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Jack Henry Unfazed by Financial Market Woes in Fiscal Q2

February 18, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Maybe sometimes it is not so bad to be a midrange company and to serve customers in credit unions and savings and loan banks. Financial application software and System i hardware vendor Jack Henry & Associates has not seen much of an effect in its fiscal second quarter financial results from the global financial services meltdown associated with bad mortgages written in the United States.

Jack Henry recently reported its financial results for the second quarter of fiscal 2008, ended December 31, booking $192.2 million in sales, up 15 percent, with gross profits of $84.8 million, up 16 percent. Costs

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IBM Apache Servers Needed by PHP

February 13, 2008 Brian Kelly

This is the second in a series of four articles by Brian Kelley on PHP.

Of the “big three” elements needed to support the PHP language–namely Apache, PHP, and MYSQL, the System i has used Apache since V5R1. Before this, the AS/400 used the much more bulky HTTP server from CERN that was developed by Internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee. This open source server from the Apache Foundation is now part of the standard fare of i5/ OS entitlements. IBM even gave it a product number–5722-DG1–so it can be differentiated during the PTF process. You don’t have to order it.

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Microsoft .NET 2.0 for System i Developers: Building Windows Forms Using the DataGridview Control

February 13, 2008 Michael Sansoterra

This is the third in a series of articles by Michael Sansoterra on Microsoft .NET 2.0.

Note: The code accompanying this article is available for download here.

Part 1 and Part 2 of this series provided a general introduction to using .NET with the IBM System i. Attention was given to how much could be done in .NET without any coding at all. Part 1 started with a trivial example of how to build an interactive Web page capable of editing data in a DB2 table using ASP.NET. Part 2 built on that foundation by AJAX-enabling the majority of

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Admin Alert: Printing and Emailing a System i Rack Config

February 13, 2008 Joe Hertvik

When requesting new hardware quotes for a System i, iSeries, or AS/400 server, your vendor will most likely ask you for a server rack configuration that was generated on the machine that you are upgrading. To alleviate confusion about this process, this column covers everything concerning rack configurations, including what a rack configuration is, why it’s needed, and how to generate and send a configuration to your vendor.

What’s a Rack Config?

A rack configuration (rack config) is exactly what it sounds like. It’s a listing of all the physical components in the rack (or racks) that host your System

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Bellamy Boosts Sales, Thanks to looksoftware GUI

February 12, 2008 Alex Woodie

First impressions at sales meetings weren’t pretty things for Bellamy Software, a company that develops applications for municipal governments and school districts in Canada. Despite nearly 30 years of honing its RPG-based application into a fast and efficient entity, the face of the product was an “ugly” 5250 green screen–a fact that Bellamy’s Windows-based competitors used to make considerably hay. But now that Bellamy has looksoftware generating browser-based GUIs, the company is giving customers what they expect, and selling more software as a result.

From its headquarters in Edmonton, Alberta, Bellamy Software develops i5/OS applications used by small and

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The Genie’s Browser Presence Grows

February 12, 2008 Alex Woodie

Organizations modernizing their System i systems with Profound Logic‘s Genie can now perform all of the screen design work from the comfort of a Web browser with Genie 3.0, which was just released. Profound says the capability to customize HTML interfaces using drag-and-drop techniques in a Web browser should make using the tool easier to use, and introduce it to a new group of users.

Genie is one of a new class of non-invasive tools for modernizing i5/OS screens on the fly, as users access them. The product, which was released less than a year ago, uses AJAX

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QSystem Monitor Gains Disk Cleanup Functions

February 12, 2008 Alex Woodie

Good System i housekeeping has many aspects. One task that can be of particular importance is the periodic purging and deleting of old records, which keeps hard disks uncluttered and clean. While these functions have been part of the operating system since time immemorial, System i shops that use QSystem Monitor to help run their systems can now use the CCSS product to keep their disks clean and efficient, in addition to all the other disk monitoring functions supported by QSystem Monitor.

Even before the current version 12 release 6, QSystem Monitor could monitor System i disk usage six ways

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Single Person RPG Shop Produces Sharp Self-Service Portal

February 12, 2008 Robert Gast

An interesting thing about IBM System i technology is that it’s highly self-sustaining. As an example, United Credit Service, in Elkhorn, Wisconsin, provides debt collection services for more than a thousand customers. The server it uses to manage its business is an IBM System i model 270, run by a single IT professional, Bruce Guetzkow, who is responsible for everything from strategic long-term systems planning to backups.

For several years Guetzkow discussed with other UCS managers different ways of improving customer service. The collections business, while an indispensable asset to organizations with lots of past due invoices, is also very

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Centerfield Debuts Installation Service for DB2 Web Query

February 12, 2008 Alex Woodie

Centerfield Technology last week launched a new service offering aimed at saving System i shops time and money in the installation and configuration of DB2 Web Query, IBM‘s new graphical replacement for Query/400. Centerfield’s three-part service offering is accomplished remotely and includes installation of DB2 Web Query, migration of Query/400 reports, and fine tuning and advanced report design.

While DB2 Web Query provides considerably more functionality than Query/400, customers may be unprepared for the level of technical proficiency required to implement the new product in an efficient manner, according to Centerfield, the database performance experts based in Rochester, Minnesota.

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Pat Townsend to Resell Valid’s i5/OS Biometric Authentication

February 12, 2008 Alex Woodie

Patrick Townsend & Associates is not only reselling the i5/OS-based Valid Secure Systems Authentication (VSSA) biometric authentication engine from Valid Technologies, it has integrated VSSA with its i5/OS encryption offerings, the company announced last week.

Since it launched VSSA two-and-a-half years ago, Valid Technologies has been carving a niche for itself as the only provider of native biometric authentication software for the i5/OS platform. (Kronos, the developer of time and attendance software, offers biometric authentication for i5/OS applications, but it’s not a native i5/OS implementation.)

VSSA runs under i5/OS only and works hand-in-hand with standard USB-based

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