As it promised a year and a half ago, IBM has delivered a scaled-down content management system designed for small and medium-sized OS/400 shops. Beginning at a price of $6,900, users can get a centralized repository for storing and distributing documents, reports, e-mail, Web content, images, and other content with DB2 Content Manager Standard Edition version 8.3, a new product that IBM started shipping December 5.

IBM had previously offered an industrial-strength content management system, called DB2 Content Manager for iSeries, which is currently at version 5.3. However, this product was overkill for most small and medium-sized OS/400 shops, so

North American IT managers are finally starting to take disaster recovery seriously, according to a new study from IT research firm Gartner. The Connecticut analyst group found a 650 percent increase in the number of IT managers backing up their data in the last year, either to a tape or to another disk through data replication. This is good news for high availability software providers, including DataMirror, which recently unveiled new releases of its iCluster and Transformation Server offerings.

In September 2005, Gartner interviewed 105 IT managers of North American companies about their backup and recovery practices. The

One of the companies hoping to capture some of the forecasted increase in SOX solution spending next year is Arcad Software, a French developer of application lifecycle management (ALM) utilities for OS/400 applications. The company recently unveiled a new release of its integrated suite of tools, including a new graphical dashboard aimed at helping programmers and managers quickly determine the status of code remediation projects, new cross-reference capabilities, and improvements to its regression-testing tool.

The goal of Arcad and its products is to help development shops implement controls for their source code and programming projects. The company does this

iSeries servers are expensive machines, no doubt about it. While you wouldn’t think twice of operating a PC server at 10 percent capacity, the high cost of processor capacity on OS/400 servers is powerful incentive to stretch your CPW dollar as far as you can, without breaking it. A new release of Help/Systems‘ Robot/Console systems management tool adds new capabilities for helping OS/400 shops keep on top of their iSeries CPU usage, including watching for runaway jobs.

Robot/CONSOLE is a message management utility designed to alleviate the burden of having human eyes filter through the hundreds or thousands of