• Mule ESB Development Goes Visual

  July 10, 2012 Alex Woodie

  MuleSoft recently announced a new release of Mule ESB, its Java-based, open source enterprise service bus (ESB) that’s available in a free community edition and a for-fee enterprise edition. With the launch of Mule ESB 3.3, the enterprise edition gains a new capability called DataMapper that’s designed to allow users to create transformation and process flows in a visual, drag-and-drop environment. Mule ESB Community is a freely downloadable ESB framework designed to manage and orchestrate the flow of data across multiple applications, protocols, and transportation mechanisms. The software is primarily designed for organizations that have somewhat complex application integration challenges,

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• Synergivity Developing New Menu System

  July 10, 2012 Alex Woodie

  Synergivity Software, the U.S. distributor of Midrange Dynamics‘ change management software for IBM i, has begun work on a new product that will allow administrators to create menu screens on the IBM i server. The green-screen software, which doesn’t have a name as yet, will be easy enough for non-technical people to use, company officials say. Synergivity’s new menu system would give customers the ability to control what options appear on users’ screens, and what commands they can issue from screens. In this respect, it will boost security, since users will not have the option to access sensitive

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• Kisco Refines IBM i Database Auditing Tool

  July 10, 2012 Alex Woodie

  In today’s highly regulated business environment, organizations are increasingly required to restrict access to data, and to track any changes that users make to the database. From time to time, activity that is unusual but nonetheless authorized will be flagged as suspicious. Last week, Kisco Information Systems unveiled a new release of its IBM i data auditing tool, iFileAudit, that makes it easier to deal with these types of situations. iFileAudit is a handy database auditing tool designed to provide a complete trail of changes made to data in DB2/400, at the field, record, and file levels. The product, which

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• ProData Updates DBU and Deleted File Retriever

  July 10, 2012 Alex Woodie

  ProData Computer Services last month unveiled version 10 of DBU, its widely used Database Utility for IBM i servers. With this release, users automatically get two plug-ins that were previously priced separately, including the remote database access tool that enables users to access SQL Server, Oracle, and other databases from DBU screens and the JD Edwards database access plug-in. The company also recently shipped version 4 of RDR, its Retrieve Deleted Records software. DBU is a popular utility that makes it easy for programmers, administrators, and users to view and access any file in DB2/400, without programming. The software is

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• New Orleans Company Applies Katrina’s Lessons to New DR Strategy

  July 10, 2012 Alex Woodie

  Businesses and residents of New Orleans learned lessons about disaster preparedness and recovery the hard way from Hurricane Katrina in 2005. One of the companies impacted by the storm was Stewart Enterprises, one of the country’s largest operators of funeral homes and private cemeteries, which had several properties submerged by flood waters. After the company recovered, it took steps to overhaul how it prepares for future disasters. Stewart Enterprises owns and operates 219 funeral homes and 140 cemeteries in 24 states. The 102-year-old company, which is headquartered near New Orleans and publicly traded on Nasdaq, has about 5,000 employees and

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• Krengel Challenges Shops to Keep UPS Shipping Apps on IBM i

  July 10, 2012 Alex Woodie

  Krengel Technology is currently offering 20 hours of free custom development to IBM i shops that reject the free UPS shipping program called WorldShip, and implement its IBM i-based Krengelship instead. Considering the UPS product is free, and Krengelship costs thousands of dollars, one wonders whether this offer really holds water. But as the adoption of Krengelship by logistics business Jacobson Companies shows, there are other costs to consider besides licensing. WorldShip is UPS’ high-end shipping software for organizations with a large volume of shipments or pickups with UPS (or at least 25 per day, according to the company). The

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• PHP Web Development Gets RPG Summit Spotlight

  July 9, 2012 Dan Burger

  When PHP, the Web application development language of millions, was brought into the IBM i community, there was a gag reaction. Not surprising because developers had just recently Java forced down their collective throats during the memorable “Learn Java or learn to flip burgers” era. But as it turned out, PHP has been much easier for RPG developers to swallow and its popularity has continued to grow. “I think the advent of PHP has had a far greater impact in many ways than anything else (even Java) has done,” says Jon Paris, an RPG and IBM i advocate, author, instructor,

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• The Job Market’s Irresistible Attractions

  July 9, 2012 Dan Burger

  Big recruiting companies, like Dice, keep themselves in the news by continually collecting information from their clients–companies on the search for skilled employees and talented individuals looking for work–and then packaging that data for the media. It’s one of the key elements of content marketing, and Dice is very good at it. When jobs are your business, and so many people want a job or a different job, your information is in demand, especially if the information pertains to hiring trends (sorry, not this month) or the most sought after skills. (Bingo!) If you have these skills, you might

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• IT Spending Creeps Up A Tiny Bit In North America

  July 9, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  The good news is that IT budgets are on the rise in the United States and Canada, according to a recent poll of IT shops performed by Computer Economics. The bad news is that the growth is not very much and is only a tiny bit more than was seen in 2011. Computer Economics just finished up talking to more than 200 IT departments in North America for its IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks 2012/2013 study, which was just released and which is based on the twice yearly survey that the company does across small, midrange, and large enterprises.

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• Avnet Eats The Rest Of Magirus

  July 9, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  The big keep on getting bigger, and now master reseller Avnet has ponied up an undisclosed sum to acquire Magirus Group, an IT distributor based in Stuttgart, Germany. Magirus has operations across Western Europe and is in every country except Ireland, Finland, and Norway; the company also has operations in the Middle East, centered in Dubai. The company was founded in 1981 and back in October 2007 when Avnet acquired the IBM and Hewlett-Packard systems distribution business from Magirus, the company had sales in the range of €700 million (about $996 million) and had over 600 employees; the IBM

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