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  • Codelyzer Offers Relief from Application Maintenance Burdens

    March 17, 2009 Dan Burger

    For as long as programs have been written there has been program maintenance. And for as long as there has been program maintenance, there has been a laundry list of fixes and patches and revisions that over many years have made application maintenance into something like being in a row boat in the middle of a very large lake and having only one oar. It’s not unique to the IBM i environment, but it is a frequent occurrence.

    Maintenance programmers sometimes struggle with the structure of programs that have had numerous changes during many years in service. Often those changes

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  • Raz-Lee Summarizes i OS Security Settings in New Compliance Product

    March 17, 2009 Alex Woodie

    The IBM System i is a notoriously difficult nut for auditors to crack. Accustomed to “standards-based” Windows and Unix systems, auditors sometimes struggle to make their way around a subject’s i OS-based computer. To help alleviate the pain of hunting for security data for auditors and IT managers alike, i OS security software developer Raz-Lee Security last month launched a new product called Compliance Evaluator that seeks to include the most relevant compliance-related security information in a concise, one-page summary.

    Raz-Lee, which is based in Israel and has its U.S. offices near New York City, has plenty of experience with

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  • Tape Backup Recovery Points Improved With RecoverNow

    March 17, 2009 Dan Burger

    The importance of a dependable backup system is often taken for granted. Many organizations are relying on conventional tape-based processes that have been in place since Day One. For those looking beyond the short-comings of the 100 percent taped-based backup system, it’s the capability to quickly and properly restore backups and do so within a reasonable budget that avoids the pain. Reducing recovery point objectives (RPOs) is a big issue for many IBM i shops and it’s exactly why Vision Solutions has introduced RecoverNow.

    The primary benefit of RecoverNow is the capability to recover data (one or many files, objects,

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  • Upstart i Developer Brings AS/400s to the Cloud

    March 17, 2009 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    What are the first two letters in “cloud computing?” Why, CL of course. And wouldn’t it be neat if there were a set of CL commands that let AS/400, iSeries, and System i machines reach out across the cosmic Ethernet and make use of cloud-based services? Well, thanks to programmer Garry Taylor, you can do just that.

    I have no idea who Garry Taylor is, and the Whois database has no idea where his site, PinkDirtyNeon, is located on the Internet, but Taylor sent me an email yesterday announcing the launch of a beta program for two cloud computing

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  • Financial System Outsourcer Taps UC4 to for Job Automation

    March 17, 2009 Alex Woodie

    Computer Research Inc. (CRI), which develops and runs financial services software for its clients, has licensed the Workload Automation Suite from UC4 Software to help it manage its System i environment more proactively, UC4 announced last week.

    CRI develops a range of financial management products for its customers, which tend to be banks, broker dealers, bank brokerage subsidiaries, treasury operations, mutual funds, and other companies that need a way to maintain their portfolios, as well as their clients’ portfolios. The systems developed by CRI encompass a variety of needs, including trading stocks, bonds, futures, and other financial instruments; hooking into

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  • Malaysian Bank Invests $5.5 Million in Power Systems Upgrade

    March 17, 2009 Alex Woodie

    The EON Bank Group has implemented a new core banking system that consists of Silverlake Group‘s software running on i OS-based IBM Power 550 Express hardware, the IT vendors announced last week at a press conference in Malaysia.

    With deposits of RM41.5 billion (or about $11.5 billion at current exchange rates), EON Bank Group is one of Malaysia’s largest banks. The bank employs more than 5,000 people, who serve more than a million consumers and business from 136 branches across the nation.

    Recently, the bank has been implementing strategic changes to its underlying organizational structure and process as part

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  • No Chapter 11 Bankruptcy for Island Pacific, 3Q Says

    March 17, 2009 Alex Woodie

    Australia-based 3Q Holdings Limited took the unusual step of clarifying the health of one of its assets, i OS merchandise management system (MMS) developer Island Pacific, last week to head off any confusion surrounding the Chapter 11 bankruptcy of Retail Pro, which sold Island Pacific to 3Q more than a year ago.

    Retail Pro, a developer of Windows-based point of sale (POS) software that’s based in San Diego, California, filed for bankruptcy protection on January 10. In addition to Retail Pro, several Retail Pro subsidiaries, including Page Digital, IP Retail Technologies International, and Sabica Ventures, were also included

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  • Mid-Market Companies Want to Be Green, Too

    March 17, 2009 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    While it may be true that the largest companies in the world have the most immediate need to get their energy and cooling houses in order, so to speak, a new study of mid-sized businesses commissioned by IBM shows that midrange companies want to be green, too.

    The study, which was done by Info-Tech Research Group and which you can read at this link, was put together based on interviews with over 1,000 IT executives who work at companies with between 100 and 1,000 employees. The companies were located in Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, India, Japan, Norway,

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  • The Data Center Is the Computer

    March 16, 2009 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    This week, networking giant Cisco Systems is going to be jumping into the server business. And everybody is all kerfluffle and kerflooey about what this does and does not mean. If you draw boxes around pieces of electronic gadgetry called servers, storage, and networking, then you can make a big deal about what Cisco becoming a server vendor may or may not mean. And it is fun, and I must admit, I have been amusing myself as I cover this story from my second life over at The Register.

    But if you instead draw the box around the data

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  • IBM and Partners Work on Future Chip Tech

    March 16, 2009 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    With Intel and Advanced Micro Devices hogging most of the press these days when it comes to processors, the design and manufacturing techniques that go into creating chips, and the chip fabs where they are made, IBM, which is no slouch when it comes to designing and making chips, wants to get the word out that it, too, is working on advanced technologies.

    In late February, IBM said that it has extended its partnership with PDF Solutions, a company that provides yield improvement and other services for the integrated circuit manufacturing industry. IBM has worked with PDF (which

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