• Ex-IBM Exec Takes Over as Bsafe CEO

  June 23, 2008 Dan Burger

  Bsafe Information Systems, a security software company that makes products for the OS/400 and i5/OS platform, announced last week that Avi Cramer is the company’s new chief executive officer. Bsafe’s chairman of the board, Charles Benchabat, praised the selection of Cramer, saying the new CEO will benefit the company with his abilities to “forge strategy and strategic relationships.” Cramer comes to the Israeli-based company from IBM where he was vice president of sales, in charge of large enterprises in Israel. Prior to that, he was CEO and chairman of IBM Global Services Israel and was a member of the

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• Hospital Supplier Installs VAI’s WebSphere-Based Portal

  June 22, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Seneca Medical, a medical surgical supply company in Ohio, has installed VAI‘s S2K Enterprise Portal software to deliver a fully functional requisitioning system over the Web. Seneca Medical is $350 million distributor of medical and dental supplies, office furniture, OTC products, paper products, pharmaceuticals, and sports medicine products. The company serves hospitals and doctor’s and dentist’s offices from warehouses in Ohio, Indiana, Tennessee, and West Virginia. The company previously had a Web site where customers could place orders and check on orders, but it was difficult to navigate, and generally left much to be desired, according to the companies.

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• Creating an RPG-based Web Service Using WDSC, Part 1

  June 18, 2008 Shannon O'Donnell

  Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock for the last couple of years, you cannot help but to have heard about Web Services. According to the industry experts, whoever they are, Web Services will solve every problem you have ever had and ever will have in your quest to send and receive data from one computer to another over the Web. And while that may be a bit of an overstatement, it is true that Web Services really do make communicating with another computer system on the Web very easy. In this article I am going to show you how

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• SQL May Be Catching Up with DDS

  June 18, 2008 Ted Holt

  As enthusiastic as I am about SQL, I am not ready to abandon the native DB2-for-i interfaces. There are a few things that DDS and native I/O op codes do that SQL doesn’t handle as well. However, in V6R1 IBM has eliminated one of the DDS advantages. A logical file can do three tasks: it can define a record format to be a set of fields, it can define a data set to be a set of records, and it can create an access path over the data. SQL needs two commands. CREATE VIEW handles the first two tasks, and

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• Admin Alert: Redundancy is Good, Redundancy is Good, Re…

  June 18, 2008 Joe Hertvik

  The next time you order a Power i upgrade, pay special attention to the redundant components that are available. As the computing world moves toward more and more redundancy options, many 24×7 i5/OS shops are requiring absolute redundancy in almost everything available. This week, I’ll look at some of the redundancy options available for i5/OS machines and how they can help your shop. Basic Redundancy The math of redundancy is simple. If it costs 10 percent more to install redundant components, for example, how much will that save the company if it keeps a critical system running during a busy

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• Sysload Delivers Fine-Grain Monitoring for Virtual Servers

  June 17, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Organizations concerned that the availability of critical applications is suffering as the result of hitting the physical performance limits of their virtualized servers may want to check out the SP-Analyst offering from the French company Sysload. With the capability to monitor a wide range of servers, including i OS machines, at one-second intervals, SP-Analyst may be a good solution for spotting sudden performance spikes in virtualized infrastructures, which other server monitoring offerings with longer sampling intervals may miss. Before virtualization become popular, it was common for industry standard servers to run at 10 or 20 percent of capacity. While

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• Adobe Eases Deployment with New Release of LiveCycle Suite

  June 17, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Adobe Systems today is expected to ship a new release of LiveCycle Enterprise Suite (ES), a collection of software aimed replacing paper-based processes with PDFs and other electronic forms of communication. With LiveCycle ES Update 1, the company is now including an enterprise content management (ECM) with the suite, which should speed the deployment of rich Internet applications based on Adobe’s Flash technology. New solution accelerators and support for three-dimensional PDFs for engineering documents round out this release. LiveCycle ES is Adobe’s integrated suite of J2EE software that blends electronic forms, process management, document security, and document generation, with the

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• PowerTech Updates i OS Log Management Software

  June 17, 2008 Alex Woodie

  The PowerTech Group last week launched a new release of Interact, its log management software that converts i OS (formerly i5/OS) security events to the Syslog format, which can then be consumed by third-party security information and event management (SIEM) tools. With the launch of Interact 3.0, PowerTech added support for 25 additional security-related events tracked by the i OS. The update also brings more details for remedying i OS systems with regulations like PCI, CoBIT, and ISO. PowerTech officially launched Interact as a separate product in late 2007 to address the growing need to capture and tally System i

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• Help/Systems’ SEQUEL Gets More BI Tooling

  June 17, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Help/Systems launched a new release of SEQUEL last week that will give users more reasons to use it as a business intelligence tool. With a new Gauge Wizard in SEQUEL version 9.0, adding graphical representations of data through speedometers and dials is a matter of making a few mouse clicks. Better integration with Help’s i OS-based job scheduler and Google Maps highlight this iterative release of the popular and multipurpose tool. SEQUEL has so many uses, it must be difficult at times for the folks at Help/Systems to figure out how to market it to potential users. The software, which

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• Varsity Teams with NGS for New BI Product

  June 17, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Two i OS software vendors, Varsity Logistics and New Generation Software, are teaming up on a new product that will deliver targeted business intelligence and analytics to shippers and other logistics operators. The new product, which will be called ShipView Plus, is expected to ship later this summer. South San Francisco-based Varsity Logistics develops a collection of shipping applications that run only on the IBM i OS. The company’s ShipSoft and TMS suites helps automate a range of shipping tasks, including picking the best carrier, finding the best rate, printing the required documents, and tracking the package to arrival.

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