Tenable Network Security recently added support for the IBM i OS with Nessus Scanner, a tool that analyzes server and network systems for security holes and lax configuration settings. The new plug-ins will enable IBM i shops to do one of two things: discover shortcomings in their security configurations, or document their adherence to IBM‘s security standards for the purpose of regulatory compliance.

Tenable claims that Nessus is the world’s most widely deployed vulnerability and configuration assessment product, and that it has become the de facto standard tool in its class among security professionals, network penetration testing teams, and

CFXWorks and Subuno have integrated their respective products to develop a secure credit card processing solution for the IBM i server and other platforms. The integration, which includes fraud detection software from Subuno and payment software from CFXWorks, allows merchants to automatically screen card transactions for potential fraud before submitting them across the payment network.

CFXWorks has a long history of developing card solutions for the IBM i server, and has more than 100 clients running its payment gateway software on the esteemed platform. The company’s flagship product is NovaXpress 400, while its CreditCardXpress offering is a version of NovaXpress

Innovatum recently announced that its ROBAR labeling solution is now available for the IBM i OS. The Windows-based offering, which is used to print labels, barcodes, and RFID tags for GS1 compliance and ePedigree mandates of FDA-regulated companies, isn’t running directly on the IBM i server. But thanks to the development of a middleware component called iROBAR, the labeling solution can now be driven by RPG applications on the IBM i server.

ROBAR is a barcode and RFID label solution built primarily for pharmaceutical, medical device, and biotechnology manufacturers companies that are regulated by the Federal Department of Agriculture (FDA).

Linoma Software last week unveiled Secure Mail, a new component of its GoAnywhere Services managed file transfer (MFT) tool that allows users to send documents securely via email. The software, which Linoma is demonstrating at this week’s RSA conference, will be particularly useful in unplanned, ad-hoc file transfer scenarios.

Secure Mail works similar to regular email, with one big exception. Like regular email, users can send multiple files to one or more recipients. However, instead of actually attaching the document to the email, Secure Mail replaces the attachments with a unique URL that the recipient can use to download the

Altova recently added support for DB2/400 logical files in MissionKit, its collection of XML, database, and UML tools used by developers and database administrators. Supporting the logical file construct, which is unique to the IBM i platform, bolsters Altova’s efforts to attract IBM i customers to its powerful data manipulation tools, and keep them happy.

MissionKit includes eight handy utilities that allow IT professionals to accomplish a range of XML, data, and unified modeling language (UML)-related tasks. Anchoring the kit is its popular XML editor, called XMLSpy. MapForce, meanwhile, provides data conversion and related capabilities, UModel allows developers to visually

Raz-Lee Security has added a range of new features to AP-Journal, a DB2/400 audit trail utility that’s useful for detecting potentially fraudulent activity. Better integration with security information and event management (SIEM) tools and expanded coverage beyond data to IBM i objects and application files mark the new release.

AP-Journal was first unveiled nearly four years ago to help IBM i shops clamp down on unauthorized and fraudulent activity on corporate computer systems. The software works with IBM i journaling to monitor field-level changes in certain sensitive DB2/400 data files, such as an employee’s salary. A series of filters allows

S4i Systems‘s electronic document management software is being used to reduce dependence on paper documents at Lipari Foods, a Midwestern wholesale food distributor that runs the IBM i-based retail ERP system from Retalix.

From its warehouse in Warren, Michigan, Lipari Foods distributes deli, bakery, packaging, seafood, confections, grocery, and food service products to 11 Midwestern states. The company claims that a commitment to investing in advanced technology–including IBM i systems and applications, wireless barcode scanning and voice picking, and GPS vehicle tracking–allows it to meet the tight delivery windows and high expectations of its customers.

Now S4i Express

Thompson Machinery, the authorized dealer for Caterpillar equipment in central and western Tennessee and central and northern Mississippi, has decided to stick with Coda Financials running on the IBM i OS, and in fact will expand its usage of the Java-based software, UNIT4 CODA announced last week.

The ability to “fire” a service provider, as Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney put it recently, is one of the biggest benefits of our capitalist economic system. And while Romney admitted to getting a bit of joy out of firing health care providers that don’t stack up, the same level of fiduciary glee

IBS, which several years ago changed course and headed down the Windows path as the company’s new strategic platform for running its ERP system, says the company’s experience with the IBM i platform is behind the company’s upgraded IBM business partner status, from Advanced to Premiere Business Partner.

It’s too early to say if IBS is re-embracing IBM i (which the company insists on calling iSeries, which ceased to exist as an official name in May 2004 when IBM changed iSeries to eServer i5). The company is still a Gold Certified Partner of Microsoft, so it’s clear

IBM last week issued the 10.1 release of Cognos TM1, its Windows-based in-memory OLAP database. The new release features several new features that IBM says will help customers get the most out of large or complex data sets.

TM1 is one of the product lines that IBM obtained five years ago in its $5 billion acquisition of Cognos. The software, which was previously developed by Applix, features a 64-bit in-memory database that IBM says is very good at consolidating, viewing, and editing enormous volumes of multidimensional data, particularly data used for budgeting, forecasting, and performance analysis.

With version 10.1, IBM