• Profound UI Handles Long-Name Aliases for RPG Coders

  January 21, 2014 Alex Woodie

  There are several reasons why RPG is viewed as a washed-up old legacy language to most of the non-IBM i world. IBM got rid of one of them when it widened its use of free format specs with IBM i 7.1 TR7. And Profound Logic is helping to dispel another with the latest release of its Web app development tool, Profound UI, which will help wean RPG coders away from cryptic, 10-character field names and toward descriptive aliases. To an outsider, trying to decipher the 10-character field names used in RPG can be exercise in futility. Without some kind of

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• Attunity Buys Hayes for SAP Data Chops

  January 21, 2014 Alex Woodie

  Data replication software provider Attunity last month spent $6 million to acquire Hayes Technology Group, a company that specializes in developing data management tools for SAP environments. The deal is expected to give Attunity a better solution to sell to companies adopting SAP’s HANA in-memory technology. Hayes Technology Group was founded in 1998 and develops a range of data management tools for SAP environments. Its Gold Client Solutions suite includes functionality in the area of master data management (MDM), testing, security, and synchronization. Attunity CEO Shimon Alon says the deal will give his company coverage into the global SAP

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• IBM Buys Aspera for Big WAN Data Transfers

  January 21, 2014 Alex Woodie

  IBM last week completed its acquisition of Aspera, the Northern California developer of the patented “fasp” WAN acceleration technology. IBM says it plans to offer Aspera’s technology and the fasp protocol as part of its SoftLayer cloud infrastructure. The fasp technology that Aspera sold as part of its eXtreme File Transfer (XFT) product is able to accelerate the transfer of large files by up to 99.9 percent. When applied against a large 24 GB file sent from here to China, that kind of technical mojo will reduce transmission times from 26 hours to 30 seconds. That is a serious

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• Got IBM i Innovation? Get Your Award Application in by Feb. 10

  January 21, 2014 Alex Woodie

  What great feats of IBM i innovation have you been party to lately? If you have a story worth sharing with the rest of the IBM i universe, you have about three weeks to submit it for your chance at glory and a COMMON/IBM Power Systems Innovation Award. Every spring, an Innovation Award is bestowed upon one worthy IBM i shop at the COMMON Annual Meeting and Exposition event. This year, February 10 is the deadline for submitting your application for the 2014 COMMON conference, which is taking place the first week in May in beautiful Orlando, Florida. You

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• Unicom Adds HP3000 Biz with Cognos ADT Buy

  January 21, 2014 Alex Woodie

  On the last day of 2013, Unicom Systems announced that it acquired the Cognos Application Development Tools (ADT) from IBM. The ADT suit, including the PowerHouse 4GL tools, were used extensively in the HP3000 and VMS worlds, and although the tools haven’t seen new features in years, Unicom sees the acquisition as strategic. The ADT suite is composed of the PowerHouse server, PowerHouse Web, and Axiant 4GL tools. PowerHouse is a byte-compiled 4GL originally produced by Cognos-predecessor Quasar Corp. in 1982. The 4GL used a centralized data dictionary approach to speed development of applications, and found success against popular

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• ORSYP Monitors IBM Power VIOS with Sysload Tool

  January 21, 2014 Alex Woodie

  ORSYP, a developer of IT operations management tools, recently announced that it now supports the monitoring of the Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) in IBM Power Systems servers with its Sysload tool. The company says that customers can eliminate performance bottlenecks and reduce the need to upgrade Power Systems hardware. Sysload is a productivity tool used to detect and diagnose IT performance problems before they are reported by users. The software works by collecting performance data from processors, memory, disk, file systems, and network resources. The data is then analyzed to identify the source of problems without requiring extensive manual

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• EXTOL Adds Automated FTP to EDI Translator

  January 21, 2014 Alex Woodie

  IBM i shops that use the EDI translation tool from EXTOL to communicate with business partners and customers will find a new automated FTP function in the latest release of the software, EXTOL EDI Integrator for i (EEI) version 6.4, which the company unveiled in December. For years, EEI has supported the capability to send and receive files via FTP, along with other B2B protocols, such as AS2, async, bisync, email, and EDI VAN services. With the new automated FTP function in EEI 6.4, the software will automatically poll remote FTP servers and create connections only when files exist on

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• m-Power Takes IBM i Mobile Apps Offline

  January 21, 2014 Alex Woodie

  IBM i shops that develop with mrc‘s technology can generate HTML5-powered mobile apps that continue to work even without an Internet connection. The new capability was delivered this month with an update to m-Power, mrc’s Web application development tool. Despite the proliferation of 4G cell networks and Wi-Fi hot spots, there is the occasional dead spot on this vast North American continent. A person’s ability to live-tweet his mid-morning coffee break–let alone place a sales call or check the order status for an important customer–is severely hampered in such a place. As the adoption of mobile business apps increases,

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• Raz-Lee Certifies IBM i Security Tools with McAfee

  January 21, 2014 Alex Woodie

  Organizations that run IBM i security software from Raz-Lee Security can now feel comfortable hooking that software up to enterprise security tools from McAfee as a result of the certification that McAfee has bestowed upon the Raz-Lee products. The integration allows IBM i shops running Raz-Lee tools to bubble suspicious events detected on IBM i up to the security information and event management (SIEM) tools from McAfee for broader and more thorough security protection. The certification ensures that Raz-Lee’s iSecurity suite can communicate accurately with two products from McAfee, including its Database Activity Monitoring (DAM) and Enterprise Security Manager (ESM),

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• LaserVault Debuts New Backup Option for IBM i

  January 21, 2014 Alex Woodie

  If you’re in the market for a backup and recovery solution for IBM i, you might want to keep Electronic Storage Corp. and its LaserVault line of solutions on your list. The Oklahoma company already offered several backup solutions through its Universal Backup Device (UBD) appliance and its LaserVault Backup software offering. This month the company fleshed out its UBD lineup with UBD Synch. The new UBD Synch offering is an optional feature for the UBD appliance that provides replication of compressed and encrypted backup data from a primary UBD appliance to a secondary UBD appliance, or to a separate

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