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Damon Delivers New GUI Editor with RPG Server Pages 3.0

June 22, 2004 Alex Woodie

Developing dynamic Web content from RPG applications just got easier with the new release of Damon Technologies‘ RPG Server Pages software, a development tool that leverages existing RPG by embedding RPG code directly inside HTML pages. The new integrated development environment Damon has delivered with RPG Server Pages 3.0 combines an HTML Page Designer with an RPG Editor into a single product, which, the company says, gives programmers the benefits of WYSIWYG screen creation and faster development cycles.

RPG Server Pages, or RSP, is one of a new class of Web development tools that give OS/400 shops an alternative

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ProData Now Supports Database Utility on Linux

June 22, 2004 Alex Woodie

OS/400 developers can now work with their DB2/400 files from behind a Linux, Unix, or Windows workstation with the new release of ProData Computer Services DBU/GUI, the graphical client that works with ProData’s DB2/400 database utility, DBU 6.0. The Nebraska software company is also working on a new product called DBUnifier, which can be used to quickly create interactive maintenance and inquiry applications.

DBU fills the need for a data access utility that provides direct access to DB2/400 databases and allows people to change or delete records as needed, without programming. ProData says its tool is easier to use than

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In Server Consolidations, Knowledge Means Power

June 15, 2004 Alex Woodie

Before jumping onto the server consolidation bandwagon and leaving all those Wintel boxes behind, it behooves the good administrator to do his homework first. Accurately monitoring your applications’ consumption of server, storage, and network resources can mean the difference between a server consolidation project that ends like the one in IBM‘s new i5 TV commercial, and slinking into the CIO’s office to request another $100,000. A new service from DYS Analytics helps eliminate guesswork in Domino server consolidations.

When done correctly, many benefits can be gained from server consolidation projects, including simplified administration, reduced costs, and simpler, more scalable

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Lakeview Says XSM Shows Promise As Young Technology for HA

June 15, 2004 Alex Woodie

The latest release of OS/400 contains a new high availability capability called Cross Site Mirroring (XSM), which gives iSeries shops an entirely new way to replicate data to off-site backup machines. XSM allows you to mirror one independent Auxiliary Storage Pool to another on a remote machine. Lakeview Technology is supporting XSM with its own OS/400 mirroring software, called MIMIX, and says XSM shows promise as a technology, just like remote journaling before it.

IBM has been enhancing its independent Auxiliary Storage Pool technology over the last several releases of OS/400. An iASP is useful because it allows a disk

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Moving Beyond RPG: mrc-Productivity Series Evolves Openness

June 15, 2004 Alex Woodie

Michaels, ross & cole has officially opened the kimono. The longtime provider of an OS/400 fourth generation language (4GL) development environment is in the early stages of rolling out a new flagship development environment that can live on any platform. While the new tools don’t yet have a formal name, and won’t generate RPG, they will be largely based on the established mrc-Productivity Series development environment, and feel equally at home running on OS/400, Unix, Windows, and Linux platforms.

The mrc-Productivity Series was traditionally a menu-driven 4GL development environment that programmers used from a green screen. In 2002, mrc expanded

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Bowstreet Brings ‘Portlet Factory’ to iSeries

June 15, 2004 Alex Woodie

Java tools maker Bowstreet last week announced OS/400 support in its Portlet Factory for WebSphere, a rapid application development tool for creating Web-based portal applications. As its name suggests, Portlet Factory for WebSphere works with IBM‘s WebSphere Portal Server Express software, running on an iSeries or other server platforms, and enables the rapid development and delivery of customizable portal applications, all without Java programming.

OS/400 shops don’t need Bowstreet’s Portlet Factory to develop the various applications that make up a portal, which are also called portlets. They can use IBM’s standard WebSphere Studio tools to do that. But in

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ReorgWizard Fills a Need for Speed with New ‘Reverse’ Feature

June 8, 2004 Alex Woodie

DCSoftware is shipping a new version of ReorgWizard that includes a new “reverse reorg” feature, which, the company says, can make OS/400 file reorganizations run substantially faster. By starting a file reorg from the last records at the bottom of a file, users of ReorgWizard Version 3.0 should be able to run file reorgs in one-third of the time, and, depending on the condition of the files, possibly up to 90 percent faster, company officials say.

To maximize application response time and to make the most out of available DASD, OS/400 system administrators use a common housekeeping task, called a

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Linoma Targets Programmer Productivity with RPG Toolbox 3.2

June 8, 2004 Alex Woodie

Like a good carpenter, any programmer worth his salt relies on tools to make his job easier and to bring ideas to reality. In the case of RPG, Linoma Software sells a bundle of productivity tools called, appropriately enough, the RPG Toolbox. A new release of the RPG Toolbox is shipping this month that should make programmers more productive through enhancements to its three components: RPG Wizard, SEU Plus, and Source Snippets.

With the new Compile Analyzer included with the SEU Plus component of RPG Toolbox Version 3.2, programmers can eliminate time wasted looking at compile errors, the Omaha, Nebraska,

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QSystem Monitor Has an Ear for Application Availability

June 8, 2004 Alex Woodie

New software from systems management specialist CCSS continuously monitors select OS/400 applications to ensure their availability. The latest release of QSystem Monitor, Version 11, has the capability to “listen” to Internet applications that use TCP/IP. If the “listener” becomes inactive, indicating a possible problem, the QSystem Monitor immediately notifies the systems administrator with a flashing bar on his graphical console.

QSystem Monitor is a client/server application that shows system administrators how their iSeries servers are using system resources, such as database CPU, interactive processing per logical partition, or I/O. In total, the product simultaneously monitors 43 performance metrics (including 21

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NetIQ Goes ‘Holistic’ with New Security Management Suite

June 8, 2004 Alex Woodie

NetIQ this quarter will begin shipping a new collection of security software it intends to be the focal point of its users’ security strategy. The Silicon Valley company’s new Security Management Suite, which is a collection of updates of security products it developed or acquired from PentaSafe a year and a half ago, as well as new capabilities it gleaned from new partners, will work with other security “point” solutions, while addressing compliance issues, such as HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley.