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Top OS/400 Stories from Around the Web
(IT Jungle) The cost of downtime is going up, and luckily the cost of implementing high availability is going down along with the complexity of the software. The result is a more widespread use of HA and a closer look at performance and reliability issues. READ MORE >
(IT Jungle) The increase in server sales and revenue has IT industry prognosticators happier than a tall dog in a butcher shop. The meatiest portion of the market is clearly the low-end of the server price range, where anyone selling Windows and Linux servers is licking his chops. READ MORE >
(IT Jungle) Everybody has an opinion on what 2005 will hold in store for the IT industry, but Frank Gens, senior vice president of research at IDC, might have a more informed outlook since he has the input of 700 analysts. You can go to the guy in the cubicle next to the coffee machine or you can hear what Frank has to say. Your choice. READ MORE >
(IT Jungle) It's the time of year when temperatures start to drop, but who woulda guessed that H-E-double-hockey-sticks froze over Sunday night. Although the devil's deep freeze went unreported, it had to be true because there was an iSeries TV commercial on that night. IBM says there are more to come. Anybody see the report on pigs flying? READ MORE >
(MCPress) If the prospect of saving money and paying fewer taxes sounds like the best proposition you might get today, look into this article. There are a few end of year incentives that could have you taking the wraps off a new i5 or other IT goodies that could help you ring in the new year. READ MORE >
(iSeries Network) Now that Pennsylvania has opened the door to legalized gambling as a way to relieve the property tax burden on its citizens, a few people are wondering out loud whether the casino management and slot management software will run on iSeries. It's a pretty good bet, but there's no such thing as a sure thing. READ MORE >
(MCPress) If you are searching for the beta 2 release of Lotus Domino 7.0 with DB2 supported on OS/400, call off the dogs. There is no OS/400 support. Lotus will address the iSeries i5 DB2 database "in the future." READ MORE >
(Insider Weekly) The iSeries and pSeries have never been more alike. Well, wait a minute, maybe the iSeries and the pSeries have never been more different. Which is it? IBM's packaging of the Power5 servers draws comments from several analysts. READ MORE >
(IT Jungle) Make it six in a row. According to an IDC report, the storage industry has completed its sixth consecutive quarter of increased revenues and IBM reached the billion-dollar mark within the disk array market. The overall disk market (including internal arrays such as those used in the AS/400, iSeries, and i5s) grew by 2.1 percent, to $5 billion. READ MORE >
(IT Jungle) IBM and Fujitsu plan to collaborate on open standards for autonomic computing, an area that has been segregated by platform and compatibility issues. Autonomic computing allows systems to do predictive self-maintenance and self-healing. READ MORE >
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Vendor Announcements, Promotions, and Deals
(IT Jungle) Putting Web-based graphical interfaces on RPG-based applications has a lot of companies noodling over the best methods, the best investments, and the best match to the skills of existing personnel. The latest in conversion tools comes from Profound Logic, and it is definitely worthy of consideration. READ MORE >
(IT Jungle) If your daily commute to and from work was cut in half, you'd be a happy worker bee. Well, maybe the next best time-saving devices are the new LTO Ultrium 3 tape drives. They are twice as fast as the previous version: 80 MBps native transfer speeds and 400 GB native capacity are performance enhancements that can be put to good use. READ MORE >
(IT Jungle) Building a document management system is one of those wish list items that rates high on many companies' priority charts. And the archiving component of these systems is one of the favored features. Integrated Custom Software has added archiving to its suite of document management products, bringing search capabilities to the printing, emailing, and faxing of documents. READ MORE >
(IT Jungle) One of the good things to emerge from under the regulatory-compliance/corporate-scrutiny microscope is more focused attention on security-related issues in IT departments. It has also brought companies like Bsafe to the attention of those who now see the benefits of managing OS/400 security settings and exit points. READ MORE >
(IT Jungle) ASNA has done quite well with DataGate, a software product that provides Windows applications with high-speed access to the DB2/400 database. In the 10 years since DataGate came out of the gate, the San Antonio software company has sold three quarters of a million licenses worldwide. READ MORE >
(IT Jungle) A new online printing supply store featuring such things as MICR, laser, and color toner cartridges, fax and copier cartridges, cartridges of inkjet printers, printer maintenance kits, blank and pre-printed check stock, and pressure seal envelopes has been launched by ACOM Solutions, the OS/400 document management company. READ MORE >
(IT Jungle) Document management software vendor Quadrant Software has created a new online technical support center where customers can get quick answers to frequently asked questions and common problems. READ MORE >
(IT Jungle) Ever wonder what you could do with portal technology? Bowstreet, makers of The Portlet Factory, has just added new capabilities that allow its customers to tap into Siebel and SAP extensions. Using portal technology on iSeries is still cutting edge stuff, but if that's the kind of company you work for, then you should check out the Bowstreet boys. READ MORE >
(IT Jungle) Have you ever had a dream that a monster was chasing you and you could only move in super slow motion? Most ERP installations are something like that. With its latest release of Movex, Intentia says it can fast track the process and get users up and running much quicker than before. READ MORE >
(IT Jungle) Brocade Communications Systems' 4100 family of 4 Gbps SilkWorm storage area network (SAN) switches, for use with iSeries, pSeries, and xSeries servers, is now available. It is referred to as the IBM TotalStorage SAN32B-2. READ MORE >
(IT Jungle) Restructuring at retail software specialist JDA Software Group is expected to save the company at least $15 million and put the company on better footing for the release of Portfolio 2005.1, a .NET-based front end to various JDA application suites. READ MORE >
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New Redbooks, White Papers, and Other OS/400 Resources
(Vision Solutions) "Understanding Downtime" is the second in what is to be an in-depth series of white papers written by this company known for its managed availability software. It combines current information on availability technology and business management, and should meet the needs of both business executives and IT system managers. READ MORE >
(Lakeview Technology) This white paper titled "Evaluating Availability Choices" addresses critical data and application availability issues in the quest to bring systems up to near 100 percent availability. READ MORE >
(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 >
(IBM) This redbook provides guidelines, and practical examples pertaining to the remote journal function provided by OS/400. Some of the topics that are covered include setup, removal, and day-to-day operation; synchronously and asynchronously maintained remote journals; performance; and building AS/400 switchover solutions. READ MORE >
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Chats, Webinars, Seminars, Shows, and Other Happenings
December 9 -- The Pacific Midrange Systems Association meeting, serving the greater Seattle area, will host its regular monthly meeting. Guest speaker Chuck Davis will demonstrate how to bring iSeries data to the desktop using the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition. Attendees do not need to be Java literate. Registration begins at 11:30 a.m., followed by lunch at noon, and the program begins at 1 p.m. The meeting location is the Rock Bottom Brewery in Bellevue. LEARN MORE >
December 9 -- A tour of the IBM WebSphere Developer Studio Client roadmap that includes IBM's investment in RPG will be the focus of a presentation by George Farr, an IBM Toronto Laboratory veteran who will be the guest speaker at the monthly meeting of the Wisconsin Midrange Computer Professionals Association. WMCPA serves the greater Milwaukee area. The meeting begins at 5:30 p.m., with dinner at 6:30 and the presentation at 7:30. The location is Panos Charhouse, 20290 W. Bluemound Road, Brookfield. LEARN MORE >
December 14 -- The Jacksonville (Florida) iSeries User Group monthly meeting features two speakers. Mark Belcher from the Dynamix Group will give a presentation on integrating xSeries servers on the iSeries and java expert Joe Sam Shirah has a presentation called "Java 2004: A Tour for the Midrange Developer." Activities begin at 6 p.m. The first presentation begins at 6:15. RSVP via email to group president Ben Brower (benbrower@comcast.net) to reserve a seat. The meeting takes place at Dave & Busters, 7025 Salisbury Road, Jacksonville. A free buffet dinner plus beer and wine will be served. There will also be door prizes awarded.
December 14 -- The iSeries Access Family's browser-based solution iSeries Access for Web is the topic of discussion with IBM's Carole Miner explaining the details at the next meeting of the Fairfield (Connecticut) AS/400 Users Group. The meeting begins at 5:30, with dinner at 6:30 and the presentation afterward. The event takes place at the Norwalk Inn, 99 East Avenue, Norwalk. LEARN MORE >
December 15 -- The Long Island Systems Users Group (LISUG) will have Carole Miner--Senior Software Engineer for iSeries Client Integration, IBM Rochester Laboratory--as the guest speaker this month. LISUG meetings are held at the Fox Hollow Inn, 7725 Jericho Turnpike, Woodbury, New York. The meetings begin at 6 p.m. and usually end by 10. LEARN MORE >
December 16 -- The Kentuckiana Small Systems Association (KSSA) will host its regularly scheduled quarterly meeting in Louisville, Kentucky. The meetings begin with lunch at 11:30 a.m. and are concluded by 1:30 p.m. LEARN MORE >
January 11 -- The regular monthly meeting of the Cascade iSeries User Group, which serves the greater Portland, Oregon, area, will be held on the fourth floor of the NW Natural Building, 220 NW 2nd (2nd & Everett) between 1:30 and 4:30 p. m. LEARN MORE >
January 13 -- The monthly meeting of the Houston Applications Systems Group has its monthly meeting beginning with dinner at 5:30 and followed by the meeting from 6:30 to 8:00. Meetings are held at the Sheraton Brookhollow, 3000 North Loop West, Houston. RSVP required. LEARN MORE >
January 18 -- The monthly meeting of the Metro Midrange Systems Association (MMSA), an AS/400 and iSeries user group in the Dallas and Fort Worth area, will take place at the Harvey Hotel Dallas/Fort Worth Airport, in Irving, Texas. The meeting begins at 5:30 p.m., with dinner at 6:00, and a presentation by Starlett Dotson of EDS beginning at 6:45. LEARN MORE >
January 18 -- The OCEAN User Group of iSeries professionals, based in Costa Mesa, California, hosts its regularly scheduled meeting on the third Thursday each month, beginning at 6 p.m. at the IBM office, 600 Anton Blvd, Second Floor, Costa Mesa. LEARN MORE >
January 19 -- The New England Mid-Range Users Group will host a meeting at the Ramada Inn in Seekonk, Massachusetts, (greater Providence, Rhode Island, area) beginning at 5:15 p.m. The roundtable topics for the meeting are SQL stored procedures, activation groups, and Web services. LEARN MORE >
January 23-27 -- Lotusphere 2005 will focus on core Notes and Domino content. Additional topics in the spotlight incude the Lotus product portfolio, WebSphere Portal products, Pervasive Computing technology, and the IBM Workplace. Pre-conference "JumpStart Sessions" are available and special educational tracks have been designed for areas such as management, application development. collaboration infrastructure, and best practices. As usual, Lotusphere is held at the popular Walt Disney Resort in Orlando, Florida. LEARN MORE >
January 25 -- AS/400 and iSeries professionals in the greater Chicago area have an opportunity to participate in the OMNI Day of Education featuring sessions on topics that include RPG /free, ILE, WebSphere, Eclipse, WDSc, RPG in V5, DB2 UDB, WebSphere and RPG together, RPG and the IFS, SQL performance, and iSeries Navigator. The list of speakers includes: Jon Paris, Susan Gantner, Dale O'Leary, Kent Milligan, David Money, Joe Pluta, and Tom Brekke. LEARN MORE >
March 13-17 -- Hundreds of sessions pertaining to OS/400 and related technologies on topics such as business strategy, database, systems management, networking and development will be featured at the COMMON Spring 2005 IT Education Conference & Expo. The the educational focus of the conference will be systems management, and this COMMON conference will be the first to include USERblue, a conference-within-a-conference for UNIX users. The headquarters hotel will be the Hyatt Regency Chicago. LEARN MORE >
April 6 & 7 -- The 20th annual Wisconsin Midrange Computer Professionals Association (WMCPA) Spring Technical Conference will be held at Lake Lawn Resort in Delavan, WI. The cost for the two-day event is $375 for WMPCA members ($300 for a one-day admission) and $500 for non-members ($425 for a one-day admission). LEARN MORE >
April 24-28 -- LANSA Launch 2005, the next annual conference for LANSA users, is meeting at the Royal Pacific Resort at Universal Orlando in Orlando, Florida. The main goal of this event is to provide extensive education in LANSA technology, including the latest release of LANSA Version 11, which is due for general availability in March. Of course, Florida in April is the right place at the right time for many winter-weary LANSA users. An extra day of sessions and hands-on labs has been added this year. Information on speakers, instructors, and topics will be updated periodically on the conference Web site. LEARN MORE >
April 27-29 -- 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. LEARN MORE >
June 6-10 -- At the IBM i5 and iSeries Technical Conference, IBM brings out its top technical experts to provide attendees with the latest information on i5 and i5/OS. It's an opportunity to get the latest i5 strategy and direction, get advice on upgrade paths, and learn about IBM products such as DB2/UDB, WebSphere Portal, and Lotus Domino Workplace. Sessions are also available on topics such as cross-platform management tools, LPAR, AIX on iSeries, and building Web applications. This event will be held at the San Francisco Hilton. LEARN MORE >
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