There’s nothing wrong with the green screen, but you better ask the people who use those applications if they believe that or not. While the old school display kicks butt in plenty of modern organizations from banking to manufacturing and from Omaha to Okinawa, there are bazillions of 5250 apps that need to be converted and brand new Web apps that need to be written. WebSmart ILE is one of the tools for doing that, and Business Computer Design, Intl. (BCD) has just updated that tool.

Developers have been using WebSmart ILE to produce CGI-based Web applications since 2001, and

Marinus Van Sandwyk and his colleagues at TEMBO Technology Lab are determined to save the IBM i platform. It may sound farfetched on its surface. After all, isn’t that IBM‘s job? But when you hear what Van Sandwyk has to say about the real limitations of the platform (i.e. its legacy ISAM database engine) and the potential solution (get thee to the SQL), you start to think he’s on to something.

The user interface is widely blamed for being the biggest problem in the IBM i world. Few people want to work on a text-base, green-screen interface, and fewer

Rocket Software is now shipping version 7.1 of iCluster, a high availability software package that enables IBM i server and applications to continue to run during outages and disasters. The delivery of the new release within six months of the product’s acquisition from IBM demonstrates the commitment that Rocket Software has made for the product line and the business, a Rocket executive says in an interview with IT Jungle.

“When we acquired the iCluster business from IBM back in January we stated . . . that we’re going to invest in the business, that we’re going to address customer

Companies that use Kisco Information Systems‘ Twitter utility to keep an eye on their IBM i servers can now monitor for specific message types with the just-released version 4 of Kisco’s SNDTWEET.

Kisco introduced SNDTWEET more than three years ago to provide systems administrators with a handy way to monitor their IBM i servers. The software takes advantage of the ubiquitous Twitter messaging service to keep admins aware of important system-generated events, such as error messages due to an abnormally ended batch job. The software also allows admins to query for system status, job status, and user status, and

If you know how to use Microsoft Outlook, then you can send a document over the Internet in a secure manner. With last week’s release of GoAnywhere Services version 2.8, Linoma Software has added an Outlook 2010 plug-in within the Secure Mail component of the managed file transfer (MFT) solution.

Linoma launched Secure Mail earlier this year to provide a quick and easy way to access its MFT capabilities, particularly in ad hoc scenarios. The software, which is a component of its GoAnywhere Services MFT solution, allows users to send documents securely through email.

Secure Mail works by stripping out

Users and applications won’t have to wait as long to pull up data that’s been protected with Liaison Technologies‘ Token Manager, thanks to performance enhancements built into the latest release. The Atlanta, Georgia, company says that version 2.2, which was unveiled last week, features administrative enhancements as well.

Token Manager was the first commercial tokenization products to hit the IBM i software market when it was introduced more than three years ago by nuBridges, which Liaison acquired in 2011. Like other tokenization products, Token Manager was originally designed to address shortcomings in the real-world application of encryption technology at

Krengeltech last week announced that it has entered into a partnership with Lorton Data to provide Krengel’s DocuMailer software customers with cloud-based postal data automation solutions that help them qualify for bulk-mail savings by the USPS.

The partnership involves integrating Lorton Data’s A-Qua services with DocuMailer, a bulk mailing automation program that Krengel developed with Objectif Lune and which runs on IBM i. DocuMailer already offered PAVE presorting, CASS reporting and address correction, and NCOA move update capabilities.

But thanks to the partnership with Lorton, Krengel’s DocuMailer customers can access A-Qua through the cloud, rather than install and continually update

PVH Corp., the clothing giant that owns and markets iconic brands such as Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger, is augmenting its IBM i-based merchandise management system with Island Pacific‘s Data Warehouse, the software company announced recently.

Based in New York City, PVH Corp. is one of the largest apparel companies in the world, and owns and markets some of the most well-known brands in the business. In addition to the brands mentioned above, it also owns IZOD, ARROW, Bass and G.H. Bass & Co., and its licensed brands, including Geoffrey Beene, Kenneth Cole New York, Kenneth Cole Reaction, MICHAEL

Infor‘s IBM i development group got a shot in the arm recently when A. Schulman, an Ohio-based manufacturer of plastic compounds and resins, decided to standardize its global operations on Infor10 ERP iEnterprise (LX), the application formerly known as BPCS.

Infor doesn’t get a lot of respect from mainstream analysts, who seem loathe to mention the ERP software giant in the same breath as rivals SAP and Oracle. Even Microsoft, which can’t match Infor in terms of enterprise application revenue or installed base, gets more love than poor Infor. Infor’s applications, goes the thinking, make good second-tier

RJS Software Systems last week announced that it’s acquired NowData, a fellow Burnsville, Minnesota, company that specializes in building custom Web-based programs, including data warehouses and mobile apps.

The company NowData has been in business since 1999, and counts customers such as the Mayo Foundation, the State of Minnesota, and Great Clips. The company is well-versed in the 4GL development environment from 4D, which generates Web-enabled database applications that run on the Windows and Mac operating systems. Rounding out its skills palette are dabs of PHP, Adobe Flex, JavaScript, XML, and HTML, which enable it to create