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Sponsored By
BYTWARE
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Is Your System Integrity Intact?
Now there's an easy way to determine when IBM's digital signatures have been altered by patched programs. StandGuard Anti-Virus's new Object Integrity Scanning feature (OIS) allows you to know what is happening to your system so you can make the choices yourself. And it's easy to keep a record of system changes to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley.
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Sponsored By
ALDON
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The 'Natural Selection' for Enterprise Change Management.
In the new climate of regulatory compliance, enterprise change management has become an increasingly complex animal. If you're not taking steps to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, you might soon find it's a real jungle out there.
The survivors are those who rely on Aldon software to automate complex compliance and development process control procedures.
www.aldon.com
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Service Packs Put a Crimp in Third Party Maintenance Plans
by Alex Woodie
Jack Crouch, chief technology officer at diesel equipment manufacturer Stewart & Stevenson, says he would buy third party maintenance for his company's OneWorld XE application "in a heartbeat." He hasn't, however, for one reason: service packs. "No one but Oracle owns source to the J.D. Edwards kernel," he says. So when IBM changes to OS/400 hurt compatibility with his ERP implementation, such as it did with i5/OS, Crouch relies on his ERP vendor to issue a service pack. READ MORE >
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Neartek's Virtual Storage Engine Certified for Use with iSeries
by Alex Woodie
Now iSeries shops looking to replace their tape-based backups with a new disk-to-disk, or a disk-to-disk-to-tape, back-up solution may want to check out Neartek's Virtual Storage Engine. VSE2 was granted TotalStorage Proven certification from IBM for its eServer range last month. With its capability to emulate practically any type of tape drive, as well as wide cross-platform support, the VSE2 software is designed to speed back-up times while reducing costs in heterogeneous IT environments. READ MORE >
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Sponsored By
COMMON
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COMMON Spring 2005
IT Education Conference & Expo
Chicago, Illinois
March 13-17, 2005
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Attendees can choose from hundreds of sessions in business strategy, networking, and development, with a featured educational focus on Systems Management. Explore the latest technologies in the industry's largest Expo, and network at COMMON social events.
www.common.org
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Gumbo Software Adds File Splitting to Spool Tools
by Alex Woodie
Gumbo Software is making it easier for customers to distribute their spool files, with recent updates to its spool file tools for OS/400. In January, the Seattle software company started shipping new releases of two products, SpoolMail V2R1 and Spool-a-Matic V1R8, which both gained the capability to split OS/400 spool files, among other enhancements. READ MORE >
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Cybele Software Updates Legacy Modernization Tools
by Alex Woodie
Cybele Software recently launched a new version of its TN Bridge Integration Pack product that allows organizations to Web-enable and reuse their legacy 5250 and 3270 applications as Web services. TN Bridge Integration Pack Version 3.0, which the Delaware software company officially introduced in December, adds new components for Web-enabling legacy applications using the latest Microsoft .NET and Borland Delphi development tools. READ MORE >
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Sponsored By
TWIN DATA
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Full system console control for multiple AS/400s and LPARs from anywhere on your LAN, WAN, VPN, even over the Internet!
Perform certain System Maintenance and Configuration Procedures while in "Restricted State." Execute certain types of System Backups (SAVYSYS) and respond to "System Console Only" messages.
Call for details about this IP Console Solution: 800-597-2525
www.twindata.com
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News Briefs and Product Shorts
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Editor: Alex Woodie
Managing Editor: Shannon Pastore
Contributing Editors: Dan Burger, Joe Hertvik,
Shannon O'Donnell, Timothy Prickett Morgan
Publisher and Advertising Director: Jenny Thomas
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