• Used Software Scores A Legal Victory In Europe

  July 16, 2012 Alex Woodie

  Do you have the right to resell your “used” software to other people? If you live in the European Union, you do, thanks to a court ruling earlier this month in the case of UsedSoft v. Oracle. If you live in the United States, the law still favors software makers. However, the EU ruling could pave the way for changes in the U.S. UsedSoft is a German company that buys excess licenses from people or organizations that don’t need them, and resells them to those who do, at prices up to 50 percent lower than “new” licenses from the

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• IBM i Mobile Native Apps Coming On Strong

  July 16, 2012 Dan Burger

  You know you have business apps and data running on the IBM i operating system that needs to be mobilized. The business case for this is obvious. It solves a common business problem. That is, if you don’t have slick-running business apps for a mobile device, you have a problem. Real time access to information for your mobile workforce is a revenue boosting tool that is too powerful to ignore. But there’s still a decision to be made: Do you want apps running native on the mobile device or do you tweak Web apps for mobile uses? In the early

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• Windows On The (2012 And Cloudy) World

  July 16, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Incumbents in any business, whether it is in the technology sector or not, are usually pretty good at seeing an opportunity off on the horizon and at looking around in their immediate vicinity and identifying and dealing with direct competition. What kills them, in the long run, is their inability to see an indirect threat that can morph into a something quite deadly indeed, and even if they should see the threat, they are unable to stop doing what they are doing, selling their products, and come up with an alternative strategy. This has certainly been the case in the

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• Admin Alert: Making Run the Same Run the Same On IBM i Access 7.1 On Windows 7

  July 11, 2012 Joe Hertvik

  One of my clients is working on a new build for their Windows 7 computers. They are deploying IBM i Access for Windows 7.1 (IBM i Access) on Windows 7 for the first time, and I’ve been evaluating using the product on that platform. Here are some issues and observations I’ve seen with the Personal Communications (Pcom) product that comes with version 7.1. Run The Same May Not Run The Same In IBM i 7.1 Like IBM i Access for Windows’ predecessors such as Client Access Express for Windows, iSeries Access for Windows, etc., IBM i Access ships with a

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• RPG Subprocedure Error-Handling with APIs

  July 11, 2012 Ted Holt

  In the May 2, 2012, edition of this august publication, I shared how Brian Rusch’s shop uses an API to forward escape messages up the call stack in CL programs. The Resend Escape Message (QMHRSNEM) API works just as well in RPG subprocedures. Here’s how it’s easily done. First, you need a prototype for QMHRSNEM, and you must define the first two parameters. D ResendEscapeMsg... D pr extpgm('QMHRSNEM') D MessageKey 4a const D ErrorCode 10i 0 const You can define the remaining parameters if you want, but make sure you mark them OPTIONS(*NOPASS). If you like, place the prototype in

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• DB2 For i XMLTABLE, Part 2: Using Namespaces And IFS XML Files

  July 11, 2012 Michael Sansoterra

  In Part 1 of this series, I introduced the DB2 for i developer’s newest friend, the XML “slicer and dicer” table function: XMLTABLE. XMLTABLE is powerful because it can read an XML document and convert its content to a tabular format that can participate in a query with relational data. The developer has to specify the mapping between the XML data and the intended tabular format by using XPath expressions that instruct XMLTABLE how to map the data from XML into rows and columns. In this article, I’d like to cover two additional topics: parsing XML documents containing namespaces, and

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• Tomcat 7 Support Added to mrc’s m-Power Dev Tool

  July 10, 2012 Alex Woodie

  Web applications developed with the latest iteration of the m-Power tool from mrc will be more secure, more scalable, and better performing as a result of the new support for the latest release of the Tomcat Web application server in m-Power, the vendor says. Apache Tomcat is a pure Java HTTP server designed around Java Servlets and JavaServer Pages (JSP) technologies. The open source product is bundled into m-Power, making it an easy deployment choice for m-Power customers–many of whom are IBM i shops–although they can use any Java-based Web application server of their choosing. Tomcat version 7 was released

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• Townsend Gets Added to GSA Schedule

  July 10, 2012 Alex Woodie

  Townsend Security announced last week that its Alliance Key Manager hardware security module (HSM) has been added to the General Services Administration (GSA) Schedule, enabling the encryption module to be used by federal government agencies. Alliance Key Manager is an encryption key management solution that Townsend unveiled in late 2008 and shipped in early 2010. The product is designed to help organizations create, distribute, archive, and manage the 128-, 192-, and 256-bit symmetric AES keys that allow them to encrypt and decrypt their data as it sits in various applications and databases, including DB2/400, DB2 for LUW, Microsoft SQL

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• InfoPrint Designer on Windows 7? DocPath Says It Can Do It

  July 10, 2012 Alex Woodie

  DocPath has been ramping up its campaign to convince disgruntled users of IBM‘s InfoPrint Designer software to sign up with DocPath as a way to keep their IBM i-resident document management environment relevant. Its latest tactic involves Windows 7, which DocPath says it can support with its solution for InfoPrint Designer users. DocPath first landed on the IT Jungle radar earlier this year, when the Spanish company made an appearance at the COMMON conference in Southern California. Company representatives at the show were adamant that it would aggressively pursue what it considers a sizable continent of InfoPrint Designer

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• Infor Gives HMS an iPad Interface, Lands New M3 Customer

  July 10, 2012 Alex Woodie

  Checking in to a hotel that uses Infor‘s Hotel Management System (HMS) should be a more pleasant experience thanks to a new iPad interface designed to work with Infor10 HMS. Infor also announced that a California dairy products company has licensed its Lawson M3 software, which it plans to run on IBM i gear. The new iPad app, called Infor10 HMS Check-In, should streamline the check-in and check-out process for guests of hotels that run the Infor10 HMS, which Infor obtained with the $80 million acquisition of SoftBrands in 2009. Infor says many check-in activities will now take

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