Six months after Wal-Mart’s first UCCnet deadline, product data synchronization projects continue among the nation’s midmarket manufactures and distributors, particularly those that sell to The Home Depot and other hard-lines retailers with UCCnet mandates. Last month the Uniform Code Council announced the new UCCnet Synchronization Suite Version 2.3 specification, which includes the capability to publish pricing information, in addition to extensions for the hard-lines supply chain.

Retailers in the hard-lines industry are following in the footsteps of retail giant Wal-Mart in requiring their suppliers to adopt UCCnet data synchronization in order to cut losses related to using bad product data.

The emphasis on security resounds throughout the industry these days. With tough auditing compliance a mandate for many organizations (and a priority for some, when mandates are not forcing the issue), it’s not uncommon for IT departments to be tightening down the security screws. So it’s not surprising that iSeries systems management software developer CCSS focused on security threats when adding features to QMessage Monitor Version 6. What is surprising are the 426 new possibilities for auditing.

Rest assured, however, this report will not cover all 426.

What you do need to know about the latest QMessage Monitor is that

Developing dynamic Web content from RPG applications just got easier with the new release of Damon Technologies‘ RPG Server Pages software, a development tool that leverages existing RPG by embedding RPG code directly inside HTML pages. The new integrated development environment Damon has delivered with RPG Server Pages 3.0 combines an HTML Page Designer with an RPG Editor into a single product, which, the company says, gives programmers the benefits of WYSIWYG screen creation and faster development cycles.

RPG Server Pages, or RSP, is one of a new class of Web development tools that give OS/400 shops an alternative

OS/400 developers can now work with their DB2/400 files from behind a Linux, Unix, or Windows workstation with the new release of ProData Computer Services DBU/GUI, the graphical client that works with ProData’s DB2/400 database utility, DBU 6.0. The Nebraska software company is also working on a new product called DBUnifier, which can be used to quickly create interactive maintenance and inquiry applications.

DBU fills the need for a data access utility that provides direct access to DB2/400 databases and allows people to change or delete records as needed, without programming. ProData says its tool is easier to use than