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Oracle to Put New HP CEO on the Stand in TomorrowNow Lawsuit
October 18, 2010 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreThe soap opera between Oracle and Hewlett-Packard has taken another bizarre turn and now it looks like Oracle is going to drag Leo Apotheker, former CEO at SAP and recently named CEO at HP, up on the stand in its ongoing lawsuit against SAP concerning its former TomorrowNow unit.
In August, several months after Apotheker had been shown the door and two new co-CEOs had been running SAP for a while, SAP’s lawyers said that SAP accepted financial responsibility for the damage that might have been done by TomorrowNow, but balked at the idea that the damages were in excess
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Reader Feedback on Microsoft Azure: An AS/400 for Private and Public Clouds
July 26, 2010 Hey, TPM
… Read moreI have quite a bit of trouble dropping the i into a cloud, where hardware virtualization and abstraction are considered to be key concepts. While the i’s partition capability is roughly equivalent to virtualization, Microsoft’s live migration feature (a substantial improvement over Quick Migration) allows nearly instantaneous move of virtual machine to another host; a capability that doesn’t seem to be practical within the highly integrated i environment.
Live migration has prerequisites (including all servers must be on the same failover cluster, all CPUs must belong to the same processor family, SAN required) but the bottom line is that live
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Altova Adds DB2/400 Support to XML Development Tools
March 2, 2010 Alex Woodie
… Read moreAltova is now supporting the System i server and its integrated DB2/400 database with its MissionKit, a suite of popular XML, data conversion, and UML modeling tools for developers and database administrators. Altova’s CEO expects System i shops to get the most use out of two of the suite’s tools, including a data conversion tool for XML, EDI, and other formats, and a stylesheet designer that provides another way to get DB2/400 data on the Web.
In the last 10 years, Altova has leveraged the commercial success of its first product, XML Spy, to create a range of XML development
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UC4 Extends Job Scheduler to SaaS and Cloud Apps
February 9, 2010 Alex Woodie
… Read moreOne of the challenges facing enterprise computing architects is how to manage and coordinate an IT infrastructure that spreads from the organization’s data center to one or more software as a service (SaaS) or cloud computing providers. For job scheduling software developer UC4 Software, which recently announced its UC4 Agent for Web Services, the answer is found through the magic of Web services and service oriented architecture (SOA).
UC4’s job scheduling software helps to manage applications running across a wide range of operating systems, including IBM i/OS, z/OS, Unix, Windows, Linux, MPE, BS2000, OpenVMS, and many other “legacy” platforms.
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Publish Result Sets Using Web Services and IWS
December 9, 2009 Michael Sansoterra
… Read moreNote: The code accompanying this article is available for download here.
IBM i/OS V6R1 (a.k.a. 6.1) introduced a new feature called Integrated Web Services (IWS). This feature is also available by PTF on V5R4 systems. One benefit of IWS is its ability to make data and logic in high-level language programs such as RPG, COBOL and C available as a Web service.
Publishing business logic as a Web service allows clients on just about any platform (PDA, green screen, Web application, Windows client) in just about any language (Java, C#, VB.NET, VBA, etc.) to easily consume the data provided
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Jarman Flashes Clues on Future DB2 and RPG Directions
October 20, 2009 Dan Burger
… Read moreA statement of general direction is a fine tonic for IBM Power Systems i users, some of which are confused about IBM’s intentions with the platform. Last week, Ian Jarman, manager of Power Systems software and keynote speaker at the RPG & DB2 Summit gave i-centric attendees a glimpse of the future. Knowing his crowd well, he highlighted RPG and DB2 enhancements in the pipeline and explained Power Systems positioning with the benefits that lie ahead for those thirsty for IBM attention on i.
As with any statement of general direction, details are limited, but they confirm details that appeared
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Managed File Transfer: A New Product Category That’s Here to Stay
September 2, 2009 Alex Woodie
… Read moreOne of the great things about the Internet is it makes it exceptionally easy to distribute computer files. Within minutes, users can be up and running with free FTP and e-mail utilities, and begin sending files around the globe. However, as is the case with many things about the Internet, decentralized file transfer opens the door to security problems and inefficiencies that businesses should not tolerate. The solution advocated by many is a relatively new class of software product called managed file transfer, or MFT.
If you’re wondering what this new term managed file transfer, or MFT, refers to and
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Has IBM Given Up on the i?
August 24, 2009 Dan Burger
… Read moreI get the impression there are no night lights in Bob Cancilla’s home. Every switch is wired to a high-intensity bulb. The volume on the TV is always on full blast. I wouldn’t expect him to have 300-thread-count bed sheets. They’d be #50 grade sandpaper. Cancilla, who is one of the many gurus of the AS/400 community, is a likeable enough guy, but some find him nothing less than acerbic, especially when it comes to the IBM i. He says IBM will drop it in the next five to seven years.
He might as well have whacked a hornet’s nest
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IBM Adds ‘Rich UI’ Design Tool to Rational Business Developer
December 16, 2008 Alex Woodie
… Read moreSystem i shops considering the move to EGL and more modern development techniques will be interested in learning about the enhancements that IBM has delivered with Rational Business Developer version 7.5.1, which became available two weeks ago. With this release, Big Blue delivered a new component called EGL Rich UI, which IBM claims takes much of the grunt work out of designing and creating Web 2.0-style user interfaces. It also added support for key Internet technologies, and bolstered its support for mainframe applications.
Rational Business Developer is IBM’s primary offering for developing Web 2.0 applications that offer rich user experiences,
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Drummond Submits AS4 Requirements to OASIS
April 22, 2008 Alex Woodie
… Read moreBuoyed by the success of AS2 and the need to streamline business document exchange via Web services, EXTOL International, Sterling Commerce, Cisco Systems, and the interoperability testing firm Drummond Group submitted a list of functional requirements to the standards body OASIS last week for the creation of a new B2B protocol, called AS4, that would adopt AS2 for use with Web services.
With the acceptance of the ebXML Messaging Services (ebMS) 3.0 as a full standard last fall, the OASIS Messaging Services Technical Committee approved the creation of a subcommittee to develop a “profile” of ebMS 3.0
