• Vision Touts High Availability Install at Food Distributor

  March 23, 2010 Alex Woodie

  Tony’s Fine Foods, a food distributor in Sacramento, California, has installed high availability software to protect its i/OS and AIX applications running on IBM Power servers, Vision Solutions announced last week. The installation included a combination of Vision’s MIMIX, EchoCluster, and EchoStream software installed on a Power Systems Model 570. Every day, Tony’s Fine Foods delivers $1 million-worth of perishable deli and bakery items, prepared salads, pastas, meats, and cheeses to thousands of customers in the Western United States. The time-sensitive nature of Tony’s business requires operations to continue 24 hours per day–a requirement that extends from the warehouse to

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• Construction App from CGC Gets a Web Portal

  March 23, 2010 Alex Woodie

  Computer Guidance Corp. (CGC) last week unveiled a new Web portal for its i/OS-based construction management system (CMS). According to CGC, the portal will provide customers with access to other Web sites and Web-based applications, including Web cams, and make customers more efficient and profitable. CGC’s flagship application provides mid- to large-size contractors and other companies in the construction industry with an integrated platform for a range of activities, including financial accounting, project management, and bidding. With the addition of the portal application (which CGC refers to simply as the “Portal”), the suite features a total of 28 integrated modules.

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• Genesta Offers Quick and Inexpensive Voice Enablement for i/OS Apps

  March 16, 2010 Alex Woodie

  Manufacturers and distributors that would like to voice-enable their i/OS applications, but have been daunted by the six- or seven-digit price tags and the need to modify application source code, may be interested in the new SyVox emulator announced by Genesta last month. The established provider of voice-enablement solutions says the new product will allow i/OS shops to voice-enable their applications, using techniques similar to screen-scraping, for less than $20,000. Voice-enablement is one of the hottest technologies in warehousing and manufacturing at the moment. By allowing workers to communicate verbally with WMS and ERP applications–responding to audio directions from the

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• System i Automation from RevSoft is ‘FAB’ulous

  March 16, 2010 Alex Woodie

  Keeping data in synch across Windows and System i applications used to be a largely manual chore for First American Bank (FAB), a mid-sized community bank located in Elk Grove Village, Illinois. However, after installing RevSoft‘s suite of systems management tools–including job scheduler, file transfer, and message management software–errors have been reduced, and operators can administer on an exception basis. First American Bank is a privately held bank with more than $2.5 billion in assets. The bank provides a range of personal and community banking services through nearly 50 locations in and around Chicago–a number that will soon increase

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• Profound Simplifies Screen Design in Genie Web-Enablement Tool

  March 16, 2010 Alex Woodie

  A new release of Profound Logic‘s on-the-fly Web enablement tool, called Genie, will make it easier for customers to customize their i/OS applications just to their liking. With Genie 4.0, customers gain access to more than 150 “widgets” that allow them to quickly add screen elements such as images and drop-down boxes to converted applications. Better session handling, DBCS support, and new integration capabilities round out the new release. Profound introduced Genie almost three years ago to provide i/OS shops with a quick way to Web-enable the 5250 screens of their RPG, COBOL, or CL applications–even i/OS system screens

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• ‘Legacy’ Integration Blossoms During Recession, Seagull Says

  March 16, 2010 Alex Woodie

  While the recession has hammered overall IT spending during the last 18 months, some sectors of the industry are doing quite well. Rocket Software and its Seagull Software subsidiary, for instance, say they are experiencing a surge in demand for integration and modernization tools, as System i and mainframe users seek to eek more life out of their “legacy” applications as a result of the recession. Seagull hopes a new release of its LegaSuite Integration software unveiled last week will help it to capitalize on the trend. People and businesses around the world are still recovering from the historic crash

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• Spinnaker Adds JDE Consulting to 3rd Party Maintenance Business

  March 16, 2010 Alex Woodie

  Eighteen months after the launch of its third-party maintenance business for JD Edwards, Spinnaker Support last week announced the formation of a new consulting division that’s dedicated to serving the custom development needs of its JD Edwards World and EnterpriseOne clients. Spinnaker quietly entered the third-party maintenance business for JD Edwards in August 2008 as an extension of its supply chain consulting and outsourcing business, which had been around for most of the decade. While the Denver, Colorado, company did consulting work in the area of supply chain planning and execution, it did not perform general-purpose development work on behalf

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• MVP Updates JAMS Job Scheduler

  March 16, 2010 Alex Woodie

  MVP Systems Software recently launched a new release of is Job Access Management System (JAMS), a Windows-based job scheduler that dispatches agents to i/OS and other host servers. An improved GUI management console and trigger-related enhancements are among the new features in JAMS 4.9. Written in .NET, JAMS is heavily focused on helping to automate production Windows environments, where the majority of its 700-plus customers run. However, the software also includes agents that allow JAMS to control and coordinate jobs executing on i/OS, Unix, Linux, and OpenVMS servers. MVP focused on making the GUI console easier to use with JAMS

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• SunGard Taps DataDomain for DR Appliances

  March 16, 2010 Alex Woodie

  SunGard Availability Services last week announced a partnership with EMC to use EMC’s market-leading data de-duplication technology from its Data Domain subsidiary to power SunGard’s Secure2Disk disaster recovery (DR) appliances. SunGard introduced the Secure2Disk appliances last June as a way for its larger customers to protect their data. By storing backups locally on the Secure2Disk appliance, customers are guaranteed rapid access to low-priority recoveries. At the same time, by replicating backups to a second Secure2Disk appliance located offsite or at a SunGard recovery center, the solution offers good DR protection. When SunGard launched the appliances last year, the company used

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• Stonebranch Updates Job Scheduling and MFT Software for SAP Apps

  March 16, 2010 Alex Woodie

  Stonebranch this month unveiled new releases of Infitran and Indesca, its respective managed file transfer (MFT) and suite of job scheduling agents for i/OS, z/OS, Unix, and Windows platforms. With the new version 4.1 releases of the products, Stonebranch has bolstered its capability for automating SAP environments, among other enhancements. Stonebranch is a 10-year-old company that develops workload automation software from its headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. The company’s two flagship products, Indesca and Infitran, are aimed at the complementary demands of coordinating batch jobs and transferring files across customers’ diverse computing environments. With this month’s launch of Indesca 4.1 and

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