• VAI Says ‘No Thanks’ to the Quick Buck

  March 8, 2007 Alex Woodie

  When you look at how the market for ERP software has changed over the past few years, the rapid consolidation of ERP software companies into a handful of giants is perhaps what stands out the most. But not all ERP software companies are interested in the consolidation game and the big payoffs they can bring to their owners. VAI, for one, is content with the steady growth that comes from attracting new customers, listening to their problems, and developing solutions for them. VAI (which stands for Vormittag Associates Inc.) has a long history on the IBM midrange platform. Founded

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• Vision Taps SteelEye for Linux HA on iSeries

  March 8, 2007 Alex Woodie

  SteelEye Technology, a developer of high availability software for Windows, Unix, and Linux operating systems, has teamed up with i5/OS high availability specialists Vision Solutions to sell cross-platform high availability solutions that protect virtualized Linux and AIX servers on iSeries servers. One of the hallmarks of IBM‘s i5/OS server platform is its agility in supporting a variety of server operating environments, and the flexibility to run nearly any application that this brings to its users. Linux and AIX can run natively as guest logical partitions on the System i’s 64-bit Power5 processors, while Windows is relegated to PCI-based

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• Multiple Display Files in One Program

  March 7, 2007 G'Day, Ted

  I have a client that has many old apps running in the S/36 Execution Environment. I had converted one of the inquiry programs into an ILE RPG program, keeping the program-described workstation definition, so that I could easily call this program from other programs. After some time, it was decided that we needed to display some information in a subfile-like format from this program. Not wanting to go through all the hassle of defining all the input and output specifications, I tried something, and to my surprise, it worked. I created a second workstation file containing just the subfile record

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• Three Little Words That Simplify Debugging

  March 7, 2007 Susan Gantner

  I had struggled with using the debugger in WDSc for a long time when I asked a friend that I knew to be an expert on the subject to help me understand how to use it. She told me that I only needed to know three little words–Service Entry Points–to make my debugging life easier. She was right! If you have not yet learned the joys of debugging with Service Entry Points, try it today. In the Remote Systems view (RSE), choose a program object. Right click on the object and select Debug (Service Entry) –> Set Service Entry Point.

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• Admin Alert: Better Subsystem Throughput Via Multiple Job Queues, Part Two

  March 7, 2007 Joe Hertvik

  Last week, I demonstrated how to create new i5/OS job queues for increased subsystem throughput, segmented workloads, and to run jobs in sequence. But the best subsystem architecture won’t provide any benefits if no one uses it. So in this column, I’ll show you how to configure user profiles, scheduled job entries, and batch jobs to take advantage of the new job queues that I created last time. Why Create and Assign Your Own Job Queues All system i5 partitions use job queues to stage work for processing, and job queues are assigned to a subsystem through the use

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• IBM Seeks More CODE/400 Converts with WDSc 7.0

  March 7, 2007 Alex Woodie

  IBM tomorrow is expected to announce the Version 7.0 of its WebSphere Developer Studio Client (WDSc) for the i5/OS and OS/400 platform, including the new scaled-down version of WDSc that was previewed last year, a new modeling view in the Advanced Edition of the tool to help RPG and COBOL programmers visualize their code constructs, and the capability to develop and deploy modernized applications that simultaneously use WebFacing and HATS techniques. IBM is planning three main announcements regarding the Version 7.0 family of tools. The first is the new lightweight WDSc for iSeries 7.0 IDE and the changes IBM has

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• IBM Seeks More CODE/400 Converts with WDSc 7.0

  March 7, 2007 Alex Woodie

  IBM tomorrow is expected to announce the Version 7.0 of its WebSphere Developer Studio Client (WDSc) for the i5/OS and OS/400 platform, including the new scaled-down version of WDSc that was previewed last year, a new modeling view in the Advanced Edition of the tool to help RPG and COBOL programmers visualize their code constructs, and the capability to develop and deploy modernized applications that simultaneously use WebFacing and HATS techniques. IBM is planning three main announcements regarding the Version 7.0 family of tools. The first is the new lightweight WDSc for iSeries 7.0 IDE and the changes IBM has

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• IBM Seeks More CODE/400 Converts with WDSc 7.0

  March 7, 2007 Alex Woodie

  IBM tomorrow is expected to announce the Version 7.0 of its WebSphere Developer Studio Client (WDSc) for the i5/OS and OS/400 platform, including the new scaled-down version of WDSc that was previewed last year, a new modeling view in the Advanced Edition of the tool to help RPG and COBOL programmers visualize their code constructs, and the capability to develop and deploy modernized applications that simultaneously use WebFacing and HATS techniques. IBM is planning three main announcements regarding the Version 7.0 family of tools. The first is the new lightweight WDSc for iSeries 7.0 IDE and the changes IBM has

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• nCipher Brings Key Management Software to i5/OS

  March 6, 2007 Alex Woodie

  nCipher, an English provider of encryption solutions, last week announced that its encryption key management software, called keyAuthority, now supports the i5/OS server. The new capability is the result of collaboration with i5/OS encryption expert Patrick Townsend & Associates, and the primary benefit is allowing System i shops to manage and maintain cryptography keys for local and remote i5/OS servers in the same place that keys for other platforms are managed. In the olden days, electronic encryption was primarily the residence of banks and government organizations that required a high degree of data security, says Richard Mould, nCipher’s

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• Business Objects Unveils Two BI Offerings for J.D. Edwards

  March 6, 2007 Alex Woodie

  Business Objects last week announced a pair of business intelligence packages assembled specifically for J.D. Edwards customers, including the QuickStart for J.D. Edwards, which it developed with Andrews Consulting Group, and BI Quick Launch for J.D. Edwards, which was developed with Preferred Strategies. Both solutions are designed to get World and EnterpriseOne quickly up and running with business intelligence solutions, and both make extensive use of BO’s Crystal Reports software. Last week was an active one for J.D. Edwards business intelligence solutions. The big news was the announcement by Oracle that it plans to buy Hyperion. It

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