When we reported a few weeks ago that IBM would add a variant of the iSeries Model 810 to the iSeries for High Availability server line, we said that the five high-availability software makers most people know by name–DataMirror, iTera, Lakeview Technology, Maximum Availability, and Vision Solutions–were offering their high availability products on these new boxes. But we didn’t mention the French vendor Trader’s.

You learn something new every day, and Thierry Roux, the general manager of Trader’s, was a bit perplexed that we didn’t mention his company, which was given IBM’s blessing

CYBRA is close to shipping a new release of its MarkMagic software that supports the generation of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags from AS/400 and iSeries servers. Large manufacturers and distributors are facing mandates from retailers and the government to begin including RFID tags along with barcode labels. When MarkMagic 5.1 ships, next month, it will support the generation of RFID tags from OS/400 servers, even if the RFID tags, printers, readers, and standards aren’t available yet.

Up to this point, most MarkMagic users have been concerned with designing compliant barcode labels and connecting their OS/400 servers to barcode label

Patrick Townsend & Associates has added 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) technology to its Alliance FTP Manager product, for securing OS/400 data. The company says that the new encryption software will be a fine choice for securing sensitive data stored in DB2/400 databases, such as Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, and other personal information, and will assist with users’ compliance initiatives.

Alliance FTP Manager is an OS/400 utility that automates tasks related to sending and receiving database files and spool files to remote systems. Patrick Townsend & Associates made security an integral part of the product, with OS/400 implementations

Tango/04 Computing Group launched new event log monitoring software last week that automates the slow and tedious error-prone task of manually sorting through logs. The programmable Applications Agent can monitor the log of practically any application, uses filters to weed out unimportant entries, and consolidates the log data into a graphical console. When deployed with other components of Tango/04’s VISUAL Message Center suite, administrators can receive immediate notification of critical errors or events by e-mail or pager.

The new Applications Agent is a plain-text file processor that continuously reads information from log files. When set up to monitor critical applications