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A NodeJS Website on IBM i – Restricted Access

In the previous article we displayed, in a browser window, all the employees in our company. Probably not something you would wish to make public to the whole company! Program Flow So, how can we restrict access to the employee web page? Our flow will be: Show the login page.

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Raz-Lee Security Announces IBM i Security Bundles

Nanuet, New York – December 4, 2019 – Raz-Lee Security is pleased to announce that they are now offering IBM i Security Bundles to address organizations’ fundamental need for cyber, security and auditing solutions for their IBM i. In today’s world, the IBM i is no longer isolated. Technological advances have

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A Screen a Story “Old habits die very slowly”

IBM i Access Client Solutions (ACS) is an excellent tool to review IBM i SQL performance. My guess is that most system administrators hardly touch the option “SQL Performance Center” which can be found under the Database section when you start ACS. Below an example of what you see when

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HelpSystems Announces Clearswift Acquisition to Expand Cybersecurity Portfolio

MINNEAPOLIS, December 2, 2019 – HelpSystems announced today that it will acquire Clearswift, a UK-based content threat protection software company. Clearswift’s award-winning deep content inspection capability enables information to be scanned as it enters or leaves the organization, allowing sensitive data to be securely transmitted via email, or other web-based

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WRKRDBDIRE- I want data from that box..

A bit of background to start with today, I’ve recently been learning how to setup NodeJS on IBM i (again big plug here for Andy Youens series to get you started.) After completing a few tutorials, I started looking at pulling data out of the local tables using the

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A NodeJS Website on IBM i - Database Access

Continuing my Node.js website on IBM i, in this article I’ll show you how we can access a file/table and display the results on a web page all neatly formatted. We will take our employee table, do some record selection and sort for a certain order. Before

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TD/OMS and Gravity “Milestone 1” Enhancements Streamline Efficiency and Advance Application Development Potential for Remain Software Customers

Remain Software released this Wednesday TD/OMS V12 Milestone 1 and Gravity V5 Milestone 1, in line with the company’s longstanding commitment to ongoing support for its signature application-lifecycle management, workflow and DevOps solutions. These Milestones deliver the first of three scheduled enhancements each to TD/OMS version 12

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How to get the Latest and Greatest

Within a few days the latest Technology Refresh for IBM i 7.4 and 7.3 will be available. The official planned availability day is 15 November 2019. For details please have a look at these two links IBM i 7.3 Technology Refresh 7 and IBM i 7.4

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IBM Must Gather Tool – Your Best Friend In Times Of Trouble

Oh no! and just when everything was running so well. There’s a problem with the system and you have logged a Problem Management Report (PMR) with IBM. You get a response from IBM asking you to manually collect all kinds of disparate information from areas of the system you

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A Worldwide Marketing Manager for IBM i, that’s sounds Champion!

PowerWire.eu had the pleasure last week to interview the newly appointed, Worldwide Head of marketing for IBM i, Brandon Pederson, who had kindly given us some of his time out of his day to answer a few questions. PowerWire: Brandon, for our readers who don’t know about you

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Download Director - now with less Oracle

For those of you who haven’t already read it, I’d highly recommend starting with Steve Bradshaws article “Do I need to pay for Java?” from January. After following the setup guide on the IBM site so that I was using OpenJ9 I was left with the question “I’

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A NodeJS Website on IBM i – The Secure Version

Now we have our basic Node.js website up and running, let me show you how easy it is to make it a secure site. By secure, I mean making the transport layer secure, ensuring the site uses Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) to ensure all communications between the client and

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F8 – Back to the Future II

GREAT SCOT !! No I’m not talking about Mr Forstie but of course borrowing from Doc Brown in the Movie Back to the Future. This is something he would say whenever he saw something incredible. Now that is exactly how I felt when I was shipped a test PTF by

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DOT Anonymizer leads in GDPR compliance with mass discovery of sensitive data

New V5.1 release of DOT Anonymizer introduces automated DBMS-agnostic discovery of sensitive data Annecy, 7-10-2019 – ARCAD Software, international leader in DevOps and Modernization solutions, today announced the new V5.1 release of its data anonymization solution DOT Anonymizer, adding new “sensitive data detection” functionality, independent of the DBMS. This

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Introducing the IBM i Community Badge Program

Brandon Paterson, Worldwide IBM i Product Marketing Manager for IBM, announced yesterday IBM’s initiative to recognise user groups, forums, events, and individual persons, who have and continue to support, advocate, teach or advice people, and companies, about our beloved IBM i & POWER systems, by starting a Digital Badge

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Time to Say Byebye to the POWER7+

Those of you with first generation POWER7 processor (the models that end in B & C) will be all to aware that on Monday this week (30th September 2019) IBM ceased their mainstream hardware support for these models. Some of you will of managed to negotiate and EOS Extension of

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Who invited SYSMSG

Another in my catalogue of “everyone and their mother has done this if they needed to, but here’s a slight twist on it” articles. To set the scene, a customer of mine decided they want their Power server in an enquiry state and so setup some new generic profiles

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A screen a Story

Being a system administrator in the GUI era, it seems almost impossible to ignore the IBM i GUIs. Having said that it is my experience that a lot of sysadmins try to ignore those GUI, which were not part of day-1, when they started working. They are, as would I

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A NodeJS Website on IBM i

In this article I’ll show you how easy it is to get a web-site up and running on the IBM i. No need to be an Apache expert! Once we have this up and running, we will enhance it over the next couple of Powerwire articles. This will include

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Tic-Tock, Tic-Tock; time's running out for IBM i 7.2

IBM announced on the 10th September that you will be able to order a 7.2 version of IBM i until the 30th April 2020, and with the announcement came the news that support for the 7.2 will also cease on the 30th April 2021. However you can upgrade

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The RPG Five: Debut Performance

On a light-hearted note, take a look at this video clip on YouTube, it just proves that talent holds no bounds! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc3zx233Td8 Is this the start of a new TV series; IBM i (ers) got talent

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IBM i & AIX now available on Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS Clouds

From the start of this year there have been a few announcements that came across my desk and caught my attention about IBM i, AIX and Linux being available on Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS Clouds, and I thought I would condense them down and show them here. Why? Because

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ARCAD Software announces ARCAD iNow for UI modernization on IBM i

New UI modernization tooling completes ARCAD’s integrated offering for Modernization and DevOps on IBM i. Annecy, 12-09-2019 – ARCAD Software international leader in DevOps and Modernization solutions, today announced ARCAD iNow, an automated UI modernization suite offering complete platform and device independence, “advanced on the fly” modernization capabilities and tight

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Major Software Upgrade for iSecurity Firewall

Nanuet, New York – September 15, 2019 – Raz-Lee Security announces a major software upgrade for the iSecurity Firewall. The upgrade includes these major enhancements: Complete What-If system • Re-Calculate Logged Events – Now you can check your previous activity logs against rules that you have modified and see how these changes would influence

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Leaving SEU behind - ILEditor

After sitting in a number of the SiD sessions at the international i-Power event this year, one key fact I took away is “you really need to get off SEU.” However, I’m a little cost-averse so can’t quite justify jumping straight to RDi, luckily the open source community