• New Approaches Needed For Hyperscale Security Threats

  August 25, 2014 Alex Woodie

  In the ongoing battle for network superiority, cybercriminals appear to be gaining the upper hand. The rise of commercial malware and the sophistication of hyperscale hacker tools are giving the bad guys incredibly powerful tools to perpetrate their crimes. Considering the disjointed approach to cyber threats in Western nations, some experts say it’s time to explore fundamentally new approaches to fighting it. The specter of cyber warfare is not a pretty one, especially in the wholesome land of Mom and Apple Pie. But guess what? Hackers and cyber criminals around the world have already declared war on pretty much everybody,

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• ‘Game Changer’ Mobile App Rollout Under Way

  August 25, 2014 Dan Burger

  A mobile workforce benefits from remote access to information and applications. Done right, a mobile application development project can be created, tested, introduced in phases, and enhanced within a schedule that handles risks and reduces project management trauma. Last year, one of 21 regional centers within the California Department of Developmental Services began a search for mobile application development assistance. It found a partner, developed a pilot project, and is on its way to a statewide rollout. The California Department of Developmental Services provides services and support to individuals with developmental disabilities. The San Diego-Imperial Counties Developmental Services, Inc. (SDICDSI),

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• Partners Need To Get Certified–For Power8 And IBM i

  August 25, 2014 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Business partners who resell Power Systems iron running the IBM i operating system have to jump through a lot of hoops to prove to Big Blue that they know what they are talking about when it comes to selling, installing, and configuring machinery. This is not a new thing to the IBM midrange, but rather the normal course of things since the days of the AS/400 and a natural consequence of selling a product through channel partners instead of a direct sales force. And that is precisely how all of us in the IBM i ecosystem want it to stay.

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• Tango/04 Lunches Alignia to Simplify Corporate Monitoring

  August 19, 2014 Alex Woodie

  Tango/04 Computing Group last month unveiled Alignia, a new IT- and business-monitoring solution designed to make it easier for an organization to monitor events that can have an impact, not only on their businesses but their customers and suppliers as well. Tango/04 has worked extensively in the IBM i world, and supports the IBM i platform (among others) with its flagship VISUAL Message Center product. In recent years the Spanish company has looked to reposition its offerings as the distillation of knowledge, such as with its September 2012 launch of the Operations Knowledge Module for IBM i. Alignia is a

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• S4i Goes IASP with Document Management Tool for HA Protection

  August 19, 2014 Alex Woodie

  S4i Systems is now supporting independent auxiliary storage pools (IASPs) with S4i Express, its electronic document management and distribution tool for the IBM i OS. Running S4i Express within an IASP will give customers new options in the area of disaster recovery (DR), the company says. S4i Express is a native IBM i program that helps reduce users’ reliance on pre-printed forms while transitioning them to paperless business processes. The software monitors IBM i print queues, processes the output using report-segmenting or bundling rules, converts it into PostScript, PDF, HTML, RTF, CSV, or plain text format, and then distributes it

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• LaserVault DMS10 Unchains Your Documents

  August 19, 2014 Alex Woodie

  Want to break free from your desk and roam the country wild? If your company adopts the latest release of the LaserVault Document Management Solution from Electronic Storage Corp., you’ll be able to conduct business wirelessly thanks to the new DMS client interface that runs on Android and iOS tablets and smartphones. Lately, LaserVault has been focused on solving its IBM i customers’ backup and storage needs with its Universal Backup Device (UBD) series, which allow users to replace tape libraries with an appliance or any old NAS array that supports a CIFS, NFS, or iSCSI connection. But you

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• SoftLanding Repositions TurnOver for Database Conversions

  August 19, 2014 Alex Woodie

  It’s been a while since we had any product news out of SoftLanding, the developer of the TurnOver change management tool that was acquired by Unicom Global nearly eight years ago. But earlier this month, we were apprised of a new release of TurnOver that introduces functionality in an area of IBM i development that’s starting to get some traction: DDS-to-DDL database conversions. Undergoing a conversion from the old DDS data type to the newer DDL data type and SQL is not for the faint of heart. The vast majority of IBM i applications were originally developed with the

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• Nice Form! Quadrant Boosts Automation and Control in Formtastic

  August 19, 2014 Alex Woodie

  Organizations that rely on Quadrant Software‘s Formtastic to automate the generation and distribution of electronic documents no longer have to wonder who’s modifying form templates thanks to a new change management feature the vendor has added. Quadrant also added a new automated purge function to the popular product. For each document generated by Formtastic, the software retains some data about the document, such as what forms were merged with which spool file, where it went, and when it was submitted. This is not a big deal for small shops. But Quadrant has some customers who generate upwards of 50,000

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• DRV Unveils Fresh New Mobile Apps for Message Management

  August 19, 2014 Alex Woodie

  DRV Technologies recently unveiled new mobile apps that allow administrators to view and respond to IBM i messages and jobs from the comfort of their iOS or Android mobile devices. The apps were unveiled as part of a major update to DRV’s FlexTool suite. In July, DRV unveiled FlexTool version 6, which includes new releases of the SpoolFlex, FormFlex, Secure Checks, DBXFlex (formerly DataFlex), and MessageFlex components. The company markets them as a bundle but sells the products separately. MessageFlex V2 The update brings a new mobile interfaces to MessageFlex, a message automation solution that automatically monitors IBM i message

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• Zend Peers Deep into Your Code with Z-Ray

  August 19, 2014 Alex Woodie

  Do you ever wish you had X-ray goggles to see what’s going on inside your applications? Something that cuts through the clutter and highlights bad code pronto? The folks at Zend Technologies are including something like that in the latest release of Zend Server. The company calls it Z-Ray and, if the claims are accurate, it may actually make debugging fun. According to Zend, the new Z-Ray feature “gives unprecedented, in-context visibility inside apps by showing in real time exactly what happens to construct each page.” The software, which Zend announced last month in the version 7 release of Zend

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