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Kisco Introduces New CFINT Buster
December 14, 2004 Alex Woodie
OS/400 shops looking to get the most 5250 performance out of their boxes may want to check out Kisco Information Systems‘ new GoFaster product, which the company introduced last week. Kisco says that GoFaster implements a simple software change that overcomes the CFINT interactive governor to allow users to access the full power of their OS/400 server for 5250 sessions. The software was developed in Europe and is now available in the United States for the first time through Kisco.
IBM didn’t entirely eliminate the 5250 interactive governor with the new iSeries packaging it introduced in January 2003, but
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PFSweb Launches XML Connector for Real-Time iSeries Transactions
October 26, 2004 Alex Woodie
PFSWeb launched a new middleware product last week, called the iS Connector Toolkit, which exposes iSeries transactions, in real time, as XML. The company had sold the technology as part of an e-commerce software suite that it introduced this spring. But PFSweb, a publicly traded company whose day job is providing fulfillment services to Fortune 1000 manufacturers, discovered that iSeries shops were actually more interested in the XML connector.
PFSweb, which stands for Priority Fulfillment Services, has been an OS/400 shop from day one, since 1988. Today, the $280 million, Plano, Texas, company uses an iSeries server to run a
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Fast400 Founder Sues Big Blue
August 16, 2004 Timothy Prickett Morgan
If you have been watching the battle of wits and mind share between OS/400 server maker IBM and the various companies that have marketed the Fast400 green-screen governor buster, you will be interested to learn that the founder of the company that made Fast400 has revealed his secret identity, as well as that of his clever programmer, as part of a lawsuit that he filed on May 17 against IBM.
The lawsuit was brought to our attention by Jim Stracka, founder of iSeries security specialist PentaSafe (now part of NetIQ). As it turns out, way back in 2001, after
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SSA Global Delivers First Product in ERP Convergence Strategy
August 16, 2004 Alex Woodie
SSA Global‘s ERP product convergence strategy came to life this month, when it announced the availability of SSA ERP LN, which is based on its Baan ERP product and runs on Unix servers. For the company’s large iSeries installed base, SSA Global announced a similar plan to converge its BPCS, PRMS, Infinium, and PRISM products, which were all designed to run on OS/400 servers, onto a new product to be called ERP LX. This ERP LX product will be delivered in early 2005.
SSA ERP LN Version 6.1 is based on the next-generation ERP product code-named “Gemini” that Baan
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Sterling Commerce Brings Gentran Integration Suite to OS/400
February 24, 2004 Alex Woodie
OS/400 shops searching for enterprise-strength integration software may want to check out the Gentran Integration Suite, which Sterling Commerce recently made available as a native program for the OS/400 and z/OS platforms. A slew of plug-ins gives Java-based GIS Version 3.0 an abundance of capabilities, ranging from business process design and enterprise application integration connectivity to classic electronic data interchange translation and UCCnet compliance. With its older electronic document interchange software in maintenance mode, Sterling is banking on customers upgrading to GIS.
Sterling, a subsidiary of SBC Communications, has been in the electronic document interchange (EDI) and enterprise application
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OS/400 Alert: alphaWorks and Homeland Security
February 4, 2004 Shannon O'Donnell
In this issue of “OS/400 Alert,” we’ll tell you about some new electronic initiatives from the Department of Homeland Security. We’ll also alert you to some of the cool new tools, betas, trials, and emerging technologies from IBM’s bleeding-edge technology center, alphaWorks. IBM alphaWorks has consistently cranked out exciting new software technology, exceeding the output of any of the other major software skunkwerks anywhere in the world. In fact, many technologies being used today on the iSeries started as prototypes and became demos at alphaWorks.
NEW HOMELAND SECURITY NEWSLETTERS
The war on terrorism is about to hit your mailbox–at least
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OS/400 Alert: alphaWorks and Homeland Security
February 4, 2004 Shannon O'Donnell
In this issue of “OS/400 Alert,” we’ll tell you about some new electronic initiatives from the Department of Homeland Security. We’ll also alert you to some of the cool new tools, betas, trials, and emerging technologies from IBM’s bleeding-edge technology center, alphaWorks. IBM alphaWorks has consistently cranked out exciting new software technology, exceeding the output of any of the other major software skunkwerks anywhere in the world. In fact, many technologies being used today on the iSeries started as prototypes and became demos at alphaWorks.
NEW HOMELAND SECURITY NEWSLETTERS
The war on terrorism is about to hit your mailbox–at least
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Ensuring Valid XML Content
December 13, 2002 Timothy Prickett Morgan
Hey, David:
I will preface this email by saying that my knowledge of XML is limited, but I’ve been able to use the Xerces parser to move XML data to a physical file using QSH/Java.
Now, if you’re receiving an XML file from a customer, how do you guarantee that the customer’s XML document references your external DTD? What would prevent the customer from embedding an “invalid” DTD in the XML document?
— Chris
The problem you describe is one of the limitations you have to deal with when you use a Document Type Definition (DTD) to validate XML documents.
