• BCD Bringing PHP Generation to WebSmart IDE

  May 3, 2007 Alex Woodie

  System i development tool provider Business Computer Design Int’l this week unveiled plans to add PHP to its WebSmart integrated development environment (IDE). With WebSmart PHP, which is scheduled to go to beta in June, System i developers will be able to develop Web-based PHP applications that will run natively on i5/OS and DB2/400, in addition to other operating systems and databases. The PHP scripting language is making strong headway as a Web development language on the System i. Since IBM announced its partnership with Zend Technologies last year and brought Zend Core for i5/OS to market, System i shops

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• MySQL Database Getting Closer Ties to the System i

  May 1, 2007 Alex Woodie

  The System i is about to get a second supported database. Last week at the MySQL user conference, IBM and MySQL announced plans for MySQL to offer professional support for the open source database running on i5/OS, and to enable DB2/400 to work as one of the database “engines” that plugs into MySQL. The plan, when completed, has the capability to bring thousands of new Web 2.0 applications to the System i, and loads of DB2/400 data–and business credibility–to the upstart MySQL database platform. For years, there has been one, and only one, database management system for the AS/400, iSeries,

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• Quadrant Updates Forms Package, Content Management System

  May 1, 2007 Alex Woodie

  Quadrant Software made two separate but related product announcements this week at the COMMON conference in Anaheim, California. The first concerns the unveiling of a new electronic payment module to Formtastic, the company’s forms management software for i5/OS. The second involves the addition of customizable workflow functionality to IntelliChief, its new Windows-based document and content management system, which is being aimed squarely at medium- to large-size System i shops, in addition to existing Formtastic users. With Formtastic version 5.4, Quadrant has added a new Electronic Payments Module that allows System i users to send money electronically using the Automated Clearing

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• IBM Rolls Out LTO 4 Tape Drives and Libraries

  May 1, 2007 Alex Woodie

  IBM last week announced its first tape products built on the Linear Tape Open (LTO) generation 4 specification, including a new standalone drive, a new high-end drive featuring Fibre Channel interfaces, and four new or improved tape libraries providing scalability into the petabyte range. With the new LTO 4 spec, Big Blue is taking security quite seriously. IBM also announced a new virtual tape library. The LTO format has come on strong to become the top-selling tape drive format, besting the competing DLT, SDLT, and AIT enterprise formats. With 800 GB of native capacity per cartridge and data transfer rates

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• Oracle Seeks Better Third-Party Integration with AIA Initiative

  May 1, 2007 Alex Woodie

  Oracle‘s vast customer base should find it easier to connect their Oracle applications to software from third-party vendors as a result of the new Application Integration Architecture (AIA), or “Project X,” initiative the software giant announced at its user conference two weeks ago. In reaching out to its partners, Oracle also unveiled ISV Solution Maps to help customers find products that have been certified to work with their Oracle applications. Oracle launched the AIA initiative to provide itself, as well as third-party ISVs, with another way of hooking into Oracle’s enterprise products, including E-Business Suite (EBS), PeopleSoft Enterprise, J.D.

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• Bottomline Launches New ‘Proof of Delivery’ Product

  May 1, 2007 Alex Woodie

  J.D. Edwards EnterpriseOne shops may be interested in hearing about the latest product news out of Bottomline Technologies. At the recent Oracle Collaborate ’07 user conference in Las Vegas, the New England company unveiled a new product called Proof of Delivery and announced a new release of its Create!archive software. Bottomline Technologies, through its acquisition of Create!form International in 2003, has a solid business selling electronic document management solutions to J.D. Edwards shops. Before the acquisitions by PeopleSoft and Oracle, Create!form International had an exclusive deal to provide certified document management software to J.D. Edwards customers. There is no

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• DataMirror Updates Transformation Server/ES

  May 1, 2007 Alex Woodie

  DataMirror last week launched a new release of Transformation Server Event Server (TS/ES), a special version of its data replication software designed to work with message queues used in enterprise application integration (EAI) and service oriented architecture (SOA) environments. DataMirror’s popular Transformation Server software has traditionally been used for extracting, transforming, and loading (ETL-ing) massive amounts of data from one relational database to another. In most cases, Transformation Server users are moving data from production DB2/400, DB2 UDB, Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, or Teradata databases running on i5/OS, Windows, Unix, or Linux servers to a secondary database used for

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• HiT Software Updates Data Integration Tool

  May 1, 2007 Alex Woodie

  HiT Software is now shipping a new version of Allora, its flagship, XML-based data integration and synchronization software for DB2/400 and other major databases. With Allora version 5, HiT has introduced a new graphical module called Workflow Manager that is designed for creating, scheduling, and executing a group of database-to-XML transformation and related XML file management tasks. Workflow Manager includes a design component for adding tasks, setting parameters, and organizing tasks in the execution order. At runtime, a tab in the Workflow Manager screen shows details about the performance of the transformation workflow. HiT says the combination of its graphical

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• LANSA Gets its Game On

  May 1, 2007 Alex Woodie

  Do you have green-screen anger issues? A little pent up rage resulting from the lack of flexibility of your 5250 application in the current Web era? Or maybe you just like to play video games? If your answer to any of these questions is “yes,” LANSA invites you to take part in a new online game called RAMP Mania. The new game, which can be accessed at www.rampchallenge.com, digitally grafts a boxing glove to your mouse hand. As green screens and F keys pop up on the screen (Whack-a-Mole style), you navigate your mouse-glove to knock them down. In

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• Proginet Partners with Canadian System i Reseller

  May 1, 2007 Alex Woodie

  Proginet has tapped Blair Technology Solutions (BTS), a System i reseller based in Richmond Hill, Ontario, to sell its collection of security and file transfer tools, the company announced last week. Proginet sells a range of products that run on i5/OS and other platforms, including the file transfer product CyberFusion Integration (CFI) Suite, the SecureForce provisioning and user lifecycle management tool, and the SecurePass password management software (the company’s SecureAccess tool is aimed primarily at mainframe shops). By signing BTS, Proginet, which is based in Garden City, New York, hopes to boost its traction in the System i arena. “Proginet

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