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Insider Threat: Former Contractor Charged with Cyber Crime

A former contractor working for Eaton Corporation, an American multinational power management company which provides solutions to manage electrical, hydraulic and mechanical power efficiently, safely and sustainably, has been charged by the FBI in Ohio with transmitting and attempting to transmit computer codes, programs or commands, intending to cause damage to a protected computer. Arturas […]

IBMi Modernisation and Security Seminar Agendas

Details of the programme for the two IBM i seminars taking place at Avnet’s new offices in Bracknell have been released. On Tuesday 25 November 2014, the focus on is on IBM i modernisation, development and mobilisation (in association with BCD Software and Quadrant Software – now Fresche Solutions), with the focus switching to IBM […]

Agenda: IBMi development, modernisation and mobilisation seminar

There is a little over a week before the IBM i development, modernisation and mobilisation seminar takes place in association with BCD Software and Quadrant Software, now Fresche Solutions, at Avnet’s new offices in Bracknell. The agenda for the event on Tuesday 25 November has been finalised and features a mixture of presentations and hands-on […]

New features in Presto 5.7: Change Management, RPG Open Access and more

BCD Software (now Fresche Solutions) has released its latest version of the 5250 green screen to modern web-based GUI tool, Presto. Presto 5.7 change management now supports users wanting to export and import SQL queries and macros. If developers modernise their IBM green screens with RPG Open Access (OA), custom pages now support filed placeholders […]

Automatically Distribute IBM i Spool Files: New Release of Catapult

If you are looking to automatically distribute IBM i spool files and PC reports reliably in multiple formats (including PDF and HTML), then Catapult is the tool for you. BCD Software, now Fresche Solutions, has released Catapult 7.10.0, which features a further improvement to how the Poller and Exodus51 subsystem work together. This enables you […]

Building mobile IBMi applications just got easier with Zend

Zend has announced a raft of new features and capabilities last week at the ZendCon conference for developing mobile applications with PHP, including updates for IBM i developers. Zend Studio 12 now includes support for three open source frameworks for building mobile and web applications: Apache Cordova, Ionic, AngularJS and a fully working and customisable […]

IBM i Application Modernisation: Where Should you Start?

On Tuesday 18 November, Tim Rowe IBM’s Architect of Application Development for IBM i and Marcel Sarrasin, Director of Marketing at BCD & Quadrant Software (now Fresche Solutions) will be hosting a webinar entitled IBM i application modernisation: where should you start? The one-hour webinar is being run through IBM Systems magazine. Rowe and Sarrasin […]

Why RESTful Web Services are the API you are Looking For

Your database is in demand. Everyone needs access – core applications, customer utilities, mobile apps, business-to-business interfaces, reporting/dashboard tools – but you need to lock it down. You can’t have any old waif or stray sticking their nose in and poking around. So you need an API, a standard interface to the outside world and […]

PHP Driving IBM i Modernisation Strategies

An online survey conducted by Zend of over 400 IBM i professionals has revealed that 70% are using PHP on the IBM i in their businesses, with 45% of those users having five or more PHP applications. The fact that the IBM i has become a much more open platform in the last couple of […]