A new Web browser engine in the latest release of LANSA‘s aXes screen modernization tool will enable users to display i/OS application screens on practically any Web browser, including those running on mobile devices. aXes version 1.35, which was a major rewrite of the product, also contains something called aXes eXtensions, which will allow customers to integrate Microsoft .NET components directly into the Web interfaces of their RPG or COBOL applications, or integrate aXes screens into SharePoint portals.

aXes is an on-the-fly screen modernization tool for IBM i/OS applications that was originally created by Arterial Software of Australia. In

ASNA, a division of BluePhoenix since 2007, this month will begin shipping ASNA Visual RPG (AVR) version 10, the latest release of its technology that generates Windows executables from its RPG-like syntax. With version 10, AVR gains support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, and the capability to run within that popular development environment. Version 10 also gives users the option of running within the free Visual Studio Shell.

AVR is a .NET-based RPG compiler that allows companies to transition their RPG-based investments in AS/400, iSeries, i5, System i, and Power Systems applications in the direction of Microsoft Windows and

Patrick Townsend Security Solutions is taking a unique approach to data security with its latest offering, Alliance Token Manager. Like all tokenization offerings, ATM inserts a token in the place of sensitive data, making the data useless without the key, but maintaining internal consistency. But unlike other tokenization offerings, PTSS’ new i/OS-based product will generate non-recoverable tokens, which means the data can never be recovered–not even with the key. ATM is the first tokenization offering to offer this feature, PTSS claims.

Obviously, a company would never use the non-recoverable feature of ATM if they needed to access or use the

Attachmate this month shipped Luminet, a powerful fraud-detection program that gives corporations Big Brother-like monitoring capability over their workers. The enterprise-strength product, which starts at around $100,000, captures every screen and records every keystroke made by users as they traverse applications running on midrange and mainframe IBM systems and open X64 systems alike, thereby picking up the trail of malicious users where traditional log-based security and auditing products leave off.

Hackers get all the glory and the headlines, but insider fraud is where the real money resides. Time and time again, reports by security experts find that malicious employees or

When it comes to job-related or career-related training, the majority of you are on your own. Your employers–IBM i platform adherents–aren’t proactively offering IT educational opportunities. Their employee handbooks probably cover training and education and your company may reimburse employees for passing courses that relate to job performance and provide a benefit to the company. But it’s still up to you to take the reins.

Consider training and education like health insurance. You don’t want to be without health insurance, and you decide when you need it. If you’re not looking after your career health, you only have yourself

Infor took another step toward the Microsoft and Windows world yesterday when it announced that it has chosen Microsoft’s Windows Azure to be its preferred platform for cloud computing. Azure will be the platform for Infor24, a new class of cloud-based enterprise software products that are now available. Infor’s System i customers are already taking advantage of Infor’s new Windows cloud-based offerings.

Infor announced its new Windows Azure strategy yesterday at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference, which is being held this week in Washington D.C. The large and influential developer of i/OS-based ERP solutions says it selected Microsoft’s Azure cloud-platform for

InfoPrint Solutions Company–the former IBM‘s Printing Systems Division–is going it alone as a wholly owned subsidiary of Ricoh. The planned switch took place on June 30, three years and 30 days from when Ricoh took 51 percent ownership of IBM’s printing division.

IBM has been selling off non-strategic aspects of its business for many years. The discarded divisions include the desktop PC business (now Lenovo), the hard disk business (now part of Hitachi), the S/38-based MAPICS MRP software product (now part of Infor), and a desktop printer manufacturing business, which went on to succeed

LogLogic last month unveiled a new log business model designed to help IT service providers offer cloud-based log management to keep better track of their customers’ applications for the purposes of security and regulatory compliance. The company also appointed a head “Cloud Buster,” or a new vice president of business development for cloud services.

Up to this point, LogLogic has primarily sold its log management software using the appliance model and cheap, pre-configured X64 servers. Then, the company started selling its software through the “virtual” appliance model, whereby the software can be installed on a partition of a customers’ existing

System i professionals who are interested in learning about the various options in disaster recovery should check out a new buyer’s guide recently released by SafeData, the provider of i/OS online backup and managed high availability services, which was recently acquired by Data Storage Corp. (DSC).

SafeData wrote its new paper, titled “Buyers Guide to Comparing IBM iSeries Recovery Options: A Comparison of Hot Site, High Availability and Virtual Recovery Strategies,” to help guide users through the process of analyzing and choosing a data protection and data recovery strategy.

The seven-page PDF explores the costs and benefits of three

Canadian wood products distributor Goodfellow has gained new insight into its i/OS-resident business data and further honed its just-in-time approach to managing the supply chain as the result of a new business intelligence application based on the WebFOCUS technology from Information Builders (IBI), the vendor announced last week.

As a wholesaler and distributor of wood and wood by-products, Goodfellow understands it is subject to seasonal swings in demand. Nobody builds in the north in the winter, for example. But when the recent North American housing boom came to a screeching halt–and the associated demand for building materials with it–the Quebec