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© 2016, 2017 IBM Corporation

Strategy behind

Open Source

on IBM i

Jesse R. Gorzinski, MBABusiness [email protected]


Agenda

• OSS Overview (2 minutes)

• Is Open Source Strategic?

• Success Stories

• Final thoughts

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My Open Source Blog…

• http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/Blogs/Open-Your-i/


Agenda

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Agenda


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OSS Overview….


Open Source on IBM i

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• Apache

• OpenSSL

• OpenSSH

• JTOpen

• etc.

Legacyofferings



• Python

• Node.JS

• git

• Orion

•etc.

• Apache

• OpenSSL

• OpenSSH

• JTOpen

•etc.

Legacyofferings

New technologies

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•XMLService

• Language toolkits

• IBM i services (SQL)

• etc.

• Python

• Node.JS

• git

• Orion

• etc.

• Apache

• OpenSSL

• OpenSSH

• JTOpen

• etc.

Legacyofferings

New technologies

Integration



• XMLService

• Language toolkits

• IBM i services (SQL)

• etc.

• Many i OSS projects

• Active collaboration

• Blogs, articles

• etc.

• Python

• Node.JS

• git

• Orion

•etc.

• Apache

• OpenSSL

• OpenSSH

• JTOpen

•etc.

Legacyofferings

New technologies

IntegrationCommunity

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Is OSS Strategic?


IBM i Marketplace Survey (HelpSystems)

https://www.helpsystems.com/resources/guides/ibm-i-marketplace-survey-results

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IBM i Marketplace Survey (HelpSystems)


© 2016, 2017 IBM Corporationhttps://www.helpsystems.com/resources/guides/ibm-i-marketplace-survey-results

What are your top concerns as you plan your IT

environment? (check all that apply)

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Security



Survey question #1: Generally speaking, what is your

perception of the security of open source software

A.It's secure

B.It's not secure

C.Not sure / no opinion

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International Bug Bounty

• A pile of cash!!

– Reward hackers, geeks, nerds, and security professionals for finding

security vulnerabilities in open-source software

• Check it out at https://internetbugbounty.org/



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• $626K+ in bounties

• 145 friendly hackers

•654 flaws, including:

– ImageTragick ($7.5k)

– Heartbleed ($15k)

– Shellshock ($20k).

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Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII)

• https://www.coreinfrastructure.org/

• https://finance.yahoo.com/news/linux-foundations-core-infrastructure-initiative-

170000131.html

• A multimillion-dollar project managed by The Linux Foundation

• "enables technology companies, industry stakeholders and developers to

collaboratively identify, fund and improve the security of critical open source

projects"


Who financially supports the

Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII)?

• Amazon Web Services

• Bloomberg

• Cisco

• Dell

• Facebook

• Fujitsu

• Google

• Hitachi

• HP

• Huawei

• IBM

• Intel

• Microsoft

• NetApp

• NEC

• Qualcomm

• RackSpace

• salesforce.com

• VMware

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Open source vs. proprietary

Open Source Proprietary

Malicious people can easily see

source code

Malicious people can't see

source code (but can still

reverse engineer)

Funded by a community,

coalition, or foundation

Funded by the owner

Zero to many developers Traditional development team

Code quality can be verified Code quality assured by owner

Anyone can fix bugs Owner fixes bugs


Open source vs. proprietary

Open Source Proprietary

Community maintains update

schedule

Owner maintains update

"Bounty Hunters" Owner-employed test team

Generally quick to adopt new

protocols

(OpenSSL has supported

TLSv1.3 since April 5)

(NSS has supported since

before that)

Requirements submitted to

owner for new protocols

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High Availability



Better availability through load balancing

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Better availability through load balancing


Modernizing Applications


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What business applications are you running on IBM i?

(check all that apply)



Things we deliver with every new language/version

• FastCGI

• Allows fast connection from HTTP server to

backend PASE environment

• ILE Object Toolkit

• Toolkit for each environment to easily allow

connections to ILE objects and information

• SQL Connector

• Easy integrated (from the open source language)

way to transfer data to and from DB2 for i

leveraging SQL

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Web Technologies are powered by open source!

• Languages

– PHP

– Python

– Ruby

– Javascript

• Packages

– JSON / XML packages

– Swagger API framework

– SOAP libraries

– Web frameworks


Web Technologies are powered by open source!

• Application Framework/Servers

– Apache Tomcat / TomEE

– Jboss EAP

– Glassfish

– Rails

– Express.js

– Sails.js

– Django

– Bottle

– Flask

• HTTP Servers

– Apache HTTP Server

– nginx

– Eclipse Jetty

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IBM i Services

• With every major language, we deliver a high-performance, robust database

connector!

• Access system data through SQL!

– PTF

– Security

– Message Handling

– Librarian

– Work Management

– Communication

– Storage

– Product

– System Health

– Journal

– Java

• More being continuously added

http://ibm.biz/DB2foriServices


IBM i Services - Examples

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IBM i Services - Examples


Db2 Storage Engines for MySQL and MariaDB

• Supporting open source applications

while simplifying data management

– Applications written to MySQL or MariaDB,

but data stored in DB2

– One database to manage, backup

and protect

– Provides access to MySQL or MariaDB

data from RPG, DB2 Web Query and more

• Combination of Apache, PHP and Open Source Database like MySQL

enables 1000s of applications on i

– Customer Relationship Management,

E-Commerce, Portals and Wikis

PHP

Application

MySQL/MariaDB

DB2 for i

Writes to

Data stored in

Accesses

Data

RPG

Application

http://www.mysql.com/

http://www.apache.org/

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Modernization of Enterprise applications?

• Many enterprise applications have been modernized (web, mobile, other)

• IBM i runs many industry-standard technologies. Web solutions like Jenkins,

WordPress, etc. can be deployed easily, thanks in large part to open source

tech


Node.js value proposition

• Node.js is very web-oriented, asynchronous

• Single-language

http://www.sugarcrm.com/crm/

http://www.zen-cart.com/

http://www.mantisbt.org/

http://www.phpbb.com/index.php

http://www.cpgnuke.com/index.php

http://www.xoops.org/

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IBM i Skills



Skills

• Acquisition

– Easy to find developers to

write IBM i applications!

• Utilization

– Current development staff

needing new skills?

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http://www.ibmsystemsmagpowersystemsdigital.com/nxtbooks/ibmsystemsmag/2017FreshFacesIBMi/index.php


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Fresh Faces - Stephanie Rabbani

Rabbani, now a senior web

developer working with Alan

Seiden at Seiden Group,

appreciates IBM i's stability and

reliability because the system

can handle tons of data flowing

through her PHP applications.


Fresh Faces – Kody Robinson

Mobile is one trend that affects

AECC and the broader

business community. "One of

the main trends right now, at

least in my eyes, is to be able

to give our internal customers

access to applications on their

phone," Robinson says. That

involves adding modern web

applications that leverage

modern resources.

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Developer access to IBM i

• IBM i can be accessed with an SSH client

– X11 forwarding is supported

• Filesystem can be accessed with

– SMB

– sftp/scp

– sshfs

– ftp/ftps

– several IBM i-specific access tools

• Tools used for editing code

– Visual Studio Code

– Notepad++

– Eclipse

– Eclipse Orion

– vi/emacs/joe

– Rational Developer for i


Developer access to IBM i

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Open Source "hands on" education?



• https://www.krengeltech.com/litmis/learn/

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• http://bit.ly/ibmi-python-lab


“IBM i Open Source and the Talent That Follows”

• http://ibmsystemsmag.com/blogs/open-your-i/december-2017/ibm-i-open-

source-and-the-talent-that-follows/

“We were open to the grizzled AS/400 veteran, someone with

database and SQL chops, a student fresh from school, or any

combination of the above. We wanted to focus on the talent of

the individual because we knew we had the server to take

advantage of almost any skillset that walked through the door.

During the hiring process, Jason stood out as the candidate we

were looking for. He was in the process of wrapping up a two-

year degree at an area technical college and we brought him on

board as an intern while he wrapped up his last semester. He

proceeded to exceed our expectations and we set out to hire

him immediately after his internship and graduation that

summer.

http://bit.ly/ibmi-python-lab

http://ibmsystemsmag.com/blogs/open-your-i/december-2017/ibm-i-open-source-and-the-talent-that-follows/

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Reduce IT Spending



OPEN SOURCE--- FREE!!!

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Different costs?

• Still needs some "glue"

• OSS licensing implications

• Currency

• Support


$ npm install [email protected] node_modules/jshint├── [email protected]├── [email protected]├── [email protected]├── [email protected] ([email protected])├── [email protected] ([email protected], [email protected])├── [email protected]├── [email protected] ([email protected])└── [email protected] ([email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected])

$ ls node_modules/jshint

$ ls node_modules/jshint/README.md bin data dist node_modules package.json src

$ ls node_modules/jshint/node_modules/cli exit minimatch strip-json-comments console-browserify htmlparser2 shelljs underscore

Leverage the community with

Node Package Manager (npm)

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Leverage the community with

the Preferred Installer for Python (pip/pip3)


Time to Market

• Social

• Cognitive

• E-Commerce

• Web pages

• Web services

• Mobile

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Some numbers

125,000 Python modules

– Python Package Index (pypi.python.org)


Some numbers

650,000 Node.js packages

– Npmjs.com

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http://www.modulecounts.com/


Language toolkits (all open source)

• Node.JS itoolkit

– https://bitbucket.org/litmis/nodejs-itoolkit

• Python itoolkit-lite

– http://yips.idevcloud.com/wiki/index.php/XMLSERVICE/Python

– https://bitbucket.org/litmis/python-itoolkit

• PHP Toolkit for IBM i

– http://files.zend.com/help/Zend-Server-IBMi/content/php_toolkit_xml_service_functions.htm

– http://www.seidengroup.com/toolkit/

• Ruby itoolkit

– https://bitbucket.org/litmis/ruby-itoolkit

• Swift

– https://bitbucket.org/litmis/swift-itoolkit

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Data Growth



Analytics/Business Intelligence

• Many packages available in open source communities

• Often they can run on the IBM i, or integrate with the IBM i with the help of

open source technologies.

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2017 Fresh Faces

"I've been working on IBM i for

five years. Right now, I'm a

leading part of our product

developer team, with a focus on

open-source business

intelligence (BI) and reporting

tools (BIRT)"


2017 Fresh Faces

"I've been working on IBM i for

three years, and my most

interesting current projects

involve open-source BIRT"

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Integration with other data sources

• Every new language has OSS packages to interact with social media.

• Consumption of XML or JSON feeds is easy!

• Many databases have open source clients freely available.


Open Source & Watson

• IBM i integration delivered with the languages

• Watson integration delivered with the languages

• Watson community has provided numerous examples and SDK's for Java and

open source languages

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i vs. Linux


Why not just run OSS on Linux machine/partition?

• Introducing another tier:

– Unnecessary complexity

– Extra cost?

– Additional point of (possible) failure

– Performance implications

– Another avenue of malicious attack

• Running on i means:

– Consolidated System of record + System of engagement

– People working in core business platform

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Success Stories…


Litmis Spaces: 100% IBM i, 100% in the cloud

http://spaces.litmis.com

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KrengelTech

https://www.ibm.com/case-studies/Krengeltech


https://www.ibm.com/case-studies/c223622o41231s41

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Deknudt Frames

• https://www.ibm.com/case-studies/deknudt-frames


Deknudt Frames

https://www.ibm.com/case-studies/deknudt-frames

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Deknudt Frames

“By launching its new e-commerce platform on IBM i on the Power Systems

platform, Deknudt Frames has expanded its market reach, given retail partners

an out-of-the-box web store they can integrate into their own websites,

streamlined payment and inventory processing, and reduced the cost of IT

administration.

Deknudt says: “We have also enabled our retail partners to offer a much wider

selection of our products to their customers. Now, retailers can stock the most

popular items, and if a shopper would like something slightly different, the retailer

can easily place an order with us. The solution is enabling us to broaden our

market reach—we anticipate that this will soon drive higher revenues.”


Deknudt Frames

• “This e-commerce platform is another example of how we are using technology

to generate competitive advantage. And what’s really interesting is that this up-

to-date, open source solution runs

side-by-side and fully integrated

with trusted core business

systems originally coded in the

1970s. In all the years we’ve used IBM i and the Power Systems

platform, we’ve never experienced any issues around stability or security,

which contributes to the low total cost of ownership—for us, IBM i is a

phenomenally stable platform for business that is also open to all kinds of

future possibility.”

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THANK YOU!!!

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https://facebook.com/IBMPowerSystems

https://twitter.com/IBMPowerSystems

https://www.linkedin.com/company/ibm-power-systems

IBM Power Systems Official Channels:

http://www.youtube.com/c/ibmpowersystems

https://www.ibm.com/blogs/systems/topics/servers/power-

systems/

Power Systems Social Media


More to Follow:

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Blogs Twitter #Hashtags

• IBM Systems Magazine You and i

(Steve Will)

• IBM Systems Magazine i-Can

(Dawn May)

• IBM Systems Magazine: iDevelop

(Jon Paris and Susan Gantner)

• IBM Systems Magazine: iTalk with

Tuohy

• IBM Systems Magazine: Open your i

(Jesse Gorzinski)

• Aaron Bartell Blog

• Steve Pitcher Blog

• Trevor Perry Blog

• IBM DB2 for i (Mike Cain)

• IBM DB2 Web Query for i (Doug Mack)

• Modern-i-zation (Tim Rowe)

@IBMSystems@COMMONug

@IBMChampions@IBMSystemsISVs

@LinuxIBMMag@OpenPOWERorg

@AIXMag@IBMiMag

@ITJungleNews@SAPonIBMi@SiDforIBMi

@IBMAIXeSupp@IBMAIXdoc

#PowerSystems

#IBMi

#IBMAIX

#POWER8

#LinuxonPower

#OpenPOWER

#HANAonPower

#ITinfrastructure

#OpenSource

#HybridCloud

#BigData

https://facebook.com/IBMPowerSystems

https://twitter.com/IBMPowerSystems

https://www.linkedin.com/company/ibm-power-systems

http://www.youtube.com/c/ibmpowersystems

https://www.ibm.com/blogs/systems/topics/servers/power-systems/

http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/Blogs/you-and-i/

http://ibmsystemsmag.com/Blogs/i-Can/

http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/Blogs/iDevelop/

http://ibmsystemsmag.com/ibmi/trends/iTALK-WITH-TUOHY/

http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/Blogs/Open-Your-i/

http://blog.mowyourlawn.com/

http://www.mcpressonline.com/november-21-2008-vol-5-issue-46/steve-pitcher/view-all-articles.html?Itemid=

http://blog.briteskies.com/blog/author/trevor-perry

http://db2fori.blogspot.com/

http://db2webqueryi.blogspot.com/

https://systemideveloper.com/blogs/author/tim-rowe/

https://twitter.com/IBMSystems

https://twitter.com/COMMONug

https://twitter.com/IBMChampions

https://twitter.com/IBMSystemsISVs

https://twitter.com/LinuxIBMMag

https://twitter.com/OpenPOWERorg

https://twitter.com/AIXmag

https://twitter.com/IBMimag

https://twitter.com/ITJungleNews

https://twitter.com/SAPonIBMi

https://twitter.com/SiDforIBMi

https://twitter.com/IBMAIXeSupp

https://twitter.com/IBMAIXdoc

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