• Beverage Company Taps IntelliChief for Forms Software

  January 10, 2012 Alex Woodie

  American Beverage Corporation has licensed the Formtastic forms management solution from IntelliChief to automate previously manual processes in conjunction with a new installation of Infor‘s ERP LX software. The beverage company may license the IntelliChief paperless process management software this year. American Beverage Corporation (ABC) is a multi-million dollar manufacturer and marketer of kids’ fruit drinks, ready-to-drink cocktails, and non-alcoholic cocktail mixers. The company is based near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and is owned by the publicly traded Dutch food company Royal Wessanen. As part of ABC’s recent upgrade to Infor ERP LX, the company looked for other ways to enhance

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• RPG & DB2 Summit: Skills Fitness for Modern IT

  January 10, 2012 Dan Burger

  RPG & DB2 Summit: Skills Fitness for Modern IT There is something new to learn every day. This idea pops up on people’s radar screens each year around this time in the form of New Years resolutions. It’s a great time for fitness centers to recruit. As a CEO, you might be thinking about the fitness of your business. As a CIO, the fitness of your staff might be a concern. As a staff member, you might be taking a look at the fitness of your skills. If you want to be fit, you have to put in the training

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• RJS Goes Single Sign-On with i OS App

  January 10, 2012 Alex Woodie

  Logging onto RJS Software Systems products is about to get a whole lot easier and more secure. This month, the Burnsville, Minnesota, company plans to ship a new release of WebDocs–iSeries Edition that’s equipped with the vendor’s new RJS Single Sign-On (SSO) technology. RJS plans to enable several other products with SSO throughout the year. SSO technology enables a user to log onto her computer once and access multiple client or server applications with that first authentication, doing away with the need to log onto each application separately. SSO eliminates the hassle of remembering multiple user IDs and passwords and

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• Applied Logic Gives FEU New Printing and Zip Functions

  January 10, 2012 Alex Woodie

  File Edit Utility (FEU), a popular database utility for the IBM i OS and its predecessors, has been updated by its developer, Applied Logic of Keizer, Oregon. Version 19 brings new printing and Zip functions that should make the utility even more useful. FEU is a multi-purpose tool for accessing and manipulating physical and logical files in DB2/400, as well as accessing data areas, data queues, user spaces, spool files, and other areas of the IBM i architecture. The software, which was first released 28 years ago for the AS/400’s predecessors, provides relatively quick and painless access to the system

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• Linoma Adds Enterprise Features to MFT Software

  January 10, 2012 Alex Woodie

  Linoma Software‘s flagship managed file transfer (MFT) software has gained new features that should improve a user’s ability to integrate the MFT software with existing systems and business processes. New job controls, advanced functions and calculations, custom add-ons, and GUI improvements highlight the enhancements in GoAnywhere Director version 4. GoAnywhere Director is the most feature-rich offering in Linoma’s MFT lineup, which also includes GoAnywhere Services and GoAnywhere Gateway. The software offers a plethora of MFT capabilities, including: support for a variety of protocols, including FTP, FTPS, SFTP, SCP, and AS2; support for moving and translating data among different databases;

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• ARCAD Adds New Testing Features to ALM Suite

  January 10, 2012 Alex Woodie

  ARCAD Software is now shipping version 8.12 of its application lifecycle management (ALM) suite for the IBM i OS. Among the enhancements is the capability of its regression testing product, called Verifier, to test multiple types of user interfaces simultaneously, thereby making it easier for IBM i shops to test Windows, Web, and mobile interfaces with the same effort used to test interactive 5250 screens or batch jobs. The ARCAD ALM suite is a collection of tools used to aid developers in the development, testing, and roll-out of new and enhanced applications. The software is primarily used on the IBM

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• Zend Updates PHP Server Stack for IBM i

  January 10, 2012 Alex Woodie

  Zend Technologies has launched a major update to Zend Server for IBM i, its PHP server stack for the IBM i platform. Version 5.6 marks the general availability of the new XML Toolkit, which provides a new way for integrating RPG logic into PHP apps, and a new application deployment mechanism. DBi, the drop-in replacement for MySQL on the platform that was slated for release about this time, is not yet ready. In the absence of DBi, the new XML Toolkit is the headliner with Zend Server for IBM i version 5.6. Zend has been working with IBM for well

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• Big Blue Slashes Prices on IBM Forms Electronic Forms Apps

  January 9, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  IBM is eager for customers to use its IBM Forms electronic forms software, and is so eager that it got the red pen out as the new year started and started marking down prices bigtime. In announcement letter 312-003, IBM announced a special promotion that runs until March 15 that cuts the price of IBM Forms by 60 percent when purchased through IBM’s Passport Advantage e-commerce site. This deal, which is being offered in the United States and Canada, covers Forms Designer, which does exactly what the name suggests and plugs into Eclipse-based integrated development environments. The discount is

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• Rometty Kicks Off 2012 With Leadership Team Changes

  January 9, 2012 Jenny Thomas

  IBM‘s first female CEO in its 100-year history, Ginni Rometty, got right to work after officially taking the helm on January 1, announcing changes to Big Blue’s senior leadership team. The first order of business was to replace herself as the general manager of IBM’s sales and marketing group with Bruno Di Leo, who becomes senior vice president, sales and distribution. Di Leo most recently served as the general manager for IBM’s Growth Markets Unit, which increased revenues 19 percent last year, with 40 countries growing by double digits. Di Leo began his career at IBM in 1975 as

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• inFORM Decisions and DSC Find Reasons To Partner

  January 9, 2012 Dan Burger

  Document management meets cloud computing in this partnership of IBM i vendors that came to light last week. The two participants are inFORM Decisions on the doc management and automation side, and Data Storage Corporation on the cloud storage, data protection, disaster recovery, and business continuity side. inFORM Decisions has been in the IBM midrange market since the days when the platform was known as the AS/400. DSC came into the IBM i market in 2010 when it acquired SafeData, a provider of hosted backup, recovery, and high availability solutions for the IBM i operating system. At that time, DSC

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