Security

AS/SURE Software Releases Self-Service Password Reset Product

AS/SURE Software unveils iSecure, a new product that lets users securely reset their own profile and password, saving user and help desk time and reducing downtime for users locked out of your system. iSecure also lets security officers display and manage password system values from one screen. Password rules are displayed for users and kept in one convenient place for security officers. iSecure keeps an audit log of all activity but doesn't record passwords. A free 30-day trial of iSecure is available at the company's website. AS/SURE Software. 919-467-2484. as-sure.com.

Application Development

Attachmate Announces New Version of Host Integration Product

Attachmate Corporation releases a new version of its mainframe application integration solution, Verastream Host Integrator 6.6. The new version includes features and functionality that eliminate the technical complexity and code generation associated with legacy integration, offering IT organizations a low-cost approach to legacy-to-SOA integration. Using Verastream Host Integrator, developers can encapsulate data and logic via the screen interface. Developers using the System i environment can transform their legacy applications into reusable services to build composite applications with a new look and feel. Attachmate Corporation. 206-282-4923. attachmate.com.

Database

ProData Delivers Remote Database Connectivity Solution

ProData Computer Services announces RDB Connect 3.0, the newest release of its IBM i remote database connectivity product. RDB Connect provides access to cross-platform realtime data on remote systems from the i. With the new version, users can access any remote database from the i as long as it has an ODBC or JDBC driver assigned. RDB Connect already supports access to MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Postgre, DB2 database, and others. You can use the product's collection of commands and functions to integrate data using RPG, Cobol, or CL. It communicates directly with remote databases, providing record-level I/O as well as the ability to import/export remote data to and from the i. You can use RDB Connect in batch or interactive programs to generate reports, analyze information, and synchronize data from all disparate servers. ProData Computer Services. 402-697-7575. prodatacomputer.com.

Application Development

Aldon Enhances Support for PHP

Aldon announces enhanced support for the open-source PHP language as part of its Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) suite. By using Aldon ALM to manage PHP, organizations can gain processes, predictability, and visibility across web-centric development projects. PHP is a web application language used for content and customer relationship management, blogs, e-commerce, and other applications. The IBM i community can use PHP to modernize its applications and create web-based interfaces to RPG programs and DB2 database files. Aldon. 510-285-8503. aldon.com.

Backup and Recovery

SafeData Improves System i Recovery Service

SafeData enhances its System i Recovery Service. The company says its data recovery offering provides organizations with a 300 percent improvement in restoration times, ensuring business continuity during system failures. By implementing a virtual recovery solution at the target vaulting facility, SafeData can perform a full restoration in hours. SafeData has a large inventory of IBM i servers and logical partitions configured directly to its vaults via a high speed LAN connection, offering customers VPN connectivity to their data until their system is restored. The company's System i Recovery Service also offers an option for bi-directional connectivity and communication. SafeData. 401-734-5866. safedata.net.

Systems Management

Infor Delivers Payroll Features to Human Resource App

Infor announces a new feature pack to its Infor HCM Workforce Management, a human resource management application that is compatible with the IBM i and provides web-enabled talent management features, including centralized databases for employee information, tools for administering benefit plans, and a framework for processing payrolls. Notably, the new Payroll Wizard guides payroll administrators through the payroll export process, including off-cycle exports for retroactive adjustments and terminated employees. Also, enhanced pay rules promise to cut down on pay rule customization needs, and the solution includes support for semi-monthly pay periods. Infor. 800-260-2640. infor.com.

Application Development

ADC Austin and Websydian Update RIA Framework

ADC Austin and Websydian announce the availability of Version 1.4 of Websydian WebClient for CA Plex, further strengthening the rich Internet application (RIA) framework for the CA Plex community. Developers and designers use CA Plex and WebClient to create and publish enterprise-class RIA applications. The release of WebClient 1.4 adds Ajax-enabled web components such as editable grids and pop-up web dialogs, enhanced HTML templating, and other developer-centric capabilities. Version 1.4 also includes setup wizards and plug-ins that speed deployment in the Eclipse Europa and IBM Rational development environments. ADC Austin. 512-858-9627. adcaustin.com.

Business Intelligence

NGS Introduces Financial Performance Solution

New Generation Software (NGS) announces NGS Financial Performance for S2K, a new financial reporting and analytics solution for companies running the Vormittag Associates, Inc. (VAI), S2K General Ledger system on the IBM i. The solution, created with NGS's business intelligence and web application development tools, integrates with and enhances the presentation of the critical financial data stored in the S2K financial system through the use of Adobe Flash and Microsoft Office. It includes a web portal, financial performance dashboards, multidimensional models, and Excel spreadsheets and reports, all built over a DB2 data mart on the i. NGS Financial Performance for S2K will run on the i and Power Systems using versions 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, and 6.1 of the operating system. New Generation Software. 800-824-1220. ngsi.com.

Database

LANSA Offers Data Services Layer Connection to .NET

LANSA releases LANSA Open for .NET, a product that brings the security and performance of the LANSA data services layer to the Microsoft .NET platform. By storing enterprise business rules centrally in the LANSA Repository, IBM i and .NET programs are subject to the same validation constraints. The results mean zero duplication of rules, tighter security, faster performance, and more assured data integrity for organizations that depend on DB2 databases. LANSA Open for .NET lets IT departments safely open their enterprise data and applications to a variety of internal and external .NET applications without risking security or data integrity. Enterprises with packaged .NET applications that execute independent of their i applications can link them together, eliminate database synchronization headaches, and provide a single version of the truth to end users. LANSA. 630-874-7190. lansa.com.

Application Development

mrc Announces New Upload Capabilities

Software tool developer michaels, ross, & cole (mrc) introduces new upload capabilities for m-Power, a development software tool suite for modernization and rapid creation of custom business web applications on the i. Using the new feature, m-Power users can create applications that upload files directly to their server. mrc. 630-916-0662. mrc-productivity.com.

Systems Management

Aldon Delivers Service Management Module

Aldon CMDB's latest module is a key component of the company's IT service-management solution. It provides visibility of all IT assets across an enterprise, performs compliance auditing, enforces approved configurations, and integrates seamlessly with entire service and application life-cycle management processes. It also identifies dependencies across all assets, issues, and tasks and offers an intuitive visual impact analysis of any changes to an infrastructure. Aldon. 510-285-8503. aldon.com.

Systems Management

ArcSight Adds "Forensics on the Fly" to Logger Product

ArcSight's SIEM Platform is an integrated set of products for collecting, analyzing, and managing enterprise event information. These products can be purchased and deployed separately or together, depending on organization size and needs. They include software and appliances for event collection, log management, event management, compliance automation, identity monitoring, and the newly added "forensics on the fly" offered in the ArcSight Logger component of the SIEM Platform suite. ArcSight Logger lets users drill down from alerts and reports directly to the source events behind each alert and report, in effect performing forensics on the fly, without the need to run new reports to understand why an alert occurred. ArcSight. 888-415-2778. arcsight.com.

Backup and Recovery

UCG Enhances Backup Offering for i

United Computer Group offers VAULT400 Agent 6.0 for i. VAULT400 backs up business-critical data on the IBM i for immediate online recovery by taking a point-in-time backup during each scheduled session. If a restore is needed, VAULT400 can provide the data from any specific backup. The upgrade provides performance, security, ease of use, and integration improvements. Also, new support for AES-256 encryption ensures that customers have access to the latest encryption algorithms. United Computer Group. 440-717-7655. ucgrp.com.

Database

Xlinesoft Offers Beta Versions of Database Solutions

Xlinesoft presents downloadable beta versions of ASPRunnerPro 6.0 and PHPRunner 5.0, solutions that build web applications for IBM i databases. New features in the final build include DIV-based templates, a data access layer generator, charts, merged templates, master-detail improvements, multiple primary foreign keys to link tables, details records on the list page, inline preview of details records, multilanguage tables/fields labels, and a lookup wizard with a built-in search. The company also releases the Enterprise edition of ASPRunnerPro/PHPRunner, which includes all standard edition features plus an online report/chart builder that integrates into generated applications, supports all security modes, and uses the same color scheme. Existing customers can upgrade to the Enterprise edition by paying the difference between the Enterprise and standard versions. Xlinesoft. 888-290-6617. Xlinesoft.com.

Backup and Recovery

AmeriVault Launches DR Service for Power Servers

AmeriVault announces the availability of a hardware-free, hosted disaster recovery service for Power systems that provides remote access to a virtualized recovery environment following a disaster. Though a similar solution has been available since 2007, the newly added i support now yields Virtual Disaster Recovery service for iSeries servers, or RestartIT-VDR iSeries, which offers an off-site failover site so administrators and end users can remotely access AmeriVault's managed, virtualized iSeries recovery environment while the primary site and systems are rebuilt. AmeriVault. 800-774-0235. amerivault.com.

Database

Applied Logic Offers Enhanced Database Tool

Applied Logic Corporation, the developer of System i Programmer Productivity software, releases Version 16 of its File Edit Utility (FEU) database tool. New features include the ability to convert spool files to XML, merge source physical files, find fields that match specified criteria, copy a physical file and unpack fields, print reports directly to PDF, find data minimums and maximums, and find data averages and statistics. The enhanced tool also offers cumulative product PTFs and updates, a new printed and electronic user manual, and V6R1 and i 6.1 compatibility. FEU Version 16 is available as a free download at alcsoftware.com/feu. Upgrades are available for existing users of FEU and for users of other i database tools. Applied Logic Corporation. 800-588-8695. alcsoftware.com.

Systems Management

AdventureTech Releases Suite of Business Applications

AdventureTech debuts iJungle Suite, a bundle made up of existing products iSafari and iConga. New features include CRM, A/R, A/P, H/R, forms management/overlay, document storage, FTP, check handling, email integration, business intelligence, receive-and-reply-to system messages, BRMS tape monitoring, subsystem monitoring, maintenance logging/messaging, and web-based client enhancements/requests and bug notification. The applications let IBM i users leverage existing applications while enhancing their enterprise information capabilities. AdventureTech's full-service consulting offers RPG/Cobol, .NET, and other application development technologies. AdventureTech. 888-373-8718. atgi.org.

Document Management

ACOM Toolkit Lets SAP Shops Bypass iDocs

ACOM Solutions introduces an SAP-specific implementation toolkit for its EZConnect EDI-XML data translation and connectivity solution. EZConnect is a Windows-based data translation and management solution that supports direct application integration with one or multiple databases and integration of flat files and XML interfaces to applications. The new toolkit provides preconfigured XML document maps for SAP trading-partner documents, including purchase orders and invoices. Also, the new toolkit lets companies create additional trading-partner documents in a GUI. ACOM Solutions. 800-699-5758. acom.com.