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  • MegaXML Looks to Drive Expense Out of EDI

    May 26, 2009 Alex Woodie

    For many companies, managing an EDI environment can be a major hassle. Sure, it provides the conduit through which orders come and go. But because EDI is a requirement in many industries, it doesn’t bring the user any new business advantage–it just gets them back to par. The developer of the MegaXML EDI package, a company called Task Performance Group, is positioning its EDI hosting business as a cost- and headache-reducer for AS/400 shops that don’t want to manage EDI any more.

    Task Performance Group launched MegaXML a decade ago to take advantage of the flexibility of XML. On

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  • Veryant Supports DB2/400 with COBOL-Java IDE

    May 26, 2009 Alex Woodie

    Veryant recently delivered a new release of isCOBOL, its Eclipse-based IDE aimed at COBOL developers who are looking to modernize their applications with Java. With isCOBOL 2009, the company is now enabling Java programs to directly access data residing in COBOL applications, which should streamline the application modernization process. The new release also introduces full support for DB2/400, and new language localizations.

    Veryant’s approach to application modernization is a unique one. The company develops the isCOBOL IDE that provides a COBOL compiler and other COBOL development functionality, all within the comfortable confines of the Eclipse framework, which is heavily

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  • ACI Taps UC4 for Cross-Platform Job Scheduling

    May 26, 2009 Alex Woodie

    ACI Worldwide uses a bunch of different IBM servers to power its outsourced electronic payment processing network, which is used by hundreds of banks, retailers, and processors around the world. Doing the heavy lifting for ACI are a collection i OS (AS/400), AIX, and mainframe servers. But getting all these different systems to work together was a challenge for ACI, so it brought in UC4 Software, which specializes in cross-platform job scheduling software.

    The diverse array of computing platforms was an obstacle to day-to-day job scheduling at ACI Worldwide, according to Dmitriy Ilyin, ACI’s software architect. “Our original job

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  • $12 Billion Bank Picks i OS Core Banking System from Jack Henry

    May 26, 2009 Alex Woodie

    Following an intensive 16-month review process Whitney National Bank, a $12 billion bank based in Louisiana, has decided to install the i OS-based SilverLake application as its core banking platform, SilverLake’s developers, Jack Henry & Associates, announced last week.

    The selection of a core banking system is one of the biggest decisions a bank can make. To make sure it picked the right system, Whitney National hired a consultant to oversee the selection process, which involved an intensive review of many different banking applications and their technological underpinnings.

    After careful consideration, Whitney National made the decision to replace its

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  • DB2 Connect Gets Better Support for Stored Procedures and Triggers

    May 26, 2009 Alex Woodie

    Developers who use DB2 Connect to access databases running on System i midrange systems and System z mainframes from applications running on Windows, Unix, and Linux systems will gain better support for triggers and stored procedures, among other enhancements, with the latest release of the software, version 9.7, which IBM announced last week.

    DB2 Connect is a piece of data access middleware that is used to access DB2 databases running on System i and System z servers. The software gives remote applications the capability to create, update, control, and manage DB2 databases running on host systems using a variety of

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  • SolarWinds Raises $150 Million in IPO

    May 26, 2009 Alex Woodie

    The economy may be in the dumper, and initial public offerings (IPOs) of technology stocks may be a lean trickle of what they used to be. But last week was apparently the right time for SolarWinds to go public. The Texas-based developer of affordable systems management software for mid size businesses raised $151 million on the New York Stock Exchange.

    SolarWinds is one of a growing number of company that offers a lower-cost alternative to the systems management software from the “Big Four” vendors–BMC Software, CA, Hewlett-Packard, and IBM. The vendor, which was founded in

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  • Speedware Joins Microsoft AS/400 Program

    May 26, 2009 Alex Woodie

    Speedware is the latest ISV to join the Midrange Alliance Program, Microsoft‘s program for consultants and ISVs who are interested in advocating a .NET approach to modernizing OS/400 programs, and migrating them off the platform to Windows.

    Speedware is a Montreal, Quebec-based company that has been helping AS/400 shops modernize their applications for the last 10 years. In addition to modernizing their systems, Speedware has developed a collection of tools to help automate the process of migrating AS/400 shops and their RPG code off the proprietary midrange platform entirely. This makes Speedware a good fit for Microsoft’s MAP program,

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  • Chips Sliding Away

    May 26, 2009 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    When you look at a photograph of a microprocessor die, doesn’t it always look like a city of some kind where electrons live and work? The L1 and L2 cache memories are perhaps where the electrons live, and they work in the central processing units and floating point units, commuting back and forth as they form the signals that become zeros and ones, like a human wave at a football stadium. Main memory is where the electrons go for weekends, and disk storage is where they go for long vacations.

    It is perhaps not a coincidence, then, that when people

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  • IBM Launches Smart Cube i and Linux Appliances in the U.S.

    May 26, 2009 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    After close to two years of development and preliminary marketing in India, IBM‘s Smart Cube application appliances went on sale last Tuesday in its home market in the United States, moving one step closer to a worldwide launch. The Smart Cube appliances, which we have been watching closely since Big Blue first started talking about them a year ago, come in Power-i and X64-Linux flavors and are designed to tap into the Smart Market, a clearinghouse for systems and application software aimed at small and medium businesses.

    Back in December, I gave you the rundown on the Smart

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  • New Data Center, Online Classes Put Omaha College on IT Fast Track

    May 26, 2009 Dan Burger

    Metropolitan Community College serves the greater Omaha, Nebraska, area, but through an online educational program its reach is worldwide. Currently MCC is reinventing its General Information Technology curriculum–which includes specialized course work relating to the IBM Power Systems i platform–and building a technologically advanced data center that will substantially boost career preparation opportunities for a global student body. The innovative methods could well be the future of IT education.

    In September, when a new two-year educational track called Data Center Management begins, MCC will have a program curriculum based on real world working conditions in a modern data center that

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