to be aware of.

   First, we have Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Rational Developer for i, which you can find out more about here. IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading. This upgrade fixes 15+ CVE …

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