• Publish Result Sets Using Web Services and IWS

  December 9, 2009 Michael Sansoterra

  Note: The code accompanying this article is available for download here. IBM i/OS V6R1 (a.k.a. 6.1) introduced a new feature called Integrated Web Services (IWS). This feature is also available by PTF on V5R4 systems. One benefit of IWS is its ability to make data and logic in high-level language programs such as RPG, COBOL and C available as a Web service. Publishing business logic as a Web service allows clients on just about any platform (PDA, green screen, Web application, Windows client) in just about any language (Java, C#, VB.NET, VBA, etc.) to easily consume the data provided

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• Admin Alert: The Ins and Outs of IBM Business Partners

  December 9, 2009 Joe Hertvik

  Due to an unusual situation, we didn’t have a business partner for my System i 550 box and we needed to select a new partner before we could upgrade. That experience taught me a lot about how business partner relationships work. This week I’ll share that knowledge to help anyone who is interested in changing their business partner or to help you learn more about how the program works. The Basics It’s helpful to understand what IBM business partners do, how to select a business partner, what the relationship entails, and what to do if your business partner relationship isn’t

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• Fiserv 2.0 Banks on the Reliability of Power Systems

  December 8, 2009 Alex Woodie

  The Power Systems platform plays an important role in a number of American industries, including manufacturing, distribution, and entertainment. But you may not know that the platform IBM used to call AS/400 is also a very strong contender in banking. One of IBM’s biggest partners in that field, Fiserv, relies heavily upon the i OS platform to deliver financial services software and services, and considers it a core component of its strategy to evolve banking solutions in the Internet age. Fiserv has changed tremendously since it was founded 25 years ago from the merger of regional data processing firms

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• Quadrant Eases Installation, Lowers Price on IntelliChief

  December 8, 2009 Alex Woodie

  Fifteen. That’s the key number to keep in mind with Quadrant Software and its new release of IntelliChief document and content management software. As a result of product enhancements that streamline implementation and a lowered pricing structure with version 2.6, Quadrant claims that customers can implement IntelliChief in 15 days or less, at a starting price of $15,000. With document management expected to be a major IT driver in 2010, Quadrant’s offer deserves closer examination for companies looking to eliminate paper. IntelliChief is a collection of Windows software that’s designed to help organizations (primarily System i shops) make the transition

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• TMW Systems Buys Innovative Computing, Including 300 i OS Customers

  December 8, 2009 Alex Woodie

  TMW Systems surprised the trucking industry last week when it announced the acquisition of Innovative Computing Corp., a rival developer of i OS-based applications for the trucking industry. The deal puts TMW firmly in the driver’s seat when it comes to enterprise trucking applications for the i OS computing platform. The unexpected sale of Innovative Computing to its larger competitor marks a subdued end to the company’s yearlong celebration of its 40th year in business. Ever since Innovative launched what it claims was the trucking industry’s first enterprise platform way back in 1969, the company has targeted IBM platforms–first

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• Databorough Unveils ‘Lite’ Version of Application Analysis Tool

  December 8, 2009 Alex Woodie

  Databorough last week unveiled a stripped down “Lite” version of X-Analysis, its cross-referencing and documentation tool for IBM i OS applications. The vendor says X-Analysis Lite, while lacking some enterprise features, should nonetheless provide a good starting point for programmers and analysts to gain a better understanding of how their RPG, COBOL, and CL programs were developed and how they run on the i OS Power Systems server. It’s been a little over a year since Databorough launched the version 8 release of X-Analysis, which was focused on application modernization. While the new Lite version of X-Analysis doesn’t provide the

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• 10ZiG Acquires BOSaNOVA System i Connectivity Products

  December 8, 2009 Alex Woodie

  10ZiG Technology, the provider of thin client terminals and related gear that previously went by the name BOSaNOVA, now has ownership rights over the System i connectivity products that it sold when it was BOSaNOVA, the Phoenix, Arizona, company announced yesterday. As part of the deal with B.O.S–Better On-line Solutions, 10ZiG will obtain nearly all of the rights to four products, including BOSaNOVA Web, a browser-based terminal emulator; BOSaNOVA Secure, an encrypted TN5250 emulator; the e-Twinax Controller, a TCP/IP Controller that plugs into twinax devices but doesn’t use SNA; and BOSaNOVA Plus, twinax emulation cards. The deal states

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• Infor Taps Quadrant for Document Management Deal

  December 8, 2009 Alex Woodie

  Infor, the i OS ERP software giant, last week launched Document Management for System i, a new offering that’s based on several products from OEM partner Quadrant Software. Infor’s new product is aimed at replacing paper-based business process with electronic equivalents, and is pre-integrated with a range of Infor’s i OS-based ERP systems. Expect to see this product pushed hard in 2010 by Infor, which says most companies will see an 18-month return on investments in document management technology. Infor Document Management for System i is based on three existing Quadrant products, including Intellichief, its Windows-based content management

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• Public Beta Begins for Zend Server for i

  December 8, 2009 Alex Woodie

  Zend Technologies last week announced the start of a public beta test for Zend Server for i, a new collection of PHP development and runtime tools for System i customers. Interested parties can download the beta of the i OS Edition of Zend Server version 5.0 from the Zend Web site. Zend offers several PHP stacks, but it describes Zend Server as the “complete, enterprise-ready Web application server” for running PHP workloads. If you had to pick just one Zend runtime environment for executing PHP applications on i OS, and price was not an object, this would probably be the

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• Kisco Adds File Encryption to Amazon Cloud DR Offering

  December 8, 2009 Alex Woodie

  System i shops that are deploying Kisco Information Systems i2S3 cloud-based backup and recovery service, which offers an i OS interface to Amazon‘s Simple Storage Service (S3), will now be able to encrypt the i OS backups they upload to the Amazon cloud, and decrypt them during recovery. Kisco launched its i2S3 offering two months ago as an easy and affordable way for System i shops to get their critical backups offsite. The offering includes a set of i OS commands that mimic the platform’s native save and restore commands. But instead of saving backup objects to a tape

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