• Gumbo Creates Digitally Signed PDFs from i5/OS Spool Files

  March 18, 2008 Alex Woodie

  i5/OS shops using Gumbo Software‘s SpoolMail and Spool-a-Matic products can now create digitally signed PDF documents from their System i’s spool files, the software developer recently announced. Seattle, Washington-based Gumbo Software develops a range of software utilities designed to spruce up the System i server’s native print output mechanism. Key among these are Spool-a-Matic, which converts i5/OS spool files into PDF, RTF, HTML, and other PC formats and then places them in a predefined location on the IFS, and SpoolMail, which automatically e-mails spool files as ASCII or PDF attachments. With SpoolMail version 2.4 and Spool-a-Matic version 2.2, Gumbo

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• Help/Systems Gives SEQUEL a Web Makeover

  March 12, 2008 Alex Woodie

  A business intelligence system can have access to hundreds of terabytes of data, but if a user can’t find what she needs in a timely manner, the system has failed. To speed the absorption of BI data, many companies today are turning to graphical dashboards, which boil large amounts of data down into easy-to-comprehend graphics. Last week, Help Systems announced it has joined the ranks of the Web-based graphical dashboard vendors with a new release of its SEQUEL Web Interface offering. Help/Systems has been in the business intelligence business since it purchased Advanced Systems Concepts nearly a year and a

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• Solidcore Supports i5/OS with Real-Time Change Control

  March 11, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Solidcore Systems is now supporting the System i server with its collection of real-time change control and PCI compliance software, the company confirmed last week. While a formal announcement with IBM is weeks away, System i shops today can use Solidcore’s products to continuously monitor changes to their i5/OS servers, boost security, and help automate PCI compliance. While it’s true that outside threats can impact the security and availability of your IT services, the fact is that the weather and Eastern European hackers can’t hold a candle to the level of damage that Bob the Midnight Operator can wreak on

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• Vision to Support IBM’s HASM Technology in Clustering Software

  March 11, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Vision Solutions last week announced that it’s supporting the new High Availability Solutions Manager (HASM) that IBM will include with the forthcoming release of i5/OS V6R1. With HASM support in Cluster1, the largest System i shops will have a single solution for managing their entire high availability environments, from logical replication all the way through hardware-based clustering solutions such as HASM. When it becomes available with i5/OS V6R1 on March 21HASM will provide another way for System i shops to replicate data, objects, and resources as part of a high availability or disaster recovery program. HASM combines the so-called hardware-based

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• CodeGear Offers a Rational Alternative for System i Development

  March 11, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Borland subsidiary CodeGear yesterday announced that it is reselling the Delphi/400 family of products, which was originally developed by SystemObjects. With the Delphi/400 and Delphi/400 for PHP offerings, CodeGear customers gain a way to develop Web- and Windows-based front ends to existing RPG and COBOL applications from within Delphi, Borland’s 4GL IDE–and also gain another alternative to IBM and its WebSphere and Rational development tools. CodeGear was created in November 2006 when it was spun out of Borland’s developer tool division to continue to develop and support the Delphi, JBuilder, 3rdRail, Blackfish, Interbase, JGear, and Turbo products. While sales

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• TDCI Hooks Product Configurator into i5/OS ERP

  March 11, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Is it possible to have too much choice? It can often seem that way when trying to order products from manufacturers that offer a dizzying array of features, options, colors, and dimensions. To help streamline the decision making process, TDCI sells a piece of software called BuyDesign that makes a manufacturer or distributor “easy to do business with.” And now with the new iSeries Adapter, TDCI is making it easier to hook BuyDesign into i5/OS-based ERP systems. You may have heard of Columbus, Ohio-based TDCI. The company continues to develop and sell the MAC-PAC XE ERP suite, which is based

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• Fax Added to System i VoIP Solutions

  March 11, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Interested in getting FoIP, or fax over IP, along with your System i voice over IP (VoIP) solution? Then you may want to check out Sagem-Interstar, which next month plans to begin shipping a new version of its Linux-based FoIP server technology designed to work with the System i-based VoIP offerings from 3Com and Nortel. VoIP plays a central role in IBM‘s Unified Communications (UC) strategy, but it’s not the only technology involved. E-mail is another important element of UC, as are instant messaging (IM), video conferencing, and Web-based collaboration tools such as wikis, blogs, and forums.

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• Chrono-Logic Updates Change Management Offering for LANSA

  March 11, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Organizations that use Chrono-Logic‘s iAM change management product to automate the deployment of its i5/OS-based applications created with LANSA development tools can now use iAM to deploy their Windows-based development efforts to Windows servers and PCs, the software company announced last week. Chrono-Logic, which is based in Montreal, Canada, offers several tools designed to enhance the LANSA development experience. Chief among these is iAM for Development, a change management tool that automates many aspects of iSeries and Windows LANSA development, including: task tracking; version control; impact analysis; and roll-backs; and code promotion and distribution. The product integrates with several

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• ACOM Improves Web-Based Document Management Solution

  March 11, 2008 Alex Woodie

  ACOM Solutions last week unveiled a new release of EZContentManager, its Windows-based document management offering that gives users a Web front end for accessing documents originating from the System i and other server platforms. With version 3.4, ACOM adds a number of handy features designed to make it easier for users to perform document scanning, searching, and retrieval tasks. ACOM launched EZContent Manager in December 2005 to fill what it saw as a void in the market for a low-cost and easy-to-use content management systems. Instead of powerful but complicated content management systems from IBM and others that run on

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• Wheelabrator to Cut Waste with Paperless Solution from Quadrant

  March 11, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Houston, Texas-based Wheelabrator Technologies knows something about waste. For 30 years, the Waste Management subsidiary has been converting household trash into billions of kilowatt-hours of clean, renewable energy. Now, the JD Edwards World customer is looking to Quadrant Software and its paperless process management (PPM) solutions to help it get rid of another source of waste–paperwork–and implement more efficient paperless business processes. By the end of the month, Wheelabrator expects to complete its implementation of several Quadrant products, including IntelliChief, Formtastic, and FastFax, that should help the company reduce its use of paper and be more productive with business documents

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