• Forgotten Password Problem Solved, Kisco Says

  January 14, 2014 Alex Woodie

  Help desk personnel will be free to pursue more fulfilling activities as a result of Kisco Information Systems‘ latest software, iResetMe. Unveiled last week, the new product allows IBM i users to reset their own passwords from a secure Web connection, thereby alleviating help desks from the burden of resetting forgotten user passwords. Password resets are the single most common activity at IT help desks in the Western World. According to Gartner, 20 to 50 percent of calls to the help desk are for password resets, and each reset cost from $14 to $28. Those figures are from 2003,

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• CIOs At Risk of Becoming Irrelevant on Technology Decisions, Logicalis Survey Says

  January 14, 2014 Alex Woodie

  A survey conducted last year by Logicails indicates that CIOs are losing clout in the board room when it comes to technology decisions. Unless they do something, CIOs and other tech leaders risk being overshadowed by line of business managers. According to the survey conducted by the managed service provider (MSP), 60 percent of CIOs agree that line-of-business managers will gain sway on technology purchases over the next three to five years. It’s an ongoing issue facing technology leaders and is being driven in large part by the consumerization of technology and the availability of increasingly sophisticated Web-based services. To

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• Bone Up on Free-Form RPG with developerWorks

  January 14, 2014 Alex Woodie

  The new free-form RPG specs delivered with IBM i 7.1 TR7 are the most exciting thing to happen to the language since RPG Open Access was unveiled four years ago. Last week, IBM published a developerWorks guide on how to program within the new free-form method. Free-form RPG is intended to move the language away from its fixed-format roots and put it on par with other commonly used languages, such as Visual Basic, Java, and PHP. The idea is to make RPG more enticing to learn, and introduce the language to a new generation of programmers. IBM software engineers Scott

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• Infor Goes In-Country with M3 Accelerators

  January 14, 2014 Alex Woodie

  Infor in December rolled out a pair of country-specific Implementation Accelerators for its M3 product line that will speed implementation of the ERP suite in the US and the UK. According to Infor, each Implementation Accelerator Country Version is designed to enable the rapid deployment of the Infor M3 application in a specific geography–in this case, the US or the UK. The offerings are designed to make it easier to adhere to the specific statutory regulations and reporting requirements for daily business transactions and operations. “Typically, an M3 customer will operate across international borders,” said John Chandler, Infor’s senior product

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• Heartland Taps Help/Systems for IBM i Job Scheduling

  January 14, 2014 Alex Woodie

  Job scheduling is one of those things that you may not pay a lot of attention to. For the folks at Heartland Financial, keeping track of IBM i and Windows jobs manually worked just find–right up to the day it didn’t. And that’s when it brought in Help/Systems and its Robot/SCHEDULER to automate the situation. Heartland Financial USA is a $5.7 billion multi-bank holding company providing banking, mortgage, wealth management, brokerage, and insurance services to clients in the Midwest and the West. The publicly traded company is considered one of the top 100 bank holding companies in the US. An

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• Symtrax Debuts Compleo Print Manager

  January 14, 2014 Alex Woodie

  Printing a document from within an ERP application can sometimes be a challenge. With a new solution from Symtrax called Compleo Print Manager, users can control printing from ERP systems within the comfort of a Web-based interface. Symtrax’s new Print Manager offering is designed to be a secure and central repository for configuring and controlling printers within an ERP landscape. The software utilizes existing Windows print drivers to reduce the chances that the print drivers are incompatible with a particular ERP product. In addition to configuring printers, the software helps to optimize printer options, thereby enabling it to initiate printing

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• Medical Supply Firm Protects Data with Vault400

  January 14, 2014 Alex Woodie

  A.A. Laquis Limited, a medical supply distributor in the Caribbean, has selected the Vault400 offering from United Computer Group to protect its critical IBM i server, the vendor announced last month. With 150,000 square feet of distribution space in Trinidad & Tobago, Barbados, and Jamaica and more than 200 employees, A.A. Laquis Limited is the biggest supplier of medical supplies and home healthcare supplies in the Caribbean. The privately held company uses an IBM i server equipped with ERP software from VAI to automate its back-office operations. The distributor selected Vault400 after looking at the other alternatives available on the

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• New Year’s High Def, Most Def

  January 13, 2014 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Like many of you, I think New Year’s resolutions are suspect. While I think it is perfectly reasonable to stop and contemplate everything you have done and everything that you have yet to do after a certain period–the time it takes the Earth to make one circuit around the Sun is as good as any–I know enough about human nature to know that people do the best they can under the circumstances and that this often falls far short of the ideal. This is a good thing, I think, because the perfect can become the enemy of the good enough

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• Townsend Launches 2FA To Thwart Cyber Attacks On IBM i

  January 13, 2014 Alex Woodie

  Townsend Security is unveiling a new security solution that enables two-factor authentication (2FA) on the IBM i platform. The offering requires users to properly enter a PIN code, sent via a mobile text or an automated voice call, before being allowed on the system. Alliance Two Factor Authentication will help companies defend themselves against privilege escalation attacks that are currently comprising otherwise secure IBM i systems, says company founder Patrick Townsend. The growing technological sophistication of cybercriminals is forcing organizations to step up their security games to prevent falling victims to the digital marauders. The advent of keyloggers and other

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• Finding The i In The Power Ecosystem And Strategy

  January 13, 2014 Dan Burger

  The IBM Power Systems portfolio covers a lot of territory. Where the IBM i portion of that very large ecosystem fits into the puzzle is often questioned, particularly when it comes to sales and marketing efforts. IBM i roadmaps are used to explain commitments to the platform and Technology Refreshes are examples of IBM investments. Growth of the platform depends on independent software vendor (ISV) solutions, where IBM investments in co-marketing activities are fuel that fills the sales gas tank. Pumping that juice is Terri Virnig, vice president of Power ecosystem and strategy. She has responsibility for all aspects of

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