While the younger generation has been widely lauded for its ability to program a VCR, it’s usually the youngest workers at Cargill who make the biggest stink about using a green screen to access the company’s PeopleSoft World applications. That should change soon, as Cargill, the world’s largest user of the venerable RPG-based ERP suite, implements new features in World that PeopleSoft announced last week, including a native HTML interface, as well as 250 other enhancements.

With sales close to $60 billion last year, and 101,000 employees, Cargill is one of the world’s largest privately held companies, with subsidiaries in

Software startup StructuredSoft launched a new Java-based Web development environment, called StructuredSoft Developer, at the Northeast iSeries User Group Conference yesterday. The new software, which is based on open-source Eclipse tools and includes its StructuredJ Java scripting language, will appeal to OS/400 shops that are looking for an easy onramp to Java programming but can’t justify the time, expense, and complexity of learning to write Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE), the company says.

StructuredSoft, a young company headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island, aims to shoot the gap between procedural programming languages, such as RPG and COBOL, and the opportunities that

EXTOL last week launched Windows-based software designed to help smaller suppliers with a handful of products to synchronize their product data with their retail partners using UCCnet. The new software, called the “plug and play” version of the full EXTOL Integrator for UCCnet Services offering, costs $2,500 and allows suppliers to manually enter data for a limited number of products into a catalog, which the software then synchronizes with the UCCnet global data repository.

Every year $40 billion is lost in this country due to product data inconsistencies in the retail supply chain, analyst groups report. These errors range

If you develop in LANSA, you may want to check out a new cross-reference tool announced by Chrono-Logic last week. The new product, iAM Analyser, is a cross-reference tool designed to help Visual LANSA and LANSA for iSeries developers discover the relationships shared by LANSA functions, files, fields, and components, which can be very useful during impact analysis testing.

Whether you’re making system-wide changes or just enhancing one small part of your LANSA application, you’ll want to know how a change in one part of your LANSA application will affect other parts. Failure to do so can lead to