• Avalara Debuts Sales Tax Cloud Connectors for IBM i

  September 24, 2013 Alex Woodie

  Avalara last month announced that its cloud-based sales tax calculation and compliance solution, AvaTax, has been certified for use with Infor ERP XA (MAPICS) and the IBM i platform in general. This is the first time Avalara has supported the IBM i platform with its cloud-based sales tax solutions, although it previously supported the platform with its on-premise software. Specifically, Avalara said it has successfully tested and validated the performance of a pair of new tax calculation connectors–dubbed AvaTax Calc–that connect its AvaTax cloud service with the Infor ERP XA software and the IBM i platform. Putting sales tax calculations

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• Ipswitch Adds iOS and Android Clients to MFT Suite

  September 24, 2013 Alex Woodie

  Being out of the office used to mean being separated from back office data and workflows. But thanks to today’s advanced smartphones and tablets, business professionals no longer must sacrifice total productivity for some semblance of mobility. With the latest release of its Windows-based MOVEit managed file transfer (MFT) software, Ipswitch has added clients for iOS and Android mobile devices, giving road warriors (including those at IBM i shops) the capability to move large files in a secure manner. Ipswitch is a New England company that is perhaps best known for WS_FTP, a classic piece of FTP shareware that traces

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• UNIT4 CODA Delivers a ‘Superior’ Solution for Bulk Carrier

  September 24, 2013 Alex Woodie

  Getting financial data out of its homegrown, AS/400-based accounting program used to be a giant hassle for Superior Bulk Logistics, a privately held trucking company an Oak Brook, Illinois. Reports were distributed to managers on paper, and if they had any questions, it required accounting and IT to dig through the general ledger. Since implementing accounting software from UNIT4 CODA in September 2011, it’s been smooth trucking for the firm. Superior Bulk Logistics is national trucking company with 52 terminals throughout the US. The company specializes in hauling and handling tank carriers that transport liquid commodities. It operates two primary

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• Raz-Lee Delivers New IFS Object Security for IBM i

  September 24, 2013 Alex Woodie

  IBM i is renowned for being a very securable OS. Its object-level security capabilities enable customers to lock the system down to a very tight degree. However, the operating system’s object-level security capabilities don’t extend to the Windows-like Integrated File System (IFS) data store that’s used to house non-traditional data and application objects, including all Java and PASE/AIX data and objects. Now Raz-Lee Security says it has an answer to that with a new product called IFS Object Security (IOS). Implementing object-level security on the server is considered by IBM to be best practice for security on the system. However,

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• Age Does Not Divide Social Media Users

  September 23, 2013 Jenny Thomas

  There was a time when social media looked more like a teenage hangout and no place for proper grown adults. Times have changed and it looks like social media has conquered the final frontier: senior citizens. At least, that’s the findings of a recent report from Pew Research Center, which revealed people ages 65 and older have roughly tripled their presence on social networking sites in the last four years, from 13 percent in the spring of 2009 to 43 percent now. We’ve been harping on social media for the last few years (just see the Related Stories section

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• IBM i Advocate Ian Jarman To Keynote At RPG & DB2 Summit

  September 23, 2013 Dan Burger

  IBM i Advocate Ian Jarman To Keynote At RPG & DB2 Summit The general managers for the IBM i platform and its earlier iterations the System i, iSeries, and AS/400 have come and gone like clockwork. But one constant at the IBM executive level for as long as I can remember is Ian Jarman. He’s often been called on to be the voice of the platform when well-meaning folks like the gang at IT Jungle want to know why IBM is doing something or doing nothing with the operating system, the database, the hardware, or the marketing. He knows IBM

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• COMMON’s Fountain of Youth

  September 23, 2013 Dan Burger

  More than a few people have asked me where are the young people in the IBM i community. It’s a good question, because you really don’t see a lot of them. That’s why it was somewhat surprising to learn that nine college students attended the COMMON Fall Conference and Expo about a week and a half ago in St. Louis, Missouri. They were able to get indoctrinated because of an emerging program from the COMMON Education Foundation, which rounded up enough money to pay for travel, lodging, and registrations. The Foundation–which operates as a separate entity from COMMON, the user

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• IBM Nabs Daeja, Gets Browser-Based Image Viewer

  September 23, 2013 Alex Woodie

  The volume of unstructured documents being generated in this world continues to grow, creating challenges for the consumption of the information in the documents. To help streamline access to unstructured documents, IBM last week bought Daeja Image Systems, a UK-based provider of software designed to make it easier for business and IT professionals to view large documents and images on the Web. Daeja develops software that significantly enhanced the image viewing capabilities of Web browser. The company’s ViewONE Pro and ViewONE offerings are Java applets and enable users to do things with images–such as zoom, flip, rotate, invert, and add

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• Reader Feedback On One Power 750 Matches Two Xeon Servers On SAP BW Test

  September 23, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  You write: “The database IBM tested had 500 million records, which could fit into a machine with 32 cores; I am guessing here, but it would probably take a 64-core machine to do 1 billion records as HP tested with its pair of ProLiant DL580 G7 servers.” What does the number of DB records have to do with the number of cores required? I’m not aware of any correlation between the two. Perhaps you were thinking of a correlation between DB records and RAM (only applies to in-memory databases; not IBM i). “The HANA database has data compression and columnar

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• IBM i To Ride The Coattails Of Linux On Power

  September 23, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  I have said it before, and I will say it again. And probably again after that. Anything that makes the Power Systems business stronger lets the IBM i platform live a lot longer. And it is with that spirit that we should all greet IBM‘s announcement last week that it will be pumping $1 billion in investments in the Linux operating system running on Power processors. It is always hard to tease out details on such big pronouncements from any vendor, but Jim Wasko, who is director of the Linux Technology Center in IBM’s Systems and Technology Group, says

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