• Raz-Lee Rolls Out Business-Item Capture Solution

  May 6, 2014 Alex Woodie

  Raz-Lee Security today formally unveiled a new release of its audit-oriented Capture product at the COMMON conference in Orlando, Florida. Called Capture with Business-Items, or CBI, the software takes shots of users’ 5250 screens, while recording specific details such as customer and account numbers. Raz-Lee first unveiled its Capture+++ product in the spring of 2004 to fill the need for screen monitoring capabilities in regulated industries, such as banking, insurance, and healthcare. The software would capture screens when specific criteria were met, such as attempts to sign-in with a certain user ID a certain IP address is accessed. With CBI,

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• Remain Ties TD/OMS Into IBM’s Rational Team Concert

  May 6, 2014 Alex Woodie

  Remain Software this week announced new integration points between its IBM i change management solution, TD/OMS, and IBM‘s Rational Team Concert offering, which also provides elements of change management for IBM i environments. Remain says the integration between the two products, which becomes available this month, is designed to give customers more choice and flexibility in how they develop, test, and deploy IBM i applications. “Our goal is to give them choice and let them decide what is the best way to manage their applications’ lifecycle,” Remain managing director Marco Kok says in a press release. “IBM RTC is

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• Kisco Hooks SafeNet Into IBM’s SIEM

  May 6, 2014 Alex Woodie

  Kisco Information Systems is shipping a new release of its IBM i exit point security solution that hooks into IBM‘s QRadar security information and event management (SIEM) offering. The integration will enable SafeNet/i customers to get a more complete picture of attempts to compromise perimeter defenses. SafeNet/i is a network security tool that locks down potentially dangerous routes of access to the IBM i server, such as SQL, ODBC, and FTP connections. The software logs all exit point activity, and also uses IBM journaling to keep an irrefutable log of any configuration changes made to the security tool itself.

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• m-Power Brings 2FA to Web Apps

  May 6, 2014 Alex Woodie

  Web applications built using mrc‘s m-Power development tool can now supplement password protection with two-factor authentication, the company announced from the COMMON conference in Florida. The Heartbleed vulnerability in the OpenSSL encryption library has shocked the world by compromising many of people’s supposedly secure and encrypted sessions over the past two years. Users who thought their transactions were secure were actually exposed, putting all of their sensitive passwords at risk. The Heartbleed episode has given new thrust to alternative authentication mechanisms. The folks at mrc have responded by announcing that applications built with its m-Power tool can support two

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• IBM i 7.2 Available May 2

  May 5, 2014 Dan Burger

  When IBM flexes its brain muscles, heads turn. The competition that was posing for the crowd while working out with the light weights quietly leaves the gym. Friday was one of those days. A few select Power8-based servers, the first of larger lineup of what IBM is calling the “scale-out” machines, are ready to rip. And for the IBM i advocacy, the latest release of the operating system–available May 2–is showing off for the first time. COMMON hosted a webinar on April 28 that officially introduced the news, which was a great opportunity for COMMON to increase its visibility. IBM

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• IBM Debuts ‘HyperSwap’ With PowerHA Express Edition

  May 5, 2014 Alex Woodie

  As part of the IBM i 7.2 announcements last week, IBM introduced PowerHA Express Edition, a new variant of its hardware-based high availability (HA) clustering software. The new Express Edition implements a mainframe-based technology called HyperSwap, which will allow users to move and restart an LPAR on a different IBM SAN array almost instantaneously, IBM says. PowerHA SystemMirror for IBM i is a (rather complex) collection of products and services that enable organizations of various sizes to implement a variety of hardware-based protection schemes, as opposed to software-based logical replication schemes, such as those sold by Vision Solutions, Maxava

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• TFH Flashback: Self Reliance

  May 5, 2014 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  People have been buying commercial applications for so long that it is sometimes hard to remember that the System/3X and AS/400 minicomputer businesses were dominated by customers who, by and large, wrote their own software rather than buying it off-the-shelf from a third-party company. Even at the dawning of the commercial Internet era in the early 1990s, the AS/400 community exhibited the kind of self-reliance that we see mostly from hyperscale Web applications these days. Just for fun, we thought we would take a trip down memory lane and show you what the OS/400 application software market looked like just

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• As I See It: What’s In Your Wallet?

  May 5, 2014 Victor Rozek

  The Weimar Republic had a big problem and its name was inflation. But it also had a solution, and its name was print-more-money. Which it did with reckless abandon. So much so that its currency, which was valued at 4.2 Marks per U.S. dollar at the outbreak of World War I, hyper-inflated to over 1 million Marks per dollar by 1923. Which is why a man who wanted to buy a loaf of bread could be seen pushing a wheelbarrow full of money to a bakery early one morning. When he got there the bakery was not yet open, so

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• Power8 Before It’s Too Late

  May 5, 2014 Dan Burger

  Now that Power8 has broken out of the gate, the eyes of the Unix world will turned to see if IBM can rein in the challenge Intel has created in this enterprise computing horse race. The quarter-by-quarter decline in Power Systems revenue has not been a pleasant ride for IBM’s AIX side of Big Blue. We’ve often heard, “What’s good for Power Systems is good for IBM i.” That’s why we’re wishing Power8 the best. IBM, as it introduced the first five Power8 boxes at the Impact2014 conference, also plugged into a social media audience with a promotional video that

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• Google Reveals Its Own Power8 Motherboard; Can It Run IBM i?

  May 5, 2014 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  If nothing else comes of this, IBM has been able to brilliantly leverage the inherent newsiness of search engine juggernaut Google to its advantage in creating some interest in–and dare we say excitement for–the Power8 processor. At last week’s Impact2014 conference, which we report on elsewhere in this issue, Gordon MacKean, who is engineering director for the platforms group at Google and also the first elected chairman of the OpenPower Foundation, which is tasked with opening up the firmware and hardware for IBM’s Power8 processors, unveiled Google’s own two-socket motherboard for the shiny new IBM chip. If you were not

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