So you picked up one of those new cool new iPhones, and are browsing the Apple App Store for some awesome new apps to use during your commute. In addition to such highly desirable titles as Super Monkey Ball, Etch a Sketch, and Pac Man, you will soon find a 5250 terminal emulator in the online store, according to Mochasoft, the Danish software developer.

Mochasoft is currently working on developing a 5250 emulator that runs on the iPhone and the iPod Touch, according to a statement on the Mochasoft Web site. It’s not known when the application will be

During the past five to 10 years, the talk about offices going paperless has exceeded the reality. I guess you could say that about a lot of things. We live in hype-infested times. Still, we would like to think digital technology would have all but eliminated paper shufflers, paper cuts, and forests of file cabinets. Why haven’t digital documents taken over? In the IBM System i ecosystem the document management software business is very competitive, keeping prices low and providing plenty of options.

Maybe the idea of completely “paperless offices” has set the bar too high. Many companies have completed

Siemens, the world’s largest SAP shop, is adopting audit software from ACL Services to analyze its purchase transactions and look for waste and fraud. The implementation, which will span 1,300 subsidiaries and other entities of the German technology giant–including 800 that use SAP and 500 that use some other ERP system–will be the world’s largest purchase-to-pay monitoring project ever undertaken, according to ACL.

If you’re not a big fan of audits and the tools of the auditor’s trade, you may have never heard of ACL Services, a 20-year-old software company based in Vancouver, British Columbia. The firm specializes in

Editor’s Note: This article has been corrected. WebFacing, in fact, continues its role as screen modernization technology within IBM’s HIS. Please see “Correction: WebFacing Lives On, in HIS and HATS” for more details about the error.

Developers will no longer be able to use the IBM WebFacing Tool to modernize their 5250 applications, if they obtained WebFacing through the Host Integration Solution (HIS) suite. As part of the delivery of Rational HIS for 5250 Applications version 7.1, IBM announced that HIS customers will be restricted to modernizing their applications using the Host Access Transformation Services (HATS), which converts legacy green-screen

BlueZone Software, which is now operating as a subsidiary of Rocket Software following Rocket’s acquisition of Seagull Software, last week launched BlueZone version 5, a new release of its terminal emulation suite for IBM‘s i operating system. The product update brings new features such as support for Windows Vista, new single sign-on features, and enhanced FTP functions.

BlueZone enables users to access host computers, including i OS-based Power Systems servers, IBM mainframes, and Unix servers, via TN5250, TN3270, and VT emulation protocols. It functions as either a 32-bit Windows application (with a 10 MB download) or as a

i OS security software developer Bsafe Information Systems will sell Linoma Software‘s field-level encryption software for i OS, called Crypto Complete, as a component of its own Enterprise Security suite, the companies announced recently.

Linoma launched Crypto Complete nearly a year ago to address the growing demand for database encryption software on IBM i5/OS (now referred to simply as i). Much of this demand has been driven by the PCI Data Security Standard, and the need to protect names, credit card numbers, and other sensitive data that is sent across the network during payment transactions and often stored on

Fresh off its acquisition of the identity management company M-Tech Information Technology, Hitachi‘s ID Systems subsidiary announced P-Synch version 6.4.2, a new release of its password synchronization tool, and a component of M-Tech’s identity management suite.

Hitachi, the $87 billion Japanese electronics giant, acquired a majority interest in Calgary, Alberta-based M-Tech in April, and subsequently renamed the company Hitachi ID Systems. Hitachi plans to integrate M-Tech’s identity management software into its information security solutions in preparation for an expected surge in spending in identity management, from $2.6 billion in 2006 to more than $12 billion in 2014, according to

Metafile, the Rochester, Minnesota, developer of content management and imaging software for OS/400 and other platforms, recently launched a new scaled-down version of its MetaViewer software that’s designed to appeal to smaller businesses. The new software, called the MetaViewer Startup Financial Automation Solution, also offers a fixed monthly subscription, thereby decreasing startup costs.

Many AS/400 shops over the years have adopted Metafile’s MetaViewer software to speed the process of pulling up old files and reduce the paper chase. The Windows-based software automatically captures spool file output from OS/400 systems, indexes its contents, and then stores it in an archive,

Teledyne Technologies, a $1.4 billion manufacturer of electronic components for the aerospace industry, has rolled out Global Software‘s Spreadsheet Server for analyzing data in its i5/OS- and Windows-based ERP systems.

Teledyne, which is based in Thousand Oaks, California, deployed Spreadsheet Server to make it easier for employees to work with General Ledger data stored in its ERP XA (formerly MAPICS) and the Windows-based ERP Syteline applications from Infor. Spreadsheet Server allows users to view and update data from ERP systems within the friendly confines of Microsoft Excel.

Ease-of-use is the main benefit of Spreadsheet Server. Without the product,

EDI and B2B software maker EXTOL International is the latest company to announce support for i 6.1, the landmark release of the operating system formerly known as i5/OS. Improved Java performance was highlighted by EXTOL as a benefit of the new operating system.

EXTOL develops a series of software products aimed at enabling manufacturers, distributors, retailers, and other supply chain participants to exchange documents and data, using industry standard formats. Each of these EXTOL products, including Business Integrator, Business Collaborator, and EDI Integrator, have been certified to run on the new IBM i 6.1 operating system.

i 6.1 certification required