• INPRO Enables Multiple Time Zones–In Just One LPAR!

  April 17, 2012 Alex Woodie

  IBM i shops can support users and applications running in different time zones within the same logical partition (LPAR) using the latest software from INPRO International. The company recently announced that this capability is available in TZN/400 6.1.P. According to INPRO, the new release of its TZN/400 tool allows IBM i shops to support dozens of time zones in the same LPAR. Users in different parts of the world interact with their applications and reports in their local time, instead of the time zone in which the server happens to be physically located. IBM i has supported multiple time

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• Zend DBi Goes GA

  April 17, 2012 Alex Woodie

  DBi, the drop in replacement for the MySQL database running under IBM i, is now generally available from Zend Technologies. The database is fully supported by Zend, providing a secure and straightforward path for IBM i shops to run prepackaged PHP applications designed to work with MySQL. The new database ships as DBi version 5.1.59, according to Zend’s release notes. The package also includes the latest IBMDB2i storage engine, which enables PHP applications that use MySQL to actually store data in DB2/400. Zend’s release notes describe how to install DBi on the IBM i server via FTP. The product’s

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• Infor Welcomes Lawson Users to Annual Conference

  April 17, 2012 Alex Woodie

  Infor is gearing up for Sunday’s start of Inforum 2012, its annual user conference. This year’s show, to be held in Denver, Colorado, combines Inforum and Lawson CUE (conference and user exchange) into a single show for all Infor and Lawson customers. And as luck would have it, Inforum 2012 takes place at the same time that Oracle is hosting its big Collaborate 2012 get-together for its JD Edwards customers. There is a lot of activity going on right now at Infor as it relates to the Lawson business. Since the merger was finally consummated earlier this month, the

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• DB2 Connect (Finally) Gets IBM i 7.1 Support

  April 17, 2012 Alex Woodie

  IBM this month announced a new release of DB2 Connect, a piece of middleware used to connect client applications running on Linux, Unix, or Windows platforms to DB2 database servers running on IBM i and z/OS. With DB2 Connect version 10.1, IBM added support for DB2 for i version 7.1. It also added a number of features for taking advantages of the latest enhancements to DB2 for z/OS. DB2 Connect enables client applications to create, access, update, control, and manage DB2 databases on host systems using a variety of languages, including SQL, ODBC, JDBC, DB2 APIs, SQLJ DB2 Call Level

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• GeneXus Refresh Targets Mobile Apps, Cloud Deployments

  April 17, 2012 Alex Woodie

  Artech last month launched a new version of its rapid application development toolset, called GeneXus, that delivers new capabilities to deploy user interface apps to mobile devices based on the Apple iOS, RIM Blackberry, and Google Android platforms. GeneXus X Evolution 2, which supports the IBM i server through generation of Java, RPG, and COBOL, also features support for deployment of applications to the cloud. Artech is a creator of fourth-generation language (4GL) tools that was founded in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1988 to support IBM‘s legendary AS/400 server line. While the bulk of Artech’s 6,500-plus customers are Latin American,

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• Velocity Sees Positive Trajectory in ERP Cloud Biz

  April 17, 2012 Alex Woodie

  Remember when ERP was cool, when all the best companies were doing it? OK, while ERP might have been new for most companies in the roaring 1990s, it hasn’t been cool for a long time, if ever. Today, ERP is a necessary fact of life for companies, but it’s also expensive and time consuming. Some IT companies, like Velocity Technology Solutions, see major changes afoot in the way that we buy and consume ERP software–which could even make ERP cool. Velocity Technology Solutions is a cloud hosting provider that runs and maintains ERP and related systems for about 240

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• JDA To Restate Financials From 2008 Through 2011

  April 16, 2012 Dan Burger

  Based on the ongoing Securities and Exchange Commission review of its revenue recognition policies, JDA Software Group will be restating its annual and quarterly financial results during fiscal years 2008 through 2011. Previously issued financial statements from that time period should no longer be relied upon. JDA provides supply chain management software for the retail industry. The company’s software runs on machines equipped with IBM i as well as other operating systems. The audit committee of JDA’s board of directors signed off on the plan to restate the company’s financial results. According to JDA, the anticipated adjustments center on two

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• Companies Still Bullish On Business Intelligence Spending

  April 16, 2012 Dan Burger

  Researchers at Gartner have launched another revenue rocket. Last week at its Business Intelligence Summit in Los Angeles, the company reported the combination of business intelligence and analytic applications and performance management software soared to $12.2 billion in 2011. Compared to the $10.5 billion that 2010 generated and the $9.3 billion that fell into this column in 2009, it’s a pretty impressive trajectory. Gartner ranked it the second-fastest growing sector in the overall worldwide enterprise software market in 2011. Gartner analyst Dan Sommer described the interest in BI as not being defined decisions based on either a build or buy.

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• IBM Honors Its Top Technologists With Fellow Status

  April 16, 2012 Dan Burger

  Sadly, science and technology creates few celebrities. The occasional Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, or Mark Zuckerberg breaks into the limelight, but they are known more for being successful business people than scientists and technologists. Almost all the incredible innovators in the IT world remain anonymous on the worldwide stage. But excellence does not go unrewarded. Each year since 1962, IBM selects a handful of employees to receive its most prestigious technical honor. It’s a rare club, the IBM Fellows, made up of individuals who have played a leading role in developing some of the world’s most important technologies; the Fellow

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• IBM Cuts Deals To Get IBM i, AIX Shops Back On Maintenance

  April 16, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  If you let you the Software Maintenance, or SWMA (pronounced “swamma” in IBMese), lapse on your IBM i or AIX operating system licenses, you have to pay a big fee to get them back under support at IBM. IBM wants to cut customers a little slack, and recently modified a long-running deal from November 2008 that now allows them to finance the maintenance after-license fees. If you extract the Software Maintenance fees from an IBM i license, then the software itself costs from $1,945 per core on a P05 machine to $53,000 per core on a P50 machine. The

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