THE FOUR HUNDRED - Power Systems & IBM i Insights

1. The Turning Point For Power Systems Is Here, And Now

   Considering how everyone in the IBM midrange systems market knew that Power11 processors and the next generation of Power Systems servers using them were coming some time around the middle of this year, the dip in Power Systems servers based on Power10 technology did pretty well, we think, in the first quarter and now the second quarter.

   We have to infer this, of course, because Big Blue does not provide revenue figures for sales of Power Systems iron, much less give a breakdown by sales of machines running IBM i, AIX, or Linux as their primary operating system. What IBM …

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2. How IBM i Users Can Compete In The Digital Era With Composable Commerce

   The recently launched LANSA Composable Commerce offers IBM i users a way to keep pace with rapidly evolving e-commerce demands while maintaining their trusted backend systems. Read on to explore this new solution from the modernization experts at LANSA.

   IBM i has long been the backbone of critical business applications. It holds decades of proven business logic and accurate data to manage everything from inventory and pricing to order processing and fulfillment. When companies first expanded into e-commerce, LANSA made it possible to extend this stability and intelligence to the web. With LANSA Commerce Edition, storefronts are integrated seamlessly …

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3. IBM Streamlines Data Migration With New Partition Mirror Tech

   There is a brand new technology available for migrating data from one IBM i partition to another as part of IBM’s new Migrate While Active tool. It’s called partition mirror, and it gives IBM i shops a potentially less disruptive method for moving data across distances both long and short.

   IBM first unveiled its new Migrate While Active product in October 2024 as part of its announcement introducing subscriptions for the PowerHA high availability and Db2 Mirror continuous availability products. The co-mingling of the announcements made some sense when you consider that the original Migrate While Active product utilized a …

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4. Profound Logic Adds MCP To IBM i AI Tool

   The world of AI is moving extremely fast right now, with new models, techniques, and technologies emerging every week. One of the newest bits of AI tech to catch on is Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), which has quickly become a defacto standard for connecting data sources to AI models. Profound Logic, which has been on the cutting edge of AI, is the first IBM i vendor to bring MCP support to the server and the Db2 for i database.

   Anthropic quietly launched Model Context Protocol in late November 2024 as a way to enable large language models (LLMs), such …

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5. IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 27, Number 29

   Welcome to the IBM i PTF Guide. This week, we start out with two security vulnerabilities having to do with the WebSphere application server and an issue with the Java programming runtime.

   Let’s start with the security issues.

   First, we have Security Bulletin: IBM WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Application Server Liberty are affected by a security bypass vulnerability (CVE-2024-56339), which you can find out more about at this link. The affected products are IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty 17.0.0.3 through 25.0.0.7 and IBM WebSphere Application Server 9.0.

   Second, we have PH67183: IBM WebSphere Liberty is affected by …

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