• Take A Look At The New

  October 7, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  EnterpriseTech Site As most of you know, I have almost always had two different writing jobs. Sometimes I manage multiple publications at the same company, such as I did for several years at Midrange Computing or later at IT Jungle. Sometimes I work for two different companies, as I have done for the past five years with my job here as editor of The Four Hundred and over at The Register as systems editor. I do this for professional as well as economic reasons, because one job always informs what I am writing in the other. And, to be

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• IBM Readying Power Systems, PureSystems For Cloud Push

  October 7, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  It’s the fall, and more importantly, it is the beginning of the fourth quarter. And historically, that usually means that IBM is gearing up to make some announcements. As it turns out, this is precisely the case, and Big Blue is getting ready to make a slew of systems announcements–at least judging by the lineup for top executives that are hosting a webcast scheduled for this week. The webcast, which you can register for here, will be hosted on the morning of October 8 and is meant to also be timed to an event that CEO Ginni Rometty and

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• As I See It: Virtual Pheromones

  October 7, 2013 Victor Rozek

  Helen Morrison was a single woman with an age-old dilemma. Entering midlife, she wondered if she would ever meet a suitable partner and, frankly, she was getting lonely. But although Morrison longed to be married, she had no acceptable way of meeting men socially. Respectable women did not frequent taverns, nor were desirable partners likely to be found loitering over pints at the nightly watering hole. But Morrison found what would become a visionary solution to her quandary: She placed a personal ad in her local paper, the Manchester Weekly Journal. Her “Lonely Hearts” ad was the first of

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• BCD Hooks Up With ARCAD To Manage Web Development On IBM i

  October 7, 2013 Alex Woodie

  Native RPG development on the IBM i server was largely tamed long ago by change management and application lifecycle management (ALM) tools. But as IBM i shops extend their RPG investments with new Web-based front-ends written in languages like HTML, PHP, and CSS, cracks have emerged in that ALM wall. Last week, Business Computer Design Int’l. and ARCAD Software announced a partnership that aims at closing some of those gaps for BCD’s WebSmart users. The partnership between BCD and ARCAD will see the two companies working to integrate their respective tools, namely BCD’s WebSmart development environment–including the ILE CGI and

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• Q&A With Doug Balog, Power Systems GM

  October 7, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Q&A With Doug Balog, Power Systems GM Doug Balog took over as general manager of the Power Systems division this past summer after having run IBM‘s System z mainframe business for a little more than a year. Balog has been in charge of development for the System x, BladeCenter, and TotalStorage disk arrays before that, and in fact he cut his teeth at Big Blue three decades ago working on chips for the System/390 mainframes and eventually was put in charge of OS/390 systems software development as the 1990s came to a close. To say that Balog has a

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• RPG, Database Top Enhancements In IBM i 7.1 Technology Release 7

  October 7, 2013 Dan Burger

  IBM i Technology Refresh 7 is bound to make some people bark. Any time you mention these three letters–RPG–the ears of the IBM midrange community perk up like a half sleeping dog that notices a cat cutting across his territory. And RPG is going to get some attention as people hear about TR7, which officially will be released tomorrow, October 8. This all begins, simply enough, with new free format options being added to RPG IV. RPG free-form was introduced with i5/OS V5R4 in 2001. That’s more than 12 years ago. During that time IBM made free form its RPG

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• eConnect Shines a Light on Casino Fraud

  October 1, 2013 Alex Woodie

  A security software company called eConnect is gaining traction in the competitive casino industry with software that combines a casino’s video surveillance system with its computer systems, including those that manage gaming devices, retail point of sale (POS), and back-office financial systems. Because many of the world’s top gaming institutions rely on the IBM i server, eConnect finds itself working there. eConnect describes its flagship Casino Connect system as a “visual and behavioral intelligence tool” that helps casino operators spot gaps in their security systems, and to detect theft, cheating, and collusion on the casino floor. It does this by

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• Carol Woodbury to Speak on Security Layers

  October 1, 2013 Alex Woodie

  It’s common knowledge that a good approach to implement IT security involves building multiple security layers around what you’re trying to protect. But how exactly does one go about doing that? Later this week, SkyView Partners president Carol Woodbury will provide some tips. IT security professionals will often talk about implementing multiple levels of defense into security systems. Conceptually, this sounds like a great idea. If one layer of security is compromised, an intruder will still have to hack his way through one or more additional layers of defense to get to the customer master file, financial database, or whatever

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• Cloud Consultant Program Launched by mrc

  October 1, 2013 Alex Woodie

  One-man consultancies who have trouble balancing the demands of keeping up with technology and finding new customers may be interested in hearing about the launch of a new cloud consultant program launched last week by application development toolmaker mrc. The new program from mrc will give consultants access to its m-Power application development tool running in the cloud. m-Power is designed to help developers create Web and mobile applications quickly by utilizing templates and wizards. The software generates Java code that can run on IBM i and other Java-supported platforms. The idea of the new program is to give

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• RJS Provides IBM i Managed Services, Too

  October 1, 2013 Alex Woodie

  You probably know RJS Software as a provider of forms and content management systems, with established products like WebDocs, iForms, and SignHere. But did you know that RJS provides managed services, too? RJS has a few other irons in the IT fire besides its shrink-wrapped forms and document management products for IBM i, Windows, and Linux servers. You might recall that the Burnsville, Minnesota, company made a series of acquisition over the past few years. In particular, the purchase of managed services firm EpicScience, completed just a year ago, did much to diversify RJS’ business. EpicScience brought with it

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