Say you’re working on a new OS/400 order lookup program that your biggest customers will be able to access. What happens when it goes live for the first time: does it sink or does it swim? A new release of Original Software‘s TestBENCH for iSeries application testing suite, announced last week, features a new “stress testing” capability, as well as “date warping” and “results compare,” which should take some of the guesswork out of deploying new applications.

TestBENCH for iSeries provides testers and developers with record, playback, and verify capabilities for identifying problems in OS/400 batch, interactive, and service

WorksRight Software last week announced the availability of new geocoding software for the iSeries server. Given a postal address, the Z4 LAT/LON program calculates the exact coordinates of that address, which leads to more accurate addresses and lower mailing costs for the user. In addition to geocoding, the OS/400 mailing software specialist recently introduced new software based on the U.S. Postal Service’s Delivery Point Verification and Residential Delivery Indicator technology.

Companies in different industries use geocoding for different things. A financial services firm might use geocoding with census information to get a better idea of its customers’ demographics, while a

OS/400 shops looking to get the most out of the database enhancements in i5/OS V5R3 may want to take a look at the latest SQL middleware from HiT Software. The San Jose, California, company makes ODBC and OLE DB middleware that is specifically designed for connecting Windows clients and servers to OS/400 database servers, and with last week’s release, it does so faster than ever.

IBM delivered significant enhancements to DB2 UDB for iSeries (commonly referred to as DB2/400) with the release of i5/OS (also called OS/400) V5R3 this spring. A new SQL Query Engine, better file reorganization capabilities,

Two of the players in the thin client market have recently introduced new thin clients that feature processors running 1 GHz or more, which is faster than what has typically been found in these PC alternatives. BOSaNOVA touts the capability of its new 1000 Series to run Java applications, while Wyse Technology says that its new Winterm V and S series thin clients will excel in graphics-intensive environments.

BOSaNOVA started shipping a new line of thin clients in August that are specifically designed for handling Java applications. The new high-end BOSaNOVA 1000 Series includes the Linux-based LTC 1000 and the