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  • Responsive Web Design

    October 23, 2013 Paul Tuohy

    The design of web pages used to be a very straightforward process. You picked a style and made sure that that style was applied throughout your website. Usually, each page would have a fixed width of 500 or 700 pixels, which would be formatted in a grid pattern to best represent the content of the page.

    But that was way back when you only had to be concerned about designing a web page that would be displayed on a desktop or a laptop. Today, your web page might be displayed on a desktop, a laptop, a tablet, or a mobile

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  • Make Your DB2 For i Apps Environment Aware

    October 23, 2013 Michael Sansoterra

    Time and time again, applications need to know something about the environment they’re running on. For example, if an application uses dynamic SQL and it needs to know what features are available, then knowing what version of IBM i it is using can help it decide how to build a query. Likewise, when auditing the source of database changes, it’s useful to know the TCP/IP address of the host requesting the change.

    Consider the case where an application may need to know if a certain required PTF has been installed. While there have always been APIs to retrieve this information,

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  • Admin Alert: A Primer For Setting Up PC5250 SSL Connectivity, Part 2

    October 23, 2013 Joe Hertvik

    Last issue, I published Part 1 of a primer for setting up IBM i PC5250 Telnet sessions to use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption. That article described everything you need for configuring your IBM i server to use SSL Telnet. This issue, I’ll look at the PC Windows side and show you how to configure your IBM i Access for Windows clients to use SSL when starting Telnet sessions.

    Revisiting The Overview

    Last time, I listed out these six basic steps for configuring Telnet SSL connectivity between a PC and an IBM i partition. These steps are performed in your

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  • Raz-Lee Supports IPv6 with IBM i Security Software

    October 22, 2013 Alex Woodie

    Raz-Lee Security last week announced it’s now supporting IPv6 addresses with its IBM i network security software suite. The change, which the company says involved extensive development work on three related products, should address concerns of IBM i shops that IPv6 connected devices won’t be properly interrogated by their IBM i network security software, and could create a vulnerability in the network protection scheme.

    Raz-Lee can now support the 128-bit hexadecimal IP addresses that are used in the IPv6 scheme within three components of its iSecurity suite, including: Firewall, its network security and exit point monitoring solution; Audit, which is

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  • Robot/CONSOLE Gets IASP Support, Is Now Ready for PowerHA

    October 22, 2013 Alex Woodie

    IBM i shops that use Help/Systems‘ Robot/CONSOLE to keep an eye on their server’s messages can feel a little safer that the software will function normally during a failover. That’s because the vendor has added support for individual auxiliary storage pools (IASPs) with last week’s release of Robot/CONSLE version 5.25, which allows it to work when it’s failed over to a backup storage server as part of an IBM PowerHA for IBM i environment.

    While IASPs have been around for a decade, it’s only been in the last five years or so that software vendors have really come under

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  • RPG Toolkit Updated for TR7 Capabilities

    October 22, 2013 Dan Burger

    Converting old RPG code to new RPG code is nothing new for Linoma Software. The company’s RPG Toolbox has handled conversions for thousands of IBM midrange shops since V5R1, according to company literature. The latest release of the Toolbox is version 5.0 release. The enhancements will enable fixed format RPG conversions to the free form syntax that is available with the IBM i Technology Refresh 7.

    IBM’s TR7 was announced on October 7 and becomes generally available November 15. Linoma Chief Technology Officer Bob Luebbe says the RPG Toolbox 5.0 will be available by the end of November.

    Luebbe

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  • Halcyon Tidies Up Journal Receivers, Tightens Up QAUDJRN

    October 22, 2013 Alex Woodie

    Halcyon Software last week unveiled a new version of Systems Operations Suite (SOS), its software for monitoring and automatically responding to IBM i messages, applications, and processes. A new object monitor debuted with version 5.0 that gives customers more control over journal receivers. The update also delivers finer-grained monitoring of the system audit journal to detect potential security events, and brings customers a new custom task monitor.

    Systems Operations Suite sits in the lower half of the totem pole that is Halcyon’s complete collection of IBM i systems monitoring and management tools. The Level 2 offering has all of the

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  • Townsend Stores Encryption Keys in the Cloud

    October 22, 2013 Alex Woodie

    The cloud keeps getting more secure every day. And now, Townsend Security–a vendor that knows a thing or two about how to do security right–even wants to store the encryption keys for your cloud-based applications in a hardware security module (HSM) that itself lives in the cloud.

    Finding a safe place to store encryption keys is an important, but sometimes overlooked, aspect of good security management. If you lose those encryption keys or they’re stolen, your data is gone for good. Your encryption software vendor doesn’t have a “skeleton” key to recover the data, and it’s doubtful the National

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  • Magic Adds Mobile Device Management to Mix

    October 22, 2013 Alex Woodie

    Magic Software is one of several IBM i-oriented development tool makers chasing the mobile opportunity, which is a big one. Last week, Magic bolstered its mobile story with new mobile device management (MDM) and offline mode capabilities.

    The new Magic MDM offering gives customers the tools necessary to provision, support, secure, and monitor both corporate-owned and personal devices that employees bring to work. The software supports iOS, Android, and Windows platforms, and enables administrators to accomplish management tasks through a Web-based interface.

    The Magic MDM offering can be used to enroll and configure devices over all network connection types (WiFi,

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  • Tectrade to Sell LaserVault UBD in Europe

    October 22, 2013 Alex Woodie

    Tectrade, a Dutch provider of IBM i solutions in several countries, this month announced that it has picked up and will start selling Electronic Storage Corp.‘s LaserVault Universal Backup Device (UBD) to clients in Europe.

    Antoni Uni, a service transition consultant with Tectrade, explained his company’s decision to re-sell the LaserVault backup device to clients in the BeNeLux (Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg) region.

    “We selected LaserVault’s UBD because it will give our customers a tapeless backup solution and at the same time optimize the use of their current storage equipment,” Uni says in a press release. “Most of

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