July 14, 2017
July 14, 2017 | Volume 14 Issue 13
• LEAD ARTICLE: TechTip: IBM Renames Its Watson Products
• FEATURED ARTICLE: Five Hints to Help You Make Better Use of the IBM i Audit Journal
• FEATURED ARTICLE: IBM i Security Event Logging and Active Monitoring: A Step by Step Guide
• NEWS HIGHLIGHT: Centerbridge to Acquire Clearlake-Backed Enterprise Software Providers Syncsort and Vision Solutions
• ON-DEMAND WEBCAST: Profound.js: The Agile Approach to Legacy Modernization
• MC VIDEO SHOWCASE: Design an Invoice in 10 Minutes
• EVENT: OCEAN Tech Con 2017 IBM i Technical Conference

TechTip: IBM Renames Its Watson Products
Ever been surprised when IBM rebrands products or changes its web pages? Yep, it happens sometimes. Let’s look at what IBM’s latest reorg has done to the Watson product line.
By David Shirey
It seems that over the last month or so, IBM has fairly completely redone the Watson pages on their website. Some are the same, and a few URLs remain unchanged, but I’m afraid you could become confused if you’re trying to use the TechTips from earlier this year as a guide.
IBM Makes Higher Quality Weather Forecasts Available Worldwide
IBM Assists in the Fight Against Human Trafficking

Five Hints to Help You Make Better Use of the IBM i Audit Journal
With so much information in the IBM i audit journal, you have to know what you’re looking for. Otherwise, you may miss some important information.
By Carol Woodbury
Whether you’re using a product such as HelpSystems’ Compliance Monitor or getting information directly out of the audit journal yourself, this article will help you have a better understanding of what’s available.
Mobile Computing and the IBM i
Mobile computing is rapidly maturing into a solid platform for delivering enterprise applications. Many IBM i shops today are realizing that integrating their IBM i with mobile applications is the fast path to improved business workflows, better customer relations, and more responsive business reporting. The ROI that mobile applications can produce for your business is substantial.
This ASNA whitepaper takes a look at mobile computing for the IBM i. It discusses the different ways mobile applications may be used within the enterprise and how ASNA products solve the challenges mobile presents. It also presents the case that you already have the mobile programming team your projects need: that team is your existing RPG development team!
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2019 State of IBM i Modernization
The annual Profound Logic ‘State of IBM i Modernization Survey” takes a look at the trends and attitudes that shape the IBM i modernization market. We reached out to the IBM i community, and the response was outstanding: close to 800 people, nearly 300 more than last year, took the survey. This enthusiasm resulted in very interesting findings for how businesses plan to use and modernize the platform in the coming year.
As you read through each section of the survey, you will see our summary of the results and suggestions for the future. We hope the survey will help your business better understand what is possible for your IBM i platform in the coming year.
IBM i skills depletion is a top concern for IBM i shops around the world. The strategies you discover in this webinar will help you ensure that your system of record—your IBM i—continues to deliver a powerful business advantage, even as staff retires.
During this 30-mintue recorded webinar, our panel of IBM i experts outline strategies that allow your company to cope with IBM i skills depletion by adopting these strategies that allow you to get the job done without deep expertise on the OS:
- Automate IBM i processes
- Use managed services to help fill the gaps
- Secure the system against data loss and viruses
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Watson for i: Cybersecurity the Watson Way
The escalating hacks of businesses and the mushrooming of ransomware show that cybersecurity is going to be a bigger part of future IT life than ever before. IBM Watson offers services that can help.
By John Ghrist
More than a year and a half ago, IBM Chairman Ginni Rometty was quoted in a Forbes report as saying that "cybercrime is the greatest threat to every company in the world." Since then, we've seen hacking causing controversy in the U.S. election for president in 2016, the WannaCry ransomware attacks last May affecting more than 230,000 computers in more than 150 countries, and intrusions at U.S. power plants (including a nuclear facility) in early July resulting in yet-undefined consequences, to name just a few of the most notorious examples. Cyber warfare is here to stay, and no one can be complacent that their systems will remain immune forever.