You’ve finished developing the new customer Web portal, gone through QA, and now you think it’s ready for production. Hold on just a second: Have you considered how response times will scale when it’s accessed by 5, 50, or 500 customers simultaneously? Will it play well with your other iSeries workloads, or slow the entire system down? These are the types of performance questions that Original Software‘s new TestLOAD tool can help answer.

As an iSeries user, you understand the value of keeping your server online. Unless your OS/400 server has remained online for years, in which case you

New auditing features from DRV Technologies are helping iSeries shops comply with the record-keeping and disclosure requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, and other new regulations. The developer of the SpoolFlex document management software suite recently launched a new product called the Audit Trail that improves administrators’ document monitoring capabilities while satisfying the requirements for regulatory compliance.

SpoolFlex is a collection of native OS/400 utilities designed to eliminate the time and expense associated with printing and hand-delivering OS/400 reports, and to reduce errors introduced when financial data is rekeyed into Excel spreadsheets. The basic SpoolFlex e-Delivery Suite provides conversion to popular PC

OS/400 developers looking to break up their monolithic RPG and COBOL applications into more modularized components in preparation for Web enablement or migration to J2EE or .NET may want to take a look at the latest release of X-Analysis, the cornerstone of Databorough‘s suite of cross-reference and documentation tools. X-Analysis (XA) version 5.5, which was released in May, now works as a plug-in to WebSphere Development Studio client (WDSc), and includes other enhancements.

XA helps programmers and non-technical business managers understand their OS/400 applications and the logic they contain, through a series of lists, graphics, flow charts, and add-on

eBusiness Solution Pros last week launched a new release of Stay-Linked, its suite of terminal emulation products for connecting radio frequency (RF) devices with host systems such as the iSeries. With Stay-Linked 7.0, eSP has enhanced the GUI administrator console, provided a new API for linking Stay-Linked with host applications, and expanded support for host systems.

It was only six months ago that eSP launched Stay-Linked 6.2, an update to its flagship product suite that runs on iSeries, mainframes, and Unix servers and uses a very thin component to provide terminal emulation services on barcode scanners, PDAs, and other RF-enabled