Boise Cascade Gets 'M-Powered' with mrc Reporting Tool
by Alex Woodie

The word came down from Boise Cascade's management in May like a ton of pulp: Develop a sophisticated Web-based reporting system that interfaces with multiple host systems, and do it in three weeks. For the folks on BC's application development team, that deadline seemed next to impossible to meet. However, despite being short a developer, the group persevered and managed to meet its deadline, with a little help from the mrc development tool, M-Power. READ MORE >

Red Oak Simulates World's Fastest Human Terminal Operator
by Dan Burger

George Cummings, president and CEO of Red Oak Software, describes his company's Legacy Integrator product, a programmatic integration tool for connecting System i and System z applications with other applications, as a replacement for the world's fastest human terminal operator. In other words, Legacy Integrator flips through green screens faster than humanly possible. Much faster. READ MORE >

Echo Cuts Waste with SPLTOOL Investment
by Alex Woodie

Five years ago, report distribution was a manual task at Echo, the Lake Zurich, Illinois, manufacturer of chain saws and other outdoor power equipment. Then the company made a paltry investment of a little more than $200 in the an automated spool file distribution utility for the iSeries called SPLTOOL from BVS/Tools, and the company has been reaping the rewards ever since. READ MORE >

BCD's WebSmart PHP Goes GA
by Alex Woodie

This month marks the official launch of WebSmart PHP, a new variant of the WebSmart development environment from Business Computer Design Int'l that's intended to make development of PHP applications easy and intuitive for System i programmers. For a license fee of about $4,000, System i developers can have their PHP generated for them, while they bone up on PHP functions by reading BCD's extensive documentation. READ MORE >