THE FOUR HUNDRED - Power Systems & IBM i Insights

1. Q&A With IBM’s New GM Of Power, Hillery Hunter

   IBM’s new general manager of Power, Hillery Hunter, made a solid first impression on the IBM i community during her attendance at the POWERUp conference in New Orleans two weeks ago. In addition to delivering a keynote address, Hunter spoke with many IBM i professionals at the show. She also made some time to speak with IT Jungle. Here’s an edited transcript of our conversation.

   Alex Woodie: Your keynote address during the POWERUp Opening Session was great. Could you elaborate on some of the points you were making about using IBM i as a platform for AI?

   Hillery Hunter: …

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2. When IBM i Skills Become A Resilience Risk

   For many IBM i organizations, availability planning has traditionally focused on technology failure. Hardware faults, storage issues, site outages, and more recently cyber incidents, have shaped how high availability and disaster recovery strategies are designed.

   What is less frequently acknowledged is that people have become one of the most significant availability risks in modern IBM i environments.

   Skills shortages, retirement trends, and reliance on a small number of highly experienced individuals are changing the risk profile of the platform. In many cases, the greatest threat to continuity is no longer whether systems can fail over, but whether the right people …

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3. Guru: Load A Varying-Dimension Array With One SQL Fetch

   One thing I really like about working in different shops is the vast amount of source code I’m exposed to. But that’s not the best thing. The best thing is the people I meet and get to know. The more clients, the more teachers. Combine source code and people, and my life, personally and professionally, is enriched.

   Today I’m pleased to pass along an SQL technique I picked up from the IT shop of a manufacturer. The programmers use this technique to load subfiles from SQL cursors in RPG programs. It works in client-server applications as well. It combines a …

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4. You Have To Speak IBM’s Language If You Want To Be Heard

   Like many of you, I had been expecting for Big Blue to deliver the kicker to the entry level “Bonnell” Power10-based Power S1012 that was announced a few years back during the PowerUP 2026 conference. This long-awaited machine will be the only Power11 system that is offered for those many, many IBM i customers in the P05 software tier, and will presumably have a beefier hardware configuration that crosses over into the P10 IBM i software tier.

   POWERUp 2026 came and went, and there was no Bonnell+ kicker and there also was not the expected Technology Refreshes for the IBM …

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5. Raz-Lee Revs iSecurity Suite With 2026 Updates

   Raz-Lee Security used the recent POWERUp conference in New Orleans as the launch pad for a major new release of its iSecurity Suite. As CEO Shmuel Zailer tells us, the company made substantial changes to ensure that all of the products within the suite work in a more integrated fashion.

   Raz-Lee is one of just a handful of independent IBM i security software vendors left in the market following a period of consolidation by larger firms. However, Raz-Lee’s iSecurity Suite is arguably one of the most complete, with around two dozen point products across seven suites, spanning authentication/authorization; auditing and …

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