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Volume 4, Number 26 -- June 29, 2004


 
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Great Plains Communications Finds Comfort in iTera
by Alex Woodie

For two years, Great Plains Communications had trouble managing its OS/400 high availability environment. Problems such as chronic out-of-synch conditions, difficulty replicating IFS and spool files, and inaccurate system monitor displays prevented the small Nebraska telecommunications company from practicing roll-swaps and thereby gaining confidence in its high availability setup. When the company finally replaced the software with startup iTera's Echo2 product, it found a few rough edges, but overall things improved dramatically. READ MORE >

 

Metafile Debuts New WebSphere Portlet for COLD Suite
by Alex Woodie

Metafile, the Rochester, Minnesota, developer of content management and imaging software for OS/400 and other platforms, this month launched a new portlet application for IBM's WebSphere Portal Server software. Metafile's MF.net Portlet for IBM WebSphere software provides another way for users to access the MetaViewer Enterprise electronic report management system from Web portals hosted on the WebSphere software. READ MORE >


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Linoma Boosts Security Automation with OS/400 Data Transfer Tool
by Alex Woodie

The Internet is a phenomenal medium, but as we all know, it is also inherently insecure. If you send sensitive information over the public electronic byways, and you don't somehow encrypt it, you're asking for trouble. Linoma Software addresses this need with Transfer Anywhere, a data transformation utility that provides a Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) encryption implementation on OS/400 and Windows operating systems. This month Linoma shipped a new release that has new security automation capabilities. READ MORE >

 

IBM Updates Content Manager, Pledges Express Edition
by Alex Woodie

Two of the many product news bits hidden away in IBM's eServer i5 announcement on May 4 were the upcoming releases of DB2 Content Manager for iSeries and DB2 Content Manager OnDemand for iSeries. Those releases, which shipped June 11, expand the ways in which users can interact with unstructured data, such as e-mails and scanned documents. IBM is also cooking up new "express" editions of the DB2 Content Manager that will run on OS/400 and Linux. READ MORE >

 
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  News Briefs and Product Shorts

Jack Henry Offers Software for Upcoming XBRL Reporting Mandate . . . Crystal Window and Door Happy with Friedman ERP System . . . Introductory Pricing from Key for TSM Reports.com Reporting Tools . . . DataMirror Deepens Partnership with Symbian for Embedded Java Database . . . Packeteer Enhances MLPS and VoIP Support with Network Monitoring Software . . . Micromuse Enhances Application Impact Evaluation Software . . . READ MORE >




Reader Feedback and Insights


The article "ProData Now Supports Database Utility on Linux" has been corrected since its original publication. IBM's Data File Utility (DFU) was misidentified as "FEU." Guild Companies regrets the error. [Change made 6/23/04]


We value your feedback and insights. Feel free to send a letter to the editor. Letters may be printed, unless otherwise specified, and edited for clarity or length. READ MORE >


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
Advertising Sales Representative: Kim Reed
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THIS ISSUE
SPONSORED BY:

BCD Int'l
Aldon
Lakeview Technology
Asymex
Tango/04 Computing Group


BACK ISSUES

TABLE OF
CONTENTS
Great Plains Communications Finds Comfort in iTera

Metafile Debuts New WebSphere Portlet for COLD Suite

Linoma Boosts Security Automation with OS/400 Data Transfer Tool

IBM Updates Content Manager, Pledges Express Edition

News Briefs and Product Shorts




The Four Hundred
The eServer i5 Versus Unix Servers

Leasing Greases IT Acquisitions, Pumps the Economy

Prepare for Wrenching IT Personnel Changes Now

Four Hundred Guru
IBM Enhances iSeries Access Family with Lots of Goodies

Printing Barcodes Without an IPDS Printer

Updating Through an SQL Cursor

Four Hundred Monitor




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