Aldon Tackles Parallel Development Problems with LMi 7.5
by Alex Woodie

It can be difficult to coordinate among teams of i5/OS developers working in parallel. Who has code segments checked out? How will their work be merged? What if there are conflicts? These are some of the issues that Aldon is addressing with the latest release of its i5/OS change management offering, Aldon Lifecycle Manager (System i Edition), or LMi version 7.5, which features a new graphical compare and merge utility, new automated conflict resolution capabilities, and better integration into Aldon's workflow tool.READ MORE >

Ricoh in Deal for AFP/IPDS Emulation
by Alex Woodie

Printer maker Ricoh Americas has extended its OEM partnership with Intermate A/S for technology that benefits customers printing high quality output from IBM System i and z servers. The deal will give Ricoh's IBM host printing business a boost over the next three years, until Ricoh finally takes over full control of IBM's Printing Systems Division, which it's in the middle of buying.READ MORE >

S4i Web Interfaces to Document Management Offering
by Alex Woodie

It's unlikely that any of us will ever achieve the techno-nirvana of a "paperless office." There simply is no way to duplicate with computers all of things you can do with physical, paper-based documents. At the same time, very good arguments can be made for moving the bulk of your paperwork into digital documents that are stored on a System i server and distributed using the Internet. One offering that can take you there, S4i Systems's S4i Express and WebView combo, was recently overhauled to add new functionality to this process. READ MORE >

CA Tweaks Job Schedulers, Positions Them as Workload Automation
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

A year ago, systems software maker CA acquired a smaller rival, Cybermation, which like CA got its start as a supplier of products for mainframes and which over the years expanded out to cover the array of distributed systems that populate the data centers. Today, CA is updating its four products and providing them with Web services extensions that allow them to integrate with each other and with other Unicenter systems management products. READ MORE >