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Adabas Transaction Manager 8.2.2 is now available in release status: General Availability (GA). This release is now available on z/OS, z/VSE and BS2000 platforms. Beside corrections some new features have been introduced making the usage of the product easier.

Highlights of Adabas Transaction Manager V8.2.2

• The Adabas System Coordinator is now required for the Transaction Manager to improve the “newcopy” functionality as well as the fail-over behavior in multi systems
• All recovery information is stored in a single container managed by the System Coordinator
• Show transactions that blocking the termination of the Transaction Manager
• Save Transaction Manager client, database and service messages in a file in Adabas
• Stop inactive Adabas sessions
• Support of Adabas 8.2 features e.g. shared lock
• Configuration objects can be exported as XML structures
• New memory management reduces the amount of memory used
• Protection of administration tasks of Adabas SAF Security, Adabas Fastpath, Adabas Transaction Manager and Adabas Vista. This service is available through the System Coordinator
• Unified tracing is now possible via the System Coordinator
• The usage of the online services has been enhanced
• Support for Natural zIIP
   

General Release Date:

March 30, 2012

Prerequisites:

Adabas MF v8.1 or above

Availability for:

Adabas MF

Supported Platforms:

z/OS , z/VSE and BS2000

Next Release:

Release Date TBD

Resources

Product documentation

For more information, please contact Wolfgang Weiss

Adabas SAF Security 8.2.2 is now available in release status: General Availability (GA). This release is now available on z/OS platforms. Beside corrections some new features have been introduced making the usage of the product easier.

Highlights of Adabas SAF Security V8.2.2

• Variable configuration module name
  Now you can choose a module name different to the default name SAFCFG for a specific database.
• Send message not only to the console but also to a file in Adabas
• Protection of administration tasks of Adabas SAF Security, Adabas Fastpath, Adabas Transaction Manager and Adabas Vista. This service is available through the System Coordinator
• Make use of the System Coordinator configuration file
• Unified tracing is now possible via the System Coordinator
• The fix display has been enhanced by a short description
• The Adabas 8.2.2 SVC removes the necessity to re-link and re-install the Adabas SVC when installing Adabas SAF Security

General Release Date:

March 30, 2012

Prerequisites:

Adabas MF v8.1 or above

Availability for:

Adabas MF or Adabas on z/OS

Supported Platforms:

Adabas on z/OS

Next Release:

Release Date TBD

Resources

Product documentation

For more information, please contact Wolfgang Weiss

Adabas Fastpath 8.2.2 is now available in release status: General Availability (GA). This release is now available on z/OS, z/VSE and BS2000 platforms. Beside corrections some new features have been introduced making the usage of the product easier.

Highlights of Adabas Fastpath 8.2.2

• Support of data spaces for the Fastpath buffer. This eliminates the need for ECSA storage as required by IBM
• Save end-of-job statistics in the configuration file for later use
• Direct access using Read and Histogram allow now value ranges
• Save Fastpath client, database and Buffer Manager messages in a file in Adabas
• Display all Fastpath activities for all jobs in a system
• New memory management reduces the amount of memory used
• Configuration objects can be exported as XML structures
• Protection of administration tasks of Adabas SAF Security, Adabas Fastpath, Adabas Transaction Manager and Adabas Vista. This service is available through the System Coordinator
• Unified tracing is now possible via the System Coordinator
• The usage of the online services has been enhanced
• Support for Natural zIIP
• Support for Optimize for Infrastructure
   

General Release Date:

March 30, 2012

Prerequisites:

Adabas MF v8.1 or above

Availability for:

Adabas MF

Supported Platforms: 

z/OS, z/VSE and BS2000

Next Release:

Release Date TBD

Resources

Product documentation

For more information, please contact Wolfgang Weiss

Adabas Vista 8.2.2 is now available in release status: General Availability (GA). This release is now available on z/OS, z/VSE and BS2000 platforms. Beside corrections some new features have been introduced making the usage of the product easier.

Highlights of Adabas Vista V8.2.2

• Extreme file support allows partitions with 4-byte ISNs
• Save Transaction Manager client, database and daemon component messages in a file in Adabas
• New memory management reduces the amount of memory used
• Protection of administration tasks of Adabas SAF Security, Adabas Fastpath, Adabas Transaction Manager and Adabas Vista. This service is available through the System Coordinator
• Test partition settings
• Configuration objects can be exported as XML structures
• Unified tracing is now possible via the System Coordinator.
• Support of Adabas 8.2 features e.g. shared lock
• Support for Optimize for Infrastructure
• Support for Natural zIIP

General Release Date:

March 30, 2012

Prerequisites:

Adabas MF v8.1 or above

Availability for:

Adabas MF

Supported Platforms:

z/OS , z/VSE and BS2000

Next Release:

Release Date TBD

Resources

Product documentation

For more information, please contact Wolfgang Weiss

The first issue of TECHniques for 2012 themed Are you cloud ready? is now available here. 

View previous TECHniques issues

In his article Have you thought about B2B Modernization , Navdeep Sidhu discusses when it becomes extremely important to consider B2B modernization as you modernize the rest of your legacy IT applications based on COBOL, Natural, etc.

View previous TECHniques issues

Enter your Brainstorm credentials once… never enter them again!

Single Sign-on to Brainstorm is now live on Empower.  Register for and access Brainstorm -- the place to go to share great ideas for improving our products – directly from Empower.  

Follow these two steps to register for and configure access to Brainstorm. Once completed, go to the Feature Requests in Brainstorm page to access Brainstorm moving forward.  Brainstorm will open automatically in a new window.  Brainstorm content will also be included in your global search results. 
 

Check out the latest issue of TECHniques themed COMMUNITY-DRIVEN:  Discover, Share, and Collaborate

Articles include:

• The new Software AG TECHcommunity
• NaturalONE and our Mainframe World
• B2B Modernization
• Enterprise Architecture – Transform your Application Portfolio
• And more...

Let us know what you think
 

We are pleased to announce the new Software AG TECHcommunity!

• Now members can discover new ideas and assets about ALL major Software AG products in ONE place.
• Through your personalized My TECHcommunity page, you can stay up-to-date on the latest product information without having to join or visit each product community site.
• With new interactive features, you can share your insights and collaborate with colleagues you have personally selected to be part of your professional network.
• Keep track of the wall posts, wiki articles, and comments from community members that are part of your network. Ask questions, chat, and build professional beneficiary relationships to help you achieve your goals.

Jump right in & visit http://communities.softwareag.com today!
 

Please click here to view the new Adabas roadmap.
 

• Data Center Management Workshop
• Database Administration Workshop
• Natural Workshop

This acquisition allows Software AG to provide innovative cloud solutions and dramatically increase the performance and scalability of its Business Process Excellence platform.

Read more at softwareag.com

For registered Community members ONLY:

Get a great education on what’s new with Adabas v8.2 at the upcoming Adabas Webinar. Becky Albin, Chief IT Architect, will cover the practical uses of significant new features of Adabas v8.2 that enhance performance and simplify maintenance, and the best practices in preparing your system to use them. Bruce Beaman will also provide an overview of what’s coming in future releases of Adabas and its’ family of products.

Recorded version of the webinar is available here - to view it, just login into the Community, no registration for the webinar is required!

Date: April 21st,  Thursday
Time: 11:00 am ET / 17:00 CET

The latest edition of TECHniques themed Process-Driven IT Modernization - In Line with Business Strategy is now available here.

For registered Community members ONLY:

Join Forrester analyst, Phil Murphy, and Guido Falkenberg from Software AG to discover the keys to a successful IT modernization strategy. Learn why organizations around the world are leveraging a new process-driven approach to identify, prioritize and implement strategic roadmaps for IT modernization.

In this webcast, you’ll discover:

• The critical reasons every organization must consider IT modernization now
• How to identify the strategic business processes that create your key value streams
• Why a process-driven approach to continuous adaptability is smart business
   

Recorded version of the webinar is available here - to view it, just login into the Community, no registration for the webinar is required! 

Get a great education on what’s new with Adabas v8.2 at the upcoming Adabas Webinar. Becky Albin, Chief IT Architect, will cover the practical uses of significant new features of Adabas v8.2 that enhance performance and simplify maintenance, and the best practices in preparing your system to use them. Bruce Beaman will also provide an overview of what’s coming in future releases of Adabas and its’ family of products.

Date: April 21st,  Thursday
Time: 11:00 am ET / 17:00 CET

Register here

Announcing Software AG’s vision for cloud computing. We extend the traditional benefits of cloud computing with extreme collaboration to get more people from more places participating in making your company a more effective enterprise.
 

Read more

Learn how to increase the business value of your IT architecture using a business process driven approach with these webinars with Forrester Research and Software AG.

A New Roadmap for Modernization: The Process-Driven Mandate for Achieving Business Excellence

Date: March 29, 2011
Time: 11:00 am

Featured Speakers:
Phil Murphy, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research
Guido Falkenberg, VP Enterprise Transaction Systems, Software AG
 

 Register here

Best Practices for Driving Greater Business Value with SOA

Date: March 24, 2011
Time: 11:00 am ET/17:00 CET

Featured Speakers:
Randy Heffner, VP and Principal Analyst, Forrester Research
Manmohan Gupta Director, SOA Solutions Marketing, Software AG
 

Register here

Adopting a Process-Driven Approach to Master Data Management

Date: March 30, 2011
Time: 11:00 am ET/17:00 CET

Featured Speakers:
Rob Karel, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research
Jignesh Shah, VP, SOA Product Management and Marketing, Software AG
 

Register here

Learn why organizations around the world rely on Adabas and Natural as part of their enterprise IT strategy to deliver business flexibility, operational efficiency and keep their business on the fast track to the future.

You’ll learn how Software AG’s continuing investments in Adabas and Natural are helping organizations like yours keep pace with the constant evolution and increasing complexities found in today’s IT environments:

Modern User Interfaces
How can Natural help my organization enable Web 2.0 interfaces?

Application And Information Architecture
How do Adabas and Natural fit into changing IT strategies to work with today’s solutions such as BI, SOA and Cloud computing?

IT Infrastructure
How can Adabas and Natural help my organization manage operating costs?

On The Path To Business Process Excellence
How can Adabas and Natural help my organization move forward with our business process optimization initiatives?

Download the brochure here
 

Software AG is ranked # 7 in Bloomberg Businessweek's Hot Tech 50 and beats companies such as Oracle, Accenture, Tata Consultancy Services, Informatica, Wirpo and more.

The companies were weighted on several scores including sales growth, return on invested capital, and the change in number of employees.
 

Two new wiki articles are now available:

• Adabas priority and Command Selection
• WORK Dataset. Sizing, Performance, Issues
   

Check all the Adabas Articles available here

Updated Adabas roadmap is available here

The Winter 2010 issue of TECHniques themed
Get fit for 2011 - Take a Fresh Look at Options is available here.

Our vision for the years ahead, highlighting recent innovations such as NaturalONE, and Optimize for Infrastructure. Download here

In this webinar, Noel Yuhanna, Principal Analyst from Forrester Research, Inc., and Bruce Beaman will explore the trends, business cases and best practices. Topics to be covered include:
 

• Top drivers and trends around Data Management
• Impact of data growth in enterprises
• Legacy application modernization
• Data Archiving and use cases
• Build vs. buy for data archiving solutions
• Best practices and recommendations
• Customer success stories
• ROI calculation
   

Recorded version: available here

Date: October 21, 2010
Time: 11:00 AM EDT

If you have an article in mind for this well-known customer newsletter, we would love to hear about it. Whether it's a fully completed article or just a few paragraphs at this stage, we can help you complete this and have your own story in the next TECHniques, published later this year. You will receive full author's credits and your article will be seen by thousands of TECHniques readers.

Just email: technologycommunity@softwareag.com and we will tell you more!

Can you believe that some of you have been running Adabas and Natural for more than thirty years now? Aren’t you tired of hearing the “experts” claim that the Mainframe and your applications are obsolete? They’ve been singing that tune for the past 30 years. So go ahead and feel a little smug, your mission critical applications are still running the business. Have no fear, because Adabas and Natural will be with you for the next 30 years and beyond.

Topics covered in the webinar include:

• Advanced Rich User Interfaces (RIA)
• Application Integration with SOA and BPM
• Data Integration and Data Sharing
• Application Lifecycle Management

Software AG Vice President Enterprise Transaction Systems Guido Falkenberg discusses ongoing product innovations for Software AG’s flagship products in this informative and detailed webinar.

To view this special webinar, just login into the Community and click here. No registration for the webinar is required!

The Autumn 2010 issue of TECHniques dedicated to leveraging your existing investments is available here.

In the current tough economic climate, you sometimes hear people say how it’s important to make the most of what you have. It’s smart advice that TECHniques follows with this edition, which is focused around how you can leverage your existing IT investments, whether this is enhancing their potential, extending their accessibility or integrating these with other technologies.
 

We've seen the Software AG Communities increase in size and participation levels over the past few years. However, we are sure there is much we can do to still enhance the Communities you participate in, and now's your chance to have your say! Our Communities Member Survey gives you the opportunity to tell us what you think, suggest ways we can improve the web sites and discussion forums, and make your voice heard.

The survey is active until October 8, 2010. It consists of 19 questions and should only take 5-10 minutes of your time.

Just click here and let us know your thoughts!

For registered Community members ONLY:

Reduce Data Management Costs with Data Archiving for Adabas
Learn how Data Archiving for Adabas can benefit your organization. Bruce Beaman will present the business case for data archiving and Eric Wood will demonstrate how the technology behind the product.
View webcast

Take an in-depth technical tour of the new Data Archiving for Adabas product with Becky Albin:
View demo

Data Archiving for Adabas v1.1 is now available in release status: General Availability (GA).

Software AG developed Data Archiving for Adabas to help customers who are facing data storage problems brought on by the exponential growth in data and regulatory requirements to retain more data.  This feature-rich tool speeds up the performance of Adabas on any platform by removing infrequently used data from the production database and storing it into a long-term archive.  Data Archiving for Adabas provides automated archiving functions and robust tools for search, verification, extraction, restore & recovery so you will easily be able to meet current and emerging data retention requirements.

By archiving unneeded information, database performance can be improved by more than 30%.  By lightening the database load, customers can improve the response time of the application, backups and database reorganizations.  Thanks to this lightened load, customers can improve SLAs with shorter outage windows for database upgrades and recovery.  Customers will also pass the ever growing regulatory inspections from legal mandates such as HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, and Basel II by keeping data from multiple Adabas databases accessible longer by archiving and protecting that data in a single, separate data repository.

Data Archiving for Adabas v1.1 provides the following benefits:

• Archiving data positively affects OLTP application performance - The size of the database can affect the response time of applications, backups, restores and database reorganization
• Save money by deferring hardware purchases - Enterprises can defer new server and especially storage purchases by archiving data to a cheaper medium, which shrinks database size.
• Archiving can increase database availability - Archiving can also reduce the outage window for database restore/recovery situations, which can enhance SLAs.
• Meet regulatory requirements which require data to be kept accessible longer - Growing regulatory requirements, such as HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, and Basel II, are forcing enterprises to keep data longer, in some cases up to seven years. Archiving helps meet these requirements by keeping data protected in a separate data repository

Key Features Of Data Archiving For Adabas V1.1 

• Archives historical data to a set of intelligently managed, permanent files on Linux/UNIX/Windows or mainframe platforms - once data is moved safely to a permanent offline vault, it’s deleted from the source database
• Facilitates archiving of seldom-used data to an intermediate store, an Adabas database - allows application to still access data while keeping the primary production database as small as possible
• Stores business data and metadata - accounts for changes in the structure of business data by storing the changed file structure
• Provides built-in restart and recovery in case an archiving action is interrupted—no extensive procedure required
• Allows a two-step archiving approach by using a copy-only and delete-only function.
• Validates the vault to guarantee accessible data whenever needed, even after decades.
• Offers a powerful lightweight search capability for data archived in the vault. The result of a search can be recalled to an Adabas database for further processing with the appropriate tooling e.g. Natural or ODBC, JDBC based reporting tools, if using the Adabas SQL Gateway.
• Recall archived data from a vault for further analysis
• Discard data automatically at the end of its life cycle
• Co-operates with Adabas Vista by archiving from or recalling to an Adabas Vista partition, and redirect the application to such a partition using Adabas Vista’s file translation capability.
• Do everything from one sophisticated GUI interface: establish your environment; define actions; run actions automatically; search and recall data; and validate vault functions
   

Resources

• Corporate Product Website – http://www.softwareag.com/adabasarchiving

 For more information, please contact Technology Community

Click here to read the "Innovation" themed Spring/Summer 2010 newsletter. Articles include:

• What’s Next for Adabas and Natural?
• Celebrating 30 years of Natural programming language. Now more valuable than ever
• Upgrading to webMethods Version 8.0
• ARIS MashZone...probably the best mashup program in the world
• And much more ...

Software AG is pleased to announce the General Availability of a new release of EntireX Adapter for ESB (XAI):

• EntireX Adapter for ESB 8.0 (XAI 8.0)

This adapter is a component of the following products
 

• EntireX for ESB (EXXES)
• EntireX (EXX)
   

The EntireX Adapter for ESB enables flow services and BPM applications to interlink with Mainframe or Micro Focus COBOL applications via EntireX:

• On the Mainframe EntireX supports Natural, COBOL and PL/I running under Batch, CICS and IMS.
• Micro Focus COBOL is supported on Windows and UNIX operating systems.
• The integration is supported in both directions, so either side can initiate communication.

The highlights of this release are:
 

• Monitoring of the EntireX Adapter for ESB via adapter services
• Enhanced COBOL support for IMS Connect, like
  •  “OCCURS DEPENDING ON”,
  • REDEFINEs,
  • map-to-operation
• Handling of COBOL numeric data types (IDL types N & P) is now compatible with webMethods Mainframe (MIS)
• Dynamic change of connection for adapter services
• Conversational RPC support for RPC connections via EntireX Broker
• Direct RPC connections allow a simplified architecture for point-to-point scenarios

The Adapter is fully compatible with EntireX 8.1 as well as webMethods ESB versions 7.1 and 8.0.

This release incorporates feedback and fixes found in live customer implementations and has undergone full system testing by Software AG. Customers are encouraged to plan the adoption of this release as soon as possible in their maintenance cycle.

More details can be found on the EntireX Product Documentation site for these and other improvements. Please review the component Readme files, Release Notes and Installation description before installing or upgrading to this release.

The new release can now be downloaded from Empower / Software Download Center (SDC) via Software AG Installer. It can be found as part of the Integration Server (EntireX Adapter) and Software AG Designer >> EntireX Workbench (design-time).


Best regards,
On behalf of the EntireX team at Software AG
 

Click here to view the latest detailed plans and key dates.

Process Intelligence is the smartest way to improve your organization’s financial and operational performance. That’s because, with Process Intelligence, you can measure and optimize the processes that run your business daily.

So get smarter about it! Download a FREE copy of Process Intelligence for Dummies here

New Technology Communities Fact Sheet now available. Find out all the benefits here

For registered Community members ONLY:
 

Optimize for Infrastructure – Mainframe Edition is here! And, we want to show you what it's all about.Speed up reaction time to system problems and reduce outages by over 35% with real-time, continuous IT activity monitoring and analysis through Optimize.

webMethods Optimize for Infrastructure is an IT Activity Monitoring solution that provides real-time monitoring, alerting and analysis of your Software AG systems to identify potential IT issues before they become costly system outages.

Optimize offers total IT visibility from a single vantage point by monitoring all Software AG products, such as Adabas, Natural, EntireX and ApplinX, from a single web-based dashboard.

To view this special webinar, just login into the Community and click here. No registration for the webinar is required!

Software AG's Innovation World and IDS Scheer's ProcessWorld have merged into must-attend customer events for Business Process Excellence - ProcessWorld Berlin on June 8 and 9, and Washington DC on June 22-23!

Processes are everywhere in your organization—from how you manage mission-critical information and how you handle your supply chain to how you build new applications and more. ProcessWorld will address the pressing questions facing all of our customers—across all industries:

• How to operate smarter, better and faster
• How to deliver on your organization’s vision with tight budgets and lean staffing
• How to face business challenges through the optimal use of IT
   

JAM-PACKED AGENDA!
There will be 60 speakers and more than 25 customer success stories, as well as opportunities for knowledge transfer and exchanging ideas with project managers and consulting experts. View agenda.

LIVE DEMONSTRATIONS FROM PRODUCT EXPERTS!
Here is your chance to see new features live, demonstrated by the product experts themselves. Get deep insight into product strategy and roadmap.

IDS SCHEER CONSULTING LOUNGE!
Experience IDS SCHEER CONSULTING—meet up with colleagues, talk to industry experts, and benefit from subject-matter experts in all areas of consulting.

TRAINING DISCOUNTS!
Save 25% on product training with our most popular classes for ARIS and webMethods. View classes.

EVENING EVENT!
Enjoy fabulous food and wonderful entertainment while mixing and mingling with your peers from around the globe. View event information.

Find out more here. 

Coming next month! Book your place at the International User Group Conferences
21st June to 25th June 2010, Prague, Czech Republic

Dedicated days for Adabas, Natural and webMethods users, meet with your peers, and network during the day sessions and evening social events.

Find out more here
 

We’ve shifted product development into high gear and have three new products to show you. We maintain a high commitment to our legendary Adabas and Natural products and have put new products on the fast track.

Test Drive the Latest Adabas/Natural Technology.

• NaturalONE - With this all-in-one, eclipse-based application development environment, you can do it all – development, testing, versioning and management. Develop and deploy Web Services 30% faster while reducing application maintenance costs 50%. Zoom. Zoom.  Learn more.
   
• Optimize for Infrastructure – Gain real-time visibility into your Adabas and Natural environments. Accelerate "time to resolution" with faster troubleshooting and resolution. The customizable dashboard will steer you clear of hazards – all without annoying false alerts.  Learn more.
   
• Adabas Archiving – Add lightning speed to your response times by archiving seldom-used information. Breeze through the application, make updates, backups and database reorganizations faster. Better yet, archived information is still readily available for auditing purposes.  Learn more.
   

Find out more, check out the dates, and register at the special site

Check out the first issue of 2010, full of interesting articles for Software AG customers, including:

• The Casbega customer story
• Details of new training courses
• Global Consulting Services assistance with your webMethods upgrade
• Newly released NaturalONE
• Analyst insights
• An On-demand webinar explaining the ARIS/webMethods roadmap

Click here to read this newsletter.
 

Click here to see the latest Adabas product release information.

A German user group meeting will take place on April 29, 2010 in Offenbach.

Please contact: Gabriele.Mueller-Steinhagen@softwareag.com for more information.
 

Optimize for Infrastructure – Mainframe Edition is here! And, we want to show you what it's all about.Speed up reaction time to system problems and reduce outages by over 35% with real-time, continuous IT activity monitoring and analysis through Optimize.

webMethods Optimize for Infrastructure is an IT Activity Monitoring solution that provides real-time monitoring, alerting and analysis of your Software AG systems to identify potential IT issues before they become costly system outages.

Optimize offers total IT visibility from a single vantage point by monitoring all Software AG products, such as Adabas, Natural, EntireX and ApplinX, from a single web-based dashboard.

Date: February 2, 2010     Time: 11:00 AM EST (17:00 CET)

Note: Audience members may arrive 15 minutes in advance of this time.

Register for this TECHcast webinar here.

Check out the latest edition of our popular Communities newsletter, TECHniques.

Articles include:
 

• Experiences with Event Replicator for Adabas: Replicating Adabas on the Mainframe to Adabas on Windows
• Speeding Up Code Page and Unicode Support for Natural on Mainframes
• Listening to Customers - how you can provide feedback to Software AG
   

To read the Winter 2009/2010 edition, click here.

Now a single monitoring tool displays real-time activity across your Software AG product environments. Optimize for Infrastructure: Mainframe Edition is a browser-based performance monitor that works with Adabas, Natural, webMethods EntireX, webMethods ApplinX and other Software AG technology. 

Learn more by exploring the capabilities of Optimize for Infrastructure: Mainframe Edition.

Download the White paper on Optimize for Infrastructure; Mainframe Edition or the Product Guide.

Please click here to view these new Roadmap Schedules and more product information.

Predict, the active data dictionary serves as the central repository of information all people involved in developing, running and maintaining application software. Predict is used to describe and document applications and provide services for using this information when designing, implementing, operating and maintaining the application system. The information stored includes details about what data is stored and where, which application components work with which data, and who creates and maintains data stores and business logic.

In addition, Predict supports the design of file structures (including the relationships between files). Database files can be designed on a logical, database-independent level. Predict can then generate the physical database structures, such as relational schemata (e.g. for DB2) or Adabas File Definition Tables (FDT), as well as the Data Definition Modules (DDM) for Natural. Predict is available for all relevant operating and hardware platforms including mainframes, Unix, Linux, Windows and OpenVMS.

HIGHLIGHTS OF PREDICT V4.6.1:

• Support of Natural SQL Gateway
• Generation of definitions for Adabas SQL Gateway
• CentraSite supprt - Show usage of Natural objects in Web Services, that are registered in CentraSite
• Support of DB2 for z/OS Version 9
• Implementation of several change/enhancement requests
 

For more information, please contact Karlheinz.Kronauer@softwareag.com
 

Encryption for Net-Work protects business data in flight between applications and Adabas databases

Product Highlights:

- The new product Encryption for Net-Work v1.1 offers seamless integration of encryption of business data between the application and an Adabas database using Entire Net-Work as the basic transport mechanism.
- Application transparency makes it very easy to secure the data traffic between an application and the Adabas database.
- Select the encryption algorithm that fits best in an organization
- Protect the most critical environment in an IT landscape, Open Systems. Application using the internet or just public networks accessing databases need to have a secure network connection.
- Tool to generate a test certificate allows an immediate verification of the enhanced security.
- Cross platform protection of Entire Net-Work connections allow to establish a secure line to Adabas databases on Mainframe and Open Systems.

Availability:

The new product Encryption for Net-Work is available immediately, with pricing available from an authorized Software AG sales representative. Additional information on Encryption for Entire Net-Work can be found at: http://documentation.softwareag.com/adabas/ and at: http://www.softwareag.com/corporate/products/adabas/security/default.asp

In the coming months, Software AG will release a new encryption product for Adabas called Encryption for Entire Net-Work. We are looking for current Entire Net-Work customers who would be willing to test the new encryption software and provide us with their feedback.
 

Encryption for Entire Net-Work protects data in motion between applications running on Open Systems platforms and Adabas on Mainframe or on Open Systems. Encryption for Entire Net-Work requires a running Entire Net-Work connection, using the latest releases for the appropriate platforms. On the mainframe the Entire Net-Work TCP/IP options needs to be available too. Entire Net-Work needs to be installed at both the application and the database side of the communication.
 

If you are interested in testing the new Software AG Encryption product please contact Bruce Beaman, Director of Adabas and Natural Product Marketing; bruce.beaman@softwareag.com

The requirements for the beta test are as follows:

1) Must be an active maintenance WCP or WCL customer
2) Must sign a non-disclosure agreement with Software AG
3) Platform availability: z/OS, Windows, Sun
4) Pre-requisite software versions:
a. WCP 6.2.1 (Mainframe)
b. WCP 7.3.3 (Open Systems)
c. WCL 1.3.1 (Open Systems)

We are in deep mourning for our colleague Helmut Bauer who passed away on February 11 2009.

His efforts are the base for the success we have with the Developer Communities, CentraSite Community and discussion forums. Most of the features and services we are taking advantage of today were initiated by Helmut. Until his last days at Software AG Helmut did the utmost to support us with all his expertise. He leaves a big hole and we miss him as skilled colleague, as well as a great person. Because of that and of the fact that his footprint is on most of the things we are doing, we dedicate our work to him.

We will always remember him.
Angelika Siffring
Desislava Petrova
Gerd Schneider
Justin Vaughan-Brown
Robert Diawara
Stephen Wild
 

J.A. Majors Company builds custom retail Web sites for its customers to sell entertainment products, such as books and movies. These custom sites must make buying products easy, and the sites must be reliable – open for business 24/7. Majors wants to build these Web sites faster to increase revenue opportunities.
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At Dawn Wing, a fast-growing South African courier and logistics company, every parcel must move like clockwork. As it expands globally, Dawn Wing wants to track and trace packages in real-time and assure deliveries are made right the first time. These capabilities will enable Dawn Wing to streamline operations, grow with confidence and assure its clients have peace of mind.
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Read interviews and articles around the topic of Skills, and download our new technical white paper: Making the Transition to SOA-based Application Development.
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Organizations need to plan ahead to deal with the triple-threat to IT that will inevitably result from Baby Boomer retirements: loss of “legacy” programming skills, loss of mission-critical experience and loss of organizational domain knowledge. In this newsletter, you'll read about strategies and tips for skills development from Software AG experts and customers.
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Real-time data replication improves decision-making and reduces costs for Belgian Railways.
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Want to Develop New Natural Services 90% Faster? Learn how Natural Business Services can help you work more efficiently, quickly and easily provide enterprise-scale services for a Java, .NET or an SOA environment, and easily generate Web services for existing Natural applications.
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In this newsletter you'll find a variety of articles that will help you better understand and address this issue of skills. You'll learn from other customers' experiences, find out what educational programs are available, how to benefit from social networking and mentoring, and first and foremost how Software AG technology can help you address the skills issue.

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The articles in this edition of TECHniques on how to leverage and extend your applications, platforms and skills will give you a taste of what to expect at Innovation World, November 3-5 in Miami, Florida.
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SOA and composite applications: is it just another technology fad or the next wave in application development? Watch this TECHcast to hear why Brian Johnson believes IT should embrace SOA and its principles and why you, as a Natural application developer, are the best suited within your organization to build out and work productively in a service-oriented architecture.

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