• IBM to Support BPEL-Based Web Services on iSeries in Q3

  April 13, 2004 Alex Woodie

  Last week, IBM shuffled its WebSphere deck and issued new releases of its core Web services development and delivery platform. The newly named product, WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation (WBISF) version 5.1, allows companies to implement and deliver “services-oriented” applications assembled in Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) using WebSphere Studio Application Developer (AD) Integration Edition V5.1, which was also announced and shipped last week. IBM issued a statement of direction to support WBISF on OS/400 this summer. Before we get into the details, let’s get the WebSphere names straight. IBM has done a little spring cleaning with its WebSphere product

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• Ricoh Printers Get Better iSeries Connectivity with WCO

  April 13, 2004 Alex Woodie

  Ricoh and IBM have teamed to provide AS/400 and iSeries users with greater control over their Ricoh printers and multi-function printers (MFPs). Ricoh last month announced that, as the result of a new Workstation Customization Object (WCO) for Ricoh printers available with OS/400, users are now able to customize their print jobs to fit their needs. For years, Ricoh has supported OS/400 servers with its line of printers and MFPs. Just last fall, the Japanese owned electronics giant announced new software that supported direct OS/400-based AFP and IPDS printing on its line of printers and MFPs. The company also offers

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• Trader’s Does High Availability for the iSeries, Too

  April 6, 2004 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  When we reported a few weeks ago that IBM would add a variant of the iSeries Model 810 to the iSeries for High Availability server line, we said that the five high-availability software makers most people know by name–DataMirror, iTera, Lakeview Technology, Maximum Availability, and Vision Solutions–were offering their high availability products on these new boxes. But we didn’t mention the French vendor Trader’s. You learn something new every day, and Thierry Roux, the general manager of Trader’s, was a bit perplexed that we didn’t mention his company, which was given IBM’s blessing

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• CYBRA Brings Supports for RFID Tag Printing to OS/400 Servers

  April 6, 2004 Alex Woodie

  CYBRA is close to shipping a new release of its MarkMagic software that supports the generation of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags from AS/400 and iSeries servers. Large manufacturers and distributors are facing mandates from retailers and the government to begin including RFID tags along with barcode labels. When MarkMagic 5.1 ships, next month, it will support the generation of RFID tags from OS/400 servers, even if the RFID tags, printers, readers, and standards aren’t available yet. Up to this point, most MarkMagic users have been concerned with designing compliant barcode labels and connecting their OS/400 servers to barcode label

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• Patrick Townsend Brings 256-Bit AES Encryption to DB2/400 Data

  April 6, 2004 Alex Woodie

  Patrick Townsend & Associates has added 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) technology to its Alliance FTP Manager product, for securing OS/400 data. The company says that the new encryption software will be a fine choice for securing sensitive data stored in DB2/400 databases, such as Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, and other personal information, and will assist with users’ compliance initiatives. Alliance FTP Manager is an OS/400 utility that automates tasks related to sending and receiving database files and spool files to remote systems. Patrick Townsend & Associates made security an integral part of the product, with OS/400 implementations

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• Tango/04 Launches New Message Log Monitor

  April 6, 2004 Alex Woodie

  Tango/04 Computing Group launched new event log monitoring software last week that automates the slow and tedious error-prone task of manually sorting through logs. The programmable Applications Agent can monitor the log of practically any application, uses filters to weed out unimportant entries, and consolidates the log data into a graphical console. When deployed with other components of Tango/04’s VISUAL Message Center suite, administrators can receive immediate notification of critical errors or events by e-mail or pager. The new Applications Agent is a plain-text file processor that continuously reads information from log files. When set up to monitor critical applications

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• Bankers Will Soon Savor the Java of RIO

  March 30, 2004 Robert Boyd

  Datapro banks on the Caribbean and Latin America for business. As an IBM software vendor and banking software developer, Datapro sold 22 new turnkey iSeries-based systems in 1999 to replace those developed by other vendors and users that didn’t meet Y2K standards. Having sold between 12 and 15 new systems annually in previous years, the year 2000 was a boon for Datapro, but the last several years haven’t been as kind. Through 2002, Datapro continued to market hard, but it sensed resistance to its product, Integrated Banking Solution (IBS), which required that prospects buy a new iSeries computer if they

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• Vendors Offer OS/400 Solutions for Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance

  March 30, 2004 Alex Woodie

  How can you be sure that your data is tamper proof? And if somebody does tamper with it, how will you be able to tell? These are the key issues facing OS/400 shops in complying with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, one of many new laws affecting the way companies manage and store their data. These are also areas in which iSeries software vendors, like Global Software and Electronic Storage Corp., are providing new solutions. Companies of all shapes and sizes will need to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which was passed in the wake of the corporate accounting scandals two

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• New WORM Technology Makes Its Way to the iSeries

  March 30, 2004 Alex Woodie

  New federal laws such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act are creating demand for storage technology known as write once, read many (WORM), which helps to ensure the integrity of data. WORM technology has traditionally been delivered on the OS/400 platform via expensive optical disks, and there will be a new WORM-capable optical drive available with OS/400 V5R3. But increasingly, tape vendors, such as Sony, are responding to the call of the WORM with cost-effective, tape-based WORM solutions. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act isn’t the only new law with new data-retention guidelines for companies to follow. There’s a slew of new laws–among them

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• Bug Busters Adds Broadcast Option for OS/400 Object Distribution

  March 30, 2004 Alex Woodie

  Object distribution in large AS/400 and iSeries networks should be dramatically accelerated with the latest release of Bug Busters Software Engineering‘s Remote Software Facility. RSF 7.1 borrows a page from the peer-to-peer (P2P) networking handbook with a new broadcasting feature called Relay Distribution, which allows the work of distributing OS/400 objects to be spread across the computers in a network, instead of requiring a central server to process updates one by one. Large OS/400 shops–those with dozens, hundreds, or thousands of remotely located AS/400 and iSeries servers to support–face difficulty in distributing OS/400 objects in a timely manner, says

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