• GST Says 25 Percent of iSeries Tape Restores Fail

  July 19, 2005 Alex Woodie

  When it comes time to restore your iSeries following a disaster or a crash, will your backup tapes work properly, or will your restore be the one in four that fails? These are the questions the iSeries tape experts at GST want every iSeries shop to ask themselves. Last week, the vendor launched a new service to test iSeries backup tapes, so you can rest assured your restore will work, or so you can fix what’s wrong–before you’re in a serious fix. To use GST’s new System Restore Testing Service, an OS/400 shop would send its backup tapes to GST,

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• Zend Delivers New PHP Engine for IBM Servers

  July 19, 2005 Alex Woodie

  IBM and Zend last week announced the availability of a new PHP package, called Zend Core for IBM, which brings iSeries shops an inexpensive and easy-to-use tool for building dynamic, database-driven Web applications. While it’s not the first version of the open-source, server-side scripting language for the iSeries, the new PHP implementation brings advantages, such as technical support through the newly announced Zend Network, and the choice of using either DB2/400 or the embedded Cloudscape database. PHP is one of the most popular languages (possibly the most popular) for creating and maintaining Web sites. According to a PHP usage survey

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• Innovatum Tackles FDA Labeling Requirements

  July 19, 2005 Alex Woodie

  Innovatum has taken the final wraps off a major update to ROBAR, a Windows program designed to help drug makers and medical device manufacturers design, manage, and print barcode and RFID labels. ROBAR version 2, which interfaces with ERP systems such as BPCS, can help companies comply with a barcode labeling requirement that went into affect last year, in addition to potential mandates some in the industry expect the Food and Drug Administration to make regarding RFID labels in the pharmaceutical supply chain. ROBAR is designed to reduce the number of labeling errors by eliminating the manual input and manipulation

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• Quadrant Updates Fax Server Software

  July 19, 2005 Alex Woodie

  Quadrant Software recently issued an update to its FastFax eFax server software, which is used in OS/400, Windows, and NetWare environments. FastFax version 4.6.1 features a number of enhancements, including support for searchable PDFs, administrative improvements, a new API, and support for the latest products from IBM Lotus and Xerox. FastFax is a full-function fax environment that lets OS/400 users create, send, receive, and manage their faxes. The product is available in various bundles, including FastFax/Enterprise and FastFax/Ultra for iSeries environments, FastFax/LAN for Novell and Windows environments, and FastFax/Blue, which augments IBM’s OS/400 Facsimile Support/400 for enhanced inbound and

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• IBM Tweaks the iSeries Line with Improvements

  July 12, 2005 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  IBM has promised its customers, its resellers, and its employees that it would not make substantial changes to the iSeries server line in 2005, so don’t get worried. IBM is not going to suddenly reconfigure the boxes or their pricing as part of its summer announcements today. But the company is going to nip and tuck here and there to make the iSeries a better fit for customers and partners. To that end, IBM is announcing new configurations of the i5 520 Value and Express servers, is unveiling a Solution Edition of the i5 520 server, and is simplifying the

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• Identity Management Comes to Forefront as Data Losses Mount

  July 12, 2005 Alex Woodie

  Software vendors are responding to the rash of high profile data losses by large corporations and the exploding problem of identity theft with new products designed to lock down access to business applications. IBM, BMC Software, and M-Tech introduced new single sign-on (SSO) and user administration products last month as companies look for ways to control access to data and applications. In the recent past, the gory details of major security lapses at American corporations were rarely reported. Security software vendors occasionally would describe how clients had lost data or been hacked, but it was taboo for the

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• Seagull Heightens Human Interaction with LegaSuite BPM

  July 12, 2005 Alex Woodie

  Seagull Software wasted no time last month rolling out a new suite of business process management (BPM) tools just weeks after acquiring BPM software maker Oak Grove Systems and integrating that technology into LegaSuite, Seagull’s flagship collection of application modernization and integration tools for iSeries and other hosts. With LegaSuite BPM, Seagull now offers organizations the capability to integrate human decision-making into newly created business process workflows, something the company says is lacking in other BPM products. Atlanta-based Seagull acquired California-based Oak Grove Systems four weeks ago for an undisclosed sum of money (see “Seagull Acquires Oak Grove for BPM

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• System Objects Updates Delphi/400 Development Tools

  July 12, 2005 Alex Woodie

  System Objects wants to put a new graphical interface on your RPG and COBOL applications, and it has several ways to do it. The French company recently started shipping a new release of Delphi/400, its add-on to Borland‘s Delphi IDE that brings DB2/400 access to Windows applications developed with that IDE. Or if Java, Visual Basic, or C++ is your thing, System Objects has add-ons that bring low-level DB2/400 access to those environments, too. Delphi/400 is a Microsoft Windows-oriented development tool that plugs into Borland’s fourth-generation language (4GL) IDE and brings low-level OS/400 and DB2/400 access to thick and

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• Original Looks for Performance Problems with New TestLOAD Tool

  June 28, 2005 Alex Woodie

  You’ve finished developing the new customer Web portal, gone through QA, and now you think it’s ready for production. Hold on just a second: Have you considered how response times will scale when it’s accessed by 5, 50, or 500 customers simultaneously? Will it play well with your other iSeries workloads, or slow the entire system down? These are the types of performance questions that Original Software‘s new TestLOAD tool can help answer. As an iSeries user, you understand the value of keeping your server online. Unless your OS/400 server has remained online for years, in which case you

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• SpoolFlex Gains Audit Trail for Regulatory Compliance

  June 28, 2005 Alex Woodie

  New auditing features from DRV Technologies are helping iSeries shops comply with the record-keeping and disclosure requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, and other new regulations. The developer of the SpoolFlex document management software suite recently launched a new product called the Audit Trail that improves administrators’ document monitoring capabilities while satisfying the requirements for regulatory compliance. SpoolFlex is a collection of native OS/400 utilities designed to eliminate the time and expense associated with printing and hand-delivering OS/400 reports, and to reduce errors introduced when financial data is rekeyed into Excel spreadsheets. The basic SpoolFlex e-Delivery Suite provides conversion to popular PC

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