Datapro banks on the Caribbean and Latin America for business. As an IBM software vendor and banking software developer, Datapro sold 22 new turnkey iSeries-based systems in 1999 to replace those developed by other vendors and users that didn’t meet Y2K standards. Having sold between 12 and 15 new systems annually in previous years, the year 2000 was a boon for Datapro, but the last several years haven’t been as kind.

Through 2002, Datapro continued to market hard, but it sensed resistance to its product, Integrated Banking Solution (IBS), which required that prospects buy a new iSeries computer if they

How can you be sure that your data is tamper proof? And if somebody does tamper with it, how will you be able to tell? These are the key issues facing OS/400 shops in complying with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, one of many new laws affecting the way companies manage and store their data. These are also areas in which iSeries software vendors, like Global Software and Electronic Storage Corp., are providing new solutions.

Companies of all shapes and sizes will need to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which was passed in the wake of the corporate accounting scandals two

New federal laws such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act are creating demand for storage technology known as write once, read many (WORM), which helps to ensure the integrity of data. WORM technology has traditionally been delivered on the OS/400 platform via expensive optical disks, and there will be a new WORM-capable optical drive available with OS/400 V5R3. But increasingly, tape vendors, such as Sony, are responding to the call of the WORM with cost-effective, tape-based WORM solutions.

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act isn’t the only new law with new data-retention guidelines for companies to follow. There’s a slew of new laws–among them

Object distribution in large AS/400 and iSeries networks should be dramatically accelerated with the latest release of Bug Busters Software Engineering‘s Remote Software Facility. RSF 7.1 borrows a page from the peer-to-peer (P2P) networking handbook with a new broadcasting feature called Relay Distribution, which allows the work of distributing OS/400 objects to be spread across the computers in a network, instead of requiring a central server to process updates one by one.

Large OS/400 shops–those with dozens, hundreds, or thousands of remotely located AS/400 and iSeries servers to support–face difficulty in distributing OS/400 objects in a timely manner, says