• Correction: Oracle Does Support Old JDE World on New IBM i

  February 19, 2013 Alex Woodie

  In our lead story last week, “End of Tech Support Looms for JD Edwards Shops”, we reported that Oracle‘s JD Edwards World is dependent on i5/OS V5R4. In fact, Oracle has supported those World releases on IBM i 6.1 and IBM i 7.1 for at least two years. But most World shops who contacted IT Jungle plan to upgrade their ERP anyway. Several IT Jungle readers wrote in last week to point out the fact that they do run JD Edwards World A7.3 and A8.1 on newer releases of IBM i, and have done so for some time.

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• ARCAD Updates IT Service Management Tool

  February 19, 2013 Alex Woodie

  ARCAD Software recently announced the release of ARCAD-Customer version 9.5, the latest release of its IT service management and customer request tracking tool. ARCAD is best known for its application lifecycle management (ALM) tools, which provide the capability to track source code changes to applications running on IBM i and other platforms, and ensure they make it into production. In the ALM cycle, the source code modifications are often initiated through user change requests, and that’s where ARCAD-Customer comes in. The product provides a system for accepting, analyzing, and tracking change requests originating with users of the applications. The software

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• Cilasoft Monitors Additional Exit Points with IBM i Security Tool

  February 19, 2013 Alex Woodie

  IBM i security software developer Cilasoft last week unveiled enhancements to two of its products, including CONTROLER, its exit point monitoring solution, and EAM, its Elevated Authority Manager solution. Cilasoft says the capability to monitor two additional exit points in CONTROLER–the open database file and socket exit points–as well as new commands in the tool, will give IBM i shops a powerful new way to enforce data-centric security policies, which it claims is “an enormous breakthrough.” CONTROLER is a network security tool that monitors and controls all inbound and outbound activity going through the various exit points that IBM built

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• Vision Launches Cloud Initiative for RaaS

  February 19, 2013 Alex Woodie

  Vision Solutions last week unveiled new software and licensing models that should make it easier for public cloud providers to offer Vision’s disaster recovery and high availability solutions to Power and X86 customers. For Power customers, a key element of Vision’s new cloud strategy is metered billing for MIMIX, which Vision says will streamline licensing and billing in a cloud environment, to provide recovery as a service (RaaS). Vision is no cloud newbie. In fact, its software has been running for at least a decade in the data centers of managed service providers (MSPs) to provide failover protection for their

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• PowerTech Shines a Light on ‘Black Hole’ Commands

  February 19, 2013 Alex Woodie

  Despite all the auditing and journaling functions in the IBM i OS, it’s still possible for a user to issue commands without accountability. For example, when users start an interactive SQL session, they are basically invisible to the administrator until the session ends. To help thwart this black hole of liability, PowerTech has added a new feature to Authority Broker that uses screenshots of the 5250 session to all track activity, regardless of the tool they’re using. PowerTech’s Authority Broker enables security administrators to temporarily grant users and programmers special authorities, such as ALLOBJ and SECADM, so they can perform

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• PowerHA Installs Exceed 2,000 Globally, IBM Says

  February 19, 2013 Alex Woodie

  More than 2,000 customers around the world are using PowerHA SystemMirror for IBM i, says Steve Finnes, IBM‘s worldwide product offering manager for PowerHA on AIX and IBM i. And with new HA capabilities for small and midsize businesses arriving with the IBM i 7.1 TR6 release of the software, the number of customers running PowerHA on smaller systems like the Power 720 is likely to grow. PowerHA SystemMirror for IBM i is one product, but it actually refers to a variety of protection schemes that utilize different data replication mechanisms and are aimed at companies of varying sizes.

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• Have You Got An Enterprise App For That?

  February 18, 2013 Jenny Thomas

  Having an app already sounds like a cliché. In the Apple App Store, for instance, there are approximately 775,000 apps available, as compared to the mere 800 apps it offered when it opened its doors in July 2008. Best guesstimates put the Google Play store at a close second in the neighborhood of 600,000 apps and growing. It begs the question: How many more apps can we possible need? It looks like the sky may be the limit as enterprises start to get in on the app mania. The analysts at Gartner believe there is a new app wave

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• More Record-Breaking Results For Magic Software

  February 18, 2013 Dan Burger

  The year 2012 was a good one. Felix Baumgartner’s record-breaking skydive from 24 miles above the planet in 2012 got more attention, but Magic Software Enterprises broke records, too, admittedly with less fanfare. Perhaps CEO Guy Bernstein should take up skydiving. Then again, he is not doing a bad job increasing revenue at the company that specializes in application development and business integration tools for the IBM midrange as well as several other important markets. Revenue gains, like the 12 percent increase that Magic scored last year, would be cause for celebration in most companies. Converted to cash money, that’s

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• Java Wins Programming Beauty Pageant, But C and Objective C Gussy Up

  February 18, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  The Java programming language, bolstered by the adoption of Android-based smartphones and tablets in the market, has regained the crown as the top language in the Tiobe Programming Community Index put together by programming tool maker Tiobe Software. The index is based on a number of different factors, including the availability of courses and training, the popularity of searches in Google, Bing, Yahoo, Amazon, YouTube, and Baidu search engines, and the number of engineers with specific programming skills based on their employment and job searches. The Tiobe Index has been around for more than a decade, and it is

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• IBM Canada Cuts Capacity On Demand Prices For Big Power Servers

  February 18, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Well this one is not all that complicated, but we need you to be aware of it just the same. On February 15, in announcement letter 313-015, IBM Canada cut the price of feature 4710 on the Power 780 (product number 9179) and Power 795 (product number 9119), from $1,270 to $999. (That’s in Canadian dollars, not U.S. dollars.) That feature is for 999 gigabyte-days of memory capacity. This feature allows you to buy 999 1GB increments of memory and activate it for peak loads when you need it and turn it off when you don’t. It doesn’t seem

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