They gather in the dead of night or at high noon, and strike your server without warning. They are runaway jobs, and left alone, they can quickly consume valuable iSeries storage, and even bring your business to a halt. To identify and resolve these crimes against job temporary storage, Help/Systems introduced a new Critical Storage Investigator (CSI) feature in Robot/SPACE version 2.0, which started shipping yesterday.

When Help/Systems introduced Robot/SPACE 1.0 in 2000, the product was designed to help customers monitor the accumulation of data on AS/400 and iSeries disk and avoid any unpleasant surprises. There is little that OS/400

The iSeries performance experts at Centerfield Technology are developing a new utility that will help system administrators keep their applications functioning properly by detecting iSeries jobs that have entered mutual exclusion, or mutex, wait states. Mutex conditions, which are commonly used in Java and Unix applications, are increasingly being found in ported OS/400 applications. However, because of the way they work, Mutex waits have the possibility of hurting other jobs, even those that are functioning properly.

During the normal course of business, iSeries administrators should expect to watch their database applications go through various states. As part of their OS/400

In the world of software testing, there has never been a way to automate testing of Lotus Notes applications. That is about to change with the introduction of a new version of TestGUI from Original Software. Last week the English software house announced TestGUI 4.0, which Original says is the first and only tool of its kind to automate the testing of Lotus Notes applications.

TestGUI is an automated testing tool designed to enable non technical quality assurance (QA) team members to ferret out bugs and other design glitches affecting Windows GUI applications. Instead of relying on pixel-specific screen

Expand Networks yesterday unveiled an updated version of ExpandView, the wide area network (WAN) monitoring software that is also used to manage the company’s WAN optimization devices, called Accelerators. ExpandView 3.0 makes it easier to roll out a large number of Accelerator devices, and also keeps administrators informed of their WAN’s condition with color-coded graphs and charts.

ExpandView is a Java-based program that runs on Windows, Unix, and Linux servers and is designed to help network administrators manage large deployments of Expand Accelerator devices. It is not a difficult task for a person to manually manage up to 15 or