THE FOUR HUNDRED - Power Systems & IBM i Insights

1. Rocket Automates Manual IBM i Tasks With AI

   Rocket Software has a multi-pronged AI strategy that spans multiple products and platforms. When it comes to the IBM i platform, this AI push has resulted in Rocket adding AI features that will automate previously manual tasks across its application modernization, change management, and high availability products.

   AI continues to be the elephant in the IT room, but unlike those quiet elephants in that expression, which no one admits is there, this is the elephant that nobody can stop talking about and for good reason: The 2026 edition of AI appears to be the real deal.

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2. Guru: Where’s The Table?

   It began with an irritation. I considered it a simple request. “Which file did my SQL query read?” I was using the Run SQL Scripts tool to modify an SQL query with unqualified table names. And yet I knew of no ready way to determine the schema (library) name of any of the files. How was I to know which tables I had just queried?

   Let me back up a bit. My SQL client of choice is the Run SQL Scripts tool, which is part of IBM’s Access Client Solutions (ACS). It is not unusual for me to copy and …

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3. LaserVault Goes iSCSI With Virtual Tape Library

   LaserVault, the popular virtual tape library (VTL) for IBM i environments from Electronic Storage Corp., has gained support for iSCSI, giving customers more connectivity options beyond Fibre Channel and SAS connections. The new iSCSI support will be particularly useful for customers running the LaserVault ViTL offering in the cloud.

   LaserVault ViTL is a disk-based backup solution that emulates LTO drives in IBM i and open systems environments. Customers have typically plugged the LaserVault device – either the appliance sold by Electronic Storage Corp. or the ViTL software running on an X86 server – into the IBM i server using those …

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4. IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 28, Number 31

   Big Blue is dumping a bunch of security vulnerabilities into your lap again, this time just ahead of the Labor Day holiday in the United States. We did not publish that week because we were on holiday, so we are playing catch up just like you now will be.

   Let’s start with the Security Bulletin: IBM i is Affected By Improper Authorization and Authentication Vulnerabilities in DDM / DRDA [CVE-2026-18175, CVE-2026-18221], which you can find HERE. Affected Products and Versions:

   IBM i Release	5770-SS1 	PTF Number(s)
   7.6			        SJ11231
   			        SJ11230
   7.5			        SJ11232
   			        SJ11233
   7.4			        SJ11262
   			        SJ11261	
   7.3			        SJ11234
   			        SJ11235
   

   Security …

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5. Will Power Chips Get A Converged Arm Instruction Set Like Z Mainframe CPUs?

   One a decade for the past six decades, Big Blue launches an effort to converge its diverse system architectures. It almost never works, with the exception of the launch of the System/360 mainframes in April 1964 and the AS/400 minicomputers in June 1988. And to be fair, the AS/400 was itself based in part on technologies created in a failed convergence effort.

   Back in 1986, the “Fort Knox” project sought to converge the System/4300 air-cooled, entry mainframe lines with the System/38 (from 1978) and the System/36 (from 1983), and it failed. But in the failure, the Rochester Labs took some …

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