Before jumping onto the server consolidation bandwagon and leaving all those Wintel boxes behind, it behooves the good administrator to do his homework first. Accurately monitoring your applications’ consumption of server, storage, and network resources can mean the difference between a server consolidation project that ends like the one in IBM‘s new i5 TV commercial, and slinking into the CIO’s office to request another $100,000. A new service from DYS Analytics helps eliminate guesswork in Domino server consolidations.

When done correctly, many benefits can be gained from server consolidation projects, including simplified administration, reduced costs, and simpler, more scalable

The latest release of OS/400 contains a new high availability capability called Cross Site Mirroring (XSM), which gives iSeries shops an entirely new way to replicate data to off-site backup machines. XSM allows you to mirror one independent Auxiliary Storage Pool to another on a remote machine. Lakeview Technology is supporting XSM with its own OS/400 mirroring software, called MIMIX, and says XSM shows promise as a technology, just like remote journaling before it.

IBM has been enhancing its independent Auxiliary Storage Pool technology over the last several releases of OS/400. An iASP is useful because it allows a disk

Michaels, ross & cole has officially opened the kimono. The longtime provider of an OS/400 fourth generation language (4GL) development environment is in the early stages of rolling out a new flagship development environment that can live on any platform. While the new tools don’t yet have a formal name, and won’t generate RPG, they will be largely based on the established mrc-Productivity Series development environment, and feel equally at home running on OS/400, Unix, Windows, and Linux platforms.

The mrc-Productivity Series was traditionally a menu-driven 4GL development environment that programmers used from a green screen. In 2002, mrc expanded

Java tools maker Bowstreet last week announced OS/400 support in its Portlet Factory for WebSphere, a rapid application development tool for creating Web-based portal applications. As its name suggests, Portlet Factory for WebSphere works with IBM‘s WebSphere Portal Server Express software, running on an iSeries or other server platforms, and enables the rapid development and delivery of customizable portal applications, all without Java programming.

OS/400 shops don’t need Bowstreet’s Portlet Factory to develop the various applications that make up a portal, which are also called portlets. They can use IBM’s standard WebSphere Studio tools to do that. But in