Bug Busters Software Engineering announces Release 9.0 of its RSF and RSF-HA applications for IBM i. RSF provides a managed file transfer layer for the IBM i. RSF-HA is a High Availability (HA) and data replication solution for the IBM i platform. Release 9.0 updates both the base and HA versions of RSF.
With release 9.0, Bug Busters says, you can change the layout of physical files while they're in use. The new Change PF While Active (CHGPFRSF) command lets you change the layout of a... Read the rest of entry >>
Posted @ 08/23/2011 1:07 PM By Linda Harty
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LogLogic, an independent SIEM and IT data management provider, announces LogLogic 5.2, an SIEM solution compatible with IBM i. The product offering includes an IBM i collector that is installed on the i and that forwards messages to the LogLogic appliance, which collects data from numerous platforms and devices to offer IT pros what the company calls "360 Insight" into their operations, security stance, and compliance profile.
With this update, LogLogic EVP and CMO Bill Roth says, "We're now... Read the rest of entry >>
Posted @ 08/23/2011 12:48 PM By Linda Harty
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PowerTech, a provider of security solutions for Power Systems servers running IBM i, announces the release of Compliance Monitor 3, the newest version of its security auditing solution. Compliance Monitor is an IBM i audit solution that provides consolidated reporting across systems and partitions, compliance scorecards, filtering, and forensic analysis of audit journal events.
Compliance Monitor 3 brings batch scheduling and automated report distribution to IBM i security auditing. It lets... Read the rest of entry >>
Posted @ 08/16/2011 3:10 PM By Linda Harty
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Linoma Software announces that Info Security Products Guide has named Linoma as the 2011 Best Deployment Scenario award winner in the Secure File Transfer category. This award recognizes the ways that Linoma Software's GoAnywhere secure file transfer solution benefits its customer, Bristol Hospital, in Bristol, Connecticut.
In its announcement about the award, Linoma provided details about Bristol Hospital's implementation of GoAnywhere: Bristol Hospital exchanges information with dozens of... Read the rest of entry >>
Posted @ 08/16/2011 2:29 PM By Linda Harty
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RJS Software Systems has released WebDocs 3.19, giving the IBM i version of the company’s flagship document management software enhanced email, printing, and image management capabilities. This version of WebDocs expands the product’s built-in outbound email and routing features by adding the ability to send encrypted email. Documents and data can be compressed and password protected, ensuring that sensitive information can be securely emailed. Additional enhancements include an improved... Read the rest of entry >>
Posted @ 08/16/2011 1:13 PM By John Ghrist
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At least there’s some i news in this week’s IBM announcements. IBM has updated HATS to version 8 and made a price change to an RDi for SOA offering.
U.S. Announcement: 211-301IBM is offering Rational Host Access Transformation Services (HATS) for Multiplatforms and 5250 Applications V8.0, which lets developers transform the end user experience of 5250 applications running on IBM i without modifying those applications.
U.S. Announcement: 311-103IBM has announced a decrease in the... Read the rest of entry >>
Posted @ 08/10/2011 2:49 PM By John Ghrist
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Business Computer Design International, Inc. (BCD), has released major versions of its Presto software for web enabling green screens and its Nexus Portal solution for organized access to enterprise information through a web browser.
Version 3 of Presto helps developers extend the functionality and improve the user interface of GUI-ized IBM i green screens. Presto 3 builds on the Visual Editor introduced in a prior release with many new features, including dynamic SQL database-driven dropdown... Read the rest of entry >>
Posted @ 08/05/2011 4:16 PM By John Ghrist
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ASNA has announced that it is now a reseller of IBM's Rational Open Access: RPG Edition (RPG OA) software, which provides developers a way to create access to IBM i applications from multiple devices. By reselling the product, ASNA makes it easier for customers to acquire. RPG OA provides an i5 API that enables ILE RPG programs to redirect file I/O to third-party handlers. ASNA offers an RPG OA-based product called ASNA Wings, which provides a browser-based alternative to IBM i's traditional,... Read the rest of entry >>
Posted @ 08/05/2011 4:15 PM By John Ghrist
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michaels, ross & cole, ltd. (mrc) has announced that its m-Power application development suite supports two additional databases and has a new plug-in called m-Power Translate that brings language translation to transactional web apps. m-Power software creates web applications such as report writing, business intelligence, executive dashboards, e-commerce, customer portals, and wireless applications. The new Translate plug-in gives companies with an international sales focus a way to generate... Read the rest of entry >>
Posted @ 08/05/2011 4:14 PM By John Ghrist
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LANSA has announced an IBM i server-based version of Visual LANSA Framework, its business development tool for quickly creating web and Windows applications, and a Service Pack 1 (SP1) release for Visual LANSA Version 12. The framework ships as part of Visual LANSA, a Windows-based IDE for cross-platform software development (developers can deploy applications to Windows, IBM i, Linux, and wireless devices). The Visual LANSA Framework for i developers is an update to Visual LANSA Version 12.... Read the rest of entry >>
Posted @ 08/05/2011 4:14 PM By John Ghrist
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