• IBM Starts Refurbishing Power Systems Machines In China

  March 19, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  IBM makes Power Systems machinery in China to sell to customers in certain parts of the globe, and now the company has opened up a refurbishing center that will be taking back machines in trade and refurbishing them for resale in the country. IBM has opened up a server and PC refurbishing center near one of its factories in Shenzhen, China, which will be run by the company’s Global Asset Recovery Services division, part of its Global Financing group. The facility is starting out modestly and will only represent a tiny portion of the iron that Global Asset Recovery Services

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• Disk Array Sales Keep Expanding Despite Drive Shortages

  March 19, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  The relentless pace of disk capacity improvements and the impressive price/performance gains with every new generation of disk were more than offset by rapacious demand for storage to help the disk array business grow in the final quarter of 2011. And despite disk shortages due to the flooding in Thailand (where about a quarter of the world’s disks are made) and jittery economies in the United States and Western Europe. According to the box counters at Gartner, sales of external disk arrays that make use of controllers (as distinct from internal disk arrays like those inside of many X86

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• ASNA ‘Bulks’ Up with Wings 5.2

  March 13, 2012 Alex Woodie

  When customers started using Wings, ASNA‘s new screen modernization tool for IBM i applications, the company was in for a bit of a surprise. While the company expected customers to modernize more than one screen at a time, it wasn’t expecting customers to tackle thousands of screens simultaneously. This led to one of the major new features in the just-released Wings 5.2, called “Flight Plans,” which enables users to track their progress with the ASNA tool. Wings is one of a new class of Web-based modernization tools that uses Rational Open Access: RPG Edition, the IBM technology that debuted

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• Profound Updates RPG OA Screen Modernization Tool

  March 13, 2012 Alex Woodie

  With nearly two years of use in the field, Profound Logic is getting good feedback from customers about the changes it would like to see in Profound UI, the 5250 screen modernization tool that uses the Rational Open Access: RPG Edition (RPG OA) technology from IBM. Many of those changes are being showcased in Profound UI version 3.3, which the vendor unveiled in January. But the biggest changes are being prepped for launch at the May COMMON show. When it shipped in April 2010 Profound UI was the first commercially available screen modernization tool to use the RPG Open

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• Halcyon Overcomes IBM i Spool File Limits

  March 13, 2012 Alex Woodie

  The IBM i platform excels at handling big data. Its integrated database allows customers to handle large amounts of data with relative ease. Just the same, there are some limits in the OS when it comes to spool files that some IBM i shops have managed to meet. With the latest release of its Spooled File Manager, Halcyon Software has enabled these customers to overcome these limits and continue to process and store an ever-growing collection of spool files. Spooled File Manager is an IBM i product designed to streamline the distribution and long-term storage of spool files generated by

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• Krengel Adds Credit Card Processing to RPG-XML Suite

  March 13, 2012 Alex Woodie

  Developers who write XML-based Web service programs for IBM i using Krengel Technology‘s RPG-XML Suite now have an easy way to add credit card processing to their apps. The company recently announced that the suite now contains an application plug-in that processes credit card transactions via the Cybersource network. Krengel’s flagship product, the RPG-XML Suite, is a collection of RPG service programs and APIs that make it easy for IBM i shops to expose their existing RPG apps as an XML-based Web service, and also to allow their existing RPG apps to consume third-party Web services. The software runs

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• Iron Mountain Unveils New Backup Tape Offerings

  March 13, 2012 Alex Woodie

  Iron Mountain last week unveiled three new offerings aimed at helping organizations manage their backup tapes and related processes. The new offerings are designed to eliminate some of the hurdles that legacy tape formats present to organizations and make it easier to access data on the tape. Iron Mountain is a well-known, $3 billion company that collects and stores important documents for customers in all industries. It has also served as a secure repository for organizations’ backup tapes. With its recent announcement, Iron Mountain will not only store tapes for customers, but it will help them more effectively manage the

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• Spinnaker Buys Versytec’s Third-Party JDE Support Business

  March 13, 2012 Alex Woodie

  Spinnaker Support bolstered its position in the market for third-party JD Edwards support services last week when it announced the acquisition of its competitor in the space, Versytec. Nashua, New Hampshire-based Versytec was one of the first companies to enter the market for third-party JDE support services way back in June 2004. By 2005, the company had about 30 JDE customers, mostly World shops, the company told IT Jungle at the time. Eventually, Versytec owners decided to sell the business, and Spinnaker looked like a promising new owner. “When we looked at companies to approach regarding a sale, Spinnaker

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• ARCTOOLS Updates JDE Performance Tool

  March 13, 2012 Alex Woodie

  The JD Edwards ERP systems bring specific needs and requirements in the area of data archiving, purging, and performance management. One vendor that has been active in this area is ARCTOOLS. This month, the Denver, Colorado, company is launching version 2.1 of its eponymous suite, which expands the software for use in other applications. ARCTOOLS has been used by more than 300 JD Edwards World and EnterpriseOne customers since it was developed by DCSoftware and Whitehouse Consultants in the 1990s. The only other ERP system that the developers have actively targeted is BPCS. But with the launch of ARCTOOLS

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• Oracle Ships Smartphone Expense Management App for JDE E1

  March 13, 2012 Alex Woodie

  Oracle last week shipped its fourth new smartphone app for its JD Edwards EntepriseOne customers. Mobile Expense Management, which runs on iOS, Android, and Blackberry phones, makes it easier for employees to submit their expenses to management for payment. Mobile Expense Management enables workers to enter, submit, review, and approve expense reports in real time via their smart phones. “By enabling mobile workers to manage expense reports on their mobile devices, Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Mobile Expense Management can reduce time to payment and increase employee satisfaction,” Lyle Ekdahl, Oracle’s group vice president general manager for JD Edwards, says in

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