EVault launched the OS/400 community’s first online backup technology last week. EVault iSeries, the OS/400 version of the vendor’s disk-to-disk backup and recovery offering that sends data offsite using IP networks, promises faster and more versatile back ups and recoveries than standard tape backups, while avoiding the hassle and expense of high-end mirroring solutions. The solution is available as either licensed software or an outsourced service using the vendor’s data centers.

Phil Gilmour, chief executive of Walnut Creek, California, based EVault, is a tape displacement aficionado. He realizes that, while the iSeries is a pretty reliable machine, tape-based backup processes–no

The iSeries developers who work within WebSphere Development Studio Client (WDSc) can now access additional workflow and process management capabilities directly from within their IDE. Last week MKS announced new integration between MKS Integrity Manager, its high-level process and workflow application for managing complex development projects, and IBM‘s Eclipse framework. Developers can now do such things as receive work assignments, run queries, conduct reviews, and make updates, without ever stepping outside of WDSc.

MKS Integrity Manager is a process and workflow management product that provides structure for software development projects spanning multiple platforms or multiple locations. While the MKS

The upcoming release of New Generation Software‘s NGS-IQ Version 6.4 has a little surprise for PeopleSoft‘s J.D. Edwards customer base. The new release of the popular Windows-based business intelligence tool for OS/400 servers now features support for PeopleSoft World and EnterpriseOne data dictionaries, which will provide consistency across things like date formats. Security has also been enhanced in this annual update of the tool.

NGS says that, through the new Meta External Reference feature, the NGS-IQ product will be able to read EnterpriseOne and World data dictionaries. This means that NGS-IQ users will be able to take advantage

Symtrax has improved the search engine and made other improvements to WebReports, a Windows-based document archive application that provides secure and centralized access to output from a variety of other hosts, including OS/400 servers. The latest release, WebReports Version 2.3, which Symtrax released last week, also features more customizable screens, better administrative functions, and support for Windows 2003 Server.

WebReports, which Symtrax originally launched in February (see “Symtrax Improves iSeries Report Access with WebReports”), is designed to give users easy access to important documents–invoices, statements, weekly sales reports, and the like–which many shops have spread across OS/400, Unix, Windows,