• Original Adds Variable Data to Software Testing Suite

  November 30, 2004 Alex Woodie

  During software testing, it can be a daunting task to generate a separate test script for each type of data that needs to be tested against the application. To satisfy the need for more productive and precise testing, Original Software recently introduced a new product called TestSmart that automatically populates a single test script with different real-world data on each test run. The English testing specialist has also added regulatory compliance to the testing fold with a new release of TestPlan. Announced last month at its annual user conference in Chicago, Original’s new TestSmart module is a plug-in for the

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• iSeries: The Low-Cost Choice for Kansas County Government

  November 30, 2004 Alex Woodie

  It seems counterintuitive at first. Given the choice of building a solution on an iSeries server or building one on a less expensive Intel-based server, the iSeries solution costs less in the end. But that is what’s happening across the state of Kansas, where a reseller by the name of InfiniTec is keeping county governments running lean and mean, year after year, with RPG software, technical services, and iSeries hardware. There used to be several software vendors that developed and sold iSeries-based software packages to county governments in Kansas, says Sonny Sagar, director of marketing at InfiniTec, based in

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• Devon Introduces New Appliance for Secure Remote Access

  November 30, 2004 Alex Woodie

  Devon IT recently launched NTAVO 5.0 Appliance, a new IBM eServer-based device designed to provide remote users with secure and easy-to-use access to applications running on OS/400, mainframe, Unix, Linux, and Windows servers. As a main application proxy, the NTAVO Appliance has advantages over other remote access techniques, such as virtual private networks and Citrix, the company claims. Devon IT’s NTAVO Appliances are rack-mountable, Linux-based IBM xSeries servers (or IBM eServer BladeCenter systems on the high-end model) that use Tarantella‘s remote access technology to provide thin clients with secure access to host applications. On the back end, the

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• Pat Townsend Launches Stand-Alone AES/400 Encryption Solution

  November 30, 2004 Alex Woodie

  Patrick Townsend & Associates is now shipping Alliance AES/400, a data security utility that provides an OS/400 implementation of the 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm. Previously provided as an optional component of Pat Townsend’s FTP Manager product, AES/400 has been broken out as a stand-alone utility to give OS/400 shops an easy way to encrypt their sensitive DB2/400 and IFS fields and files, and to share encrypted files with Windows clients. If you’ve heard it once, you’ve heard it a thousand times: the OS/400 server, out of the box, is one of the most computer secure platforms in use.

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• PGM Provides Springboard for iSeries Web Development

  November 16, 2004 Alex Woodie

  With the array of development technologies and techniques, it can be difficult for OS/400 shops to get started developing a Web application. Is Java or .NET the better language choice? Should you write an application from scratch or attempt to put a Web face on old apps? PGM Systems is trying to simplify these tough decisions for iSeries developers and get them started in Java, SQL, and Struts programming with a new Web application code generator and framework called iStart. Massachusetts-based PGM Systems first released its iStart Web Application Generator in March 2004. The product is the result of work

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• Startup Delivers Database Tools for OS/400 HA Environments

  November 16, 2004 Alex Woodie

  One of the challenges of running an OS/400 high availability environment is ensuring that data and objects are always in synch. If you let them get out of synch, it exposes your business to the possibility of downtime and can take hours to track down and fix. Two former employees of an HA software vendor recently founded Shane Software to provide graphical tools to help administrators ensure that their HA environment is in synch, and track down and fix the problem if it’s not. Shane Software is an IBM business partner located near Irvine, California. The company was founded in

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• Expand’s New Data Acceleration Technology Proves Fast in Tests

  November 16, 2004 Alex Woodie

  Researchers at Expand Networks have come up with a new WAN compression algorithm called Data Transfer Acceleration (DTA) that can achieve compression rates of up to 20-1. That figure is the result of a test that Expand commissioned Tolly Group to perform against the company’s two main competitors for WAN compression appliances, Packeteer and Peribit, the results of which were announced yesterday. Expand paid Tolly, an independent organization that specializes in testing network equipment, to benchmark a pair of Expand Accelerator 4820 devices, running at Version 5.03, against two Packeteer PacketShaper 2500 Version 6.2.1 devices and two Perebit Sequence

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• Linoma Offers PGP Studio with Data Transfer Tool

  November 16, 2004 Alex Woodie

  Linoma Software is shipping a new release of its secure data transfer tool for OS/400 and Windows systems. With Transfer Anywhere Version 1.5, Linoma is now including a free copy of the Windows-based studio it built to maintain the Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) encryption keys (which would normally cost $495 per seat), among other new capabilities. Transfer Anywhere is a versatile Java program that can do the job of several point products, including distributing, retrieving, converting, compressing, encrypting, and signing data and files. It lets users pull specific data sets out of their DB2/400, DB2, Oracle, SQL Server 2000,

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• Unleash the Borg: OS/400 Gets Autonomic Tooling

  November 9, 2004 Alex Woodie

  Your dream of building an army of self-aware, self-healing iSeries servers is drawing nigh: IBM recently added key autonomic runtime capabilities to its prized OS/400 server. With the release of Autonomic Toolkit 2.0, IBM added OS/400 and Solaris to the list of operating systems that support the development of autonomic systems that can automatically take action to counter specific problems and events. IBM launched its autonomic computing initiative several years ago as an integral component of its on-demand strategy to deliver computing as a utility. The goal of this initiative is to build self-reactive computer systems that automatically adapt to

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• TeamQuest Brings Capacity Planning Tool to OS/400 Server

  November 9, 2004 Alex Woodie

  TeamQuest announced last week that it is supporting OS/400 and z/OS servers with the latest release of its capacity planning tool and supporting software suite, Performance Software 9.2. With the announcement, TeamQuest becomes the only vendor to provide capacity planning and performance analysis capabilities across IBM‘s entire eServer line, and it supports other major platforms as well. Since it was spun off from mainframe maker Unisys, in 1991, TeamQuest has always focused on providing performance analysis and capacity planning software. The company, based in Clear Lake, Iowa, brings in about $20 million a year and counts about 400

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