• TCP/IP Configuration via iSeries Navigator Subject of New Manta Course

  June 19, 2007 Alex Woodie

  Configuring TCP/IP on a System i server is a critical step that must be taken before you can conduct any e-business with your customers or partners. However, while almost everything on the i5/OS platform can be configured from a command line interface, some TCP/IP configuration items–notably DHCP and DNS–require the System i graphical client: iSeries Navigator. Manta Technologies recently introduced a new course covering this topic. With Manta’s new course, called “Managing TCP/IP Using iSeries Navigator,” System i administrators can learn how to get their servers ready for the Internet. The course begins by discussing the basic configuration tasks that

  …

  Read more

• Pat Townsend’s Encryption Solution Certified Across All Major Platforms

  June 19, 2007 Alex Woodie

  Patrick Townsend & Associates is best known for its i5/OS encryption offering. But did you know that the company makes encryption software for other platforms, too? Yesterday, Pat Townsend announced that its Alliance AES Encryption software has been certified by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)–the agency that governs the AES standard–to run on Windows, Linux, Unix, and z/OS, in addition to i5/OS. Pat Townsend’s Alliance AES is a utility that enables users to encrypt and decrypt their data. On the i5/OS platform, the product supports the encryption of a range of data types, including whole DB2 files,

  …

  Read more

• Brooks Updates IDPS Print Driver for Windows Vista

  June 19, 2007 Alex Woodie

  Brooks Internet Software last week announced a new release of ExcelliPrint, a software product that allows non-IPDS printers to print the IPDS output of i5/OS and z/OS servers. With ExcelliPrint version 3.2, Brooks has introduced support for Windows Vista, among other improvements. While the Intelligent Printer Data Stream (IPDS) and Advanced Function Presentation (AFP) architecture–sometimes referred to as AFPDS–implements features that are important in high-volume printing environments, the high cost of native IPDS printers from IBM has left some customers feeling a bit trapped. For that reason, vendors such as Brooks Internet Software and others have devised IPDS emulation solutions

  …

  Read more

• Latest AS2 Certs Released by Drummond Group

  June 19, 2007 Alex Woodie

  The Drummond Group recently published the test results from its first quarter AS2 interoperability testing. Twenty-four products from 18 companies completed the latest round of testing, which included a new test designed to support the use of AS2 in the banking and financial services industry. The latest round of certification tests included many familiar names in the B2B business, including Axway, Boomi Software, BridgeGate International, Bridgeware, Cleo Communications, Click Commerce, The Descartes Systems Group, EDS, EXTOL International, GXS, IBM, Inovis, /n software, nuBridges, SEEBURGER, Sterling

  …

  Read more

• Maple Leaf Farms Heralds EXTOL for B2B Connections

  June 19, 2007 Alex Woodie

  Maple Leaf Farms, the duck farm that was founded in 1958, may a bit old fashioned when it comes to duck recipes. But when it comes to back-office computer systems and B2B connectivity, the Milford, Indiana, company is on the cutting edge, and it gives its B2B software supplier, EXTOL International, much of the credit. With 1,200 employees working together to sell 16 million ducks per year in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and Asia, Maple Leaf Farms has cornered a pretty good chunk of the market for ducks and duck products. Assisting the company in its quest to sell

  …

  Read more

• The i5 515 and 525 Versus the Unix Competition

  June 18, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Last week, I walked through a performance and price/performance comparison that pitted the new user-priced i5 515 and 525 System i servers against various Windows-X64 servers. Windows, as we all know, is the main competition in the small and medium business space when it comes to server platforms. Windows, of course, only runs on X64 and Itanium platforms–even though it was originally intended to run on IBM, MIPS, and NEC RISC processors. These alternative RISC platforms spawned the Unix revolution nearly two decades ago, and while Windows may dominate the SMB space, there are plenty of Unix shops among

  …

  Read more

• Vision Solutions Acquires HA Rival Lakeview Technology

  June 18, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Tectonic shifts continue a-pace in what was formerly the quiet land of the OS/400 and i5/OS ecosystem as Vision Solutions, the dominant supplier of high availability software for the System i platform, announced last Wednesday that it has acquired rival Lakeview Technology. Thoma Cressey Bravo, the private equity firm that bought Vision Solutions late last year and then followed it up by acquiring HA rival iTera, is funding the Lakeview Technology acquisition. Given that Vision Solutions and Lakeview Technology are privately held firms, financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. You might have noticed that the

  …

  Read more

• Adoption of VoIP Tied to Relief from Phone Expenses

  June 18, 2007 Dan Burger

  Figuring out what to do with voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) is still in the noodling process. There are several milestone installations up and running and the spot light is on them to prove the worthiness of this technology. IBM executives, like System i general manager Mark Shearer, are very pro VoIP because it is an application-oriented technology that provides another workload for his application-oriented server line. However, for most people, thinking about voice communications in terms of applications and databases instead of wires leading to the phone company brings on brain cramps. Terry Boulais has been on the front

  …

  Read more

• The Web Runtime Tax: The Tax Man Cometh, Again

  June 18, 2007 Brian Kelly

  On February 5, I had the pleasure of applying for a U.S. passport for an exotic cruise I am taking this summer, but I was hoping that I might expedite the process so that I could use the passport to fly into Toronto, Canada, for a one-day IBM pre-announcement briefing on iSeries Application Development-the WebSphere Development Studio Client (WDSc) in particular. Unfortunately for me, without a trip to Philadelphia or Harrisburg, the time for which I could ill afford, my passport would not arrive in time to fly to the February 22, 2007, event. In mid-January, the rules changed and

  …

  Read more

• New Efficiency Goals Set by Climate Savers Computing Initiative

  June 18, 2007 Alex Woodie

  Intel and Google last week joined dozens of other top tech companies and competitors in the creation of the Climate Savers Computing Initiative, a new organization dedicated to making PCs and servers more energy efficient and, hopefully, better for the environment. They were joined by Microsoft, IBM, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and about 35 other technology vendors in founding the Climate Savers Computing Initiative. The group and its goals are modeled after the World Wildlife Fund’s Climate Savers program. The group’s initial goal is to encourage computer and component manufacturers to build products that meet or surpass

  …

  Read more

Previous Articles Next Articles