• IBM Seeks More CODE/400 Converts with WDSc 7.0

  March 7, 2007 Alex Woodie

  IBM tomorrow is expected to announce the Version 7.0 of its WebSphere Developer Studio Client (WDSc) for the i5/OS and OS/400 platform, including the new scaled-down version of WDSc that was previewed last year, a new modeling view in the Advanced Edition of the tool to help RPG and COBOL programmers visualize their code constructs, and the capability to develop and deploy modernized applications that simultaneously use WebFacing and HATS techniques. IBM is planning three main announcements regarding the Version 7.0 family of tools. The first is the new lightweight WDSc for iSeries 7.0 IDE and the changes IBM has

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• IBM Seeks More CODE/400 Converts with WDSc 7.0

  March 7, 2007 Alex Woodie

  IBM tomorrow is expected to announce the Version 7.0 of its WebSphere Developer Studio Client (WDSc) for the i5/OS and OS/400 platform, including the new scaled-down version of WDSc that was previewed last year, a new modeling view in the Advanced Edition of the tool to help RPG and COBOL programmers visualize their code constructs, and the capability to develop and deploy modernized applications that simultaneously use WebFacing and HATS techniques. IBM is planning three main announcements regarding the Version 7.0 family of tools. The first is the new lightweight WDSc for iSeries 7.0 IDE and the changes IBM has

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• IBM Seeks More CODE/400 Converts with WDSc 7.0

  March 7, 2007 Alex Woodie

  IBM tomorrow is expected to announce the Version 7.0 of its WebSphere Developer Studio Client (WDSc) for the i5/OS and OS/400 platform, including the new scaled-down version of WDSc that was previewed last year, a new modeling view in the Advanced Edition of the tool to help RPG and COBOL programmers visualize their code constructs, and the capability to develop and deploy modernized applications that simultaneously use WebFacing and HATS techniques. IBM is planning three main announcements regarding the Version 7.0 family of tools. The first is the new lightweight WDSc for iSeries 7.0 IDE and the changes IBM has

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• Gartner CIO Survey Shows Different Priorities for Business and IT in 2007

  February 26, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Getting business managers and IT managers on the same page is always a challenge, whether times are good or times are bad. And if the latest Gartner Executive Programs (EXP) survey of more than 1,400 chief information officers is any indication, 2007 is not lining up to be an exception. But the things that CIOs will have to do to make upper management and bean counters happy might be a little different this year. This year’s installment of the Gartner EXP survey is officially called Creating Enterprise Leverage: The 2007 CIO Agenda, and it is based on data culled

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• Shield Advanced Solutions Is Looking for European Resellers for JobQGenie

  February 26, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Canadian i5/OS and OS/400 systems management software provider Shield Advanced Solutions, which is based in Toronto, is looking for some help to expand sales of its JobQGenie product into Europe. Back in April 2006, Shield Advanced Solutions announced JobQGenie Version 5, an update of its add-on for i5/OS and OS/400 systems that helps monitor and manage batch jobs. Such management is particularly tricky in high availability clusters that failover or are rolled over manually when batch jobs are running or are poised to start. To help build out its European partner network, the company has launched a new Web

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• Tango/04 Taps Moores Rowland Consulting for Distribution in India

  February 26, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Tango/04 Computing Group, the Barcelona, Spain, provider of systems management, monitoring, and security software for the OS/400 and i5/OS platform, said last week that it has inked a deal to begin distributing its products in India. The deal was done with Mumbai-based Moores Rowland Consulting, which is a unit of a conglomerate called the Haribhakti Group, an accounting firm that was founded in 1951 and which has expanded into a large, multifaceted accounting and consulting firm that spans the gamut of business and technology services. The Moores Rowland Consulting unit provides information technology consulting and information systems risk

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• CoralTree Gives Away Renaissance App Dev Framework for System i

  February 26, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Here’s something that came to us from a poster in our IT Jungle Forums. CoralTree Systems, a System i5 application modernization specialist based in Fareham (a burg in Hampshire, England), has taken an RPG-Web application framework that it developed and released it as a freebie tool to the i5/OS and OS/400 community. That framework, which is called the Renaissance Framework, is distributed under the Mozilla MPL license. The framework includes elements of ILE RPG IV, service programs, JavaScript, HTML, and the integrated Apache Web server on System i5 and iSeries platforms that allow programmers to create Web front

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• IBM Kills Off VXA, Older Tape Drives for Systems i5s

  February 26, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Buried in the System i5 announcements from February 6 was a note from IBM that explained the vendor was going to be killing off its entry VXA tape drives for the System i5 line. This may come as something of a surprise to System i5 customers looking for inexpensive but reasonably fast tape technology for their systems. The VXA tape drive is a descendant of the very popular 8 mm Sony tape drive that was commercialized for the computer business by the formerly independent and once high-flying Exabyte, which was acquired by rival Tandberg Data. Tandberg, of course, supplies

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• Gartner CIO Survey Shows Different Priorities for Business and IT in 2007

  February 26, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Getting business managers and IT managers on the same page is always a challenge, whether times are good or times are bad. And if the latest Gartner Executive Programs (EXP) survey of more than 1,400 chief information officers is any indication, 2007 is not lining up to be an exception. But the things that CIOs will have to do to make upper management and bean counters happy might be a little different this year. This year’s installment of the Gartner EXP survey is officially called Creating Enterprise Leverage: The 2007 CIO Agenda, and it is based on data culled

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• As I See It: Disorderly Conduct

  February 26, 2007 Victor Rozek

  Can you focus? Can you read this article without bits of your attention splitting off like excess electrons? Is your concentration stronger than the pull of distractions? Mine isn’t. I wish I could write my articles in one sitting, but usually I can’t. My mind wanders and my body follows. The kitchen needs tidying; the mail waits to be retrieved; Bill Moyers is on the radio and I revel in the reminder that wisdom has not perished from public discourse. And because I work at home, I can indulge myself. In the winter, the sun is the worst distraction of

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