• VAI Partners with Mid-Range for Canadian Sales

  December 10, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Having just rolled out version 3.7.6 of its RPG-based S2K Enterprise ERP suite for manufacturers and distributors, Vormittag Associates is looking northward from its Ronkonkoma, New York, headquarters to the Great White North to try to stir up a little more business. And to that end, VAI has just announced a partnership with Mid-Range Computer Group, which has been the largest reseller of i5/OS and OS/400 platforms in Canada for the past decade. These days, Mid-Range Computer is more than a reseller of IBM‘s complete system and storage portfolio; it also operates two data centers of its own

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• Quest Software Buys PassGo for Access and Identity Management

  December 10, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Quest Software, a maker of tools for managing Exchange and Active Directory implementations on Windows platforms, said last week that it has inked a deal to buy PassGo Technologies, a privately held British company that specializes access control and identity management products. PassGo was founded in 1983, and was eventually acquired by a company called Axent, which was in turn acquired by PC security juggernaut Symantec, which has recently became a big-time data center player through its acquisition of file system maker Veritas. Anyway, in August 2001, the people behind the original PassGo company did a management

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• The Costs of Data Breaches Continues to Rise, Says Ponemon

  December 10, 2007 Dan Burger

  There are 215 million stories in the naked city . . . and those are just the stories that have something to do with data breaches. That’s the number, dating back to January 2005, established by the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse. If you find that surprising, wait until you hear about the financial loss attached to those breaches. According to the study released last week by the Ponemon Institute, data breach incidents cost companies $197 per compromised customer record in 2007. Here are some equally sobering statistics to think about: The average per-incident costs were $6.3 million. The cost

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• MKS Swings to a Profit on Revenue Growth in Fiscal 2008 Second Quarter

  December 10, 2007 Dan Burger

  In its most recent round of quarterly financial reporting, the application lifecycle management (ALM) software company MKS scored a profitable second quarter for its fiscal year 2008. Revenue and income increased and new customers were added to the company’s installed base. For the first six months of its fiscal year, however, the company remains in the red. The following specific figures provide a comparison to the company’s second fiscal quarter of 2007 and begin with a revenue increase of 18 percent that amounted to a record $13.6 million. Net income rose from a $0.7 million loss one year ago to

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• Asia/Pacific Region Bolsters Disk Array Sales in Q3

  December 10, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  The booming economies in the Asia/Pacific region are doing their part to help push up sales of external disk arrays, according to recent market statistics compiled by the analysts at Gartner, which just announced the stats for sales in the second quarter of 2007. On a worldwide basis, sales of external disk arrays in the third quarter rose by 3.4 percent to $3.86 billion, essentially mirroring the 3.3 percent growth, to $3.7 billion, that the industry attained during the second quarter of the year. In the third quarter, growth was largest in the Asia/Pacific region, up 22.7 percent compared

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• Create Multiple Directory Levels in One Swell Foop

  December 5, 2007 Hey, Ted

  Maybe I’m getting old, but I seem to remember being able to create several levels of directory structure with one command. I currently have such a need, in an application that creates XML files in the IFS. Yet CL’s MAKE DIRECTORY (MKDIR) command fails with error message CPFA0A9. Am I imaging things, or has something changed? –Lynn My guess is that you’re remembering MS-DOS’s md command. The following example contains a command that creates from one to five directories as needed. C:>md salesreports20071RegionC CL’s MKDIR command can only create one directory level at a time. However, Qshell’s mkdir command can

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• Update Only One of Duplicate Records

  December 5, 2007 Hey, Ted

  We have a file that has no unique key. This means that we sometimes get duplicate records in the file. This does not cause us problems in RPG programs because we can read a record, make changes to it, and update it, whether we’re using native I/O or an SQL cursor. However, having duplicate rows is a problem when we use SQL outside of programs. If two or more records are identical, there is no way to code a WHERE clause that will select only one record. Or is there? –David It is ugly, but possible, David. Assume table MYDATA,

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• Admin Alert: Getting Started with Trial Capacity on Demand, Part 1

  December 5, 2007 Joe Hertvik

  I recently activated a trial Capacity Upgrade on Demand (CoD) processor to increase my processing power on a System i 550 box. If you’re considering activating additional processors on your system, this week and next I’ll trace the steps I took to decide on activating another processor and how I got the process moving. Although there are a few pitfalls to avoid, adding extra processors to your machine isn’t that difficult. What is CoD? Capacity on Demand (CoD) is IBM‘s way of ensuring that you can quickly add extra capacity to later model System i servers, including models 550,

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• Profound Logic Gives Web Access to DB2/400 with iData

  December 4, 2007 Alex Woodie

  Ever wished you could access and edit your DB2/400 records directly from a Web browser? If so, perhaps you should check out iData, a new tool recently introduced by Profound Logic. The use of AJAX and other Web 2.0 techniques provides an extremely fast and intuitive way to access the database, according to Profound. And while the iData beta is focused primarily on database editing, it will soon expand to include other capabilities, such as querying and reporting, Web form creation, and Web application development. As one of the promising providers of third-party application development and modernization tools for

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• Sametime, But a Different Place; IBM Tries to Top Microsoft

  December 4, 2007 Dan Burger

  For those of you who enjoy watching and participating in the IBM vs. Microsoft tussle for supremacy in unified communications and collaborative software, make a note of the latest IBM Lotus Sametime products hitting the streets this week. They are Sametime Standard 8 and Sametime Entry. Each product offers features that many small to mid size companies will find important for comparison shopping, but not likely to cause anyone to place an order tomorrow. Lotus Sametime Standard follows the product line established by what was formerly known simply as Sametime. The version known as Sametime Entry has, as you might

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