IBM Releases Free Version of Rational EGL Tool

IBM has released its new Rational EGL Community Edition tool. The tool provides a no-cost, entry-level development tool for learning Enterprise Generation Language (EGL) and building feature-rich Web 2.0 applications. EGL Rich UI, an extension of EGL, enables developers to deliver rich Web 2.0 style solutions without needing for them to learn or program the intricacies of Ajax, JavaScript, REST, HTML, or XML. Based on a subset of the capabilities of IBM Rational Business Developer 7.5.1, IBM Rational EGL Community Edition 1.0 includes all the capabilities needed to build a complete solution: Eclipse-based development environment; editor for visually constructing Rich UI applications, including a palette that contains available widgets, an outline view that shows the hierarchy of widgets, and a properties view to enable quick editing of widget settings; rich out-of-the-box widget library, including subset of Dojo Dijit and DojoX widgets; REST and SOAP web service support; support for backward/forward and history within rich UI application; and publish/subscribe mechanism that enables simplified messaging between UI components.
U.S. Announcement: 209-266

IBM Modifies Power 570 Trade-in Program

Effective August 11, the IBM Power 570 server trade-in program has been modified. The trade-in credits for all non-IBM replaced machines have been increased. All other terms and conditions remain unchanged. This announcement supersedes Announcement Letter 309-521, dated March 3.
U.S. Announcement: 309-558

IBM Modifies Power 595 Trade-in Program

Effective August 11, the IBM Power 595 trade-in program has been modified. Trade-in credits for all non-IBM replaced machines have been increased, maximum trade-in credits for the Replacement Machines have been reduced, and trade-in credit for the IBM Replaced Machine p5 595 64-way has been reduced. All other terms and conditions remain unchanged. This announcement supersedes Announcement Letter 309-520, dated March 3.
U.S. Announcement: 309-559

SAS RAID Adapter Feature Conversions Available for Power Systems

Feature conversions are available between the feature 5908 PCI-X DDR 1.5GB Cache SAS RAID Adapter (BSC) and the feature 5904 PCI-X DDR 1.5GB Cache SAS RAID Adapter on the IBM Power 520 Express (8203-E4A), Power 550 Express (8204-E8A), Power 570 (9117-MMA), and Power 595 (9119-FHA) servers. Feature numbers 5904 and 5908 represent the same physical cards, but different feature numbers are used to indicate if a blind swap cassette is used and its type. Feature 5904 indicates no blind swap cassette and is used in CEC enclosures such as a Power 550 CEC.
U.S. Announcement: 109-558

IBM Offers Savings on Lotus Software

IBM announces two new pricing and financing offers. Eligible customers purchasing new licenses of selected Lotus or WebSphere Portal offerings may choose to buy an additional two years of Software Subscription and Support, entitling them to a 15 percent discount off the software license price and the price of Software Subscription and Support for each of the three years. To take advantage of this offer, the total purchase price of the discounted software license plus the three years of Software Subscription and Support must be financed by eligible customers through IBM Global Financing.
target="_blank">U.S. Announcement: 209-327

Security Guidebook Focuses on IBM i 6.1

A recent Redbook, Security Guide for IBM i V6.1, guides you through the broad range of native security features that are available within IBM i 6.1. This book is intended for security auditors and consultants, IBM System Specialists, Business Partners, and clients to help answer first-level questions concerning the security features that are available. The focus is the integration of IBM 6.1 enhancements into the range of security facilities available within IBM i up through version release level 6.1. IBM i 6.1 security enhancements include extended IBM i password rules and closer affinity between normal user IBM i operating system user profiles and IBM service tools user profiles; encrypted disk data within a user Auxiliary Storage Pool (ASP); tape data save and restore encryption under control of the Backup Recovery and Media Services for i5/OS (BRMS) product, 5761-BR1; and networking security enhancements including additional control of Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption rules and greatly expanded IP intrusion detection protection and actions.
SG24-7680-00

Document Covers IBM Power System 550

A recent Redpaper, "IBM Power 550 Technical Overview," covers the Power System 550 server. The goal of this paper is to introduce the Power 550 and its major hardware offerings, including: the POWER6 processor available at frequencies of 3.5GHz, 4.2GHz, and 5.0GHz; the specialized POWER6 DDR2 memory that provides greater bandwidth, capacity, and reliability; the 1GB or 10GB Integrated Virtual Ethernet adapter that brings native hardware virtualization to this server; EnergyScale technology that provides features such as power trending, power-saving, capping of power, and thermal measurement; PowerVM Live Partition Mobility; and mainframe continuous availability brought to the UNIX environment.
REDP-4404-00