• Software AG Maintains Investment in Jacada Tools

  July 24, 2012 Alex Woodie

  It’s been almost five years since Software AG acquired the rights to Jacada‘s application modernization and Web enablement tool for IBM i and z/OS environments, called the Jacada Interface Server. Over that time, the German software giant has continued to invest in the software, which it now calls webMethods JIS. Early next year the company expects to launch a major new release of webMethods JIS that will keep the product relevant in our mobile world. Jacada was one of the early leaders in the Web-enablement business as the Internet started to bloom in the 1990s. When the company launched

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• Jumping Hurdles From Green Screen to Graphical

  July 24, 2012 Dan Burger

  It’s 2012 and application development that is reliant on tools and techniques from 10 years ago or more no longer fit into the present of future business plans of organizations that consider it important to adapt to a changing IT environment. In the community we refer to by the platform-specific name IBM i, where IT entanglements often are tied to systems known as the iSeries and AS/400, graphical application development has become much more common, primarily because it’s become a whole lot easier. A good example of this is 21st Mortgage Corporation, a midsize company that underwrites, originates, and services

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• CYBRA Completes Forms Journey with MarkMagic 8

  July 24, 2012 Alex Woodie

  The general availability of MarkMagic 8 this month marked the end of a journey for CYBRA, which several years ago had embarked on an ambitious plan to overhaul its label and forms management software for IBM i and open-system servers. The Yonkers, New York, company has implemented all of the features it originally set out to develop when it began its “black-belt challenge of conditional printing,” say company executives, who may next tackle world peace. It all started years ago when two CYBRA employees called on one of the biggest AS/400 customers at the time. “We dreamed up the

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• IBM i Tech Conference Keeps Education Light Burning

  July 23, 2012 Dan Burger

  It is plain to see when you walk into any IT department when there is a learning environment in place. People are much more motivated to take on the challenges that constantly come their way. Compare this to organizations that make little or no effort to keep a sharp edge on IT. The wasted resources in those instances should be enough to choke a horse, or a CEO, depending on who was the first to pay attention to it. In many cases, IT training and education doesn’t come cheap. Travel expenses plus food and lodging can be equal to or

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• Linoma’s GoAnywhere Goes Global

  July 23, 2012 Jenny Thomas

  Location, location, location. We’ve all heard the line that location, which could also be interpreted as being in the right spot at the right time, is the key to success for many business. In the 21st century, businesses don’t have to let their physical location limit their success, but you still need partners, you still need feet on the street sometimes–particularly when there are language barriers. Take Nebraska-based Linoma Software, for instance. Linoma’s headquarters is located in Ashland, a city with a population of less than 5,000, but with the IBM i platform being popular in Japan and other

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• SkyView Security Now Monitoring Vision Portal

  July 23, 2012 Dan Burger

  Prominent high availability vendor Vision Solutions has teamed with SkyView Partners, an influential player in the IBM midrange security arena, to tighten the screws on Vision’s portal offering and place more control and manageability within the view of one console. The integration takes place on Vision Solutions Portal (VSP), a single, browser-based, point of control for monitoring and managing alerts and notifications on Power Systems servers running IBM i as well as AIX through Vision’s MIMIX Global, which manages MIMIX clusters and hybrid IBM i disk-based clustering environments. It is also integrated into Vision’s iOptimize system utilization console on

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• Big Blue Puts Out New Hardware PTF Group For IBM i 6.1 And 7.1

  July 23, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Here’s a puzzler that we haven’t been able to sort out. There are two new hardware group PTFs that IBM put out last week that are not part of its Technology Refresh cycle and that don’t seem to be tied to cumulative releases of the IBM i 6.1 or 7.1 operating systems, either. The PTF group is SF99705 for IBM i 7.1 (PDF) and SF99605 for IBM i 6.1 (PDF), and as best as we can tell here at IT Jungle, the PTF patches include firmware and Microsoft patches for drivers and licensed internal code that lives at the

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• IBM Rolls Out Lab Services For PureSystems Integration

  July 23, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Starting next month, the techies from the various divisions of IBM‘s Systems and Technology Group are going to be peddling yet another bunch of services to help customers integrate their existing systems with new PureSystems modular gear. In announcement letter 612-027, you’ll find the IBM Systems Lab Services is offering what it calls ServiceUnits for premium, remote, and local services, all of which are designed to help customers adopt new technologies and integrate them with their existing systems. In this case, IBM is offering QuickStart services for PureFlex Standard, Express, and Enterprise Editions (those are varying degrees of

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• IBM Should Buy Mellanox Before HP Or Cisco Does

  July 23, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Maybe IBM should have bought Mellanox Technologies as well as Blade Network Technologies back in the fall of 2010. Or perhaps just after Mellanox ate rival-partner Voltaire that November and positioned itself to be a player in both Ethernet and InfiniBand switches and adapter cards. Intel is certainly hot to trot to own chip designers who make network switch and router chips as well as silicon and full adapters for servers that allow them to link to switches, and IBM would do well to get more serious about networking than just buying up Ethernet switch maker Blade Network, itself a

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• As I See It: To Serve, To Strive, And Not To Yield

  July 23, 2012 Victor Rozek

  She arrived at the dining room as she always did, carrying a baby doll. The woman, like the doll she clutched, was damaged; her appearance shabby, her demeanor distant. She waited her turn in line, acknowledged a greeting from the doorman with a slight nod of her head, and shuffled in looking about for a place to sit. . . . Stephen Covey, he of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, died last week of complications from a bicycle accident. At age 79, he lost control of his bike on a steep hill. Happily, one of his habits

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