Re: IBM i Strategy and Roadmap

hee hee.
We have one device that we'd like to upgrade so that it's ciphers were
current. However, there are numerous devices which run vmware off of it.
And all of these devices are those virtual PC's on a screen thingy which
have no disk but just connect to a VMware box. A bunch of them are older
models in which you can't get a more recent firmware on them because they
don't have enough memory. At $400 a device that will take some time to
upgrade them all.

Not that we did this, but buying equipment that isn't the latest and
greatest is no bargain if you can't get the latest software to run on it.
:-(


Rob Berendt
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From: DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 04/13/2016 03:45 PM
Subject: Re: IBM i Strategy and Roadmap
Sent by: "MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>



Absolutely! This is biting us with HMCs and SWitches and and and.
Suddenly Chrome has just told me "Sorry Doc, can't talk to that switch
no more." So now for us Admins that means keeping ancient VMs on our
equipment to maintain ahem, 'older', equipment. When it affects every
user in the enterprise that's not an option!

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

www.Frankeni.com
www.iDevCloud.com - Personal Development IBM i timeshare service.
www.iInTheCloud.com - Commercial IBM i Cloud Hosting.

On 4/13/2016 3:34 PM, Rob Berendt wrote:

However, with IBM announcing there will be no new TR's out for IBM i

7.1,

and the rapidity that ciphers are being broken and having to come out

with

new ciphers,
I question the validity of running 7.1 that long into the future.
As we all know that old adage "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" no

longer

applies because of all the security patches coming out.
There's already a list of ciphers available on 7.2 which aren't

available

on 7.1.

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas8N1020876
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas8N1020594

http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_ibm_i_72/rzain/rzainwhatnew.htm

http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_ibm_i_71/rzain/rzainwhatnew.htm

As you can see by the "What's new" for 7.1 the ciphers were updated by a
TR. Of which IBM i 7.1 will get no newer ones.
Disclaimer: IBM could always come out with new ciphers in general PTF's
and whatnot. "Could" does not necessarily equal "will".


Rob Berendt

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