Organizations that use Open Text‘s host access software will be able to take advantage of some of the spiffy new features that Microsoft built into Windows 7, such as jump lists and multiple document preview. The company’s Connectivity Solutions Group (formerly Hummingbird) will offer support for these features in the upcoming release of HostExplorer version 14, due by the end of the month.

When Windows Vista launched three years ago, terminal emulator vendors struggled to support the new operating system. The companies rewrote chunks of code to handle the new Windows security paradigm and to ensure that established features,

Getting up and running with Halcyon Software‘s new Systems Operations Suite version 3.0 should be easier now that the software includes pre-defined templates for monitoring jobs, queues, and other areas within popular i OS ERP suites like SAP and JD Edwards. Officially released today, the updated product also delivers enhanced monitoring of QAUDJRN, the QSECOFR profile, and file transfers on the System i.

As a systems management vendor focused on the System i, Halcyon Software has known what areas of the operating systems need to be closely watched. It has had spool files, message queues, and the QAUDJRN covered

IBM says it’s working on native PDF capabilities with next year’s release of i OS 6.2 (or whatever it will be called). Luckily for customers that cannot wait that long, there are PDF solutions from third-party developers. One of these is Healy Software, which recently launched a new product called iPDF Server that allows users to convert spool files to PDFs, index them in an archive on a PC or System i server, and then retrieve through a Web browser.

System i shops, like their cohorts running business applications on Windows or mainframes or Unix servers, are demanding solutions

Users of mrc‘s m-Power application development tool will find the product much easier to use as the result of a comprehensive overhaul of the user interface, the company reports. The company has replaced text-based menus with new graphical elements that should make navigating the product much more intuitive and productive.

m-Power is a Web application development tool that is used to generate J2EE-based Web portals, e-commerce sites, executive dashboards, business intelligence systems, and other applications that run on System i, Windows, Linux, and other servers. The tool utilizes a model-based development approach that takes advantage of programmers’ existing knowledge

In the world of AS/400 (Power Systems) computing, there is a constant battle between the 5250 diehards who love their green-screen interfaces, and the graphical types who feel that every computer should look and feel like Windows. EDI software developer Inovis recently proved that it’s not beholden to either camp, but answerable only to its customers, when it launched a new release of TrustedLink IBM i edition (TLi) that allows the green-screen types to avoid traversing at least one GUI to get where they’re going.

Like many ISVs, Inovis has been forced, either through feedback from its user base or

Gresham Enterprise Storage, the Austin, Texas-based subsidiary of Gresham Computing that has been pushing its virtual tape library (VTL) solutions into the Power System and System i markets lately, has sold its VTL software product and all related intellectual property (IP) to Tributary Systems, it was announced last week.

Tributary Systems Inc. (TSI) says it has acquired all of the assets related to Storage Director, the core piece of technology that turned a regular storage array into a VTL device. The Dallas, Texas, company was an OEM partner of Gresham, and included its Storage Director technology in its

Attunity last week unveiled a collection of new data replication agents designed for use by organizations that are basing their business intelligence environments (and, by connection, their data integration processes) environments on Microsoft‘s SQL Server database and, specifically, SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS). The new agents provide change data capture (CDC) functionality on DB2/400, DB2 for z/OS, and Hewlett-Packard‘s NonStop platform.

Earlier this year, Attunity launched the first of its SSIS-focused agents for the Oracle database. The product was designed to provide an efficient and low cost way to move new data from an Oracle environment over to

Oracle last week delivered a slew of mostly minor enhancements for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne with Release 9 Update 1. The update gives users of EnterpriseOne 9.0 new functionality in several areas, including financials, project management, human capital management, and more.

Oracle delivered a major update of EnterpriseOne with the delivery of version 9.0 a year ago. To prevent customers from feeling overwhelmed by new releases every few months or years, Oracle decided to put out Release 9, Update 1, which is intended to provide incremental improvement without requiring a major application upgrade and all that entails.

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Bunn-O-Matic knows a lot about brewing coffee. The Springfield, Illinois, company has been in the coffee maker manufacturing business for more than 50 years, with both commercial and consumer lines. But when it came to building, running, and distributing reports from business applications, Bunn-O-Matic’s employees would typically find an IT expert to help them. That has changed as the result of a recent implementation of software from Information Builders.

Because Bunn-O-Matic relies on an AS/400-based ERP system and a SQL Server-based system to run its service center, it has experienced difficulty in getting the two systems to talk to

VAI last week announced another longtime customer, carpet manufacturer Syntec Industries, has gone live with S2K 5.0, the newest release of the vendor’s RPG-based ERP application. Syntec expects the software to help improve its year-end processing, while managing its seven warehouses.

Based in Rome, Georgia, Syntec Industries makes carpets that serve a variety of needs, including marine, recreational vehicle (RV), and general housing. In addition to carpeting, Syntec sells trims, vinyl, leathers, suede, fabrics, logo mats, and adhesives.

Syntec first installed S2K more than 10 years ago, and the i5/OS-based software has served the company well, says Joann Marvin, a