• Correction: WebFacing Lives On, in HIS and HATS

  August 5, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Despite what we wrote last month, IBM continues to sell and support the WebFacing Tool as part of the Host Integration Solution (HIS) for 5250 Applications. This article will hopefully set things straight as to what IBM has done with the development tools included within the HIS suite. IT Jungle apologizes for any fear or uncertainty it may have caused loyal System i customers and WebFacing users as a result of its misunderstanding of IBM’s announcement. Instead of ending support for new WebFacing development, as we erroneously wrote in the July 15 story, what IBM has done is

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• RJS’ WebDocs Gets Google-ized

  August 5, 2008 Alex Woodie

  System i and Power Systems shops that use RJS Software Systems‘ WebDocs to capture, store, and manage documents originating from i OS or other sources will soon have the capability to search those documents using Google‘s popular search appliances. The new integration is the result of a partnership unveiled last week between Google and the Minnesota software company. WebDocs is a native i OS application that acts as an “electronic filing cabinet” of sorts. The software, which is also available on Windows and as a hosted service, is used to capture, store, manage, and route all kinds of

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• S4i Updates i OS Disk Monitor

  August 5, 2008 Alex Woodie

  It will only take 10 minutes for a user to get up and running with DASD-Plus Chart thanks to a new startup guide and other ease-of-use enhancements added to version 1.05, according to S4i Systems, which announced the new release last week. New reporting mechanisms should also allow users to squeeze more useful information about the state of the disk drives on their i5/OS and i OS-based servers. DASD-Plus Chart is a relatively new product that Oceanside, California-based S4i Systems launched in February 2007. The product is largely based on S4i’s popular DASD-Plus disk analysis tool, which automates

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• Touchtone Enhances CRM System

  August 5, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Touchtone, the Southern California developer of i OS software, recently delivered a new release of its Wintouch eCRM system that features better customizability, support for geographical location information, and user interface enhancements, among other new features. Wintouch CRM is a suite of RPG programs designed to help i OS, i5/OS, and OS/400 shops better manage customer service, sales, marketing, collections, and technical-support aspects of their businesses. The software, which Touchtone has been development for over a decade, gives users the choice of several different interfaces, including 5250, Web, Java, and mobile clients. In May, Touchtone announced Wintouch version 7.0.0.7.

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• Evergreen Upgrades iSeries Report Downloader

  August 5, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Evergreen Interactive Systems recently launched a new version of iSeries Report Downloader, a Windows application that lets users browse i OS spool files and then convert the data into Excel, PDF, HTML, or plain text. The iSeries Report Downloader makes it relatively simple for a Windows user to browse and view spool files on the System i server. Users are presented a graphical interface that allows them to select spool files based on the name of an out queue or a user name. Then they select how they want to download and view the report, including: Excel, PDF, HTML, plain

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• Linoma Joins Microsoft’s MAP to Push i OS Data Transfer Tool

  August 5, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Linoma Software has high hopes that joining Microsoft‘s Midrange Alliance Program (MAP) will bolster business for GoAnywhere, its cross-platform data transfer tool. The Nebraska i OS software vendor joined the MAP last month. Microsoft formed the MAP three-and-a-half years ago as a consortium of partners interested in promoting interoperability between System i and Windows servers, as well as full migrations of i5/OS applications to the Windows environment. To date, about 30 ISVs active in the i5/OS community have joined the MAP, according to Microsoft’s MAP Web site, while the list contains about 25 consulting services providers and hardware

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• Bruce Lee Directs HiT for Asia

  August 5, 2008 Alex Woodie

  HiT Software, a developer of data providers for i OS and other platforms, recently announced the hiring of Bruce Lee as its new territory manager for the rapidly growing Asian marketplace. In addition to hiring Lee, HiT is working to make more of its resources available in Chinese and Japanese languages. Lee will work with HiT’s marketing, sales, and technical departments to build HiT Software’s presence in Asia. He will be responsible for working with strategic partners and system integrators to develop channel sales and marketing programs throughout Asia from his office in Hong Kong. “The appointment of Mr.

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• Q&A with IBM’s Ross Mauri: Talking Power Systems and Power7

  August 4, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Q&A with IBM’s Ross Mauri: Talking Power Systems and Power7 Back in early 2006, one of the up-and-coming executives at IBM was tapped to become the general manager of the company’s fast-growing pSeries Unix server and workstation business line. Two reorganizations and two years later, and that executive, Ross Mauri, a graduate of Marist College–one of the hotbeds of academic mainframia–who aspired once to merely be an MVS systems programmer at Big Blue, found himself in charge of a very big piece of IBM. Perhaps the most important part, too. Mauri is in charge of the Power Systems division, of

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• IBM’s Q2 Server Sales: Let’s Do Some Math

  August 4, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  I have never understood why IT suppliers do not just come out and report their sales by product categories, but I suspect that we can blame the accountants and chief financial officers at those suppliers and the nervousness of the marketeers, who want to say as little as possible about how well or poorly they are doing in any product category. Anyway, because IT vendors only talk broadly and vaguely about their sales, IT consultants, Wall Street analysts, and wiseguy journalists are left each quarter to take a stab at trying to figure out actual sales for products. Because the

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• IBM Creates a New Security PTF Group for i Operating Systems

  August 4, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Our intrepid PTF watcher, Doug Bidwell of Power Systems reseller and systems integrator DLB Associates, says that starting with last week’s batch of PTF patches for the latest releases of the i operating system, Big Blue has done something that it probably should have done a long time ago. It has created a Security Group PTF set of patches, which roll security patches all together in one place for a specific OS/400, i5/OS, or i release. Bidwell says that the advent of the security group patches is noteworthy for a few reasons. First, instead of dodging the security issues

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