• Oracle Ties In-Memory JDE Enhancement to Own Hardware

  April 15, 2014 Alex Woodie

  Oracle unveiled a new in-memory Planning Advisor last week that’s designed to help JD Edwards EnterpriseOne customers get a centralized view of their orders and their supply chains’ capability to fulfill them. The new software has been optimized to run on Oracle’s “Engineered Systems,” such as Exalogic and Exadata, and likely doesn’t run on IBM Power Systems. To ensure demand is met, material planners and buyers need to bring together all sorts of data, including current inventory levels, demand information, and other pieces of information. JD Edwards shops, like the users of any ERP or MRP system, often string together

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• Electronic Storage Taps Japanese Reseller to Carry LaserVault UBD

  April 15, 2014 Alex Woodie

  Electronic Storage Corp., the company behind the LaserVault line of backup products, announced that Sanwa Comtec has expanded its product offerings and is now carrying the LaserVault Universal Backup Device (UBD) products in Japan and India. El Store and Sanwa Comtec previously had a relationship for LaserVault Backup, the Tulsa, Oklahoma, company’s software-based backup offering. In late March, the pair expanded their relationship when the Tokyo IT services firm announced it would start selling the LaserVault UBD to its clients. The UBD appliance was launched in late 2010 to provide IBM i and Linux shops with a low-cost and

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• HiT Updates IBM i Database Drivers for Windows

  April 15, 2014 Alex Woodie

  HiT Software is now supporting the latest releases of Microsoft Windows, Windows Server, SQL Server, and Office apps with its ODBC/400 and OLEDB/400 database drivers that provide Windows apps with access to the IBM i OS’s DB2/400 database. The company, which is a subsidiary of BackOffice Associates, also shipped a new release of its flagship DBMoto data replication tool. ODBC/400 and OLEDB/400 are Windows-based drivers that allow Windows-based applications to access, retrieve, and update the DB2/400 (DB2 for i) database. The software is used by third-party vendors and in-house developers, and provides a high speed alternative to the drivers

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• Attunity Manages Big Data with New Product Called Maestro

  April 15, 2014 Alex Woodie

  In this big data age, companies are looking to squeeze actionable information from all sorts of non-traditional data sources, such as JSON files, Twitter posts, or geographic data from smart phones. To help companies orchestrate the flow of this information for their big data projects, Attunity last week unveiled Maestro. Maestro gives customers a Web-based interface where they can create executable processes that move data originating from a range of sources. That extends from today’s big data sources, such as social media or sensor data from the Internet of things, to traditional systems, such as DB2/400 and other traditional relational

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• Train Control Upgrades Lead Railroad to Upgrade IBM i Systems

  April 15, 2014 Alex Woodie

  The Belt Railway Company of Chicago (BRC) has tapped OnX Enterprise Solutions (formerly Worknet) to provide business continuity and disaster recovery solutions for its IBM i-based applications, OnX announced recently. The adoption of the managed service provider (MSP)’s offerings is key to BRC’s transition to the positive train control system mandated by the government. Railroads have until 2015 to implement positive train control (PTC), a new control system that’s being put in place for North American Class I freight railroads. Key to PTC is that the train receives information about its location and where it is allowed to safely travel,

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• TaxCloud Works with IBM i, Krengel Says

  April 15, 2014 Alex Woodie

  Congratulations! You made it to April 15, Tax Day! Hopefully you can put the 2013 tax year behind you, and start fresh with the 2014 tax year. Oh boy! Of course, there’s always sales tax to worry about. But according to the IBM i developers at Krengel Tech, there’s an easy way for retailers who rely on the IBM i server to get free sales tax processing from the TaxCloud service. TaxCloud is a free online service that was launched by the private, Seattle, Washington-based company FedTax in 2008. Designed primarily for online retailers, the service automatically calculates sales

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• Bug Busters RSF 10.0 Brings Better HA Role Swaps, Automated Updates

  April 15, 2014 Alex Woodie

  IBM i shops that use Bug Busters Software Engineering‘s Remote Software Facility (RSF) for high availability protection will find improvements in the role swap process with the latest version 10 release. The company also bolstered the base RSF product with new automated update capabilities, which keeps the customer’s RSF implementation in lockstep with Bug Busters. RSF’s new automated update functionality is right up the alley for the traditional use of this Bug Busters’ product. RSF’s original reason for being was to simplify the replication of application objects from one centralized AS/400 to multiple remote AS/400s used for development, test,

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• RDi 9.02 Delivers Full Support for Free-Format RPG

  April 15, 2014 Alex Woodie

  IBM signaled that it’s close to completing its latest effort to move RPG developers to free format coding last week when it announced Rational Developer for i (RDi) 9.0.2. The company also announced withdrawal dates for older releases of IBM’s flagship IDE and related products for developing RPG, COBOL, Java, and C applications. When IBM delivered the bits for IBM i version 7.1 Technology Refresh 7 last fall, it transitioned nearly all of RPG IV to free format. The delivery of free-format capabilities for F and D specs (to go along with the existing free-format capabilities for C specs)

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• PDFs That Automatically Submit Data to IBM i

  April 15, 2014 Alex Woodie

  New software from Computer Keyes allows users to do something pretty cool. Presented with a PDF document, the user enters his data, presses the “submit” button, and the document is automatically uploaded to the IBM i server where applications can process it. The new capability is the result of updates to two Computer Keyes products, including kLink and KeyesOverlay. By all accounts, PDFs have become the defacto standard format for businesses and consumers to exchange documents over the Internet. Whether you’re submitting an invoice, applying for a mortgage, or transmitting a scanned document, chances are good that Adobe‘s Portable

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• Heartbleed Postmortem: Time to Rethink Open Source Security?

  April 15, 2014 Alex Woodie

  If you feel sick to your stomach from the Heartbleed OpenSSL bug, you’re not alone. The retailer Target may have lost data on 100 million customers, but that’s nothing compared to the billions of supposedly secure online transactions conducted across millions of websites over the past two years that we now know were potentially exposed and could be fodder for hackers. For IBM i customers, who have basked in the shadowy protection that IBM‘s (mostly) proprietary architecture has afforded them for decades, the question becomes: Can we trust open source to protect us? The good news is that it

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