• PeopleSoft Rolls Out a Host of New EnterpriseOne Applications

  October 19, 2004 Alex Woodie

  While the hostile takeover bid by Oracle continues to hang over PeopleSoft like a dark cloud, it didn’t deter the Pleasanton, California, company from going ahead and making a slew of EnterpriseOne announcements at the APICS conference last week. There are more than 250 new features in the former J.D. Edwards ERP application across four components, including CRM, Demand Flow Manufacturing, Sales and Operations Planning, and the new RFID Processor application. EVEN FLOW So-called “lean” manufacturers looking to roll out new products quickly, without tying up plant capacity or storage space unnecessarily, are good candidates for the new Demand Flow

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• GST Targets IBM with Internal AIT Tape Drives for i5 and p5

  October 19, 2004 Alex Woodie

  GST last week debuted its first internal tape drive that works in the new “Squadron” line of Power5-based eServers from IBM. GST claims that its new line of AIT drives, which install in the new i5 and p5 servers, offer better price performance than the internal tape drives that IBM sells with those servers. Could GST be offering a better deal than IBM? Let’s take a look at the numbers to see. While GST previously offered internal drives on the iSeries, this is the first time that the Southern California company has supported the new i5 and p5 servers

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• Hit Your New OS/400 Apps Hard with a TestBENCH ‘Stress Test’

  October 12, 2004 Alex Woodie

  Say you’re working on a new OS/400 order lookup program that your biggest customers will be able to access. What happens when it goes live for the first time: does it sink or does it swim? A new release of Original Software‘s TestBENCH for iSeries application testing suite, announced last week, features a new “stress testing” capability, as well as “date warping” and “results compare,” which should take some of the guesswork out of deploying new applications. TestBENCH for iSeries provides testers and developers with record, playback, and verify capabilities for identifying problems in OS/400 batch, interactive, and service

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• WorksRight Drives Down Mailing Costs with Three New Products

  October 12, 2004 Alex Woodie

  WorksRight Software last week announced the availability of new geocoding software for the iSeries server. Given a postal address, the Z4 LAT/LON program calculates the exact coordinates of that address, which leads to more accurate addresses and lower mailing costs for the user. In addition to geocoding, the OS/400 mailing software specialist recently introduced new software based on the U.S. Postal Service’s Delivery Point Verification and Residential Delivery Indicator technology. Companies in different industries use geocoding for different things. A financial services firm might use geocoding with census information to get a better idea of its customers’ demographics, while a

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• HiT Software Updates SQL Middleware for i5/OS Database

  October 12, 2004 Alex Woodie

  OS/400 shops looking to get the most out of the database enhancements in i5/OS V5R3 may want to take a look at the latest SQL middleware from HiT Software. The San Jose, California, company makes ODBC and OLE DB middleware that is specifically designed for connecting Windows clients and servers to OS/400 database servers, and with last week’s release, it does so faster than ever. IBM delivered significant enhancements to DB2 UDB for iSeries (commonly referred to as DB2/400) with the release of i5/OS (also called OS/400) V5R3 this spring. A new SQL Query Engine, better file reorganization capabilities,

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• BOSaNOVA and Wyse Look to the High End of Thin Clients

  October 12, 2004 Alex Woodie

  Two of the players in the thin client market have recently introduced new thin clients that feature processors running 1 GHz or more, which is faster than what has typically been found in these PC alternatives. BOSaNOVA touts the capability of its new 1000 Series to run Java applications, while Wyse Technology says that its new Winterm V and S series thin clients will excel in graphics-intensive environments. BOSaNOVA started shipping a new line of thin clients in August that are specifically designed for handling Java applications. The new high-end BOSaNOVA 1000 Series includes the Linux-based LTC 1000 and the

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• ASNA Launches Monarch for RPG-to-.NET Migration

  October 5, 2004 Alex Woodie

  ASNA last week launched a new migration tool called Monarch, which, the company says, can help iSeries shops move their RPG applications to Microsoft .NET in a matter of weeks, as opposed to the months or years such a migration could entail. With Monarch and existing ASNA language and database tools, the company says it now offers everything for a whole or partial migration of RPG applications to .NET, and an upgrade path to service-oriented architectures. ASNA has been in the business of moving RPG applications to Windows–and making Windows developers out of iSeries developers–for some time now. The company’s

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• Storm Weary Caribbean Considers High Availability Options

  October 5, 2004 Alex Woodie

  The recent spate of hurricanes in the Caribbean has taken a horrible toll on the area. People and businesses are still recovering from the sudden onslaught of big storms in August and September, while at the same time preparing for potentially more storms, as eight weeks still remain in the hurricane season. For data center operations, the storms have highlighted the importance of good disaster recovery procedures, as these Maximum Availability customers attest to. Every region of the planet carries has its own unique geographical peculiarities, dangers, and disaster recovery scenarios. If your home or business is located in the

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• New Software from IIS Improves Document Workflow

  October 5, 2004 Alex Woodie

  Billing department are the intended users of two new modules that Image Integration Systems announced last month. One of the new modules, called Pass-Through-Billing, helps users to turn vendor invoices around so they can bill their customers more quickly, while another, called AutoVoucher, eliminates the manual entry of vendor information in batch invoice runs. Both of the new modules plug into the company’s Windows-based DocuSphere content management and workflow software, which is used at hundreds of OS/400 shops. You may not have heard about Image Integration Systems, based in Perrysburg, Ohio, but that doesn’t mean it’s new. IIS has been

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• Bug Busters Enables True Object Broadcasting with RSF 7.2

  October 5, 2004 Alex Woodie

  OS/400 shops that need to distribute objects to hundreds of iSeries servers will be delighted to hear about the latest release of Bug Busters Software Engineering‘s Remote Software Facility. RSF Version 7.2 features a new broadcast distribution option that enables a single iSeries to send OS/400 objects, libraries, and IFS objects to any number of other iSeries in the same amount of time it would take to transmit to just one of them. Bug Busters has been helping OS/400 shops and ISVs streamline object distribution for years with its flagship RSF utility, which is used by thousands of OS/400

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