New Zealand-based Maximum Availability is completing the worldwide roll-out of a new suite of high availability and disaster recovery products for iSeries servers. From what was once a single product, called *noMAX, there are now three siblings in the *noMAX family, including *noMAX Sentry, *noMAX Defender, and *noMAX Garrison. Each delivers a specific level of high availability, and is designed to more closely fit the specific needs of a range of iSeries shops.

*noMAX Sentry is created for customers that are starting out with high availability, and is the most significant part of Maximum Availability’s announcement. This product is designed

In the 2004 movie “Napoleon Dynamite,” Napoleon’s Uncle Rico is presented with a device purported to be a time machine. Eager to relive his high school football championship game, Uncle Rico sets the dial for 1982, plugs the machine into the power supply, and then places the machine, per the directions, right between his legs. While things did not work out well for Uncle Rico, iSeries shops looking to travel back in time to find versions of their files they thought were lost now have a solution in Atempo‘s Time Navigator.

OK, Time Navigator doesn’t actually support time travel

Profound Logic recently launched a new release of RPG-Alive GUI, its Windows-based RPG editor. With version 4.3, the Dayton, Ohio, company has added a number of enhancements, including new Intellisense features, source line date support, indented source printouts, an improved repository, PC-to-iSeries synchronization options, change management exit points, and code bookmarks for navigating through RPG programs.

RPG-Alive GUI is the PC version of Profound Logic’s popular RPG-Alive code editor, and enables developers to write and maintain RPG ILE programs without being connected to an iSeries. The software brings developers some handy features, such as access to dynamic code snippets, a

Raz-Lee, the Israeli developer of OS/400 security tools, has issued new releases of several products this spring. A new release of the Firewall+++ product provides finer-grain control over users’ access to iSeries resources, while Raz-Lee’s auditing software gains real-time monitoring capability, as well as integration with the company’s screen capture tool.

It’s been said over and over, but it bears repeating, if only to educate new iSeries users, or to pester old hands into (finally!) taking security seriously: While the iSeries is an extremely secure server, it has security holes big enough to drive a Mack truck through if