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Symtrax Improves iSeries Report Access with WebReports

February 3, 2004 Alex Woodie

Companies looking for a centralized, Web-based repository to house spool file reports from OS/400 servers and other systems may want to check out the latest software from Symtrax. This month the company is launching WebReports, an improved version of its Symtrax Portal software, which, among other new features, provides improved integration with other Symtrax products, such as Compleo.

The role of WebReports, like its predecessor, is to capture data and documents from a variety of different computer systems, to index the information, then to provide Web-based access to that information. But WebReports builds upon Symtrax Portal in a few

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Quadrant Updates Fax Server for OS/400, Other Platforms

February 3, 2004 Alex Woodie

The facsimile has come a long way since it was first invented by Scotsman Alexander Bain in 1843. Standardized in the 1960s, and hit hard by the rise of the Internet and e-mail in the late 1990s, fax volume is on the rebound today, and being able to send and receive faxes is still a requirement for companies of all sizes. It’s a good bet that the new inbound routing capabilities that Quadrant Software introduced in its FastFax solution would have impressed Bain.

Quadrant’s FastFax products are hardware/software solutions that transmit, receive, and centrally manage faxes within OS/400, Windows, and

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Spanning the Digital Divide: The Future of Document Management

January 27, 2004 Alex Woodie

Over the last few years, people and companies have warmed to the idea of electronic documents. Where once people would have scoffed at the idea of receiving bills or bank statements electronically, today it’s becoming a requirement to retain customers. In the iSeries community, software vendors have adapted their forms applications to distribute documents in a variety of ways, and they continue to shape their offerings to meet future demands.

In the early days of OS/400 forms software, the packages were designed primarily to do one thing: save money by reducing companies’ dependence on pre-printed forms using electronic templates, blank

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Customers Benefit from Forms Software in Different Ways

January 27, 2004 Alex Woodie

If your company is like most OS/400 shops, it’s not using a centralized document management system. It’s using a good old reliable line printer to generate the checks, invoices, reports, and other documents that your business requires on a daily basis. But many OS/400 shops around the country have stepped up to more advanced forms processing systems that give them better-looking documents that can be delivered electronically, while cutting costs and improving customer service along the way.

Industry insiders say the penetration of document management software in the OS/400 space is increasing but is still somewhere below 50 percent, and

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Panasonic Brings OS/400 Support to WORKiO MFPs

January 27, 2004 Alex Woodie

When Panasonic announced last week that it supports the iSeries with its WORKiO multifunction printers (MFPs), OS/400 shops looking to escape centralized printing prison gained another option. With print speeds ranging from 23 to 60 pages per minute, and list prices from $8,500 to $20,300, Panasonic says, its WORKiO line of MFPs eliminates the need to choose between high-volume centralized systems and lower-end printers that don’t offer finishing options.

Through collaboration with IBM, eight of Panasonic’s WORKiO line of MFPs–the DP-2310, DP-3010, DP-3510, DP-3520, DP-4510, DP-4520, DP-6010, and DP-6020–have been enabled for OS/400 printing. All of these devices are

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Bsafe Bolsters OS/400 Security Software with New Logging, Alerts

January 27, 2004 Alex Woodie

Bsafe Software Solutions this week says it will start shipping a new version of its iSeries security software suite with new features in the areas of tracking changed data and generating security alerts. The company, which is based in Israel and has been trying to break into the North American market, says the changed data tracking feature in Bsafe/iSeries Global Security Version 3.3 can help companies comply with government mandates that call for tighter data security.

With an array of third-party OS/400 security products to choose from, the folks at Bsafe Software Solutions point to the Windows interface as its

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Auto Parts Warehouse Picks eSP to Replace IBM Wireless Connection

January 20, 2004 Alex Woodie

When IBM decided to abandon its Wireless Connection for AS/400 with OS/400 V5R1, many companies were left in the lurch to replace their wireless barcode scanning system. One of the companies that relied on Wireless Connection was Interamerican Motor Corp., a California company that imports and distributes foreign auto parts. Without a solid substitute, IMC had cycled through three different products since 2001, but eventually found what it considers a good replacement with eBusiness Solution Pros‘ Stay Linked OS/400 software.

From its headquarters near Los Angeles, IMC uses an iSeries Model 820 server to control the flow of 80,000

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GST Ships Super-AIT Tape Drives for iSeries, Open Systems

January 20, 2004 Alex Woodie

GST last week announced the availability of its newest line of iSeries-compatible tape drives using Sony Electronics‘ Super Advanced Intelligent Tape (SAIT-1) technology. With a compressed capacity of 1.3 TB (500 GB native), 108 GB per hour native transfer rate, and “write once, read many” capability, GST says its new SAIT-1 tape drives and library will appeal to midrange shops with large amounts of data to back up, or to those that need to tamper-proof their archives to comply with new regulations.

The SAIT-1 tape drive, which Sony launched in early 2003, was the first tape drive to break

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Expand Networks Keeps Rolling with New Products, Customers

January 20, 2004 Alex Woodie

Expand Networks, a manufacturer of network compression and acceleration appliances, has started 2004 with a bang. Yesterday the Roseland, New Jersey, company announced its largest bandwidth optimization device yet, a box for large data centers that handles 200 Mbps of raw bandwidth and supports 1,500 WAN nodes. It also has two new customers in the insurance business: one that bought nearly 3,500 acceleration devices for $5 million, and another that reports up to 7:1 compression on MIMIX network replication.

Expand Networks has devised a novel way to squeeze much more IP traffic into a given pipe than it could

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FrontPage Server Extensions Comes to iSeries Linux

January 20, 2004 Alex Woodie

iSeries shops that want to let users update their Apache Web sites using Microsoft‘s FrontPage Web authoring software can now do so using free software recently made available by Ready-to-Run Software. In accordance with a contract with IBM, Ready-to-Run in late December made the Microsoft FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions available for iSeries, pSeries, and zSeries boxes running Novell‘s SuSE Linux 8.0 and the Apache Web server, providing FrontPage authors an alternative to Microsoft’s own IIS Web Server.

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Since Microsoft launched its FrontPage Web authoring software, about six years ago, it has relied on Ready-to-Run to

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