• Capella Tech Delivers Multi-Host Print Solution

  September 13, 2005 Alex Woodie

  OS/400 shops looking to save a little money in the printing department may want to check out a new product called Multi-Host Print (MHP) that was unveiled by Hewlett-Packard business partner Capella Technologies last month. MHP is a printer-resident memory module that converts IPDS and SCS datastreams into a format compatible with HP LaserJet printers. The MHP module also includes a forms overlay component for sprucing up SCS reports with graphics. Capella’s new MHP product includes two components, both of which are contained in a single CompactFlash memory module that plugs into HP’s line of LaserJet laser and multi-function printers

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• IBM Boosts OS/400 Coverage in Mainframe Utilities

  September 13, 2005 Alex Woodie

  There are many similarities between IBM‘s iSeries and zSeries servers. Both are built on proprietary architectures, both are renown for their excellent reliability and security, and both have very committed user bases. In fact, a good number of the 20,000 or so mainframe shops in the world are also OS/400 shops. To keep these customers happy, IBM is introducing new Tivoli Omegamon and Rational-branded utilities to enable the testing of new workloads and the monitoring of production systems on iSeries and distributed platforms from the big daddy of servers: the mainframe. Several weeks ago during the SHARE mainframe conference

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• Valid Tech Delivers Biometric Authentication Solution for OS/400

  September 6, 2005 Alex Woodie

  Valid Technologies recently took the wraps off a new product called Valid Secure Systems Authentication (VSSA) that uses fingerprints to grant users access to computers, programs, and data–or more importantly, prevent the wrong person from gaining access. While it can be used to grant access to a variety of applications, the product itself runs only under OS/400, because it is the most secure platform on the market, according to company officials. In development for the past 20 months, VSSA became generally available in August as version 1.4. The software works in tandem with biometric fingerprint readers from American Power Conversion

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• DataMirror Updates XML Transformation Software

  September 6, 2005 Alex Woodie

  Five years ago, XML was seen as a cure-all for the escalation of disparate document formats and the new common language for conducting business online. While XML has become a key standard, it hasn’t replaced other types of documents, such as EDI and flat files, which are still in widespread use. DataMirror, one of the companies filling the need for data transformation tools, recently updated its DB/XML Transform software to better support flat files. DB/XML Transform serves as a data conversion hub for a range of IT projects, including handling B2B transactions, populating Web portals, transforming EDI to XML

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• IBM Releases New Workplace Collaboration/Portal Package

  September 6, 2005 Dan Burger

  In marketing lingo, IBM‘s Workplace gets described as “the next-generation front-end for end-user computing.” Although most Four Hundred Stuff readers are probably familiar with the Workplace brand name, a clear understanding of this software portfolio and its benefits remain out of reach. To put a better handle on it, you need to see it as a single work environment in which you can access applications, information, business processes, and people. Another way to say it is the combination of collaboration and portal software in one package. Last week IBM opened the door to another piece in its Web-based collaborative

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• SSA Global Wastes No Time Integrating Boniva

  September 6, 2005 Alex Woodie

  SSA Global wasted little time incorporating technology from one of its most recent acquisitions, Boniva Software. Last week it launched the version 2.0 release of its Human Capital Management (HCM) suite. The new release of the Java-based employee management suite bears the employee recruitment, learning management, and performance assessment capabilities developed by Boniva, as well as new self-service capabilities and enhancements to payroll and benefits modules. It’s been less than a month since SSA Global acquired Boniva Software, a Santa Clara, California, developer of Java-based e-learning, skills management, and performance management software. At the time, SSA Global chief executive Michael

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• Trustgenix and IdentityForge Put iSeries, zSeries at Center of SSO

  August 30, 2005 Alex Woodie

  Recognizing the importance of user directories established on iSeries servers and mainframes, Trustgenix and IdentityForge unveiled a partnership last week that will allow organizations to leverage that user data for wider single sign-on (SSO) implementations. The companies plan to do this by integrating their respective products, including TrustGenix IdentityBridge and IdentityForge’s LDAP Gateway, by the fourth quarter. Trustgenix’s flagship product, IdentityBridge, is a federated identity management system that essentially lashes together the various other identity management systems that may be used in a company or by a company’s partners, thereby eliminating the need for users to remember different passwords and

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• IBM Buoys Workplace Development with New IDE

  August 30, 2005 Alex Woodie

  IBM filled out its Workplace portal strategy last week when it released Workplace Designer version 2.5, a new script development environment for creating composite applications that run on the recently released Workplace Collaboration Services and Workplace Services Express portals. With support for iSeries and other platforms, Workplace Designer is a key component of IBM’s Workplace strategy to combat Microsoft‘s Exchange juggernaut, while providing a Java-centric roadmap for Domino programmers. You can take your pick of studies that show IBM losing market share to Microsoft in the e-mail server and collaboration marketplace–IDC and Gartner have recently come out with

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• CabledSoft Delivers Graphical Cross Reference Tool for OS/400

  August 30, 2005 Alex Woodie

  iSeries shops looking for a graphical cross reference tool might want to take a look at DSP400i from CabledSoft. The tool, which was released earlier this year by Swedish developer Mikael Asplund, provides a different view on OS/400 file and object relationship than your typical greenscreen cross reference tool, and may be considerably more affordable, as well. There are many uses for cross reference tools in today’s modern OS/400 shop. When a programmer leaves an organization and takes with him all the institutional knowledge of how an undocumented application works, a cross reference tool can be a lifesaver. Similarly,

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• DataMystic Provides iSeries Data Transformation Services

  August 30, 2005 Alex Woodie

  DataMystic has a new release of TextPipe, a Windows utility that lets users do all sorts of things to text files, including cleaning data in preparation for a data warehousing project and translating between ASCI and the EBCDIC formats. Version 7.5 bolsters the product’s OS/400 and mainframe story by bringing new report conversion capabilities through its “mainframe copybook wizard,” and expands its foreign language translation support. DataMystic is a software vendor based in Melbourne, Australia, that has been developing the TextPipe product since the company was founded 15 years ago. The company, which changed its name from Crystal Software earlier

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