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Mainframe Vendor BluePhoenix Ready to Purchase ASNA

August 3, 2007 Dan Burger

ASNA, one of the oldest of the System i independent software vendors, is very close to being purchased by BluePhoenix Solutions, a software and services vendor with a history in the mainframe market. The letter of intent covering the merger of the two companies was announced August 1 in a press release posted on the BluePhoenix Website, a day after the publicly held company reported its financial results for the second quarter. Officials at ASNA are not commenting on the pending deal until it has been finalized, which is expected to occur by August 15.

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Mainframe Vendor BluePhoenix Ready to Purchase ASNA

August 3, 2007 Dan Burger

ASNA, short for

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Use WDSc to Develop XSL Transformations

August 1, 2007 Ted Holt

I use WebSphere Development Studio client (WDSc) often for editing RPG, CL, command, and DDS source code. I was happy to learn recently that WDSc also works well for the development of XSL transformations. I don’t consider myself a pro at it, but I’m finding WDSc so helpful with my XML projects that I wanted to go ahead and share something of what I’ve learned so far.

First, I need to mention that I am currently using WDSc 6.0.1. I have tried XSL transformations under the full product and WDSc Lite, and both have worked well for me so far.

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Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too

August 1, 2007 Hey, Ted

Recently one of my superiors walked into my cubicle and asked for some information. I was in the middle of another task and didn’t want to be side-tracked, so I hurriedly ripped out an SQL query to satisfy his request. A little while later he was back in my office asking me to run a fresh copy of the query, and while I was at it, to total some of the columns. This last request threw me for a loop, so I used Query/400. Could I have satisfied his request with SQL?

–D

I thought I had covered this situation

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Admin Alert: Getting Around System i Default Passwords, Part 2

August 1, 2007 Joe Hertvik

In the last issue, I discussed how System i default passwords are created, their consequences, and how they can be detected and neutralized. Today, I’m going to shift the focus over to some simple command configurations for limiting or eliminating the proliferation of default password user profiles in your partition.

What Are Default Passwords and When Are They a Problem?

Default i5/OS and OS/400 passwords occur when a user profile’s password value is the same as its corresponding user profile name (i.e. a user profile called JOE has a password of ‘JOE’). Active default passwords are a security risk because

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IBM Shows Off Web 2.0 Stuff with Lotus Quickr

July 31, 2007 Alex Woodie

When you think of IBM, it’s safe to say that software isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. The company’s very name, International Business Machines, conjures images of big honking servers toiling away in a darkened room, processing billions of transactions for the world’s largest companies. But with every successive quarter, IBM becomes more of a software vendor than a hardware maker. As a demonstration of its new business content collaboration software, Lotus Quickr, shows, the company is surprisingly hip to the latest Web 2.0 thing.

Lotus Quickr is a new product designed to allow business users

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Varonis Prevents Unauthorized Access to Unstructured Data

July 31, 2007 Alex Woodie

You have probably witnessed the problem: terabytes of unstructured data, in the form of Excel spreadsheets, Word documents, PDFs, and image files, piling up on Windows servers, IFS servers, and file shares. Microsoft made it easy to store and share these files, but it failed to create an automated method for controlling access to these files. That’s not good when the files contain sensitive data like social security numbers. So Varonis developed a product that gives employees access only to the data they need to do their jobs.

According to the IT analyst firm IDC, unstructured data accounts for

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CA Updates System i Development Tools, Renames Them Again

July 31, 2007 Alex Woodie

CA this week will officially unveil a new version of CA Plex (formerly AllFusion Plex), its model-based application development environment for System i, Windows, and Unix environments, that supports the generation of Microsoft C# server code. The company is also shipping a new service pack for CA 2E (formerly AllFusion 2E), the fourth-generation language popular among midrange System i (formerly iSeries and AS/400) customers and, which, like CA Plex, traces its roots back to the Synon days.

2E and Plex are the direct descendents the Synon/2E 4GL and the Obsydian reusable-template development tools, created by Simon Williams and his developers

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Infor Gives Hitachi Auto’s Partners a Leg Up on EDI

July 31, 2007 Alex Woodie

The recent implementation of Infor‘s SupplyWEB supplier relationship management (SRM) software at Hitachi Automotive Products should have a big impact on how Hitachi communicates with its suppliers, particularly when it comes to its smaller vendors that can’t justify the expense of installing and running their own EDI system. With a hosted solution based on SupplyWEB, suppliers now need only a Web browser to link to Hitachi.

Hitachi Automotive Products (HAP) is a division of the Japanese industrial giant Hitachi that manufactures electronic, mechanical, and electro-mechanical powertrain components, such as starters, alternators, inverters for electric vehicles, fuel injectors, sensors, and

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BCD Releases Beta of WebSmart ILE 6.5

July 31, 2007 Alex Woodie

Business Computer Design Int’l (BCD) last week released a beta of WebSmart ILE version 6.5, an update to its integrated development environment for the System i. WebSmart ILE 6.5 is based on the same underlying architecture as WebSmart PHP, which BCD announced in May and which is also undergoing beta tests. Both IDEs are expected to ship by the end of September.

WebSmart ILE is a development tool used for building CGI-based Web applications that compile as native System i objects and execute on the System i’s built-in HTTP Server (the one “powered by Apache, of course). It is

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