Bartell Launches RPGUI, an Open Source Web Enablement Framework for RPG
by Alex Woodie

RPG expert Aaron Bartell is spearheading a new open source development project called RPGUI that aims to radically simplify the development of Web interfaces for RPG programs and programmers. The project is only about a month old, and there is a lot of work to do. But Bartell is very optimistic about RPGUI's prospects for eliminating the need for RPG programmers to become experts in Web languages such as JavaScript, and to provide a 'no brainer' low-cost option for keeping RPG applications looking modern. READ MORE >

Profound Goes GA with i OS-based Web Portal, Atrium
by Alex Woodie

Profound Logic's Atrium is now in the building. Last week the i OS toolmaker announced the general availability of the new Web portal, which provides a single repository where users can access all of their Web-enabled or modernized green-screen i OS applications. The product, which was first introduced in early 2009 at the COMMON conference in Nevada, also gained new functionality from the beta release in the area of macros. READ MORE >

DRV Tech Automates i OS Message Notification with New Product
by Alex Woodie

SpoolFlex developer DRV Technologies last week unveiled a new product designed to ensure that important i OS system messages get in front of the eyes of operators and administrators, through e-mail or messaging software on the Web or a smartphone. Just as the company's flagship product, SpoolFlex, automates the distribution of spool files, the new MessageFlex product automates the distribution of errors and other messages generated by the system to help avoid downtime. READ MORE >

System i Developer Sets Date for Next RPG & DB2 Summit
by Dan Burger

RPG is dead. Long live RPG. Repeat. Chug beer. Write more code. RPG is not going away anytime soon. The amount of RPG code running businesses, if laid end to end, would stretch from Earth to the farthest galaxy--give or take a few light years. Yes, some of that code is as old as the dinosaurs. So how does a 50-year-old programming language survive in a high tech world where most 'innovations' have the staying power of a lit firecracker? Evolution. READ MORE >