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Altova Adds Support for DB2/400 Logical Files in MissionKit

February 28, 2012 Alex Woodie

Altova recently added support for DB2/400 logical files in MissionKit, its collection of XML, database, and UML tools used by developers and database administrators. Supporting the logical file construct, which is unique to the IBM i platform, bolsters Altova’s efforts to attract IBM i customers to its powerful data manipulation tools, and keep them happy.

MissionKit includes eight handy utilities that allow IT professionals to accomplish a range of XML, data, and unified modeling language (UML)-related tasks. Anchoring the kit is its popular XML editor, called XMLSpy. MapForce, meanwhile, provides data conversion and related capabilities, UModel allows developers to visually

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Raz-Lee Updates AP-Journal Fraud-Detection Tool

February 28, 2012 Alex Woodie

Raz-Lee Security has added a range of new features to AP-Journal, a DB2/400 audit trail utility that’s useful for detecting potentially fraudulent activity. Better integration with security information and event management (SIEM) tools and expanded coverage beyond data to IBM i objects and application files mark the new release.

AP-Journal was first unveiled nearly four years ago to help IBM i shops clamp down on unauthorized and fraudulent activity on corporate computer systems. The software works with IBM i journaling to monitor field-level changes in certain sensitive DB2/400 data files, such as an employee’s salary. A series of filters allows

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S4i Lands Deal with Retalix Customer

February 28, 2012 Alex Woodie

S4i Systems‘s electronic document management software is being used to reduce dependence on paper documents at Lipari Foods, a Midwestern wholesale food distributor that runs the IBM i-based retail ERP system from Retalix.

From its warehouse in Warren, Michigan, Lipari Foods distributes deli, bakery, packaging, seafood, confections, grocery, and food service products to 11 Midwestern states. The company claims that a commitment to investing in advanced technology–including IBM i systems and applications, wireless barcode scanning and voice picking, and GPS vehicle tracking–allows it to meet the tight delivery windows and high expectations of its customers.

Now S4i Express

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Cat Dealer Still Likes Coda for IBM i Financials

February 28, 2012 Alex Woodie

Thompson Machinery, the authorized dealer for Caterpillar equipment in central and western Tennessee and central and northern Mississippi, has decided to stick with Coda Financials running on the IBM i OS, and in fact will expand its usage of the Java-based software, UNIT4 CODA announced last week.

The ability to “fire” a service provider, as Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney put it recently, is one of the biggest benefits of our capitalist economic system. And while Romney admitted to getting a bit of joy out of firing health care providers that don’t stack up, the same level of fiduciary glee

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IBS Touts IBM i Experience for New IBM Business Partner Status

February 28, 2012 Alex Woodie

IBS, which several years ago changed course and headed down the Windows path as the company’s new strategic platform for running its ERP system, says the company’s experience with the IBM i platform is behind the company’s upgraded IBM business partner status, from Advanced to Premiere Business Partner.

It’s too early to say if IBS is re-embracing IBM i (which the company insists on calling iSeries, which ceased to exist as an official name in May 2004 when IBM changed iSeries to eServer i5). The company is still a Gold Certified Partner of Microsoft, so it’s clear

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IBM Releases Cognos TM1 10.1

February 28, 2012 Alex Woodie

IBM last week issued the 10.1 release of Cognos TM1, its Windows-based in-memory OLAP database. The new release features several new features that IBM says will help customers get the most out of large or complex data sets.

TM1 is one of the product lines that IBM obtained five years ago in its $5 billion acquisition of Cognos. The software, which was previously developed by Applix, features a 64-bit in-memory database that IBM says is very good at consolidating, viewing, and editing enormous volumes of multidimensional data, particularly data used for budgeting, forecasting, and performance analysis.

With version 10.1, IBM

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The Application RISC Machine System/500

February 27, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Let’s have a little fun here. Those of us who have made a living in the market for AS/400 systems and their progeny on down to the current Power Systems-IBM i platforms spend a lot of time looking back at the past and pointing out all of the innovations that IBM cooked up in the System/38 and AS/400 product lines since the dawn of the commercial computing era in the midrange. We spend a lot of time talking about keeping legacies alive, but we don’t spend enough time talking about building a new machine that will be worthy of being

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Xerox Launches IAAS Cloud for Power Systems, Intel Servers

February 27, 2012 Alex Woodie

Xerox is the latest company to roll out an infrastructure as a service (IAAS) cloud offering that includes support for IBM i workloads. Unveiled last month, Xerox Cloud Services enables small and midsized businesses to run their IBM i, AIX, Windows, and Linux applications on servers owned and managed by Xerox and its IT services arm, formerly called ACS. The $21 billion IT services and printing giant is also allowing partners to white label the cloud offering to their own clients.

Most IBM i professionals know Xerox as a printer manufacturer, but the company has a much broader array of

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Thinking Strategically About IT As A Service

February 27, 2012 Dan Burger

Real change doesn’t come from the change machine, where a dollar will get you four quarters but it doesn’t change what you can buy with the money. The IBM midrange, on the other hand, could be in for some real change. I’m talking about the change that comes with consuming IT as a service instead of buying it as a product. Are we any closer to that happening than we were five years ago? Could be. Here’s why.

Although it’s tempting to say it all comes down to money and saving it whenever and wherever you can, that’s not the

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Mad Dog 21/21: Slim’s Simmering SIMs

February 27, 2012 Hesh Wiener

Carlos Slim Helú worth about $75 billion, might be the richest person in the world. One of many companies Slim and his children control is Mexico-based América Móvil, which spans the Western Hemisphere, serving more than 200 million mobile telephony customers. On Groundhog Day, Straight Talk, one of AM’s brands, aided by a cadre of phone unlockers and iPhone jailbreakers launched its assault on the USA’s cell phone business. For openers, it halved the cost of operating an iPhone. What will follow might do more than change carriers’ market shares. It could reshape the entire mobile client ecosystem.

This

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