• Qualcomm Offers New TrailerTRACS Hosting Options

  March 15, 2005 Alex Woodie

  Trucking companies looking to implement Qualcomm‘s wireless trailer-tracking system can let Qualcomm do the heavy lifting through a new hosting solution it announced last week. Since the new T2 Untethered TrailerTRACS system became generally available last fall, customers have been able to integrate it with their OS/400-based dispatch systems. Now Qualcomm is offering to run it on its own iSeries servers, and provide access to it over the Web. While Qualcomm is best known for the chips and technology it develops for cellular phones, it’s also been a major player in the market for software for the trucking industry

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• NetManage Positions Software for iSeries Single Sign-On

  March 15, 2005 Alex Woodie

  OS/400 shops should be able to easily integrate host access products from NetManage into their sign-on (SSO) environment as a result of the newly added support for Kerberos authentication that NetManage announced last week. In addition to simplifying user log-ons with SSO, RUMBA 7.4 and OnWeb 7.2 both bring additional security enhancements, including new Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Secure Shell (SSH) features. The price of forgotten passwords continues to add costs to corporate operations and suck profits from the bottom line. According to research firm Gartner, 25 to 40 percent of all calls to the help desk are

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• Core Imaging Targets the Paper Chase at OS/400 Shops

  March 8, 2005 Alex Woodie

  There is a new player in the market for OS/400 document imaging and workflow software. Core Imaging of Southern California has developed a suite of software designed to make the accounting departments of manufacturers and distributors more efficient by replacing paper-based workflows with electronic equivalents. Last week it announced CoreConnect Host Access, which makes it easier for employees to find and pull up documents from a 5250 emulator. Core Imaging has accumulated some interesting facts about the inefficiency of relying on paper forms to document transactions, which is still the case for 85 percent to 90 percent of all transactions,

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• It’s Time for Web Services That Are Useable, Attachmate Says

  March 8, 2005 Alex Woodie

  Up to this point, Web services have been talked about in terms of how they can technically connect different systems and architectures. But what’s missing from this debate, according to Attachmate, is how end users themselves can benefit from Web services technology. Making it easier for employees who aren’t technologically sophisticated to make and reuse composite applications in a services oriented architecture (SOA) is the focus of Attachmate’s new Synapta product strategy, which it officially unveiled for the first time yesterday. Attachmate is one of the largest providers of emulation packages for OS/400, mainframe, Unix, Unisys, and Tandem hosts,

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• iSeries Access for Linux Gives Users Choice

  March 8, 2005 Alex Woodie

  Listen up iSeries users who are looking to break Windows grip on their desktops. iSeries Access for Linux, which IBM introduced last spring as part of the eServer i5 and i5/OS announcements, enables users to open 5250 sessions and access DB2/400 from a Linux client. Two weeks ago, IBM quietly rolled out a new release of this product. For years, IBM supported its Client Access and iSeries Access family of products on just two PC operating systems: Microsoft Windows, and whatever’s left of OS/2. Third-party providers offered more options with their emulators, like Mac OS and Linux. But if you

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• Versata Hopes for a SOA Spark with New Java IDE

  March 8, 2005 Alex Woodie

  In the midst of the resignation of its CEO and very disappointing financial results, Versata last week unveiled a new version of its Enterprise Java development and runtime environment. Versata 6 offers support for externally described business rules, compatibility with the Eclipse workbench, and built-in business activity monitoring, and represents a bet by Versata that service oriented architectures (SOA) and Web services will become more popular as a means to simplify application development. Versata is an advanced Java 2, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) development and runtime environment designed to be used by business analysts. Instead of hiring expensive J2EE developers to

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• Counterpane Brings OS/400 Into Its Managed Security Fold

  March 1, 2005 Alex Woodie

  OS/400 shops looking to outsource their network and server security monitoring may want to check out Counterpane Internet Security, a managed security service provider (MSSP) that introduced a new OS/400 monitoring agent with the launch of Enterprise Protection Suite 2.0 last month. Inclusion of OS/400 event logs provides another piece in the security puzzle that Counterpane’s security analysts are trying to put together for its customers, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Founded in Silicon Valley six years ago by noted cryptologist Bruce Schneier, Counterpane today is one of a growing number of MSSPs that are taking

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• GST Unveils Line of Affordable Memory for i5 Servers

  March 1, 2005 Alex Woodie

  Users of the eServer i5 got a new supplier of main memory last week when GST announced it has entered the business. GST’s new line of IBM clone memory for i5, p5, and pSeries servers is available in 1 GB, 2 GB, 4 GB, and 8 GB capacities, and ranges in price from $550 to $7,375, which is exactly half the price that IBM is charging. GST’s memory products consists of 208-pin dual inline memory modules (DIMMs) that are fully plug-compatible and equivalent to IBM’s memory products. It is selling two versions for the eServer i5s, one that works with

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• Informatica Unveils 18-Month Roadmap for Enterprise ETL

  March 1, 2005 Alex Woodie

  Informatica today began shipping the first of three new planned versions of its PowerCenter product, an extract, transform, and load (ETL) tool used for building data warehouses and other IT projects that require moving massive amounts of data among various systems, including iSeries. The Advanced Edition brings new metadata and analysis features, and will be followed with new PowerCenter releases in the falls of 2005 and 2006 as part of an 18-month product roadmap Informatica unveiled last week. PowerCenter’s ETL capability forms the basis many different projects at IT shops, including business intelligence, data synchronization, data migration, consolidation, and gaining

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• Linoma Boosts Security and Automation of Data Transfer Tool

  March 1, 2005 Alex Woodie

  Linoma Software last week announced a new release of Transfer Anywhere, a versatile data distribution engine that runs on OS/400 and Windows servers. With Transfer Anywhere version 1.5.1, Linoma has improved the security of encrypted transfers by encoding digital signatures. It has also added new options for automating data transfers on AS/400, iSeries, and i5 servers. Transfer Anywhere is a flexible Java program that can do the job of several point products, including converting, compressing, encrypting, and distributing files among OS/400, Windows, Linux, and Macintosh clients. It’s an ideal tool for OS/400 and Windows shops that need a secure and

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