It’s a well established fact that the majority of fraud reported by companies is not perpetrated by hackers coming in over the Net, but is actually the work of employees and other insiders with access to internal systems. Combating this type of fraud requires a multi-pronged approach, including strong security configurations and powerful tools. The IBM i world just got another fraud-fighting tool last month when CCSS announced the availability of its new database monitoring solution.

The new database monitoring capabilities were delivered as part of QMessage Monitor (QMM) version 7, a major new release of CCSS’ real-time message monitoring

Zend Technologies has launched a major update to Zend Server for IBM i, its PHP server stack for the IBM i platform. Version 5.6 marks the general availability of the new XML Toolkit, which provides a new way for integrating RPG logic into PHP apps, and a new application deployment mechanism. DBi, the drop-in replacement for MySQL on the platform that was slated for release about this time, is not yet ready.

In the absence of DBi, the new XML Toolkit is the headliner with Zend Server for IBM i version 5.6. Zend has been working with IBM for well

ARCAD Software is now shipping version 8.12 of its application lifecycle management (ALM) suite for the IBM i OS. Among the enhancements is the capability of its regression testing product, called Verifier, to test multiple types of user interfaces simultaneously, thereby making it easier for IBM i shops to test Windows, Web, and mobile interfaces with the same effort used to test interactive 5250 screens or batch jobs.

The ARCAD ALM suite is a collection of tools used to aid developers in the development, testing, and roll-out of new and enhanced applications. The software is primarily used on the IBM

Linoma Software‘s flagship managed file transfer (MFT) software has gained new features that should improve a user’s ability to integrate the MFT software with existing systems and business processes. New job controls, advanced functions and calculations, custom add-ons, and GUI improvements highlight the enhancements in GoAnywhere Director version 4.

GoAnywhere Director is the most feature-rich offering in Linoma’s MFT lineup, which also includes GoAnywhere Services and GoAnywhere Gateway. The software offers a plethora of MFT capabilities, including: support for a variety of protocols, including FTP, FTPS, SFTP, SCP, and AS2; support for moving and translating data among different databases;

File Edit Utility (FEU), a popular database utility for the IBM i OS and its predecessors, has been updated by its developer, Applied Logic of Keizer, Oregon. Version 19 brings new printing and Zip functions that should make the utility even more useful.

FEU is a multi-purpose tool for accessing and manipulating physical and logical files in DB2/400, as well as accessing data areas, data queues, user spaces, spool files, and other areas of the IBM i architecture. The software, which was first released 28 years ago for the AS/400’s predecessors, provides relatively quick and painless access to the system

Logging onto RJS Software Systems products is about to get a whole lot easier and more secure. This month, the Burnsville, Minnesota, company plans to ship a new release of WebDocs–iSeries Edition that’s equipped with the vendor’s new RJS Single Sign-On (SSO) technology. RJS plans to enable several other products with SSO throughout the year.

SSO technology enables a user to log onto her computer once and access multiple client or server applications with that first authentication, doing away with the need to log onto each application separately. SSO eliminates the hassle of remembering multiple user IDs and passwords and

RPG & DB2 Summit: Skills Fitness for Modern IT

There is something new to learn every day. This idea pops up on people’s radar screens each year around this time in the form of New Years resolutions. It’s a great time for fitness centers to recruit. As a CEO, you might be thinking about the fitness of your business. As a CIO, the fitness of your staff might be a concern. As a staff member, you might be taking a look at the fitness of your skills.

If you want to be fit, you have to put in the training

American Beverage Corporation has licensed the Formtastic forms management solution from IntelliChief to automate previously manual processes in conjunction with a new installation of Infor‘s ERP LX software. The beverage company may license the IntelliChief paperless process management software this year.

American Beverage Corporation (ABC) is a multi-million dollar manufacturer and marketer of kids’ fruit drinks, ready-to-drink cocktails, and non-alcoholic cocktail mixers. The company is based near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and is owned by the publicly traded Dutch food company Royal Wessanen.

As part of ABC’s recent upgrade to Infor ERP LX, the company looked for other ways to enhance

Although it’s not publicly owned, Infor shared some financial results with the public earlier this month. The software giant says revenue from software licenses grew 17 percent for the 12 months that ended in November. Infor also announced the acquisition of certain products from RSVP Business Systems that are designed to bolster the quality control systems of manufacturers.

Infor shares are not traded on the stock market, but sometimes the company acts as though they are (and there continues to be speculation that sometime soon, they might). To that end, the company shared a small fraction of the numbers that

Confused about what kind of software you’re running, and exactly how you’re using it? A new release of IBM‘s Tivoli Asset Discovery for Distributed may help you get a handle on your software inventory and how you use it.

Many software companies license their software in a myriad of ways. IBM, for example, offers several ways to license software, including sub-capacity licensing by LPAR or VMware virtual machines, and everybody’s all-time favorite, processor value unit (PVU)-based pricing.

Enter Tivoli Asset Discovery for Distributed, a software application designed to help organizations maintain an up-to-date inventory of installed distributed software and