by Dawn May | Nov 11, 2014 | Programming, Security, Work Management
In the 7.2 release, IBM made many changes to improve temporary storage tracking. I’ve written about these enhancements in IBM i 7.2 Improved Temporary Storage Tracking Part 1, Part2, and Part 3 blogs. You may also want to reread the blog, Understanding Disk Space Usage, which reviews IBM i temporary and permanent storage concepts.
In addition to improving temporary storage tracking, IBM also made some improvements for permanent storage tracking in the 7.2 release. This post reviews three of them.
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by Dawn May | Nov 4, 2014 | Networking, Programming, Security
The IBM i 7.2 release is absolutely loaded with new System SSL capabilities. There are a couple major new features only available starting with the 7.2 release. There is also a subset of the 7.2 capabilities that escaped from the Rochester development lab last year as part of 7.1 TR6. The early content was baked into 7.2 before it found its way to 7.1. February’s System SSL blog remains relevant as the discussion turns to the 7.2 release. What you’ll notice for that content is how and when the new function is enabled has changed with the 7.2 release boundary.
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by Dawn May | Oct 28, 2014 | PTFs, Security, Systems Management
There was a short statement in the IBM i 7.2 announcement: New PTF improvements for tracking of Security Audit Log. That’s not very clear is it?Starting with IBM i 7.2, you now have the ability to track PTF installation history in the security audit journal. This support extends the QAUDLVL and QAUDLVL2 system values with additional parameters to specify the type of auditing you want the system to do on PTF operations. You can track changes to the system based upon PTF activity on the system, as well as PTF object changes.
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by Dawn May | Sep 15, 2014 | Db2 for i, Security
Asset protection is not the most exciting topic for technologists. Modern data processing falls into two basic camps:
- Transaction processing – the heartbeat of the business
- Analytics – gaining insights to guide and transform the business
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by Dawn May | Apr 28, 2014 | PTFs, Navigator for i, Subsystems, Performance, Security, Systems Management, Web, Work Management
It’s going to be great to start writing about all the things in this release. I want to briefly review some of the systems management enhancements (and there are a lot of them!). I’ll write more in-depth blogs on these topics and more over the next several months.
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by Dawn May | Feb 13, 2013 | Networking, Security
Hopefully you noticed the recent messaging for IBM i 7.1 TR6 which included the statement “Latest industry standards of Transport Layer Security version 1.2 (TLSv1.2) and Transport Layer Security version 1.1 (TLSv1.1) protocols implemented.”
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