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    In the November 27, 2001,  OS/400 Edition of Midrange Stuff :

    Starwood Finds External Peace with EMC

    by Alex Woodie

    Starwood Hotels & Resorts is one of the largest hotel holding and management companies in the world. With more than 700 properties, including the Sheraton, Westin, St. Regis, W, and The Luxury Collection hotel chains, Starwood caters to travelers accustomed to upscale service and decor.

    Not surprisingly, keeping a company of this size and distinction growing smoothly requires a well-crafted IT infrastructure that can scale to meet new demand. For its 200-plus North American properties, Starwood has been running SAP on AS/400 servers since 1997. Today it is considered the largest iSeries-based SAP deployment in the world, providing financial and payroll processing for more than 60,000 Starwood employees in the United States and Canada.

    Like most large corporations, Starwood's critical applications run on a variety of platforms, not just on OS/400 servers. In addition to the SAP system, Starwood's North American hotels rely on the steady functioning of applications that reside on IBM's AIX, Hewlett-Packard's HP-UX, and Microsoft's Windows operating systems running on a mix of servers. Indeed, in Starwood's main corporate data center in Phoenix, Ariz., there are seven applications spanning 25 servers.

    Keeping a disparate IT infrastructure running smoothly requires Starwood to sustain a variety of specially trained IT personnel, as well as maintaining service contracts with each of the platform and application vendors. Consolidating applications onto a single platform may look nice on paper, but it's not a feasible alternative in the real world, nor a desirable one in this volatile IT market where platforms are absorbed into other systems or dropped entirely.

    However, Starwood found substantial benefits in consolidating one aspect of its IT infrastructure onto a single, standard platform. That aspect was data storage.

    The Benefits of External Data Storage

    The decision to consolidate Starwood's collection of internal data stores onto a single external platform was driven by two desires, said Mike Morgan, Starwood's vice president of corporate information systems, finance. First, consolidating all storage onto one platform would reduce 25 potential failure points to a single point of failure. Second, an external storage infrastructure would allow Starwood to rapidly add more storage, and do it more cost effectively.

    "In an environment with so many different applications, it's hard to get something that's reliable and robust," Morgan said. "Plus the fact that we continually have to grow [our storage] in small chunks...The larger an environment gets, the more costly it gets to run."

    For an installation as big as Starwood's, there are three enterprise storage options that commonly surface. EMC Corporation, Hitachi Data Systems, and IBM sell large arrays that hold hundreds of disks and can scale well into the multi-terabyte range. Starwood quickly ruled out the disk array from Hitachi because it doesn't support the iSeries. The company considered IBM's Enterprise Storage System, commonly called "Shark," but lost interest earlier this year when it found out that a Shark installation would have required the company to maintain its internal iSeries disk, as well as the Shark array. "We looked a little at Shark," Morgan said. "I think that Shark has a niche. It just wasn't a good fit for all the things we wanted to do with it."

    Starwood's eventual decision to go with EMC's disk array, called Symmetrix, was also strengthened by EMC's reputation and its platform-agnosticism, said Kevin Malik, Starwood's director of information systems, finance. "EMC's focus is on storage, disaster recovery, and business continuity," Malik said. He also cited a Gartner Group study that pegged EMC's customer service rating as the highest in the IT industry.

    Symmetrix in Practice at Starwood

    Starwood's deployment of Symmetrix is commencing in two stages. The first stage involved the SAP application and went live in August, while the second stage will include all the other applications and is scheduled to go live in December.

    The iSeries portion of the data migration went smoothly and necessitated only a small period of downtime on a weekend, Malik said. Starwood's network of six production iSeries machines--one 12-way iSeries Model 840 with 24 GB of memory functioning as the main SAP database server, a four-way 830 that's the backup database server, and four other iSeries servers, including two SB1s, an SB2, and an 830, that function as application servers, all of which are at OS/400 V5R1--are allotted 1 TB of available space in the Symmetrix array. Starwood is using a Symmetrix 8830, a three-bay disk array that is capable of holding up to 384 disk drives. But in this first phase the company is using 61 disks, each of which has two mirrored backup disks in separate bays, comprising a total of 183 disks for the SAP applications.

    To increase application response time, Starwood uses 18 GB, 10K RPM disks from Seagate Technologies, but partitions them as 8 GB disks and uses redundant controllers. Response times with Symmetrix are comparable to what Starwood had with internal disk in the iSeries: about 600 milliseconds, Malik said.

    While it may take a year or so for Starwood to put a dollar amount on the benefits of a centralized storage infrastructure, Morgan said, the company does report one immediate benefit from the first stage of deployment. Before installing the central data store, it took Starwood up to 8 hours to perform the required tape backups. With EMC's TimeFinder and CopyPoint software, Starwood has a "triple mirroring" setup that allows operators to create two duplicate sets of production and historical data from a single mirrored disk, allowing full backups in just 15 minutes, Malik said.

    Starwood disaster recovery capabilities will grow much more when it deploys EMC's Symmetrix Remote Data Facility software during the second stage of the project. SRDF will allow Starwood to replicate its data to the second Symmetrix disk array, which will be placed in a separate data center located on the other side of Phoenix, and connected via a high-speed T3 line.

    An Early Christmas Present?

    But perhaps the best is yet to come. During the second phase of the project, scheduled to go live on December 15, Starwood will install a second 8830 Symmetrix array that will hold the data for the rest of the company's applications, as well as the mirrored SAP data. These additional applications include a Windows-based financial consolidation application from Hyperion Solutions, an RS/6000-based data warehouse from SAS Institute, a Windows-based travel and expense reporting solution from Concur Technologies, the Microsoft Outlook email program, and two home-grown OS/400 applications that run under SAP. All told, the two Symmetrix arrays will be serving seven production applications, each of which will have the appropriate-size disk drives befitting the applications' characteristics, including 18 GB, 36 GB, 72 GB, and 180 GB drives. Additionally, Starwood will begin using the Fibre Channel storage protocol with its iSeries servers instead of the SCSI protocol, further improving the installation's fault tolerance.

    "We're positioning ourselves for future growth and demands," said Malik, who estimates that his Symmetrix arrays will be holding 7 TB of data when stage two is completed, and growing at a rate of 3 GB per month six months from now. "Moving into multiple terabytes is not cheap when you start adding disks."

    As for the execution of EMC's customer service department, Morgan scored them a perfect 10. "They've been good to work with, flexible, attentive to detail. And they executed. That's what's important to me."

    Editor's Note: In future issues of Midrange Stuff, OS/400 Edition, find out how companies have deployed BCC's versatile disk drives and how IBM's Shark took a bite out of a customer's data storage pains.

     

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    Micromuse Announces Support for AS/400 and iSeries

    by Alex Woodie

    Micromuse has ventured into OS/400 territory for the first time with its data center management software. The San Francisco company's Netcool/OMNIbus product allows system administrators to monitor the transactional performance of networks and servers and identify potential problems before they cause downtime. AS/400 and iSeries support was announced with the release of a suite of monitors that collect information for Netcool/OMNIbus, called the Netcool/Data Center Monitors suite Version 2.0, on November 7.

    Netcool/OMNIbus is a high-speed, memory-resident database that collects fault information from various sources and allows systems administrators to determine which problems are the most critical and should be repaired first. The product can collect this information from more than 300 different probes, monitors, and other sources, including AS/400s, S/390s, and Unix and Windows servers; Simple Network Management Protocol-compatible and non-SNMP devices; voice and IP networks; cable and broadband; switches and routers; as well as systems management programs, such as IBM's Tivoli NetView, Hewlett-Packard's OpenView, Computer Associates' Unicenter, and Help/Systems' Robot suite of tools, among others.

    Netcool/DCMs includes an iSeries Event Monitor, which continually watches the AS/400 message queue for indications that something is wrong. In addition to the main Event Monitor, Micromuse offers other monitors that continually watch disk utilization, jobs, job queues, distribution queues, communications tasks, and hardware error logs. These additional monitors communicate with the main Event Monitor, which forwards pertinent information, via TCP/IP, to the centralized Netcool Object Server database, which is included with Netcool/OMNIbus, for processing and determining the appropriate response.

    Netcool/OMNIbus gives companies a way to manage heterogeneous data center environments from single, centralized consoles, said Grant Bilbow, Micromuse director of product management. "The AS/400 might only do a particular part of the application," he said. "It might just have customer records. The mainframe might be handling customer history, and the Windows NT does authorization. And you have the network connecting all of it, and you have to get all the events gathered in one place."

    Micromuse brought support to the iSeries environment because many of its customers, which are primarily mainframe shops in the telecommunications, cable, and Internet service provider industries, wanted a single console to manage a multitude of platforms, including the iSeries, Bilbow said. The company has about 1,300 Netcool/OMNIbus customers, four or five of which are using the Netcool/DCMs for iSeries.

    "I certainly think this is a fairly significant release," Bilbow said. "It opens up a new space for us in the enterprise area. We're getting a lot of traction in the AS/400 market."

    Netcool/OMNIbus costs $43,500 and runs on Sun Solaris 2.6, Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, or Red Hat Linux 6.2 servers. The main Netcool/DCMs iSeries Event Monitor costs $8,600 per server or logical partition, while additional monitors start at $3,000, with discounts available for bundled monitors. Netcool/DCMs requires OS/400 V4R5 or later. For more information, go to www.micromuse.com.

     

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    eSP Takes the Pain Out of Wireless Deployment

    by Alex Woodie

    Earlier this year, eBusiness Solution Pros (formerly known as D&E Support Professionals) and Wavelink Corp. announced a replacement product for IBM's Wireless Connection for AS/400 that is called eSP-Link. IBM stopped supporting Wireless Connection with the introduction of OS/400 V5R1. On November 30, Wavelink will begin shipping a component of the replacement product that has been available to eSP-Link users since August.

    Wireless Connection for AS/400 linked handheld devices, such as wireless barcode scanners, and host AS/400 applications using radio frequency technology. When IBM announced it would drop support for the product, a number of customers were left in a lurch, said Eric Hermalee, a product manager with Wavelink, an OEM for eSP. "We're experiencing a lot of customer pain right now," he said. "A lot of customers were not aware their system will not function on V5R1."

    Wavelink previously sold a wireless solution called Wavelink Studio, which allowed companies to display AS/400, Unix, or mainframe screens on wireless client interfaces. However, that version of Wavelink Studio required AS/400 users to install the 5250 component of the solution, an ActiveX plug-in called Activebridge, on a Windows or Unix box. With the recent development and impending release of Wavelink Studio 4.0-- included with eSP-Link--the entire solution can now reside on an AS/400 or iSeries.

    "We have partnered with a company [eSP] that has developed an internal AS/400 connector," Hermalee said. "We think that it's more appealing that users don't have to have an [Windows] NT box sitting next to their 400."

    eSP-Link is made up of two components: Wavelink Studio 4.0 (which handles application development, network and device connectivity, and session management) and eSP-5250 (the 5250 emulator that resides on the AS/400). The Java-based product can be used as a replacement for Wireless Connection, but its functionality actually goes beyond the IBM product, the companies say. In addition to allowing companies to deploy their wireless- enabled solutions using radio frequency technology, the product supports wireless LAN deployment, using the new 802.11b standard and various cellular network standards, including Global System for Mobile Communications, Cellular Digital Packet Data, and General Packet Radio Service. The product also supports PDAs from Symbol Technologies, which Wireless Connection did not.

    Sources at eSP and Wavelink say the redevelopment and redeployment of AS/400 applications as wireless applications is not complicated. Wavelink Studio contains extensive development libraries, APIs, and adapters that prevent developers from having to cope with the complexities of using various types of client interfaces and networks. For example, the Wavelink Studio library has prebuilt adapters for more than 200 handheld devices, requiring only minor tweaks to adapt one client interface to fit the different screen size of another PDA, according to Wavelink sources.

    The release of Wavelink Studio 4.0 brings other new features to eSP-Link that will benefit large enterprise installations. Enhancements include load balancing across multiple servers and an autodiscovery feature that allows the eSP-Link server to automatically detect what type of handheld device is accessing the application and respond with the appropriate datastream.

    eSP, the distributor of eSP-Link, is charging $2,000 per OS/400 server and $500 per concurrent client for eSP-Link. For more information, go to www.esp400.com.

    Original Software Partners with MKS, Releases New EXTRACTOR

    by Alex Woodie

    The Original Software Group, a British company that specializes in testing software for the OS/400 platform and Web applications, recently announced the release of a new data extractor for AS/400 and iSeries applications. The company also announced a new partnership with MKS, a Toronto, Ontario, provider of software change management utilities for the OS/400, Windows, Unix, and Linux platforms.

    Original Software's new product, EXTRACTOR400 Remote Edition, streamlines application development that is occurring across more than one AS/400 or iSeries in geographically separate locations, but connected via TCP/IP. The product is an add-on component that works with two other applications from Original Software: EXTRACTOR400 Advanced Edition and TestBench400. With either of these applications installed on the remotely located host machine, EXTRACTOR400 Remote Edition allows developers to more easily extract and create data subsets from a live database and load them onto the local machine.

    In other news, Original Software and MKS have joined forces to comarket and integrate their respective products. The agreement, announced last week, joins two MKS products, Implementer and Integrity Manager, with TestBench400 at the API level.

    According to the companies' press release, Implementer promotions can now be configured to execute TestBench400 test scripts and populate test databases in preparation for testing. The benefit to software testers is found in Integrity Manager's workflow capabilities, which add safeguards so test failures are not inadvertently ignored.

    To connect the two products, companies must be using Implementer 5.2 or later and TestBench400 2.5 or later. The API is free for companies already using these products. For companies using one of these products but not the other, Original Software and MKS are offering discounts on their products through January 31, 2002.

    List pricing for Implementer ranges from $9,000 to $26,000, depending on the size of the AS/400. EXTRACTOR400 Remote Edition is available immediately and costs $4,000. Trial editions are available for download from Original Software's Web site, at www.origsoft.com.

    Additionally, a technical white paper detailing the integration of TestBench400 and Implementer, called "Unleashing the Power of iSeries Software Change Management and Automated Testing," is available from either Original Software's site or from MKS' Web site, at www.mks.com.

    Tango/04 Updates Visual Message Center with Windows Agent

    by Timothy Prickett Morgan

    Tango/04, a specialist in application and systems management programs for the iSeries and AS/400 platform, has announced a Windows agent for its VISUAL Message Center. The announcement of the Windows agent means that VISUAL Message Center can now be used to monitor and manage operating systems and applications residing on both OS/400 and Windows platforms simultaneously from a single graphical console.

    Version 1 of VISUAL Message Center was announced approximately 18 months ago for the OS/400 platform. This initial release was dedicated to monitoring application errors for system administrators. The software was specifically designed to watch for and catch the kinds of interactive error messages that users often receive or generate through mistakes in their data entry, which they typically respond to incorrectly or ignore completely, to the detriment of an OS/400 server. About a year ago, with Version 2, Tango/04 added monitoring and management of message queues on OS/400 servers. This extended VISUAL Message Center release could actively monitor jobs, devices, and other things in OS/400 that system administrators had previously attended to manually. Version 3, announced in the spring of 2001, was able to gather console and job-related information on OS/400 servers and pull it into the VISUAL Message Center graphical console. Version 3.2, the latest release, is the first release of VISUAL Message Center to include the capabilities of monitoring Windows operating systems.

    By adding support for Windows operating systems, Tango/04 is able to make its products more appealing not only to OS/400 shops, which generally want to rein in their Windows infrastructure and application servers, but also to Windows customers who do not have an iSeries or AS/400 server in their shop. Tango/04 is inclined to market its tools to hybrid OS/400-Windows shops--which comprise about 65 percent of the 250,000 unique OS/400 server customers on the planet. But, clearly, by supporting Windows servers, Tango/04 has expanded its marketing options.

    The VISUAL Message Center Windows Agent can be supported on IBM's Integrated xSeries Server (IxS) PC coprocessor card for AS/400 and iSeries servers. It works with externally attached xSeries servers that use IBM's High Speed Link and Integrated xSeries Adapter (IxA) cards. And it also works with any Windows NT or Windows 2000 server attached to the management console through a standard networking link, such as TCP/IP running over a LAN. Sources at Tango/04 say further that the Windows agent for VISUAL Message Center can be used to monitor workstations running Windows NT, Windows 2000, or the new Windows XP release.

    VISUAL Message Center agents for OS/400 servers cost $2,000, while agents for Windows servers cost $300 per server. The VISUAL Message Center console is sold separately. For the typical OS/400 shop, a minimum install of VISUAL Message Center costs around $3,000. A fairly complex hybrid OS/400-Windows setup with a big central iSeries server and 10 to 20 Windows servers costs around $15,000. Tango/04 is offering a trial version of its software at its Web site at www.tango04.com/homepages/download.htm

     

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    JDE, Hummingbird Forge Portal Alliance

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    In a move designed to enhance supply chain functionality, J.D. Edwards & Company has joined with Hummingbird Ltd. to improve the accessibility of inter-enterprise data from a common desktop. The agreement puts the wheels in motion for JDE to become an OEM and integrate Hummingbird's Enterprise Information Portal with JDE's Supply Chain Console. The console is part of JDE's Advanced Planning solution, and the addition of the information portal is evidence that JDE is following through on its promises to increase supply chain effectiveness.

    As a result of this collaboration, JDE's Supply Chain Console will soon provide customers with such features as a centralized workspace with a single login, a unified view of their supply chain, and the capability to collaborate and interoperate with demand-planning, production-scheduling, and order-promising modules.

    The JDE package will also include Hummingbird's Exceed-on-Demand, which permits desktop, Web, and remote users to access Unix applications from PCs running Windows 2000/NT, Windows 95/98/Me, and Windows 3.x, and HostExplorer, which provides connections from a desktop to enterprise hosts, including IBM mainframes as well as OS/400, Unix, and Linux servers.

    For JDE, the addition of Hummingbird products and technology opens the door to deploying JDE's Advanced Planning outside the enterprise, to customers and suppliers that support key processes such as Vendor Managed Inventory and Collaborative Planning Forecasting and Replenishment.

    Hummingbird's host access and network connectivity business, along with the company's expertise in the enterprise portal market, are expected to bolster JDE's supply chain offerings.

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    Surveyor/400 Gives Users Spool Powers

    by Alex Woodie

    Linoma Software has upgraded its graphical database management utility for the OS/400 servers, Surveyor/400, with new features giving users expanded capabilities to work with spool files in the print queue. With the new Spooled File Manager facility, users can export spool files to their PC workstations or to OS/400's Integrated File System (IFS), in either Adobe PDF or text format, giving them greater control over the appearance and distribution of company documents.

    The Spooled File Manager, which requires OS/400 V4R4 or higher, also lets users manipulate spool files. A hold feature prevents a file from going to the printer, allowing special forms or paper to be loaded to a printer; then the release command is used to commence printing. When viewing spool files, users can control the use of green bars, font size, and search options. Users can also delete spool files or move them to another library or output queue.

    In addition to the new Spooled File Manager capabilities, Surveyor/400 includes a number of other tools designed to boost the productivity of programmers and database administrators, including the capability to work with database objects, run SQL statements, send FTP objects between AS/400s, generate DDS and DDL source code, retrieve deleted records, and search for database objects using complex criteria.

    The product, which is free for the first license in any organization running at OS/400 V4R2 or higher, also includes a 5250 emulator and a Web update facility that relieves systems administrators from manually loading Surveyor/400 updates on each PC. The Surveyor/400 client runs on any Java-compatible PC.

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    SEDONA Updates Financial CRM Package

    by Alex Woodie

    SEDONA Corporation has added new querying and report- publishing capabilities to its CRM package for small and midsize financial institutions. The release of Intarsia Version 3.2 brings support for Microsoft's Windows operating system. Previously this software was available only for OS/400 and Unix platforms, as well as through application service providers.

    The Intarsia CRM package allows individuals in marketing and sales departments to more efficiently lasso potential customers, track the behavior of existing clients, as well as judge the effectiveness of promotions and other campaigns. Its core capabilities include dynamic lead tracking, profitability management, promotion management, and report creation and publishing.

    Through an Internet-connected client interface, Intarsia users can pull information from banking applications, such as those from Jack Henry & Associates, ALLTEL, and Fiserv, as well as from third-party customer-information providers, such as Acxiom Corporation and Dun & Bradstreet.

    By keeping customer information up to date, Intarsia allow "your organization [to] take advantage of important changes within a single customer or prospect record or group of records, as they are occurring, before your competition does," according to an Intarsia brochure from the King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, company.

    With the Nov. 15 release of Intarsia 3.2, SEDONA debuts a new Web-based query builder and report writer that allows users to create and share their analysis with other users through the Intarsia portal. The company also has included a new point of service feature for real-time input of customer information directly into a database.

    This release also includes a new householding feature that allows users to more accurately determine when multiple customers live at the same residence, which helps companies reduce duplicate mailings to the same household. There is also an advanced householding option available for users that need a higher level of service. For more information, go to www.sedona.com.

     

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