• Getting Started With AJAX

  November 19, 2008 Paul Tuohy

  In this article, we will see how AJAX works by looking at a simple example of using AJAX to retrieve the description (from the server) for a code entered on a Web page. Remember one of the main benefits of AJAX is that communication between the Web page and the server is asynchronous. This means that the Web page may be updated with information from the server without the user having to click any submit button. An Example Figure 1 shows the Web page initially displayed to the user, and it also shows the contents of the page after the

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• Enable Programmatic Access to Remote DB2 Data Using DRDA

  November 19, 2008 Hey, Mike

  I’m trying to set up a stored procedure on our iSeries that can change the server connection to whatever the calling program needs before it runs its query. Your article, Using DRDA to Execute SQL Statements on Another iSeries, seems to address the issue of running SQL statements on a remote iSeries. I am new to DB2 and although I can set up stored procedures within System i Navigator with some success, the connection statement only produces errors on compile. Your example runs the commands interactively. Is there a syntax convention or another statement to accomplish this task in

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• Admin Alert: When Batch Meets Interactive

  November 19, 2008 Joe Hertvik

  I was recently reviewing i5/OS performance data when I spotted an analysis message that said I should Separate batch from interactive jobs. This prompted me to investigate where batch jobs can intersect with interactive jobs and why it’s bad to run the two of them together in the same subsystem. Here’s what I discovered and what you can do if your batch work starts contaminating your interactive subsystem. Where the Problem Develops To ensure that critical batch jobs are not held up in a single threaded job queue, some administrators and programmers routinely submit batch jobs that need immediate

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• SkyView Goes GUI with i OS Security Tool

  November 18, 2008 Alex Woodie

  There’s an old adage that says a picture is worth a thousand words. SkyView Partners is betting that a picture–namely, a graphical user interface (GUI)–is worth much, much more than that to the IT managers tasked with maintaining regulatory compliance in System i servers. To that end, SkyView yesterday started shipping Policy Minder 1.4, which includes a new Web-based GUI that should make it much easier to get one or more i OS servers into compliance, and to keep them there. SkyView Partners launched Policy Minder three years ago to help System i shops automate the process of monitoring compliance

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• Gillani Hopes to Expand Presence on Power Systems

  November 18, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Gillani recently announced the pending availability of its iDistribute suite of enterprise applications on IBM‘s Power Systems server. With its suite of financials and supply chain management software running across the Power Systems’ three operating systems–i, AIX, and Linux–Gillani says it’s poised to give the big ERP vendors a run for their money. Gillani (pronounced with a soft “g”) was founded 25 years ago as an accounting software provider, Softa Associates. The company later changed its name to FourGen Software to reflect its new fourth-generation language (4GL) development tools for the Informix database, called FourGen CASE Tools, which the

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• Agilysys Helps Casinos Cut the Fat with SWS 8.0

  November 18, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Hotels and resort operators that use the Stratton Warren System (SWS) to manage their supplies will gain some new tricks for spotting and eliminating wasteful spending with version SWS 8.0, which was announced by Agilysys last week. Support for EDI, new budgeting capabilities, and dashboard applications combine to help the casino resorts and large hotels that use SWS to weather the economic downturn. SWS (formerly MMS400) is a suite of inventory management applications designed for large hotels and casino resorts that cater to tens of thousands of guests and manage relationships with hundreds of suppliers. The software runs exclusively on

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• Seagull Swoops Back Into i OS

  November 18, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Seagull Software took a look back at its System i roots, and decided that it’s still a good place to be. As a result, you can expect to hear more System i-related news from Seagull, including a new integration workbench that plugs into the Eclipse framework that will be launched in the months ahead, according to the company. “We’ve ignored the iSeries market for all kinds of good and bad reasons,” Ardy Franssen, Seagull’s vice president of product management, told IT Jungle in a recent in interview. “Since we were acquired by Rocket, we have not given the AS/400

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• Bally Updates System i Gaming Systems

  November 18, 2008 Alex Woodie

  The slumping economy has dropped Las Vegas tourism 10 percent, a decline not seen since 9/11, but that isn’t stopping the gambling industry from showing off the latest and greatest technology at the Global Gaming Expo, which is being held today through Thursday in Sin City. The big dog of the market, Bally Technologies, will also be flashing some new goods, including a new release of its i OS-based casino management software, a new command and control center, and, of course, lots and lots of new slot machines. Bally provides a variety of products to casinos. While players may

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• RJS Overhauls Windows Version of WebDocs

  November 18, 2008 Alex Woodie

  RJS Software recently introduced a new release of the Windows-based version of WebDocs, a document management solution that can help to manage output from Windows as well as System i applications. Customers adopting the new version will see more powerful searches, easier integration with ERP systems, and a cleaner user interface, among other enhancements, RJS says. RJS Software targets multiple platforms with many of its products, including document management, workflow, reporting, and forms tools. For some of these products, such as WebDocs, RJS maintains entirely separate code for the i OS and Windows versions. For other products, such as iForms,

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• LANSA White Paper Examines i OS and Microsoft Enterprise Architectures

  November 18, 2008 Alex Woodie

  LANSA yesterday unveiled a new white paper that seeks to address how System i shops can build an enterprise application architecture that works in concert with software from Microsoft. A properly conceived architecture, LANSA argues, can accelerate the selection of tools to automate application development, and enable System i organizations to adapt their IT systems more quickly and efficiently. LANSA brought in recognized System i expert Paul Conte to write “The Eight Pillars of an Enterprise Application Architecture: Building a Stable and Agile Software Foundation in a Dynamic IBM i and Microsoft World.” In the 20-page paper, Conte argues

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