• New Software from IIS Improves Document Workflow

  October 5, 2004 Alex Woodie

  Billing department are the intended users of two new modules that Image Integration Systems announced last month. One of the new modules, called Pass-Through-Billing, helps users to turn vendor invoices around so they can bill their customers more quickly, while another, called AutoVoucher, eliminates the manual entry of vendor information in batch invoice runs. Both of the new modules plug into the company’s Windows-based DocuSphere content management and workflow software, which is used at hundreds of OS/400 shops. You may not have heard about Image Integration Systems, based in Perrysburg, Ohio, but that doesn’t mean it’s new. IIS has been

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• Bug Busters Enables True Object Broadcasting with RSF 7.2

  October 5, 2004 Alex Woodie

  OS/400 shops that need to distribute objects to hundreds of iSeries servers will be delighted to hear about the latest release of Bug Busters Software Engineering‘s Remote Software Facility. RSF Version 7.2 features a new broadcast distribution option that enables a single iSeries to send OS/400 objects, libraries, and IFS objects to any number of other iSeries in the same amount of time it would take to transmit to just one of them. Bug Busters has been helping OS/400 shops and ISVs streamline object distribution for years with its flagship RSF utility, which is used by thousands of OS/400

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• Product Review: Stampede’s AutoZip Eases E-Mail Attachment Woes

  September 28, 2004 Joe Hertvik

  E-mail attachments are a headache for IBM Lotus Domino administrators. Larger and ever-expanding e-mail attachments increase backup time, consume Domino server disk space, and affect server performance, increase mailbox administrative costs, and slow down network transmission speeds. No matter how you view it, servicing large e-mail attachments is costly, in terms of network administration and performance. To ease these woes, Stampede Technologies offers TurboGold AutoZip. AutoZip is Stampede’s Lotus-based client and server software for the automatic ZIP file compression of large Domino e-mail file attachments. By reducing Domino attachment storage space in a mailbox, AutoZip helps your network efficiently transfer

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• Create!form 6.0 Delivers More Options for OS/400 Output

  September 28, 2004 Alex Woodie

  Create!form last week issued Create!form Version 6, the first major release of the core document management application since Bottomline Technologies acquired the company 12 months ago. This latest release includes new features, such as dynamic document repagination, the capability to embed data calculations into documents, support for PCL, and an improved user interface, which should make it easier for users to create and distribute professional looking documents from their enterprise applications. The Create!form suite of tools helps users to kick the preprinted-form habit and move to cheaper laser printers, while giving them the flexibility to distribute their documents electronically at

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• DataMirror Introduces Integration Suite 2005

  September 28, 2004 Alex Woodie

  DataMirror is launching a new bundle of software and services designed to help companies with their data integration and compliance projects. Integration Suite 2005, announced yesterday, is built around a new release of the company’s flagship data replication product, Transformation Server, and includes auditing, high-availability, and mobile database tools, as well as services. DataMirror says the bundle addresses the emerging two-pronged problem of data integration and regulatory compliance, while saving customers up to 50 percent, compared with buying the products separately. Integration Suite 2005 brings together many of the products DataMirror has developed or acquired over the years. At the

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• Kisco Releases Full Update to WebReport/400

  September 28, 2004 Alex Woodie

  Kisco Information Systems has added many new features to WebReport/400, its OS/400 report conversion and electronic distribution utility. In WebReport/400 Version 7, made available last week, users will find enhanced security, outbound FTP support, new e-mail and naming options, message queue support, and other enhancements designed to improve the handling, distribution, and storage of spool files generated from OS/400 applications. WebReport/400 is an OS/400 utility that monitors output queues, converts spool files to a new format, and then distributes the converted file electronically, either through e-mail, by posting to a Web site, or (new with Version 7.0) distribution through FTP.

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• EVault Brings Online Backups to the iSeries

  September 21, 2004 Alex Woodie

  EVault launched the OS/400 community’s first online backup technology last week. EVault iSeries, the OS/400 version of the vendor’s disk-to-disk backup and recovery offering that sends data offsite using IP networks, promises faster and more versatile back ups and recoveries than standard tape backups, while avoiding the hassle and expense of high-end mirroring solutions. The solution is available as either licensed software or an outsourced service using the vendor’s data centers. Phil Gilmour, chief executive of Walnut Creek, California, based EVault, is a tape displacement aficionado. He realizes that, while the iSeries is a pretty reliable machine, tape-based backup processes–no

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• MKS Integrates Workflow Application with WDSc

  September 21, 2004 Alex Woodie

  The iSeries developers who work within WebSphere Development Studio Client (WDSc) can now access additional workflow and process management capabilities directly from within their IDE. Last week MKS announced new integration between MKS Integrity Manager, its high-level process and workflow application for managing complex development projects, and IBM‘s Eclipse framework. Developers can now do such things as receive work assignments, run queries, conduct reviews, and make updates, without ever stepping outside of WDSc. MKS Integrity Manager is a process and workflow management product that provides structure for software development projects spanning multiple platforms or multiple locations. While the MKS

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• Business Intelligence Tool Gets Better PeopleSoft Compatibility

  September 21, 2004 Alex Woodie

  The upcoming release of New Generation Software‘s NGS-IQ Version 6.4 has a little surprise for PeopleSoft‘s J.D. Edwards customer base. The new release of the popular Windows-based business intelligence tool for OS/400 servers now features support for PeopleSoft World and EnterpriseOne data dictionaries, which will provide consistency across things like date formats. Security has also been enhanced in this annual update of the tool. NGS says that, through the new Meta External Reference feature, the NGS-IQ product will be able to read EnterpriseOne and World data dictionaries. This means that NGS-IQ users will be able to take advantage

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• Symtrax Ships Updated Edition of WebReports

  September 21, 2004 Alex Woodie

  Symtrax has improved the search engine and made other improvements to WebReports, a Windows-based document archive application that provides secure and centralized access to output from a variety of other hosts, including OS/400 servers. The latest release, WebReports Version 2.3, which Symtrax released last week, also features more customizable screens, better administrative functions, and support for Windows 2003 Server. WebReports, which Symtrax originally launched in February (see “Symtrax Improves iSeries Report Access with WebReports”), is designed to give users easy access to important documents–invoices, statements, weekly sales reports, and the like–which many shops have spread across OS/400, Unix, Windows,

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