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  • Captains, Commanders, Controllers, And Chiefs

    February 24, 2014 Dan Burger

    Recognizing the potential for innovation. Developing and maintaining a strategic plan. Monitoring major projects. Setting priorities between IT and business processes. Allocating resources.

    Who handles these jobs and what makes them good or bad at it?

    Depending on the size of the organization, it could be any of a number of people at the executive level or maybe even the supervisory or managerial levels. But IT innovation and leveraging technology is a high priority with expectations of powering growth and providing competitive advantage. Someone needs to deliver on these promises.

    For the past eleven years, COMMON has hosted an annual

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  • Nevermind About That Power, Mainframe Microcode Contract

    February 24, 2014 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    Remember the contractual change that IBM put out a year ago, which was locking down access to licensed internal code for System z mainframes, Power Systems, and various storage arrays based on Power7 machinery? Fohgettaboutit, as we say in nearby Brooklyn.

    In announcement letter 113-027 from last February, Big Blue said it had revised the terms and conditions to machine code on these machines, making it not only explicit that licenses to machine code cannot change hands, but that they may not do so without a customer signing a license acceptance agreement. The changes were supposed to go into

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  • Judge Gives Oracle Partial Victory in Rimini Case

    February 24, 2014 Alex Woodie

    The four-year legal battle between enterprise software giant Oracle and third-party maintenance provider Rimini Street is not over. But it’s closer to finally going to a jury after a judge issued a partial ruling this month that granted Oracle summary judgment over Rimini’s handling of PeopleSoft customers. The court did not issue a ruling regarding Rimini’s handling of JD Edwards and Siebel clients.

    Oracle sued Rimini in January 2010, alleging that Rimini’s third-party support business for JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, and Siebel software infringed on Oracle’s copyrights, among 12 other allegations. While the companies continue to prepare for a jury trial,

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  • Inuendo: An Associative Database Model for IBM i

    February 18, 2014 Alex Woodie

    It’s often said the strength of the IBM i server is its integrated database. However, while IBM‘s relational database is very much a rock-solid engine, the data models that people deploy on top of DB2 for i are often overly complex, brittle, and inefficient. One person who’s doing something about the legacy data models is Christopher Burns and his open source Inuendo project that distributes a sleek, SQL-based associative data model for the platform.

    Inuendo represents a radical rethinking of what a database on IBM i is–what it looks like, how it works, what it stores, and how developers

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  • CIOs Not Feeling the Green (Screen), Survey Says

    February 18, 2014 Alex Woodie

    While CIOs around the world are enthusiastically embracing green computing when it reduces energy footprints and hazardous waste in landfills, they are not so thrilled with the other variety of green computing–the one that’s associated with old mainframe and AS/400 programs. In fact, CIOs are more likely than not to report that their 5250 or 3270 applications are doing a poor job, according to a recent Micro Focus-sponsored survey.

    The study of 590 CIOs and IT directors from around the world paints a dim view of text-based user interfaces, which are used by 93 percent of the organizations surveyed.

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  • Midrange Dynamics’ Change Management Enhancements a Matter of Perspective

    February 18, 2014 Dan Burger

    A sequel to Escape from Alcatraz, that great old Clint Eastwood movie, is taking shape in IBM midrange shops. It’s called Escape from Green Screens. The plot is still being written and it won’t be done any time soon, but there are more shops using RDi with Remote System Explorer for editing source code. And the new free-form RPG coding is allowing RPG developers to escape green-screen development. A change management system (CMS) that works well in a modern development environment is a big advantage over CMSes that don’t–or no CMS at all.

    Midrange Dynamics, for example, is

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  • Enforcive Gives Security Policy Checks a Graphical Makeover

    February 18, 2014 Alex Woodie

    You can have the best IBM i security in the world, but unless you have a way to prove it to auditors and other interested parties, the security solution is not complete. With the latest release of Enforcive Systems‘ flagship Enterprise Security suite, the company has added a graphical overlay to the security policy assessment component, thereby providing customers and auditors with an easy way to ascertain the strength of an IBM i security configuration.

    Enforcive/Enterprise Security offers a breadth of enterprise security features for the IBM i platform, including exit point management, object authority management, IP packet filtering,

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  • BCD Lets the Mobile Flow with WebSmart 10.1

    February 18, 2014 Alex Woodie

    When developing mobile applications, the attentive developer must take into account the size of the mobile device’s screen to ensure a good experience for her users. With the latest release of its WebSmart development environment, BCD Software (now a part of Quadrant Software) added new capabilities designed to maximize the limited available real estate on mobile screens.

    BCD unveiled WebSmart version 10.1 just prior to being acquired by Quadrant in early February. The big new feature in the interim release is a new mobile reflow table template that improves the functionality of Web applications that present data in sortable

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  • Remain Software Confirms Latin American Partner

    February 18, 2014 Dan Burger

    Remain Software, a Dutch company specializing in application lifecycle management (ALM) products for IBM midrange shops, is introducing its product line to Latin America through a business partner arrangement with Green Light Technology. Green Light has business partners in several South and Central American countries, and is based in Orlando, Florida.

    The partnership includes promotion, distribution, consultancy, and technical support for Remain Software products: TD/OMS, a software change management tool; TD/OMS Compact, software change management tailored for small teams; and Gravity, an ALM workflow management product.

    Jaime Penagos, a project manager at Green Light, says the Latin American

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  • Hail Cesar: Italian Manufacturer Modernizes with looksoftware and RPG OA

    February 18, 2014 Alex Woodie

    Europeans who are remodeling their kitchens may be familiar with Cesar, an Italian manufacturer of modular kitchen components. While Cesar improves the look and utility of 11,000 kitchens per year, the company was struggling to manage orders effectively due to an aging IBM i-based application. After adopting modernization tools from looksoftware, the company is concentrating on kitchens again.

    Like many small and midsize Italian firms, Cesar developed its own IBM i application with good old RPG. Its homegrown ERP system handles most aspects of Cesar’s operations, including all accounting and customer, product, and order information.

    While the ERP system

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