• Maximum Availability Unveils New HA and DR Products

  June 7, 2005 Alex Woodie

  New Zealand-based Maximum Availability is completing the worldwide roll-out of a new suite of high availability and disaster recovery products for iSeries servers. From what was once a single product, called *noMAX, there are now three siblings in the *noMAX family, including *noMAX Sentry, *noMAX Defender, and *noMAX Garrison. Each delivers a specific level of high availability, and is designed to more closely fit the specific needs of a range of iSeries shops. *noMAX Sentry is created for customers that are starting out with high availability, and is the most significant part of Maximum Availability’s announcement. This product is designed

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• Atempo Brings Backup and Recovery Software to the iSeries

  June 7, 2005 Alex Woodie

  In the 2004 movie “Napoleon Dynamite,” Napoleon’s Uncle Rico is presented with a device purported to be a time machine. Eager to relive his high school football championship game, Uncle Rico sets the dial for 1982, plugs the machine into the power supply, and then places the machine, per the directions, right between his legs. While things did not work out well for Uncle Rico, iSeries shops looking to travel back in time to find versions of their files they thought were lost now have a solution in Atempo‘s Time Navigator. OK, Time Navigator doesn’t actually support time travel

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• Profound Logic Updates RPG Editor

  June 7, 2005 Alex Woodie

  Profound Logic recently launched a new release of RPG-Alive GUI, its Windows-based RPG editor. With version 4.3, the Dayton, Ohio, company has added a number of enhancements, including new Intellisense features, source line date support, indented source printouts, an improved repository, PC-to-iSeries synchronization options, change management exit points, and code bookmarks for navigating through RPG programs. RPG-Alive GUI is the PC version of Profound Logic’s popular RPG-Alive code editor, and enables developers to write and maintain RPG ILE programs without being connected to an iSeries. The software brings developers some handy features, such as access to dynamic code snippets, a

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• Raz-Lee Ships New iSeries Security Software

  June 7, 2005 Alex Woodie

  Raz-Lee, the Israeli developer of OS/400 security tools, has issued new releases of several products this spring. A new release of the Firewall+++ product provides finer-grain control over users’ access to iSeries resources, while Raz-Lee’s auditing software gains real-time monitoring capability, as well as integration with the company’s screen capture tool. It’s been said over and over, but it bears repeating, if only to educate new iSeries users, or to pester old hands into (finally!) taking security seriously: While the iSeries is an extremely secure server, it has security holes big enough to drive a Mack truck through if

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• Intel Partnership Doesn’t Hurt iSeries Strategy, JDA Software Says

  May 31, 2005 Alex Woodie

  JDA Software Group says it still has a valid OS/400 strategy and strong support from its iSeries customers, despite the new Microsoft Windows .NET-based product portfolio unveiled earlier this year and the new partnership with Intel it announced last week. Like many of IBM‘s iSeries ISVs, JDA, whose OS/400-based merchandise management system and supply chain optimization software is used by hundreds of customers, has been forced to make a difficult decision between .NET and J2EE. The comments made last week by Peter Charness, JDA’s chief product officer and its senior vice president of global marketing, would seem to leave

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• Lakeview Adds Autonomic Features to HA Product Line

  May 31, 2005 Dan Burger

  When you realize the labor costs involved with setting up, running, and maintaining computer hardware and software surpasses the cost of the equipment itself by factors that sometimes reach as high as 20, is it any wonder why autonomic features create so much interest? Lakeview Technology, an IBM Premier Partner and a major ISV in the iSeries market, has recently loaded its two high availability products–ha1 and ha Lite–with autonomic features designed to simplify the process and reduce the long-term costs. High availability, or managed availability as Lakeview likes to refer to it, is the consistent and predictable access

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• Symtrax Adds Automation to StarQuery Reporting Tool

  May 31, 2005 Alex Woodie

  Companies will gain greater control over the distribution of their business reports with a new release of the StarQuery business intelligence tool, a graphical and easy to use alternative to Query/400 developed by Symtrax. StarQuery 2.0, announced last week, includes a new scheduling component that automatically runs queries against supported databases, such as DB2/400, at pre-set times. The new scheduling component also brings new distribution capabilities that utilize the ubiquity of the Internet and the PDF format. Los Angeles-based Symtrax aimed to make life easier for two groups of users when it introduced StarQuery about a year-and-a-half ago.

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• nuBridges Tackles PCI Security Mandate with New OS/400 Offering

  May 31, 2005 Alex Woodie

  nuBridges rolled out a new iSeries software and services offering last week designed to help companies that handle credit card data meet the impending deadline for complying with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard mandate. nuBridges truExchange PCI Secure enables OS/400 shops to implement encryption within their DB2/400 fields and Internet transport mechanisms, and is designed to prevent the theft of credit card information. If you’ve never heard of the credit card industry’s PCI Data Security Standard or Visa’s Cardholder Information Security Program (CISP) that it’s modeled after, you’re not alone. With so many other compliance mandates, such

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• AppWorx Brings Job Scheduler to OS/400

  May 24, 2005 Alex Woodie

  iSeries shops looking for a new cross-platform job scheduler gained a new option this month when AppWorx introduced an OS/400 agent with AppWorx version 6.1. The Java-based job scheduler has long been used in Oracle ERP environments, and now iSeries shops can utilize the AppWorx functions, including job launching, status tracking, and even capturing output. AppWorks is a Bellevue, Washington, company that started life as ISA Corp. in 1990. The company expanded from its initial focus on Oracle applications running on Windows and Unix platforms to include other operating systems and applications, including J.D. Edwards EnterpriseOne, Lawson‘s ERP software,

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• Looksoftware Shakes Up Product Line

  May 24, 2005 Alex Woodie

  Looksoftware is re-shuffling its line of application modernization software for iSeries, the Australian software company revealed last week. In addition to renaming some of its products, it has added a new runtime component called lookserver that will also provide an integration layer for linking composite applications, and it is also introducing a new thin client offering for speedy development and roll-outs of browser-based interfaces for less demanding users. The delivery of lookserver later this year will bring customers new options for how they want to deliver their iSeries and zSeries interfaces. First the company will offer smartclient edition (SE), which

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