Application Software

iEnterprises Presents Web Lead-Generation Tool

iEnterprises launches iLeads, an online lead-generation tool that helps companies with IBM Lotus Notes and Domino manage their website traffic. The solution enables companies to take advantage of enhanced search engine optimization (SEO) and high-impact workflow. iLeads automatically funnels and stores all leads generated through website registrations into a CRM. Managers can identify where leads originated through the registration page and notify appropriate sales representatives by geography, industry, or other criteria. Users can also trigger an e-mail response to a new website registration, track a marketing campaign, and link to external data sources. iEnterprises. 800-741-5597. ienterprises.com.

Security

Voltage Announces File Encryption Solution for Quickr

Voltage Security offers Voltage SecureFile for IBM Lotus Quickr, IBM's team collaboration software. SecureFile for IBM Lotus Quickr enables businesses, including those using a Domino server, to secure information workflows and meet compliance regulations. SecureFile encrypts files of any type based on preset policies for individuals or groups with no impact on end users. It protects files, regardless of location, as they are moved outside the Lotus Quickr environment. The solution integrates with Microsoft Office 2007 and collaboration group policies. Voltage Security. 650-543-1280. voltage.com.

Programmer Tools

Profound Logic Software Updates Webfacing Tool

Profound Logic updates Genie, an on-the-fly webfacing tool for System i apps, with version 3.0.0. Running on V5R2 or later, Genie is itself a browser-based tool that generates graphical versions of application screens from RPG-, CL-, Cobol-, and i5/OS-based programs. New in Genie 3.0, a visual designer runs directly in the browser without requiring developers to install any PC-based tools. Users can change screen properties, including any HTML, CSS, and Web 2.0 attributes. The new version also includes on-screen help, new templates and skins, support for custom workstation IDs, and improved scripting capabilities. Profound Logic. 877-224-7768. profoundlogic.com.

Application Software

Stylus Studio Simplifies XML Data Integration

Stylus Studio delivers Stylus Studio 2008 XML Enterprise Suite, an upgrade of the company's XML integrated development environment (IDE). The suite consists of XML tools, as well as Java and .NET components for deploying data integration applications. The update includes new XML productivity tools that simplify and automate common programming tasks. A web services description language editor enables users to visually design a web service interface using drag-and-drop functionality. The solution also supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Informix databases, as well as HTML-to-XML conversion and Microsoft .NET code generation. Stylus Studio. 781-280-4488. stylusstudio.com.

Programmer Tools

INFINITE Updates Rehosting Suite

INFINITE Software Corporation upgrades its Infinite iSeries product with version 5.0. Infinite iSeries helps developers migrate System i applications to Linux, Unix, and Windows environments without redevelopment. The rehosting suite includes compilers, utilities, and a deployment environment, enabling users to migrate RPG and Cobol applications at the source-code level and recompile them into native executables. Users can also customize screen design and integrate legacy applications. Version 5.0 expands support for SOA and increases the solution's integration capabilities. Users can deploy the upgrade using either .NET or Java. INFINITE Software. 949-498-9300. infinitewebsuite.com.

Backup and Recovery

FalconStor Delivers New Version of VTL

FalconStor Software releases the next generation of FalconStor Virtual Tape Library (VTL), an open, scalable solution that offers integration with third-party backup software, disk arrays, physical tape libraries, and media management capabilities. Enterprise Edition is integrated with FalconStor's clustered de-duplication technology, Single Instance Repository, and offers scalable performance and storage. Users can implement the solution as a Linux or Solaris appliance or as a virtual appliance under VMware. The solution also enables companies to optimize disk storage usage and track system utilization and the status of scheduled activities. FalconStor Software. 866-669-3252. falconstor.com.

Services

SunGard Expands Managed Services with Restoration Option

SunGard Availability Services presents Restoration Services for Managed IT Services, an offering in which SunGard works with System i and other customers to put a plan and resources in place to restore production services during an emergency. Part of the service includes outlining technical dependencies, functional responsibilities, and processes that users can follow during a test or live restoration event. In addition, the offering provides customers with access to secondary equipment at an alternate SunGard facility, set hours for testing the plan, and support to restore systems and applications based on customer requirements. SunGard Availability Services. 800-825-2518. sungard.com.

Systems Managment

Help/Systems Updates Disk-Management Tool

Help/Systems improves job monitoring in its System i disk-management tool with the release of Robot/SPACE 3.0. Robot/SPACE notifies users of potential trouble and provides tools for finding disk storage problems. Version 3.0 offers expanded job monitoring of QTEMP libraries and spooled files for active jobs on a system. The solution also notifies managers of threshold exceptions and alerts them to critical events. The update adds role-based security to authorize user access to specific product functions or data. Also, administrators can define and assign security roles to specific users. Help/Systems. 952-933-0609. helpsystems.com.

Backup and Recovery

Bug Busters Upgrades High Availability Product

Bug Busters Software Engineering releases RSF-HA 8.2. RSF-HA is the high availability version of Bug Busters' flagship RSF product, which enables users to transmit objects and spooled files between System i systems via a drag-and-drop graphical interface. Now, users can switch roles between production and backup and take advantage of full journaling and byte-level replication support for the IFS. Users can replicate an entire library or any subset of the library's objects. Administrators get a bird's-eye view of the replication process, and the solution processes database record changes by unique key. This version also supports two-way mirroring. Bug Busters Software Engineering. 206-633-1187. bugbusters.net.

Systems Managment

CCSS Adds Purge, Data Reorg Features to Monitoring Solution

CCSS delivers QSystem Monitor V12, a performance-monitoring and reporting solution for the System i. The update adds a Purge-Whilst-Active (PwA) capability, a Reorganize Selected Files (RSF) feature, and a Disk Usage Inquiry (DUI) option to the solution. The new PwA feature enables users to perform data purges without exiting the product. With the new RSF feature, the solution will reorganize files with more than a certain number of deleted records and will skip any members that cannot be allocated exclusively. The new DUI capacity enables managers to reorganize files that have the largest number or percentage of deleted records. CCSS. 919-256-8260. ccssltd.com.

Application Software

TDCI Presents System i Adapter for Product Configuration

TDCI announces the BuyDesign iSeries Adapter, along with BuyDesign 5.2. Built on an SOA framework, the System i adapter combines a System i module and Windows-based web services to enable users to incorporate the BuyDesign product configurator into functions of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems or software applications running on the System i.

BuyDesign provides modular components for guided product selection and configuration, product visualization, quoting and ordering, drawing generation, and status inquiry. It also includes applications for front-end specification capture from design products such as AutoCAD.

At the conclusion of a configuration session, the solution delivers all configuration outputs directly to DB2. Users can take advantage of graphical configuration and reconfiguration, two- and three-dimensional product visualization, and the generation of routings, drawings, and other manufacturing information.

In addition to the adapter, BuyDesign 5.2 includes new dynamic fields within configuration rules that enable loops for multiple similar components in a configuration. Also, the update expands support for manufacturing data generation. TDCI. 614-781-2325. tdci.com.

Services

Echoworx Announces Secure Data Center

Echoworx Corporation makes available the Echoworx Secure Data Center in the United States for users of its System i-compatible Echoworx PKI-based encryption platform. The Echoworx Secure Data Center offers 99.999 percent service availability, is SAS 70 certified, and follows practices based on industry standards, including ISO 17799. With the new data center, Echoworx partners and customers can now deploy and manage publicly trusted e-mail and data protection services for their subscribers. Echoworx Corporation. 770-578-6540. echoworx.com.

Database

Centerfield Improves DB2 Optimization Tool

Centerfield Technology distributes HomeRun 6.1, the latest version of its autonomic software application designed to optimize DB2 for i5/OS. The new version improves prioritization of index recommendations and users' ability to pinpoint jobs for data collection. Centerfield also provides services for DB2 Web Query for System i customers. In two four-hour segments of service, on-site Centerfield representatives will identify and install required software, certify the installation, and recommend fix packs. Centerfield Technology. 888-387-8119. centerfieldtechnology.com.

Database

Touchtone Updates DB2 Analysis Tool

Touchtone Corporation releases QuestView 9.0. QuestView is a database and program-generation tool for the System i that works on physical and logical files to enable inquiry, maintenance, debugging, and analysis of a DB2 database. QuestView is also a program-generation tool.

QuestView offers single and multiple record viewing, search and replace, key field or RRN positioning, hex format manipulation, undelete, database relations matrix, J.D. Edwards Data Dictionary support, Unicode, date/time, and variable-length field handling. Touchtone Corporation. 714-755-2810. touchtone.com.

Document Management

Aura Offers Excel Tool for i5

Aura Equipments presents Launcher 400 Excel, an Excel tool for the System i. With Launcher 400 Excel, native System i programs populate Excel templates with formulas, graphs, pivot tables, and more. When new data is inserted, the final workbook is updated without user input. Conversely, System i native programs can read the contents of Excel spreadsheets, and users can move program variable values to and from Excel cells. Notably, it works without System i query tools or the copying/pasting of data. Also, users can pregenerate workbooks by scheduling batch jobs. The solution can collaborate with third-party applications and requires V3R2 or later. Aura Equipments (France). (33) 0169070145. easycom-aura.com.

Security

Innovatum Adds Biometric Signatures to DB2

Innovatum integrates Valid Secure System Authentication (VSSA) from ValidTech for strong user authentication into DataThread, Innovatum's data audit and workflow product for the System i. This new solution enables customers to implement strong, transaction-level user authentication into all of their System i applications. Customers can add VSSA two-factor user authentication to all of their applications via configuration menus, without additional programming. Innovatum. 877-277-3016. innovatum.com. ValidTech. 561-997-7171. validTech.com.

Security

BOSaNOVA Delivers SSL 5250 Emulation on Thin Clients

BOSaNOVA announces that PCI-compliant, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) 5250 is available on all BOSaNOVA thin clients, including the BOSaNOVA dumb terminal replacement (RBT-366). SSL uses a cryptographic system that employs two keys to encrypt data — a public key known to everyone and a private key known only to the recipient of the message. With the addition, managers can ensure that all 5250 traffic both to and from thin clients is encrypted. BOSaNOVA. 623-516-0029. bosanova.net.