• ABL Unveils Strategi SOA

  May 8, 2007 Alex Woodie

  ADVANCED BusinessLink officially launched a new product called Strategi SOA last week at the COMMON conference in Anaheim, California. While the majority of development and runtime tools aimed at helping users create service oriented architectures (SOAs) involve a heavy dose of non-System i technology, ABL promises Strategi SOA will be a groundbreaking product that helps midrange customers develop an SOA of native System i assets, by System i programmers, and for the benefit of System i shops. Many System i, iSeries, and AS/400 shops have dug themselves into holes when it comes to the choices they’ve made about the programmers

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• QlikTech Updates In-Memory BI Software

  May 8, 2007 Alex Woodie

  Qliktech today launched QlikView version 8.0, a new release of its Windows Server-based business intelligence tool used by thousands of customers across the world. With version 8.0, the company has added new “what if” analysis and collaboration capabilities and strived to improve the tool’s scalability and flexibility. QlikView is an in-memory associative database that QlikTech says provides a more affordable, responsive, and easier-to-use alternative to traditional on-line analytical processing (OLAP) and data warehousing applications, which rely on terabytes of spinning disk to store data. This week at its Qonnections 2007 conference in The Netherlands, QlikTech launched version 8.0 of its

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• Aldon Unveils Plug-In Support for WDSc 7.0

  May 8, 2007 Alex Woodie

  System i change management vendor Aldon, which announced yesterday it was bought by a private equity firm, used last week’s COMMON conference as a forum for its latest product announcement: support for the latest release of IBM‘s WebSphere Development Studio Client (WDSc). In March, IBM started shipping WDSc 7.0, which stirred a good bit of controversy among System i shops who felt IBM wasn’t including enough development capacity with the standard version of the tool. For better or for worse, there will undoubtedly be plenty of System i shops upgrading to the new release, which is now the

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• NetManage Eases Access to College’s AS/400

  May 8, 2007 Alex Woodie

  It’s easier for students at the New York College of Podiatric Medicine to access their AS/400-based financial aid records as a result of an implementation of NetManage OnWeb for iSeries, NetManage announced yesterday. The New York College of Podiatric Medicine was founded in 1911 and is the oldest and largest podiatric college in the world. The school, which is based in Harlem, New York, has about 400 students. It’s also affiliated with Foot Clinics of New York, which sees approximately 40,000 patient visits a year and is the world’s largest foot care clinic. Students and administrative personnel at the college

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• M-Power from mrc Gets More Powerful SQL

  May 8, 2007 Alex Woodie

  Application development toolmaker mrc has added new SQL capabilities to m-Power, a development tool that works with System i and other Java-compatible servers and databases, the company announced last week at the COMMON conference in Anaheim, California. The new SQL-related features in M-Power include the capability to join files, and to join and then query the files, according to mrc. The company has also added support for union statements involving multiple databases and support for nested sub-selects, which gives users the power to pick and choose what data to use. The new custom SQL capabilities in M-Power are primarily targeted

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• BOSaNOVA Unveils a 10-Inch Wireless Tablet

  May 8, 2007 Alex Woodie

  BOSaNOVA rolled out a new edition to its spectrum of thin client offerings last week at the COMMON conference in Anaheim, California. The new 310XP BOStablet features a 10-inch TFT touch-screen display and is designed to excel in areas where its 8-inch tablet failed to impress. With a screen resolution of 1024×768, BOSaNOVA’s new 310XP BOStablet will allow people to view details that they just couldn’t see with the tablets with 8-inch displays, including BOSaNOVA’s 8375 and 8368 Wireless Tablets, which have been available for three years. Screen resolution is particularly critical in the healthcare industry, where doctors and nurses

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• Applied Logic Updates Data Access Tool

  May 8, 2007 Alex Woodie

  Applied Logic yesterday unveiled File Edit Utility (FEU) version 15, a new release of the Keizer, Oregon, company’s programmer utility for accessing and modifying i5/OS data. Modeled after IBM‘s DFU, Applied Logic’s FEU utility offers programmers a slew of functionality, including basic file editing function, the capability to make changes to files en masse based on specified criteria, the capability to edit and reformat spool files, generate DDS, distribute files via FTP, output files in PC formats, and many other capabilities. Obviously such a powerful tool needs security safeguards, and FEU has them in the form of role-based access,

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• IBM Focusing on i5 Account Sales, Not i5 Sales

  May 7, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Mark Shearer, the general manager of IBM‘s System i server division, gave the keynote address at the annual COMMON OS/400 and i5/OS user group meeting, which was hosted in Anaheim, California, last week. The fact that he attended his fifth COMMON event since taking over the division in January 2005–COMMON used to be held twice a year until 2007–and is architecting a stabilization of and maybe someday a recovery in System i5 sales have both been reassuring the OS/400 and i5/OS faithful. The AS/400, iSeries, and i5 line has seen some pretty big revenue declines and a revolving door

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• Dr. Frank Soltis at COMMON: A Show Worth Watching

  May 7, 2007 Alex Woodie

  Going to see Dr. Frank Soltis is a rite of passage for System i devotees. Like nobody else in IBM‘s System i division, the chief scientist embodies the dual spirits of intelligence and independence that the Rochester, Minnesota, organization is known for. Last week at the COMMON conference in Anaheim, California, Soltis wowed the crowd again with his tales of past technological daring, his ill-conceived marketing plans, and promises of IT riches to come. Soltis seemed cautiously upbeat as he opened his well-attended “Vision for System i” session in a room at the Anaheim Marriott, which is adjacent to

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• i5/OS Curriculum Contingent on Job Prospects, Business Community

  May 7, 2007 Dan Burger

  The experience of learning and the experience of being educated are not the same thing. That’s why the IBM System i Academic Initiative is focused on bringing the business community into the program that is designed to fortify the ranks of college graduates with skills that will pay off for the users of System i. When the initiative got under way, the goal was reaching 20,000 students with a System i-related curriculum. That objective has been reached. Now, IBM wants to shift to building collaboration between students, colleges, and employers. “We are reorienting our initiative,” says Elaine Lennox, vice president

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