QJRN/400 from Cilasoft is a database auditing tool for the IBM System i server that relies on the operating system’s extensive journaling function to dig up evidence of malfeasance or fraud by users. Clever System i users will be able to hide their tracks to some extent. But when every little action is tracked and recorded, it’s just a matter of piecing the puzzle together, and that’s where QJRN/400 excels.

Cilasoft was founded 10 years ago in southern France by Guy (pronounced “Gee”) Marmorat, the company’s CEO and technical manager, and the head developer of QJRN/400. At the time, many

Databorough is in the process of rolling out X-Analysis version 8, a major new release that has been overhauled to provide a range of modernization services for RPG and COBOL applications. With new features such as Java and UML generation, migration to SQL-based databases, and low-level documentation of business processes, X-Analysis version 8 will give IBM i OS shops powerful new options for modernizing or migrating their applications to Java, EGL, or other languages, the vendor says.

From its headquarters in England, Databorough and its X-Analysis suite historically have been focused on providing cross-referencing and documentation capabilities for users of

Business Computer Design Int’l. last week announced the general availability of Presto, its new application modernization and Web enablement tool for applications running on IBM Power Systems servers. Presto instantly converts 5250 screens to Web interfaces, without requiring any invasive code changes, access to source code, or OLTP (interface) processing capability, BCD claims.

According to BCD, Presto allows organizations to create Web browser-based interfaces for their RPG or COBOL applications–including menu screens–in less than a day. This bit of magic is accomplished by pairing a conversion tool that generates HTML from the DDS code of i OS applications with the

IBM became the latest high-tech company to jump on the iPhone bandwagon last week when it announced new software, called iNotes ultralite, for accessing Lotus Notes and Domino software from the ever-present Apple handheld device. While the iNotes ultralite software has been received well among businesses, IBM continues to ignore its own business-centric computing platform, the IBM i.

iNotes, of course, is not a new product for IBM. The technology behemoth has been selling a version of Notes that works in a Web browser under the iNotes brand since at least 2001, a search of the IT Jungle archives will

Valid Technologies last month announced that it has received certification from IBM for using its i OS-based biometric authentication system with two Tivoli identity- and access-control products. The certification will allow organizations to ditch the use of passwords and tokens for authenticating log-ins for Web applications, and instead rely on peoples’ fingerprints to serve as the keys for entry.

Valid Secure Systems Authentication, or VSSA, is an i OS application that stores data about people’s fingerprints (not the fingerprints themselves) and provides the hooks into third-party authentication mechanisms. It has received the “Ready for IBM Tivoli” validation for Tivoli Identity

Impart Solutions, a Chicago-based software company, is targeting users of older RPG-based ERP applications, including JD Edwards World, System 21, and BPCS, with an open-source ERP application that uses the software as a service (SaaS) delivery model. Subscriptions cost $150 per month, and could give users more options, Impart says.

Founded in 2002 by a group in the U.S. and the Philippines, Impart Solutions develops an ERP package called LAMP Enterprise that was written in a combination of Java and PHP, and is only offered via the SaaS delivery model. The software includes financials, manufacturing operations, HR, payroll, and

TMW Systems last week launched a new release of TMW Imaging, a document management system that plugs into its dispatching solutions for trucking companies. With version 3.1, the company has added several fax and e-mail related features that should prove to be time-savers for adopting companies.

TMW Imaging was developed by TMW Systems to address specific needs of trucking companies that use the vendor’s Windows and i OS-based dispatching systems, including TruckMate (Windows), TMWSuite (Windows), and TL2000 (i OS). The software enables users to scan and store critical business documents, such as invoices, bills of lading, and scale tickets, and

The installation of Aldon Community Manager, a Windows-based helpdesk package, is paying dividends for SWBC, a Texas-based financial services company. With the product’s capability to track bug reports and user wishes from request to resolution, while fostering development of SWBC’s i OS and Windows developers along the way, the company reports that its development organization has never run more smoothly.

Aldon Community Manager software is a helpdesk solution that allows users to submit bug reports and change requests to their IT department, while giving IT administrators tools to streamline how they handle the requests. The software is an integrated component

InfoPrint Solutions Company, the joint venture between IBM and Ricoh, last week launched a new release of the Productivity Tracker, a piece of software designed to optimize print operations, maximize printer utilization, and minimize labor costs for commercial printers.

Companies with large production printing operations have invested a lot of money into their printers, and cannot afford to let them stand idle for too long. Thanks to Productivity Tracker, they can collect relevant production data from compatible printers (InfoPrint 4000, 4100, and 5000 series) into a DB2 database, and then run queries against the data.

The software allows

LogiXML, a developer of Web-based business intelligence (BI) solutions, last week launched VizLytics, a new data visualization solution designed to give users fast and easy access to graphical analysis of production data.

Based in McLean, Virginia, LogiXML fashions itself one of a new breed of BI software vendors that have latched onto the AJAX user interface resolution. The company markets a suite of Windows-based BI tools that includes managed and ad hoc reporting, ETL, and OLAP capabilities. At about $72,000 for the suite, the software is not cheap (although cheaper than the tier-one BI vendors), but the user-friendly Web-based