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Top OS/400 Stories from Around the Web
(IT Jungle) When you lease IT equipment, essentially you are paying someone to borrow money to acquire that gear and to assume the economic risks entailed with investing in technology. If you are spreadsheet savvy, know how to quantify risk, and bargain hard, you can come out ahead on the financial side and give your organization the flexibility to dump IT assets as necessary. READ MORE >
(e-Pro) The sounds of heads banging against walls still echo in the halls of IT departments where upgrades to Notes and Domino Release 5 were attempted several years ago. But now comes word that the move to Release 6 is being accomplished with much less anguish. Lotus says 50 percent of existing customers have completed the upgrade. READ MORE >
(IT Jungle) Public safety officials in Mississippi took a bow last week when the federal government unveiled a new iSeries- and xSeries-based system that significantly improves the sharing of information among organizations entrusted with keeping us safe and sound in post-September 11 America. The initial deployment will unite critical information from three sheriff departments, 10 police departments, 15 fire departments, and two emergency medical response providers. With time, the system is to be expanded throughout the state and then to other states. READ MORE >
(IT Jungle) In the early going, demand for the new eServer i5 server was outpacing production capabilities. Relief from that production headache has come to IBM, and what was once an eight-week delivery cycle is now down to two weeks. Is it a weaker demand or a stronger production effort? READ MORE >
(MC Press) At the JavaOne Conference last week, one of the most talked about topics was whether Java has the potential to become as popular as Microsoft's Visual Studio for entry-level developers. That topic ties in very neatly with a second discussion point, which is whether to make Java an open source project. READ MORE >
(IT Jungle) Two European cities have attained celebrated status in the Linux community after choosing to put Linux on their desktops and servers. Naturally it is Windows that Linux is replacing. Is there anything behind this or is it just one of the IT world's little aberrations? READ MORE >
(IT Jungle) Give IBM a pat on the back for its Express pricing on the eServer i5 Model 520. Now it's wait and see whether Big Blue will offer the Express pricing concept on future models. The consequences of IBM's decision on this will not be small. READ MORE >
(eWeek) IBM's Rational division is standardizing its testing tools on the open source Hyades project, which provides an infrastructure for tool interoperability and a platform to standardize software quality across development projects. It is a subset of the Eclipse open source development platform. READ MORE >
(CIO Magazine) Did CFOs lose control of the auditing process with the advent of ERP systems in the 1980s and 1990s? When the traditional audit trail for tracking money was replaced by automation, some say the slippery slope was all but guaranteed. With Sarbanes-Oxley putting CFOs on the firing line, the CFO vs. CIO battles over accountability are raging. READ MORE >
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Vendor Announcements, Promotions, and Deals
(IT Jungle) Building a better Query/400 tool has worked out well for ASC. The company's SEQUEL data access solution has pleased customers for years. In its latest upgrade, SEQUEL has added a drill-down feature that performs deep analysis within iSeries transaction databases. READ MORE >
(IT Jungle) Replacing aging ERP systems from J.D. Edwards, BPCS, and others is the aim of a new Web-based ERP system from iCAP. The new product is called Ximple, which isn't that hard to pronounce -- it's simple. Distributors and light manufacturers with sales of less than $1 billion are iCAP's primary target. READ MORE >
(IT Jungle) PeopleSoft's EnterpriseOne ERP suite is now available for Linux. EnterpriseOne (formerly J.D. Edwards OneWorld) was originally designed for the OS/400 platform, but it also runs on Windows and Unix and supports the Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server databases, in addition to DB2 UDB and the DB2/400. READ MORE >
(IT Jungle) Main memory prices for the Integrated xSeries Server (IxS) co-processor cards used in the iSeries Model 8XX servers and new i5 Model 520 and 570 servers have been reduced. IBM announced the price reductions last week. READ MORE >
(IT Jungle) Document management software vendor Create!form has introduced archive and retrieval capabilities to its Create!archive product that accesses iSeries data while running on Windows workstations on a local area network or over the Internet. It also enables scanning, indexing, and storing documents within the archive. READ MORE >
(IT Jungle) If your FastFax is not as fast as you'd like, Quadrant Software has a new tune-up service to get you back to full speed. The service includes updating the software, installation of antivirus software on the Windows-based FastFax Server, configuring purges and system scans, and other administrative and housekeeping tasks. READ MORE >
(iSeries Network) A tax and billing software package designed to capture, label, group, and provision customer data for rating and billing according to nationwide federal, state, county, and local tax rules is now available through a collaboration of vendors Billsoft and Highdeal. The solution runs on OS/400, Unix, Linux, and Windows servers. READ MORE >
(IT Jungle) BlueZone -- a suite of 5250, 3270, and VT emulators for accessing OS/400, mainframe, and Unix hosts from PC- or Web-based clients -- has received "Designed for Windows XP Gold" certification from Microsoft. Seagull Software produces the emulation software. READ MORE >
(iSeries Network) A service that monitors and evaluates server performance events alongside Web site and application response times and availability is now available from Alertsite. It runs on iSeries Linux as well as other Linux and Windows servers. READ MORE >
(IT Jungle) Document management software vendor, FormScape, announced its business process management product, Covus, is certified by PeopleSoft for the EnterpriseOne ERP suite. According to FormScape, 50 percent of its installed base of 7,000 are J.D. Edwards (now PeopleSoft) users. READ MORE >
(IT Jungle) ERP software supplier SSA Global has acquired the Marcam software unit from Invensys. The purchase is expected to result in SSA bolstering its PRISM and Protean suites. PRISM runs on OS/400 servers, and Protean runs on Windows servers. READ MORE >
(IT Jungle) PeopleSoft has begun shipments of the PeopleSoft World Express RPG suite that runs exclusively on the eServer i5 and iSeries. It is targeted at manufacturers, distributors, homebuilders, construction firms, and automotive suppliers with annual revenues from $20 million to $100 million. READ MORE >
(iSeries Network) The latest release of Vanguard Security Solution -- an intrusion-detection system for iSeries, zSeries, Linux, Unix, and Windows servers -- offers a single sign-on option. It also includes a sequential text data file feature for extracted files, new security server standard reports, and the use of Boolean logic for searches. READ MORE >
(IT Jungle) IBM has sold its iSeries and pSeries RAID controller business to Adaptec, a company that makes RAID controllers for the xSeries line. Adaptec projects sales of $50 million a year to IBM for the iSeries and pSeries RAID controllers. READ MORE >
(iSeries Network) A suite of tools designed to manage and analyze business functions is now available from Documentum. Collectively the tools are called the Documentum Business Process Manager, and they assist in process integration, collaboration, and the creation of XML-based electronic forms. READ MORE >
(IT Jungle) Midrange middleware supplier and UCCnet software specialist LANSA completed a deal to resell Intermec Technologies' line of automated data collection equipment. READ MORE >
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New Redbooks, White Papers, and Other OS/400 Resources
(iTera) High availability vendor iTera is offering a free white paper titled "Exploding the Six Common Myths of iSeries High Availability." If you are wondering whether your company can benefit from high availability, this report may shed some light on the subject for you. Topics pertaining to expense, complexity, operational requirements are each addressed. READ MORE >
(IDC) This white paper from analyst group IDC examines the return on investment when consolidating Windows and Linux servers on iSeries servers. IDC found an average three-year ROI of 213.9 percent across the six iSeries customers' sites. The study was commissioned by IBM. READ MORE >
(IBM) The "i5/OS Version 5 Release 3 System Handbook" provides a product and feature overview of the newest i5 Models 520 and 570, and describes the newest release of operating system software, i5/OS V5R3. It also describes iSeries Models 800, 810, 825, 870, and 890. READ MORE >
(IBM) "Lotus Domino and .NET Coexistence" is an interesting paper that provides development scenarios where Lotus Domino is the service consumer and the .NET application is the service provider and the other way around. The technologies used for integration are Web services and the COM interface. READ MORE >
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Chats, Webinars, Seminars, Shows, and Other Happenings
July 13 -- Tim Alpers, IBM eServer i5 Product Development Team Leader, is the lead presenter in this iSeries Nation Web cast that covers the latest enhancements in the eServer i5. The program is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. EDT and last approximately one hour. Registration in advance is necessary. LEARN MORE >
July 14 -- Document management, high availability, network storage, data warehousing, WebSphere, Sarbanes-Oxley, and financial modeling are featured topics at a one-day technical session hosted by IBM and the Tampa Bay area Data Exchange Bay Area User Group (DEBUG). The event is being held from 8:30 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. at IBM's offices at 3031 North Rocky Point Drive West. LEARN MORE >
July 15 -- IBM's vice president of technology/strategy, Dr. Irving Wladawsky-Berger, is the main speaker during a Web cast titled "Pathways to the On Demand World."
Wladawsky-Berger will provide insight into advancing technology and how it underlies the critical infrastructure of modern society. Discussions will also cover continuous enterprise operations through the use of storage consolidation, virtualization, LPAR and other key infrastructure elements to ensure data and application availability. Additional speakers include Paul Adams, president and CEO of SteelEye, and Lief Morin, president of Key Information Systems. The one-hour presentation begins at 10 a.m. PDT. Registration is required. LEARN MORE >
July 15 -- "Real Java, Real Easy--A Straight Path to eBusiness for iSeries Developers" is an iSeries Nation Web cast focusing on an introduction to StructuredJ, an open source WebSphere plug-in designed to simplify the path to Java for iSeries developers. Jim Mason, a leading e-business consultant, is the speaker. The presentation begins at 11 a.m. EDT. Registration in advance is necessary. LEARN MORE >
July 20 -- Learn how to leverage ILE, SQL, stored procedures, triggers, Struts, and Web services to transform your existing RPG and COBOL applications into dynamic Web applications using "Model-View-Controller" architecture. This Web cast, presented by IBM's Alison Butterill and SoftLanding's Ray Bernardi, will also cover how WDSc and TurnOver Change Management make the job easier. The presentation begins at noon EDT. Registration in advance is necessary. LEARN MORE >
July 21 -- A demonstration of how to do a basic webfacing project using WebSphere Development Studio is on the agenda for the regular monthly meeting of the Application Systems Users Group of Greater Cleveland. Jaye Wolfe, the Project Manager of the Operating Room Information Systems at Cleveland Clinic, will be the guest speaker. LEARN MORE >
July 27 -- The OCEAN User Group of iSeries professionals, based in Costa Mesa, California, will host its 11th annual "Catch the Wave" iSeries technical conference and vendor expo featuring educational tracks for iSeries application development, e-Business web tools, iSeries security and infrastructure and IT project management. The one-day event will be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, 17900 Jamboree Blvd., Irvine, California. For conference information and registration form, e-mail a request to staff@ocean400.org. LEARN MORE >
August 10 -- The Fairfield (Connecticut) AS/400 Users Group (FASUG) is scheduling a boat trip on the Island Princess, where the group will hold informal iSeries discussion groups. LEARN MORE >
August 19 -- The functional and architectural changes in i5/OS V5R3 that facilitate the transformation of printed output to electronic distribution will be covered in this iSeries Nation Web cast led by IBM-Boulder expert Bill Shaffer. Shaffer will talk about multi-channel profiling and delivery, PDF content enhancements, new security options, support for full color, and support for broad font architectures (TrueType, OpenType, Unicode). The presentation begins at 11 a.m. EST. Registration in advance is necessary. LEARN MORE >
September 14 -- The Central Florida Midrange Users Group will meet at Lee's Lakeside on Lake Eola, in Orlando. Dinner is scheduled for 7 p.m. with a presentation at 8. RSVP required. LEARN MORE >
September 16 -- The enhanced security functions in i5/OS, and a review of V5R2 security, will be covered by IBM's top iSeries security expert Pat Botz in an iSeries Nation Web cast beginning at 11 a.m. EDT. Botz will cover base operating system enhancements as well as the single sign-on function. LEARN MORE >
September 20-24 -- The IBM DB2 Information Management Technical Conference is a developer-oriented conference focusing on database capabilities that relate to business intelligence, enterprise content management, and information integration. Location: Las Vegas. LEARN MORE >
October 4-8 -- The WebSphere Technical Exchange will offer more than 100 lecture and hands-on sessions covering the most relevant WebSphere topics. The emphasis is on learning to use the WebSphere software platform to build a dynamic e-business that provides flexibility and scalability. Sessions are designed to present an understanding of how the WebSphere Application Server--along with tools for application, site, and software development--can provide a foundation that helps you extend your business to the Web-marketing, sales and customer service, so you can compete more effectively. LEARN MORE >
October 6-8 -- iSeries 400 Experts presents its 2004 iSeries DevCon conference in New Orleans. The conference features more than 40 in-depth technical sessions, hands-on labs, top industry experts, an exhibit hall, and networking opportunities. LEARN MORE >
October 12 -- The Fairfield (Connecticut) AS/400 Users Group has scheduled Application Development Day 2004, a one-day technical conference to be held at the Danbury Sheraton. LEARN MORE >
October 17-21 -- The COMMON user group presents its fall 2004 conference and expo in Toronto. COMMON is the largest and most widely attended iSeries-specific conference. IBM's own experts and many other industry professionals present sessions and hands-on labs. COMMON provides an excellent opportunity to network with fellow professionals, to attend a multitude of educational tracks, and to get real-world solutions at the vendor expo. LEARN MORE >
October 29 -- The Washington Area Midrange User Group (WAM) will be hosting a cross platform technical conference (JAM) on the University of Maryland campus in College Park, Maryland. Session topics include OS/400 (i5/OS), AIX 5L, Linux, and Websphere. LEARN MORE >
April 27-29, 2005 -- ASNApalooza, three days of technical presentations and labs that demonstrate the latest tips and techniques for ASNA's Visual RPG for .NET. Meet and network with ASNA's R&D, tech support, and education teams. Registration price is $950 ($1000 off the full price), if you register by July 31. LEARN MORE >
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