• RPG Conversion Tool from ASC Now Supports XML, C#

  April 27, 2004 Alex Woodie

  OS/400 shops looking for a way to transition to Microsoft‘s .NET development tools and runtime environment may want to check out the latest release of Advanced Systems Concepts‘ RPG Into Objects, or RIO, code translator. RIO Version 5.4, which ASC announced last week, can now translate RPG into C#, in addition to Java, and it also has the capability to generate XML for Web browser GUIs. While RPG has proved itself to be an excellent language for writing business applications–particularly when paired with the OS/400 server’s stability and ease of use–the language, which was originally developed for punch-card

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• JR Wood Reduces Data Errors with EXTOL’s UCCnet Solution

  April 27, 2004 Alex Woodie

  Like all companies involved in supply chains, JR Wood experiences a certain rate of errors in its product data. The $135 million grower and manufacturer of frozen fruit products used a “rip and read” EDI system that required manual data entry into its J.D. Edwards ERP application. Last year, the company replaced its old EDI system with a new one from EXTOL, which improved its workflow and allowed it to synchronize its product data with its customer, Wal-Mart, via UCCnet. Located in the fertile farm country of California’s Central Valley, JR Wood has been growing and selling peaches

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• T.L. Ashford Rolls Out New RFID Software for OS/400

  April 27, 2004 Alex Woodie

  T.L. Ashford & Associates is now shipping a new module that allows its Barcode400 software and OS/400 applications to generate “smart labels” encoded with radio frequency identification (RFID) tags. Manufacturers and distributors in the retail, consumer processed goods, and hardline goods supply chains are under pressure to include RFID tags on shipments and to meet the RFID deadlines set by Wal-Mart, The Home Depot, the Department of Defense, and other supply chain leaders. Barcode400 is a native OS/400 label-generation application that integrates with users’ RPG, COBOL, and CL applications. The software works by merging product data from the core OS/400

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• IBM Brings Rack-Mounted UPS to iSeries

  April 27, 2004 Alex Woodie

  IBM Global Services last week introduced a rack-mounted Uninterruptible Power Systems (UPS) for iSeries servers. The 2.7 kW 9910 Model P33, which was first made available to pSeries customers in August 2001, was brought to the pSeries twin server, the iSeries, on April 20. IBM also announced four other new UPS systems for iSeries and pSeries servers in its 9910 line of power protection devices, which is an OEM model from Powerware. IBM said it brought the 9910 Model P33 UPS to the iSeries because of customer demand for rack-mounted UPS for iSeries servers. While, several years ago, IBM

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• ‘On-Access’ Virus Scanning to Debut with OS/400 V5R3

  April 20, 2004 Alex Woodie

  One of the new features iSeries shops can look forward to in OS/400 V5R3 is the capability to detect and clean viruses at the moment a user attempts to open a file that’s been infected with a virus, or the file is otherwise accessed. This so-called “on access” virus scanning capability will debut with OS/400 V5R3, which IBM is preparing to announce. On-access scanning will require an OS/400 antivirus scanning engine, such as Bytware‘s StandGuard Anti-Virus. Bytware launched the industry’s first–and still the only–OS/400-based virus scanning and removal tool in the summer of 2003 (see “Bytware Launches OS/400 Antivirus

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• BAI Offers Tax Payment over the Web with ASNA’s AVR for .NET

  April 20, 2004 Robert Boyd

  Annie Powell’s real estate taxes were due. The county tax assessor’s office was just outside of Richmond, Virginia, so on her lunch break she sped there to pay them. When she arrived, eight people were lined up in front of her. Sullen, she got in her car and returned to work. What Powell didn’t know was that two developers for a municipal software house in nearby Jonesborough, Tennessee, had just started a project that would have let Powell pay her taxes online. For 20 years, software developer BAI Municipal Software has written RPG-based applications to manage revenue-centric activities for municipalities,

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• Expand Plugs In with New IP Acceleration Options

  April 20, 2004 Alex Woodie

  OS/400 shops looking to Expand Networks to alleviate bandwidth problems with their data replication environments have new options available from the Roseland, New Jersey, company. Yesterday, Expand announced a new modular architecture that includes specific plug-ins designed to speed certain types of traffic. The company is also packaging its IP accelerations capabilities as a software product for the first time and has launched new appliances. Several OS/400 shops have reported exceptional compression rates–up to 500 percent and higher–on the 5250 datastreams of their high availability environments using Expand Networks’ line of IP Accelerators. The news led to the formation of

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• Cleo Enhances Automation with AS2 Software for OS/400

  April 20, 2004 Alex Woodie

  One of the software vendors now writing OS/400 communications software for newer transaction protocols, such as the AS2 standard used for sending EDI documents over the Internet, is Cleo Communications. The established emulation and communication tools vendor from Loves Park, Illinois, entered the OS/400 software market last March, with Version 2.1 of its LexiCom AS2 software. Last week, Cleo updated the technology underlying LexiCom, which it calls VersaLex, with several new automation features. Cleo’s LexiCom AS/400 software extends traditional EDI systems to the Internet by enabling users to send and receive documents, such as purchase orders or advanced shipping

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• IBM Announces New Baby ‘Shark’ Array

  April 13, 2004 Alex Woodie

  Companies that have looked for a storage area network (SAN) disk array but were turned off by the high price of IBM‘s Enterprise Storage System (ESS) Model 800 “Shark” array now have another option from Big Blue. Last week the company launched the ESS Model 750, a scaled-down Shark array that features fewer processors, disk drives, and bus adapters than the Shark 800, but starts at only $150,000 for 1.1TB of storage. The baby Shark 750 is based on the same architecture as the ESS Model 800, and includes much of the same replication and disaster recovery software as

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• Kronos Welcomed Customer Input for iSeries Central 5

  April 13, 2004 Alex Woodie

  A new version of Kronos‘ time and labor management software for OS/400 should make it easier for both employees and managers to interface with the system. iSeries Central 5, which was announced last week, contains several new features–such as a new HTML interface, navigation “genies,” and a new graphical scheduling system–that are the result of requests made by a new iSeries Central customer advisory board that was formed earlier this year. iSeries Central is an industrial-strength suite of time and labor management applications that run exclusively on OS/400 servers. Its core module, iSeries Timekeeper, replaces manual timecard systems, while

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