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Product Review: Stampede’s AutoZip Eases E-Mail Attachment Woes

September 28, 2004 Joe Hertvik

E-mail attachments are a headache for IBM Lotus Domino administrators. Larger and ever-expanding e-mail attachments increase backup time, consume Domino server disk space, and affect server performance, increase mailbox administrative costs, and slow down network transmission speeds. No matter how you view it, servicing large e-mail attachments is costly, in terms of network administration and performance.

To ease these woes, Stampede Technologies offers TurboGold AutoZip. AutoZip is Stampede’s Lotus-based client and server software for the automatic ZIP file compression of large Domino e-mail file attachments. By reducing Domino attachment storage space in a mailbox, AutoZip helps your network efficiently transfer

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Create!form 6.0 Delivers More Options for OS/400 Output

September 28, 2004 Alex Woodie

Create!form last week issued Create!form Version 6, the first major release of the core document management application since Bottomline Technologies acquired the company 12 months ago. This latest release includes new features, such as dynamic document repagination, the capability to embed data calculations into documents, support for PCL, and an improved user interface, which should make it easier for users to create and distribute professional looking documents from their enterprise applications.

The Create!form suite of tools helps users to kick the preprinted-form habit and move to cheaper laser printers, while giving them the flexibility to distribute their documents electronically at

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DataMirror Introduces Integration Suite 2005

September 28, 2004 Alex Woodie

DataMirror is launching a new bundle of software and services designed to help companies with their data integration and compliance projects. Integration Suite 2005, announced yesterday, is built around a new release of the company’s flagship data replication product, Transformation Server, and includes auditing, high-availability, and mobile database tools, as well as services. DataMirror says the bundle addresses the emerging two-pronged problem of data integration and regulatory compliance, while saving customers up to 50 percent, compared with buying the products separately.

Integration Suite 2005 brings together many of the products DataMirror has developed or acquired over the years. At the

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Kisco Releases Full Update to WebReport/400

September 28, 2004 Alex Woodie

Kisco Information Systems has added many new features to WebReport/400, its OS/400 report conversion and electronic distribution utility. In WebReport/400 Version 7, made available last week, users will find enhanced security, outbound FTP support, new e-mail and naming options, message queue support, and other enhancements designed to improve the handling, distribution, and storage of spool files generated from OS/400 applications.

WebReport/400 is an OS/400 utility that monitors output queues, converts spool files to a new format, and then distributes the converted file electronically, either through e-mail, by posting to a Web site, or (new with Version 7.0) distribution through FTP.

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EVault Brings Online Backups to the iSeries

September 21, 2004 Alex Woodie

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

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MKS Integrates Workflow Application with WDSc

September 21, 2004 Alex Woodie

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

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Business Intelligence Tool Gets Better PeopleSoft Compatibility

September 21, 2004 Alex Woodie

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

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Symtrax Ships Updated Edition of WebReports

September 21, 2004 Alex Woodie

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,

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Versata Completes Port of Java Tool to iSeries

September 14, 2004 Alex Woodie

Versata recently followed through on its promise to support the iSeries with its J2EE development tool, which, it claims, can automate 98 percent of the process of generating Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs) and cut Java development costs in half. In August the Oakland, California, company announced that Versata Logic Server Version 5.6.2, which, together with the Versata Logic Studio, make up the Versata Logic Suite, is now available on iSeries servers running Linux.

In March, Versata announced plans to support the iSeries with its Versata Logic Suite (see “Versata to Bring Java IDE to OS/400”). The Versata Logic Suite is

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Olympic Effort Not Required for Publishing Business Communications

September 14, 2004 Dan Burger

Publishing your own newsletter or product bulletins is a strategy used by many companies to achieve a polished and professional method of communicating with business partners, customers, employees, and other stakeholders. For years this was accomplished with printed publications that required substantial amounts of time and labor and costs. If you could reduce production expenses, primarily printing and mailing, and also accommodate the inclusion of more timely information, you would probably be looking at publishing content via an e-mail newsletter, Web site, or portal.