• iWay Gets Into Big Data

  September 20, 2011 Alex Woodie

  iWay Software last week unveiled enhancements to its data management products aimed at helping customers get the most out of their big stores of data. At the heart of iWay’s “big data” push is Data Quality Center, a Java-based tool designed to cleanse, standardize, and validate data as it sits in transactional and analytical applications, and when it’s pulled out for use in integration projects and system migrations. iWay has updated DQC to be able to handle the rigors fixing data quality problems in real time. The company redesigned the tool’s database layer and enhanced its matching engine, which improved

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• Infor Gets Ready for System i Conference at Opryland

  September 20, 2011 Alex Woodie

  In two weeks, Infor will be holding its 2011 System i User Conference at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee. The three-day show will feature educational sessions for users of BPCS, MAPICS, and System21, as well as a solutions expo and networking opportunities for Infor customers. Also, Infor is hosting a user conference for its Infinium customers this week. The focus of 2011 System i User Conference (Infor deliciously refuses to abide by IBM’s 2009 name change) is providing education for Infor’s three primary IBM i-based suites. These include Infor10 ERP iEnterprise (LX) (formerly called Infor ERP LX and

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• New IBM E-Commerce Bundle Offered on IBM i

  September 20, 2011 Alex Woodie

  IBM yesterday announced a Power Systems-based e-commerce bundle that’s designed to help retailers drive efficiencies into their business processes, utilize Web analytics effectively, increase fulfillment, and take advantage of cross-channel selling opportunities. Called Smarter Commerce on Power Systems, the new offering is highlighted by IBM’s Power7-based hardware and WebSphere 7 e-commerce server, and gives customers the choice of IBM i, Linux, or AIX operating systems. Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last few years, you’ve heard about IBM’s Smarter Planet initiative, a “big thinking” program in which Big Blue puts forward solutions that address some of the

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• Shield Drives New Features into HA4i

  September 20, 2011 Alex Woodie

  The low-cost IBM i high availability solution from Shield Advanced Solutions has gotten more advanced. The latest PTF for HA4i–which became available again last week after an initial delay–introduces new features, such as an enhanced file synchronization process, a new audit process, better handling of object and spool file locks, role swap enhancements, and better management of job logs. HA4i (formerly named RAP) is a budget-minded high availability solution based on IBM‘s remote journaling technology. The software allows customers to replicate their data and select IBM i objects from a source to a target system, and to conduct role

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• Surround Tech Brings IBM i Customers Closer to .NET Goal

  September 20, 2011 Alex Woodie

  Surround Technologies comes from the AS/400 and LANSA worlds, and understands the tremendous value the platform holds for business. But the company also understands that green-screen 5250 interfaces do not cut it anymore, and that Microsoft .NET has a lot to offer IBM i shops when it comes to the user experience and Web service integration layers, which is the focus of its recently updated Accelerator for .NET product. A good way to begin understanding Surround Tech’s Accelerator for .NET product may be to think of it as a rapid application development (RAD) tool for the .NET developer. The software,

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• neuObjects Debuts Graphical Editor for IBM i

  September 20, 2011 Alex Woodie

  Programmers who are frustrated with accessing DB2/400 from a green screen may want to check out a brand new product called neuEdit from neuObjects. The tool, which is available for a free 60-day download, gives users direct access to database records from a Windows GUI environment, enabling users to navigate DB2/400 with a mouse. neuEdit also brings reporting and printing capabilities that its developers found lacking in other tools. The developers of neuEdit created the software after being frustrated with the database editor from IBM and editors from third-party tools developers. While DB2/400 has a reputation as a very

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• The System i PTF Guide Is Back

  September 19, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Long-time readers at IT Jungle and especially those that are trying to sort out IBM‘s patches for the IBM i operating system every week, rejoice. The System i PTF Guide is back. The System i PTF Guide is put together by Doug Bidwell, the president of DLB Associates, an IBM business partner that supports midrange customers on the OS/400 and Windows platforms, including suites from JDE, Lawson, SSA GT, Harris Data, Friedman, and others. Bidwell knows his midrange hardware cold, and as a service to all of IT Jungle‘s readers for many years, he has put together the

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• Disk Storage Sales And Capacity Both Up in Q2

  September 19, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  There’s no shortage to the amount of digital junk that we want to keep, just in case it might be useful some day, and because of this, the disk array business continues to see both revenue and capacity shipment growth grow even as disk subsystems get more efficient at storing data. In the second quarter, the analysts at IDC reckon that total disk array revenues rose by 10.2 percent to $7.49 billion while aggregate capacity rose by a stunning 46.7 percent to 5,353 petabytes. Sales of external disk arrays–the kind used by most midrange and high-end servers–rose by 12.2 percent

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• SAP Settles TomorrowNow Criminal Charges for $20 Million

  September 19, 2011 Alex Woodie

  SAP paid $20 million in fines and plead guilty in federal court last week in the criminal case over TomorrowNow’s illegal downloading of support information from Oracle. In exchange for its plea and the fines, the Department of Justice dropped its criminal case against SAP and its now defunct TomorrowNow subsidiary. Oracle’s civil case against SAP is still under appeal. SAP plead guilty to 11 felony counts of unauthorized access of Oracle’s computer system and one felony count of criminal copyright infringement. It will pay the fine of $20 million to Oracle and be under probation for three years.

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• Maxava Makes $45,000 In iFoundation Awards

  September 19, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Back in late March, high availability software maker Maxava put $50,000 of its money where all of our mouths were to try to help out the IBM i community. June 30 was the cutoff date to put in an application for a grant of a few grand, which could not be used for any personal expenses or any other costs that had been already incurred by a user group or other organization. Allan Campbell, chief executive officer of Maxava, tells The Four Hundred that there were over 20 applicants for iFoundation grants, and that most of them were approved. “We

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