Network Intelligence is the latest company to join the ranks of security providers serving the iSeries platform. Last month the Massachusetts company, driven by new regulations mandating good security practices among public companies, unveiled a new release of enVision, the software that powers its line network security appliances that can now monitor OS/400 logs for things like failed sign-on attempts and changes to system settings, which could be indicators of a security breach.

Network Intelligence uses the term “security event management,” or SEM, to describe what its three lines of Network Intelligence Engine appliances do. What gives Network Intelligence an

You don’t hear many IT professionals asking for more complex and more expensive software. At least not on the buyers’ side. That’s why companies are taking a closer look at disk-to-disk backup and recovery that sends data offsite using IP networks. This approach promises (but don’t they all) the twin benefits of reduced complexity and cost savings. EVault, which launched the OS/400 community’s first online backup technology in September 2004, has more to say on this topic.

Breaking out of the routine of traditional tape-based back ups and recoveries is sort of a love/hate thing for many iSeries shops.

While the focus of many new OS/400 products these days is tightening data and restricting access to data, there’s still a need for powerful database utilities that give administrators direct access to DB2/400-resident data and other files. File Edit Utility (FEU) from Applied Logic is one of the flexible products in this class. This month, Applied Logic is shipping a new version of FEU that adds new data validity checking, an XML export option, message file handling, and other features.

These days, many iSeries administrators, programmers, and operators are occupied with the task of locking down their systems and–more importantly–documenting

In most organizations there are silos that separate the resources applied to data assets and those that are applied to telecom. Therefore it is not surprising that the two sides do not understand one another well. The goal of call center technology is to merge the resources of these two departments so that customer service is enhanced through efficiencies gained by data accessibility. One of the prominent companies doing this in the iSeries market is iMessaging Systems.

Management of the call-flow–how and where calls are managed–requires application development skills. The development is done in a scripting language that controls