• ASNA Launches Technical Services Business

  July 31, 2007 Alex Woodie

  ASNA, a developer of .NET-based development tools and compilers for RPG programmers, is now providing System i application modernization and migrations services through its newly formed ASNA Services Group, the San Antonio, Texas, company announced this month. ASNA will provide a range of services under its new ASNA Services Group, including: development of Windows, Web, and Web services for extending legacy System i applications; design, architecture, and implementation of Microsoft .NET applications; complete or partial migration of i5/OS applications to Microsoft .NET using its Monarch migration tool; and conversion of DB2/400 databases to Microsoft SQL Server. ASNA, which is

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• Idokorro Supports Bluetooth Connections with Mobile Emulator

  July 31, 2007 Alex Woodie

  Systems administrators who like to check on their servers while on the go may be interested in the latest release of the Mobile SSH terminal emulation product from Idokorro Mobile. With Mobile SSH version 3.1, the Ottawa software company is now supporting Bluetooth network connections. Mobile SSH is a diminutive terminal emulator designed to run on smart phones and wireless handheld devices. The software offers full support for the 5250, 3270, and VT100 terminal emulation protocols, enabling users to access i5/OS, z/OS, Unix, Linux, and Netware servers, as well as network gear such as routers and switches, from the

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• Italian Manufacturer Picks TIBCO for SOA Project

  July 31, 2007 Alex Woodie

  Elica, an Italian company that has built a reputation for making some of the world’s most desirable cooking hoods, has selected integration specialist TIBCO Software to provide the products that will form the backbone of a new service oriented architecture (SOA) residing on top of existing systems, including OS/400-based ERP systems. With sales of more than 5 million cooking hoods per year, Elica Group, which was formed in the 1970s, has become the predominant manufacturer of cooking hoods in much of Europe. A recent string of acquisitions has challenged the company’s IT department and its ability to integrate disparate systems,

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• Rippe & Kingston Launches Contract Management Software

  July 31, 2007 Alex Woodie

  Rippe & Kingston Launches Contract Management Software Rippe & Kingston recently launched e.ssential Contract Guardian, a new contract management application that runs on the System i, among other platforms, and can help eliminate the reliance on paper for the handling of contracts. Contracts are notorious for generating copious amounts of paper. Keeping the lawyers out of the process might save a forest-worth of trees, but then again, that could lead to another paper-intensive process: filing and defending lawsuits. To keep all parties happy, Rippe & Kingston, a product development and consulting shop that specializes in LANSA tools, launched last month

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• Ricoh Introduces Two Wide Format Printers

  July 31, 2007 Alex Woodie

  Ricoh Americas last week launched two new wide-format multi-function printers (MFPs), the Aficio MP W2400 and MP W3600, both of which can work with the System i server. The new W2400 and W3600 printers both are designed to print high quality black and white documents at up to 600 dpi resolution. They aren’t terribly fast, with print speeds of two and three pages per minute, respectively. But they do offer the capability to scan, copy, distribute, and archive, making them much more than basic printers. What really sets the new printers apart, though, are their support for printing and copying

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• Workload Partitions Not Coming to i5/OS V6R1?

  July 30, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Last week, in the wake of a server reorganization that saw the System i business split into two bits, IBM announced an upcoming Power6-based, enterprise-class System i 570 server and also previewed some of the features in the upcoming i5/OS V6R1 operating system, due in 2008. IBM walked the midrange press through a rough sketch of the July 24 announcements to get the word out to the i5/OS and OS/400 base. But two features–workload partitions and its related application mobility–were not on the list. IBM first started talking about workload partitions and application mobility back in early 2006, when VMware

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• Power6-Based System i Performance and Bang for the Buck

  July 30, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Say what you will about IBM, but in the two decades I have been following its systems and server divisions, Big Blue has done a remarkably good job providing its customers very detailed performance data to describe the amount of work that its machines can do. No other server maker provides relative performance metrics like customers buying System i, System p, and System z servers can get. As part of the rollout of the Power6-based System i 570, which was launched last week, IBM gave out preliminary benchmark test results. As you might imagine, the relative increase in the

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• The IT Job Market Is More Competitive, Says Gartner

  July 30, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  According to a new report from IT industry watcher Gartner, chief information officers are having a hard time filling vacant positions in their shops for IT professionals. Specifically, because some IT skills are in high demand, positions are being left open for longer than they would like them to be as candidates pick and choose among job offers. If Gartner’s assessment is right, then this competitive IT job market is a matter of demand exceeding supply and not a drop in supply. But anecdotal evidence from some colleges as well as statistics from the U.S. government would seem to

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• User Feedback Credited for Inspiring System i Development

  July 30, 2007 Dan Burger

  Last week was a big news week for IBM‘s System i product line. Announcements about the pending release of the latest version of its operating system, V6R1, the availability of Power6 processors in its servers, and the creation of enterprise-level and SMB-level divisions for marketing its systems created some fireworks that caught the attention of many System i community members. We knew the system upgrades were coming. We just didn’t know when. The high-end and entry-level split of the System i line came as a surprise. Change is good. It is also inevitable. Like it or not, you can

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• IBM, VMware Working on ESX Server Support for the System i

  July 30, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  A new Redbook Residency program that IBM has announced was noticed by a bunch of you last week, who sent me links to the page to ask me what I thought about it. The Redbook Residency program is a great idea, particularly if you are IBM and you don’t want to have to write a Redbook technical paper or longer document describing the ins and out of a new technology. So what IBM does is invite techies from around the globe to come to the Rochester Labs (in the case of System i technology) for a few weeks, where they

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