• IBM Nabs Daeja, Gets Browser-Based Image Viewer

  September 23, 2013 Alex Woodie

  The volume of unstructured documents being generated in this world continues to grow, creating challenges for the consumption of the information in the documents. To help streamline access to unstructured documents, IBM last week bought Daeja Image Systems, a UK-based provider of software designed to make it easier for business and IT professionals to view large documents and images on the Web. Daeja develops software that significantly enhanced the image viewing capabilities of Web browser. The company’s ViewONE Pro and ViewONE offerings are Java applets and enable users to do things with images–such as zoom, flip, rotate, invert, and add

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• COMMON’s Fountain of Youth

  September 23, 2013 Dan Burger

  More than a few people have asked me where are the young people in the IBM i community. It’s a good question, because you really don’t see a lot of them. That’s why it was somewhat surprising to learn that nine college students attended the COMMON Fall Conference and Expo about a week and a half ago in St. Louis, Missouri. They were able to get indoctrinated because of an emerging program from the COMMON Education Foundation, which rounded up enough money to pay for travel, lodging, and registrations. The Foundation–which operates as a separate entity from COMMON, the user

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• IBM i Advocate Ian Jarman To Keynote At RPG & DB2 Summit

  September 23, 2013 Dan Burger

  IBM i Advocate Ian Jarman To Keynote At RPG & DB2 Summit The general managers for the IBM i platform and its earlier iterations the System i, iSeries, and AS/400 have come and gone like clockwork. But one constant at the IBM executive level for as long as I can remember is Ian Jarman. He’s often been called on to be the voice of the platform when well-meaning folks like the gang at IT Jungle want to know why IBM is doing something or doing nothing with the operating system, the database, the hardware, or the marketing. He knows IBM

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• Age Does Not Divide Social Media Users

  September 23, 2013 Jenny Thomas

  There was a time when social media looked more like a teenage hangout and no place for proper grown adults. Times have changed and it looks like social media has conquered the final frontier: senior citizens. At least, that’s the findings of a recent report from Pew Research Center, which revealed people ages 65 and older have roughly tripled their presence on social networking sites in the last four years, from 13 percent in the spring of 2009 to 43 percent now. We’ve been harping on social media for the last few years (just see the Related Stories section

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• Kwik Trip Stops at RJS for Doc Management

  September 19, 2013 Alex Woodie

  Kwik Trip, a chain of 350 convenience stores in Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota, replaced a Windows-based document management system with an IBM i-based system from RJS Software Systems, the software company recently announced. Kwik Trip operates a string of convenience stores across the Upper Midwest under the names Kwik Trip, Kwik Star, Hearty Platter, and Tobacco Outlet Plus. If you’ve ever traveled through this part of the country, you’ve probably run into one of Kwik Trip’s stores. Like many mid-size companies, Kwik Trip relied on a diverse range of systems in its IT department, according to a 2008 case study

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• PSGi Offers Help for Neglected IBM i Servers

  September 17, 2013 Alex Woodie

  As the redheaded stepchild of the server world, the IBM i server is used to being unseen and unappreciated. That’s fine, because it doesn’t require a lot of babysitting (like that Windows server over there). But when the situation escalates to the level of neglect, it crosses a red line. For organizations that need a little help with IBM i, signing up for a managed service offering, such as the one that PSGi launched last month, might be a good investment. IBM i servers have a well-deserved reputation for stability and reliability. Many organizations have gone years without an abnormal

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• IBM Patches Multiple Java Security Vulnerabilities in IBM i

  September 17, 2013 Alex Woodie

  IBM last week acknowledged that it quietly patched a number of potentially critical security vulnerabilities in IBM i that could enable hackers to compromise, spoof, and gain privileged access to an affected system. The problems stem mostly from flaws in Java that Oracle disclosed in June, and which impact the Java Runtime and Java Software Development Kit (JRE/JDK) for all supported releases of the OS, from i5/OS V5R4 through IBM i 7.1. On Friday, Secunia issued an advisory that disclosed the existence of multiple security vulnerabilities in IBM i, as recorded by official CVE reference numbers. The security organization stated:

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• LANSA Adds Goodies to LongRange Mobile App

  September 17, 2013 Alex Woodie

  IBM i shops have a growing number of mobile application tools to choose from, which is a good thing considering the accelerating pace of smartphone adoption and increased use of tablets in the workplace. One of the more mature mobile packages available for the IBM i market can be found from LANSA in the form of LongRange, which was recently bolstered with several nifty features in LongRange RV14. LongRange is a mobile application development and runtime environment designed to give IBM i shops the capability to extend their existing RPG, DDS, and COBOL applications to mobile devices without learning HTML5,

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• Halcyon Goes GUI with Job Scheduler

  September 17, 2013 Alex Woodie

  To outsiders, the IBM i server is a mysterious machine with a cryptic green user interface that is best left to specialists skilled in the black arts of the proprietary machine. But it doesn’t have to be that way, and Halcyon Software is doing something about it with a new Web-based graphical user interface (GUI) in its Advanced Job Scheduler that’s designed to lower the bar of entry to working with the machine. Of course, one should still have the requisite operational skills before logging onto an IBM i job scheduler and making changes that affect production jobs running on

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• Interest in Simulated Role Swaps the Real Deal, Maxava Says

  September 17, 2013 Alex Woodie

  In high availability, preparation is everything. If you fail to get your systems ready for a disaster, there is little chance they’ll survive it unscathed. To that end, high availability software vendor Maxava says the simulated role swap (SRS) function in its high-end HA product, which allows customers to practice a role swap without actually triggering any downtime, is gaining popularity. The SRS functionality in Maxava Enterprise+ gives customers the capability to test applications residing on the backup system without the need to perform an actual role swap or failover. The feature works by simulating the process of turning the

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