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Volume 5, Number 29 -- July 26, 2005

 
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SafeData Launches Hosting Service for HA and DR
by Alex Woodie

An iSeries high availability business partner has spun off its hot site hosting business into a separate company with the goal of providing small and medium size businesses with IT resources to get their business back up and running after a disaster. SafeData, which formally launched last week, promises to put iSeries and Windows applications back online from between two and 48 hours, depending on the recovery time objectives of the client. READ MORE >

 

Circuit City Streamlines Tedious Testing Tasks with TestBench
by Robert Gast

Circuit City Stores is on a steady course set by CIO Michael Jones to revitalize select areas of its information management structure. Circuit City's IT department is busy integrating into its core operations a new point of sale system to replace a proprietary one written in the mid-1980s. While the new POS system is Linux based, many of the company's legacy applications run on iSeries. To guarantee the purchasing process runs smoothly and to shorten the time it takes to complete project segments, Circuit City uses automated software testing solutions from Original Software Group. READ MORE >


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SoftLanding Enhances Open Source Change Management System
by Alex Woodie

SoftLanding Systems is helping to bring sophisticated version control within the grasps of non-technical workers with the latest release of TurnOverSVN, the iSeries-based version of a popular open-source change management system that it introduced earlier this year. iSeries shops implementing TurnOverSVN version 1.2 will find a new auto versioning feature that can be used on desktop PCs, as well as a new file-locking feature that will save Java, Web, and PC developers time and frustration. READ MORE >

 

Cozzi Updates RPG xTools, Partners with Linoma
by Alex Woodie

RPG programmers looking for an alternative to working directly with IBM's OS/400 APIs may want to consider Bob Cozzi's RPG xTools, a collection of more than 200 pre-written RPG IV utilities and subprocedures that that provide wrappers for OS/400 APIs. Earlier this month, Cozzi issued the version 5.0 release of his xTools, which adds more than a dozen new functions, including enhanced encryption/decryption, CGI development, and IFS file management. Cozzi has also partnered with Linoma Software to market, sell, and support the xTools. READ MORE >

 

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   News Briefs and Product Shorts

IBM Buys PureEdge Solutions for Electronic Forms Software . . . iBolt Plays Role in zSeries to iSeries Migration . . . Nano-Technology Comes to Tape Cartridges . . . UC4 Software Adds J2EE Application Support to Job Scheduler . . . Infinium Customer Opts for Excel Environment . . . Barcoding Unveils RFID Compliance Kits . . . READ MORE >




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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
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:

ACOM
Aldon
COMMON
iTera
Twin Data


Four Hundred Stuff

BACK ISSUES

TABLE OF
CONTENTS
SafeData Launches Hosting Service for HA and DR

Circuit City Streamlines Tedious Testing Tasks with TestBench

SoftLanding Enhances Open Source Change Management System

Cozzi Updates RPG xTools, Partners with Linoma

News Briefs and Product Shorts




The Four Hundred
iSeries Programmers Irate Concerning CGIDEV2 Limbo

Is Security the First Step Toward Regulatory Compliance?

iSeries Sales Increase by 10 Percent in Q2

Four Hundred Guru
API Corner: Using the User Profile Exit Programs

Case-Insensitive Sorting and Record Selection with Query/400, Take Two

Admin Alert: Three Keys to Better ODBC Library List Management

Four Hundred Monitor




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