OS/400 shops on the hunt for a new business intelligence tool may want to check out QlikView from QlikTech, an up-and-coming Swedish software house. QlikView is a Windows-based program that gives users the capability to create graphical reports, perform data manipulations, and view key performance indicators (KPIs) for data originating from a variety of sources, including DB2/400. With last month’s release of QlikView 7.2, the scalability factor has been ramped up, and the product now supports billion-record data sets with its in-memory associative database.

QlikTech positions its QlikView business intelligence software as an easier-to-use and more-affordable alternative to on-line

In the grand scheme of things, there are minor crimes people commit against iSeries servers, and there are major felonies. Most administrators commit the occasional misdemeanor, such as skipping a nightly backup or a PTF, without causing great harm. But when it comes to major offenses that have serious repercussions, such as running out of disk space, there are lots of excuses, but no good reasons. A new disk monitoring feature in Bytware‘s MessengerPlus utility can help administrators avoid this unpleasant and unnecessary situation.

Most administrators have better things to do than watching the message queues on an OS/400

iSeries servers are used to maintain sensitive information. That should not surprise you. But you may not be aware that the majority of security breaches are the result of people inside the organization. It is at the confluence of these two facts that Kisco Information Systems offers ScreenSafer/400, a security-enabled 5250 screensaver. This month Kisco shipped a new version of ScreenSafer/400 that brings enhancements in the areas of support for long passwords and dealing with periods of extended inactivity.

When office workers at OS/400 shops leave their work spaces to attend a quick meeting, use the facilities, or grab a

As companies begin to adopt Web services and allow Web services to update their production databases, they’re finding a gap in the lineup when it comes to reporting tools that can access the data carried by Web services, according to Ipedo. The Silicon Valley startup says it has a solution to this problem with the latest release of its data integration software, XIP 4.1, which brings a new SQL-to-XML buffer called Web Services Tables.

Ipedo describes XIP as an Enterprise Information Integration (EII) product that leverages the tried and true (SQL-based access) with the new (XQuery-based access) to integrate