Creating custom Web interfaces from existing 5250 screens should be a little bit easier when using the latest release of Business Computer Design Int’l. Presto. With version 4.5, Web 2.0 elements such as drop down boxes can be added quickly through a drag-and-drop motion in its GUI editor. Other enhancements to the product include faster response times, support for charts in iOS devices, and better subfile rendering.

Presto is an on-the-fly GUI generator for green-screen interfaces that debuted in 2008. The software works by intercepting the 5250 data streams associated with IBM i application and system screens, generating HTML versions

The IBM i pros at Raz-Lee Security are working with counterparts at security giant McAfee to integrate portions of Raz-Lee’s iSecurity suite with McAfee’s enterprise security solutions–specifically, its Database Activity Monitor (DAM) solution. The work will extend DAM to include DB2 for IBM i monitoring capabilities that are not currently offered by McAfee.

McAfee offers a range of database-related solutions for enterprise customers running relational database management systems, such as DB2 for LUW, Oracle, SQL Server, and MySQL. This includes Vulnerability Manager, which scans databases for more than 45,000 known threats; Virtual Patching, which detects and prevents intrusions at the

Bytware has introduced a new version of its Messenger suite of systems management tools that is more compatible with Live Partition Mobility (LPM), the new virtualization technology that IBM introduced last year. With Messenger 8, Bytware has introduced a new licensing scheme that is better able to track where the software is actually running, and therefore whether the customer has exceeded his license allotment.

LPM is an important new piece of virtualization technology that IBM debuted last spring with IBM i 7.1 Technology Refresh (TR) 4. The PowerVM feature allows organizations to move IBM i logical partitions (LPARs) around without

Townsend Security is close to shipping a new version of Alliance Key Manager that includes support for Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP), a new standard designed to provide a single method for accessing and managing encryption keys. KMIP support is important for building uniformity into encryption routines. But its usefulness in IBM i environments is limited at this point.

KMIP was first thought up several years ago by a group of security software vendors to provide a standard interface for connecting the encryption key management and generation programs with the encryption routines that consume encryption keys in critical business systems.

In the third-party maintenance business, we’re accustomed to hearing about Oracle and SAP losing maintenance and support business to the third-party providers. Today, Spinnaker Support is expected to announce that it has hired a key executive away from its primary competitor, Rimini Street.

Nigel Pullan is an ERP industry veteran with more than 30 years of experience with various companies, including 10 years at JD Edwards, where he was senior vice president and general manager for its EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) operations. Pullan was also at TomorrowNow, the now-defunct pioneer in third-party maintenance services founded by Seth

JD Edwards shops upgrading to World A9.3 or EnterpriseOne versions 9.0 and 9.1 can feel good about purging unwanted data from their systems using DCSoftware‘s ARCTOOLS utility now that Oracle has validated the product on those particular ERP systems.

ARCTOOLS helps automate the process of identifying old data in production databases, and moving it into a long term archive. The software works with DB2 for i, SQL Server, and Oracle databases, and allows users to schedule when purge jobs should run, and allows users to “throttle” them back to avoid impacting production systems. DCSoftware counts more than 300 JD

In old war movies, you’ve probably seen how, before launching a nuclear missile, the captain and his first lieutenant must turn their keys simultaneously for the launch to work. This is actually a security practice instituted by the United States Air Force and other military organizations that’s called the “two man rule.” Last week, security software vendor Lieberman Software launched a version of the two man rule to control the passwords for privileged user profiles.

Lieberman’s flagship product, called Enterprise Random Password Manager (EPRM), is a security utility designed to discover, secure, track, and audit the use of privileged user

Worldwide spending on private cloud services will grow at a 50 percent compound annual growth rate through 2016, at which point it will account for $24 billion in spending, according to the latest forecast from the cloud watchers at IDC. The market for IBM i cloud services is growing, too.

IDC splits the hosted private cloud (HPC) services market into two components. There’s the dedicated private cloud, which offers a dedicated, one-to-one physical compute and storage resources, and the virtual private cloud model, which utilizes shared virtualized resources, and which is an adjunct of the public cloud services model.

Polaris Industries, the $3.2 billion maker of snowmobiles, has selected IntelliChief‘s eponymous software to help it streamline back-office business processes and eliminate paper. The initial IntelliChief implementation will target accounts payable (AP) processes, and will hook into Polaris’ IBM i-based Infor ERP XA application.

IntelliChief is a Windows-based suite of software designed to help IBM i shops transition to electronic documents, or “paperless process management,” as IntelliChief calls it. In its basic configurations, the software provides a simple repository for storing and accessing e-documents. More advanced implementations involve the roll-out of sophisticated scanning and data capture solutions, direct integration

OKI Data Americas, the North American subsidiary of the Japanese printing and telecommunications giant, has inked a deal with Brooks Internet Software to carry the software company’s line of print protocol converters for IBM i, Unix, and mainframe servers.

The co-marketing deal announced last month will ensure that organizations buying printers and other gear from OKI Data Americas will also have the opportunity to buy Brooks’ products, notably ExcelliPrint and RPM Remote Print Manager, as part of the deal. RPM Remote Print Manager is a Line Printer Daemon (LPD) print server designed to provide more flexibility in the management