• Saudi Distributor Taps VAI for Logistics Improvement

  May 25, 2010 Alex Woodie

  United Yousef Naghi Company, a midsize Saudi Arabian distributor, has upgraded its i/OS-based ERP system from VAI, the vendor announced last week. The new ERP suite is expected to help the distributor streamline its warehousing operations, and provide more timely data to its sales and customer service personnel. With more than 12 warehouses in Saudi Arabia, United Yousef Naghi Company provides a wide array of warehousing and distribution services throughout the kingdom. The company, which is based in Jeddah, is one of the largest distributors of LG Electronics appliances and electronics through its United Naghi Electronics subsidiary. Other subsidiaries

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• IBM Unveils i/OS CMS Upgrades and Migration Promotions

  May 18, 2010 Alex Woodie

  A new release of the Content Manager OnDemand for i software was unveiled as part of IBM‘s April 13 i/OS 7.1 announcement. The new 7.1 release of CMOD includes new PDF and AFP functionality, as well as the capability to access CMOD content from FileNet P8, Big Blue’s flagship content management system (CMS), which doesn’t run on i/OS. IBM also unveiled discounts for customers migrating from CMOD and Content Manager for iSeries to FileNet or other Unix-based CMSes. CMOD, as IBM calls Content Manager OnDemand for i, is used by organizations that need to capture, index, store, and distribute

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• Vision to Buy Double-Take for $242 Million

  May 18, 2010 Alex Woodie

  Vision Solutions yesterday announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Double-Take Software, a developer of high availability software for Windows and Linux, for $10.55 per share, or $242 million. By acquiring its partner, Vision would gain a strong foothold in the Windows and Linux HA market, to complement its strong portfolio of HA products in the IBM i/OS space. Double-Take Software is a publicly traded company (NASDAQ ticker symbol: DBTK) that has struggled to regain its footing after the global economic crises erupted soon after its IPO in late 2006. The company, which is based

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• Trader’s Gets Serious About North American HA Market

  May 18, 2010 Alex Woodie

  Trader’s, the French developers of the Quick-EDD/HA high availability software for i/OS servers, has signed iSam Blue of Utah as a master distributor for the North American market, the two companies announced at the recent COMMON conference in Orlando, Florida. The partners also unveiled version 10 of the Quick-EDD/HA software, which introduces a new GUI, among other enhancements. Trader’s has been trying to break into the North American market for i/OS high availability market for several years, with limited success. While the vendor says 150 of its total installed base of 1,000 customers are based in North America (the

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• BCD Invigorates Software for Application Development, Portal, and Query

  May 18, 2010 Dan Burger

  Among the various ways of creating modern applications that support the IBM i operating system, the methodology employed by BCD has been a good match for many midrange shops. BCD’s RPG CGI- and PHP-based development options have a 10-year history of continual upgrades that parallel the company’s long-term investments in query and report software, document distribution software, and more recently in multi-platform portal and 5250 Web enablement software. Timing for its most recent batch of software upgrades coincided with the COMMON Annual Meeting and Exposition. BCD has produced software for IBM’s midrange computers–including the AS/400, iSeries, System i, and now

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• Seagull Likes RPG Open Access for SOA

  May 18, 2010 Alex Woodie

  Seagull Software is developing I/O handlers for RPG Open Access that will make it easier for System i shops to integrate their i/OS applications using service oriented architecture (SOA) technologies, the software vendor says. The company, whose GUI development tools are used by some of the biggest i/OS ISVs, is taking a wait-and-see approach to using RPG OA to develop GUIs. RPG Open Access is a new feature that IBM added with i/OS 7.1. The technology enables developers to, for the first time, entirely bypass the 5250 data stream, which has been used to generate green-screen interfaces for i/OS applications.

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• m-Power Gets Pivot Tables

  May 18, 2010 Alex Woodie

  Pivot tables, a popular way to quickly sort specific rows and columns in a spreadsheet, are now available in applications built using mrc‘s m-Power Web application development tool, the vendor announced at the recent COMMON conference in Orlando, Florida. The new pivot report template is expected to give m-Power users a powerful new way to work with and visualize DB2/400 data from the comfort of a Web browser. Lotus developer Pito Salas is credited with coming up with the concept of the pivot table while working on a new Lotus product in 1991. Salas reportedly realized that a tool

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• BOSaNOVA Secure Version 8 Gets Windows 7 Compatibility

  May 18, 2010 Dan Burger

  When 10ZiG obtained the rights to BOSaNOVA Secure and three other products sold under the BOSaNOVA name, it had an obligation to service existing customers, keep investing in the products, and stay current with the latest versions of the IBM i operating system. BOSaNOVA Secure version 8 is the follow through of that promise. BOSaNOVA, and its worldwide customer base that relies on its iSeries connectivity products, thin clients and network appliances, was acquired by 10ZiG in late 2009. Since then, BOSaNOVA customers have relied on 10ZiG for product distribution and support as well as research and development of future

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• Halcyon Completes Upgrade Cycle with Operations Center 3.0

  May 18, 2010 Alex Woodie

  Halcyon Software used the recent COMMON conference in Orlando, Florida, as the setting for the launch of Operations Center version 3, a new release of its most feature-rich suite of i/OS systems management tools. Version 3 introduces new features in the areas of LPAR monitoring, system performance, and spool file management. Meanwhile, a new release of Halcyon’s management software for Unix, Linux, and Windows servers brings more Linux management capabilities. Halcyon sells two main product lines: one for “open systems” platforms like Windows, Unix, and Linux called Network Server Suite, and one for the i/OS server. Its i/OS product line

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• Krengel Offers Shipping App for UPS

  May 18, 2010 Alex Woodie

  One of the companies hawking new wares at the recent COMMON conference in Orlando, Florida, was Krengel Technology, the Minnesota provider of integration tools for i/OS applications. At the show, Krengel was touting a new product called KRENGELSHIP that provides RPG connectivity to the computer systems and Web services interfaces offered by shipping giant UPS to expedite package registration, pickup, and delivery. KRENGELSHIP (which the company always spells with capital letters) provides four basic functions for i/OS shops that need to ship packages via UPS. These include address verification, time in transit delivery estimates, rate request, and package tracking.

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