• New Java Vulnerabilities No Threat To IBM i

  January 23, 2013 Alex Woodie

  The Java vulnerabilities that hackers have been exploiting on computers around the world do not exist on the implementation of Java that IBM runs on its IBM i platform, IBM officials confirmed last week. “IBM has confirmed that the IBM Java Software Development Kit (SDK) and IBM Java Runtime Environment (JRE) are not vulnerable to this reported exploit,” spokesperson Kristin Bryson, of IBM’s Systems and Technology Group, told IT Jungle via email. “The IBM version of Java (which is used on IBM i) has been tested for this issue and it is not in the IBM version of Java.” The

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• Micro Focus Refreshes RUMBA Emulator, Delivers iPad Client

  January 23, 2013 Alex Woodie

  Micro Focus last week unveiled its latest iteration of the RUMBA terminal emulation suite, which is heavily used by IBM i shops around the world. RUMBA 9.0 introduces a new way to modernize 5250 and 3270 green-screen interfaces into GUI equivalents. The company also introduced three new clients as part of its “RUMBA+” brand, including Windows, Web, and iPad interfaces. Android and Microsoft Surface clients are expected in a few months, company officials say. With RUMBA 9.0 and RUMBA+, Micro Focus is giving customers new tools to modernize their 5250 and 3270 green screens into richer and easier-to-use graphical interfaces.

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• Stopping Unauthorized Users From FTPing To Your IBM i

  January 23, 2013 Hey, Joe

  My programmers keep setting up automatic FTP downloads from the network using the wrong user profile. For security reasons, they are only supposed to use a special FTP download user profile, but they keep using their own profiles and I have no way to stop this. How can I lock down FTP so that they can only use an authorized user FTP profile for their client FTP sessions? –Bob You can easily use an FTP exit point to prevent unauthorized users from starting an FTP session on your IBM i partition. An IBM i exit point is a specific point

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• Easily Create Help Text For Commands

  January 23, 2013 Ted Holt

  Extending IBM i by writing one’s own commands is empowering and gratifying, but a command without help text is like scrambled eggs without salsa. Fortunately, generating help text for a command is easy, thanks to a technique I learned from a very talented programmer named Chris Wages. Let me show you how it’s done. First, you must have a command, of course. Here’s the source code for command DOIT. CMD PROMPT('Do it') PARM KWD(HOW) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(7) RSTD(*YES) + DFT(*WELL) + VALUES(*WELL *BETTER *BEST) + EXPR(*YES) + PROMPT('How should I do it?') PARM KWD(WHEN) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(8) RSTD(*YES) + DFT(*MORNING) + VALUES(*MORNING

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• Dealing With Library Lists In RSE/RDP

  January 23, 2013 Susan Gantner

  I’m happy to say that I’m hearing from more and more people who are beginning to finally break away from SEU to use Remote Systems Explorer (RSE) in Rational Developer for Power Systems (RDP). Perhaps the fact that IBM finally stopped updating SEU for new language features as of V7.1 has caused more shops to consider the move. I heard from one newbie RSE user the other day with fairly common issue; he wanted to know how to deal with library lists in the RSE environment? In his case, he has a few different library lists due to various packages

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• Mainline Buys BI Services Firm

  January 22, 2013 Alex Woodie

  Mainline Information Systems last month acquired Software By Design Inc. (SBDI), a firm that specializes in implementing business intelligence solutions. The acquisition will bolster the Business Analytics group of Mainline, which is one of the largest resellers of IBM Power Systems, mainframes, and System x machines in the country. SBDI has provided business intelligence solutions to customers of all sizes since it was founded in 1999. The company maintains a staff equipped with BI developers and solution architects who are versed in the BI products from IBM (both Cognos and Cognos Express), Oracle‘s SPSS, Microstrategy, and SAP.

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• JDA Tackles Omni-Channel Challenge with Cloud Offering

  January 22, 2013 Alex Woodie

  JDA Software showed that it’s hip to omni-channel times with the release of Customer Engagement Cloud, a new solution designed to help its traditional retail customers transform themselves into “omni-channel” retailers. In case you missed it, omni-channel was the big buzz word at last week’s National Retail Federation (NRF) conference in New York. The term omni-channel is the next iteration of multi-channel, and refers to the new ways in which retailers are responding to the new ways that consumers are buying stuff. Whereas a multi-channel retailer had to worry about satisfying demand originating from the Web, mail order, phone, and

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• Infor Places Interaction Advisor on Salesforce.com

  January 22, 2013 Alex Woodie

  Infor last week announced that the customer interaction management component of its Epiphany CRM suite, a product called Interaction Advisor, will soon be available on the Salesforce.com platform as software as a service (SaaS) offering. Interaction Advisor is an inbound marketing application that’s designed to allow businesses to predict customer behavior based on their real-time activity and past responses to interactions, while aiming to improve cross-sell opportunities, reduce churn, and bolster the bottom line. The software helps to ensure there’s consistency in the offers and promotions that a company makes to its customers across a variety of IT touch points,

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• Manufacturer Augments IBM i ERP with Cognos Express

  January 22, 2013 Alex Woodie

  When Mestek, a metal manufacturing conglomerate based in Massachusetts, needed to streamline its financial reporting process, it faced two choices: either replace its highly customized IBM i ERP system with a new ERP system with integrated analytics, or augment its investment in IBM i with an add-on reporting tool. Faced with the risks and costs of the first choice, the company chose to augment with IBM‘s Cognos Express. Mestek and its numerous subsidiaries manufacture a variety of products in the areas of heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC), metal-forming, and architectural products. The privately owned company employs 1,800 people in

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• Manhattan Associates Goes In-Store for ‘Omni-Channel’ Solution

  January 22, 2013 Alex Woodie

  In the supply chain management world, Manhattan Associates is synonymous with warehouse management systems. The company built a solid reputation on the back of its IBM i-based WMS, which is still used by many of the nation’s biggest retail chains. Last week, the company revealed it’s been working quietly for two years to build an “omni-channel” software package that will allow individual stores to fulfill Internet orders–that is, to function like mini warehouses. The term “omni-channel” was ubiquitous at last week’s annual National Retail Federation (NRF) conference in New York, like white on rice. You could not read any news

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