Your dream of building an army of self-aware, self-healing iSeries servers is drawing nigh: IBM recently added key autonomic runtime capabilities to its prized OS/400 server. With the release of Autonomic Toolkit 2.0, IBM added OS/400 and Solaris to the list of operating systems that support the development of autonomic systems that can automatically take action to counter specific problems and events.

IBM launched its autonomic computing initiative several years ago as an integral component of its on-demand strategy to deliver computing as a utility. The goal of this initiative is to build self-reactive computer systems that automatically adapt to

TeamQuest announced last week that it is supporting OS/400 and z/OS servers with the latest release of its capacity planning tool and supporting software suite, Performance Software 9.2. With the announcement, TeamQuest becomes the only vendor to provide capacity planning and performance analysis capabilities across IBM‘s entire eServer line, and it supports other major platforms as well.

Since it was spun off from mainframe maker Unisys, in 1991, TeamQuest has always focused on providing performance analysis and capacity planning software. The company, based in Clear Lake, Iowa, brings in about $20 million a year and counts about 400

Magic Software recently launched a new release of its iBOLT enterprise application integration (EAI) suite that, the company claims, virtually eliminates the need for people to write code to connect applications. The secret to the elimination of programming in iBOLT 2.0 is something called Directly Accessible Methods (DAM), which, Magic says, allows integration architects to plug components together from the comfort of a graphical interface. The company also announced its most recent financial results and a new partnership with SAP.

Getting enterprise applications on different platforms to talk to each other has never been easy. Lots of money has

Companies looking to get a handle on their Sarbanes-Oxley Act or Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act requirements may want to check out new capabilities available in Symantec‘s Enterprise Security Manager Version 6.1, which started shipping in late October. The latest release of ESM, which supports OS/400 and other major platforms, features 75 pre-configured policy assessment templates for helping users understand what they need to do to comply with new regulations.

Symantec Enterprise Security Manager is a security policy compliance program that provides centralized and automated analysis of organizations’ servers, databases, applications, networks, and security controls. The software performs more than 3,000 security