IBM i 6.1 takes a great step forward to set new standards for efficient and resilient in business processing. See what these ISV say about the expanded capabilities of i 6.1.
ACOM Solutions, Inc.
"ACOM is excited about the release of IBM i 6.1, with its optimized Java support and performance improvements. Our native solutions have been tested with i 6.1 and we are pleased to announce that everything is working as designed. Our products remain ServerProven and the transition to i 6.1 for our customers should be an easy one."
— Angela Doolittle, Corporate Product Manager
ACOM Solutions, Inc.
Aldon
"Aldon is delighted to announce that it fully supports IBM's new operating system, the IBM i 6.1. This is arguably the most important release that the IBM midrange team has put into the field in over ten years, and the enhancements are significant. We are especially pleased to see the new security features which will continue to strengthen and support our Application Lifecycle Management tools for process-driven application change management and regulatory compliance. By ensuring our products are aligned with i 6.1, we're sending a clear message to the market that we remain committed to and invested in the System i space."
— Matt Scholl, COO and President
Aldon
Ayers Rock Software LLC
"If you've used good practices while deploying and maintaining your applications, the upgrade to IBM i 6.1 will be a snap. This release offers significant new features and you don't want to wait!"
— Reeve Fritchman, President
Ayers Rock Software LLC
Barsa Consulting Group, LLC
"IBM i 6.1 is the fourth incredibly stable release in a row from IBM. Customers should be happy with the function and security of this release. You should look forward to going to it."
— Al Barsa, Jr., President
Barsa Consulting Group, LLC
Busch & Partner
"The process of converting our programs that run on i5/OS V5R3 and V5R4 was fast and provided an accurate/error-free adjustment to run on IBM i 6.1. All programs are working without any problems after installation. We're looking forward to the restructured Rational tools and the new System i POWER6 hardware, which we are going to install as soon as possible."
— Rolf Busch, CIO
Busch & Partner
CA, Inc.
"CA's upgrade testing for our CA 2E and CA Plex application development environments with IBM's latest version of i5/OS has been smooth and straightforward. We are pleased to see that several new features were added to i 6.1, particularly the integrated Web Services server for ILE, which we feel will further position the System i as a compelling platform for developing and delivering SOA-based applications."
— Daniel Leigh, Development Director
CA, Inc.
Centerfield Technology
"Centerfield is very impressed with the number of new database functions in IBM i 6.1. We're also pleased with the latest SQL capabilities and performance improvements that will be very beneficial to System i shops modernizing legacy databases, utilizing business intelligence products, building web applications, or starting to use DB2 Web Query. Our database optimization product and our customers using Web Query will automatically see value in
i 6.1. All-in-all this is another extraordinary release from one of IBM's premier development labs."
— Mark Holm, Chief Technology Officer
Centerfield Technology
Coglin Mill
"Coglin Mill is pleased to certify that our data warehousing software suite, RODIN is fully compatible with i 6.1. In our pre-release testing, i 6.1 has proven to be very stable and we are excited that this release continues IBM Rochester's tradition of delivering significant enhancements, with unparalleled quality and reliability. The new database features, coupled with the new Web Query product shout a loud and clear message that System i is a great platform for data warehousing and business intelligence."
— Alan Jordan, Vice President
Coglin Mill
CSM bvba
"We are thrilled to work with a state of the art Operating System as IBM i 6.1. The conversion of our package posed no difficulties at all. In my opinion the security enhancements such as encryption of backups and the performance improvements of Java are just must haves for every System i shop. i 6.1 marks the beginning of a new successful era for System i. We are very enthusiastic about this release and can't wait to move our clients into the new computing era."
— Koen Decorte, Manager
CSM bvba
Curbstone Corporation
"Curbstone Card™ payment server software is used by over 200 System i-based organizations to get paid in their Order Entry, e-commerce, Mail Order / Telephone Order, retail or receivables applications. As a participant in the early release program for i 6.1, we were thrilled to see the enhanced performance of Java, as we drive it from RPG for secure communications. Even more attractive is the new ability to encrypt backups, which provides a second encryption on top of our own encryption, providing further enhanced security for off-site credit card information. All Curbstone products are available now with full support for i 6.1."
— Ira Chandler, President
Curbstone Corporation
DATALINE AG
"With the big number of improvements available in the latest release of i5/OS, we can assure superior functionality and performance for our customers. Extended JVM and ILE RPG functionality allows us to react to new requirements quicker than ever before. DATALINE is pleased to see that IBM remains strongly committed to making the System i platform even more attractive for new and current customers."
— Christoph Kleiner, CTO
DATALINE AG
EXTOL International
"IBM continues to provision i5/OS to meet the expanding requirements of business and multi-enterprise collaboration. The optimized JAVA support and performance improvements in i 6.1 enhance the value customers gain in deploying EXTOL Business Integrator, EXTOL Business Collaborator and the EXTOL EDI Integrator in either the production environment, or as a dedicated B2B appliance."
— Steve Rosen, VP Marketin
EXTOL International
Friedman Corporation
"Our experience with the IBM i 6.1 Beta releases has been very positive. To date, we have found i 6.1 to be highly compatible with our existing application code base, and look forward to leveraging the enhanced features and performance offered by both IBM i 6.1 and the new POWER6-based i5 platform offerings. The program conversion process is remarkably transparent, especially in light of the significant architectural improvements offered by i 6.1. The analysis tools provided by IBM allowed us to quickly identify any existing conversion issues in our release code, and will enable us to have a "i 6.1-capable" release of our application ready for our clients as soon as they are ready to upgrade."
— Dehn Loder, Vice President Product Strategy
Friedman Corporation
Halcyon Software Ltd
"Halcyon Software Ltd is proud to announce that its entire range of Multiplatform Systems Management products are i 6.1 compatible.
By working with IBM on its pre-release programs, we leverage joint benefits by providing feedback on the new features and future enhancements to IBM as well as ensuring that our products remain at the forefront of technology.
We are particularly excited by the BladeCenter support, the Virtualization of i5/OS storage, the support for SANs, High availability offerings and the modernization of toolsets along with the excellent price/performance benefits and are pleased to announce that our product set currently supports all these environments through our multi-platform native monitoring and our holistic view of all IBM systems, regardless of OS via our graphical Enterprise Console."
— Donnie MacColl, Head of Technical Services
Halcyon Software Ltd
Harkins Audit Software, Inc
"The System i advanced capabilities in the new IBM i 6.1 and the tremendous POWER6 System i hardware price/performance herald a new and exciting era for System i customers and prospects. The full electronic program auditing capabilities of the programmer productivity tools for RPG, CLP, and COBOL of Harkins Audit Software, Inc. make use of this incredible power of the new System i to dramatically increase programmer and customer capability, value, and productivity."
— Paul H. Harkins, President and CTO
Harkins Audit Software, Inc
HarrisData
"The new IBM i 6.1 promises improved security, performance, and flexibility to the i5/OS community. HarrisData is pleased to announce support for the new version, and encourages customers to take advantage of everything the new operating system has to offer."
— Lane Nelson, President
HarrisData
Help/Systems, Inc.
"Help/Systems, Inc. has been in the early ship program since the AS/400 was first announced. We again are pleased to have been included for i 6.1. Thousands of customers worldwide depend on the Robot Automated Operations Solution and SEQUEL software for systems monitoring, job scheduling, security, encryption, backup and recovery, business intelligence, storage management and impact analysis.
We are excited about i 6.1 for the stated improvements in Java Performance and the endorsement of encryption for backup and recovery. Robot/SAVE has been doing this for 2 years already and helps to legitimize software encryption for i5/OS. Installation on a i5/OS BladeCenter will help to provide i5/OS appliances for our suite of systems management products and we look forward to this new hardware."
— Tom Huntington, Vice President of Technical Services
Help/Systems, Inc.
IBS AB
"IBS is very pleased to see how easy it was to upgrade to i 6.1 even though it is a major upgrade for the operating system. The enhancements to this upgrade, which include extending Java functionality and enhancing the already industry leading security, made this an easy choice for us. We are very excited as our clients worldwide go forward with this new update."
— André Lundqvist, Technical Manager R&D
IBS AB
Infoniqa
"With IBM's announcement of IBM i 6.1 we enter a new era of this well known, powerful and reliable business-solutions platform. Here at Infoniqa we are proud to support this announcement and also the new POWER6 Technology. Our Software Development Department has participated in the i 6.1 Beta Program and is pleased to announce that all our applications are already prepared for i 6.1. During the next two years our System i team will focus on POWER6, i 6.1, IBM Enterprise Storage (DS8000) and the integration of the new POWER6 blades with i5/OS."
— Hans Reisinger, Managing Director
Infoniqa
Infor
Infor's ERP Xpert application was easily running on IBM i 6.1. The conversion process was performed smoothly and quickly. For us one of the biggest improvements in i 6.1 is the once more enhanced Java performance: Our application is running well on V5R3, with V5R4 we experienced a huge performance gain without any hardware cost. Now with i 6.1 we see just another performance boost for our customers!
— Thorsten Reuper, Vice President Development EMEA
Infor
Information Builders
"Information Builder's WebFOCUS provides customers with incredibly flexible, reliable, scalable and accessible choices for capitalizing on information. Key to our Business Intelligence solution is database query optimization technology," said Gerald Cohen, CEO of Information Builders. "We continue to be impressed with the highly scalable, high performance, and low manageability attributes of DB2 for IBM i. With the 6.1 version of DB2 for IBM i, more WebFOCUS customers worldwide can take advantage of the self adapting, self learning query optimizer technology. Combined with the new Power 6 based line of servers, we are excited about the benefits of running WebFOCUS and IBM's DB2 Web Query (based on WebFOCUS technology) on DB2 for IBM i 6.1."
— Gerald Cohen, CEO
Information Builders
Inovis, Inc.
"IBM continues to show its leadership in the area of business computing. This new version of i5/OS is a testament to IBM's continued commitment to the advancement in technology of the most sophisticated business computer on the planet. Inovis remains 100% committed to System i and i5/OS. All currently supported versions of TrustedLink® System i and BizManager400™ run on IBM i 6.1."
— Greg Conant, Senior Product Architect
Inovis, Inc.
Inventive Designers
"Inventive Designers was pleasantly surprised with IBM i 6.1 Beta and is excited about the new Java and Performance enhancements offered by the new version and its new POWER6 architecture. A large portion of our customer base uses i5/OS to run our document solutions Scriptura, DTM and Evergreen. The services provided by the IBM Innovation Centre were of vital importance to guarantee business continuity for our new and existing worldwide i5/OS customers when they will move to the brand new IBM i 6.1 release. Especially for Scriptura, which is a cross-platform document solution, these tests assure us that the switch to i 6.1 will go smoothly. It will also enable our customers to deploy the latest innovations in our Java based document solutions."
— Klaas Bals, CIO
Inventive Designers
Jim Sloan, Inc.
"The TAA Productivity Tools have been part of the early ship program for several years. Each of the over 1400 tools have been tested on IBM i 6.1. Only minor problems were found and these have been corrected. From what we see, it's another solid release."
— Jim Sloan, President
Jim Sloan, Inc.
Linoma Software
"Linoma Software has extensively tested our products RPG Toolbox, Surveyor/400, Crypto Complete and GoAnywhere on i 6.1 and have encountered no issues. The performance has been great, especially with the new JVM. We fully support i 6.1 and look forward to our customers taking advantage of the new features and power available in i 6.1."
— Brian Pick, Sales Manager
Linoma Software
Manhattan Associates, Inc.
"IBM i 6.1 provides the tools, performance and platform reliability to meet the Supply Chain Management needs of our customers. The new release features enhancements to the RPG language and a full accompaniment of modernization, system recovery, security and performance enhancement and tools that improve the efficiency of our platform solutions; a win-win for us and our customers. Given our long partnership with IBM, we are well under way to certifying our releases of Replenishment, Warehouse Management and Transportation Execution System i solutions on IBM's i5/OS."
— Eddie Capel, Executive Vice President, Product Management
Manhattan Associates, Inc.
Manta Technologies Inc.
With Version 6, IBM reminds us why i5/OS is our favorite operating system. There is something for everyone, from operators (Systems Director) and programmers (RDi) to system administrators (storage enhancements) and even auditors (encryption enhancements). In addition to giving System i shops what we have asked for, IBM is politely nudging us towards the future, laying the groundwork for products that will undoubtedly be announced in the months and years ahead.
— William A. Hansen, Co-owner
Manta Technologies Inc.
Midrange Performance Group
"MPG is really excited about some of the performance collection improvement in i 6.1. We have updated our product Performance Navigator to take advantage of many of these enhancements including: EngeryScale processors, Java Garbage collection data, IFS IO details by Job, Virtual Shared Pools, etc. Our Power Navigator product is also well positioned to monitor the new VIOS partition for hosted i5/OS partition."
— Randy Watson, President
Midrange Performance Group
MP Associates of Westchester, Inc.
"We were totally surprised by the performance and backup capabilities of the new IBM i 6.1
release. We have been working with our clients to enable encrypted backups through various
methods and now with the new release this will work great!"
— Malcolm Jones, VP Development
MP Associates of Westchester, Inc.
mrc
"At mrc, we're very excited about the changes in the IBM i 6.1 release, particularly with the enhanced Java performance. Our software, m-Power, generates applications in J2EE, which means resulting applications are now running at the highest level of performance on i5/OS. m-Power's i5/OS customers already enjoy sub-second response times, and now we're talking even faster speeds? That's amazing."
— Heather Gately, Marketing Director
mrc
NetManage, Inc.
"NetManage is committed to supporting the latest software and hardware innovations from IBM. Supporting i 6.1 is key to us continuing to deliver the fastest way to create new solutions on legacy environments."
— Archie Roboostoff, Director of Product Management
NetManage, Inc.
nuBridges, Inc.
"With this new release, the System i platform continues to set a gold standard for performance, reliability, availability, features and ease-of-use. nuBridges offers a complete suite of managed file transfer, B2B gateway, connectivity and data protection products for System i. We have successfully completed internal certification of our products on i 6.1 and it was a very positive experience. With thousands of customers in production on the System i platform, we look forward to our customers' migration to this powerful new release."
— Kim Addington, Chief Marketing Officer
nuBridges, Inc.
Patrick Townsend & Associates, Inc.
"The new i 6.1 release of i5/OS provides great new security capabilities. We are pleased to announce our support for i 6.1 and our continued commitment to NIST certified encryption, key management, system logging, and access control security solutions for the System i and all Enterprise server platforms."
— Patrick Townsend, President
Patrick Townsend & Associates, Inc.
PKWARE, Inc.
"PKWARE, Inc. has extensively tested SecureZIP for i5/OS and fully supports IBM i 6.1. Our file based encryption performs flawlessly on this latest version of the OS. Performance improvements in IBM's latest release will be a welcome feature to all of IBM's System i customers."
— Joe Sturonas, Chief Technology Officer
PKWARE, Inc.
PRIMEUR Srl
"Primeur has 20 years experience providing Middleware solutions, especially around Managed File Transfer with its SPAZIO MFT/S solution. i5/OS is one of the main platforms. SPAZIO MFT/S now also runs on the i 6.1 release. The new version strengthens integration with the overall Enterprise IT platform: enhanced Java performance, increased price/performance and the high availability solutions manager are the features that enable System i to become the right platform for SOA implementation, reliable and powerful at the same time."
— Rino Ciliberti, SPAZIO Product Manager
PRIMEUR Srl
Raz-Lee Security
"Raz-Lee Security looks forward to the upcoming general availability of IBM i 6.1 for a number of reasons. The very positive impact this announcement will have on the System i market, the new encryption and security-related features of this release, as well as the increased price/performance of the new POWER6 hardware. All make for a winning combination for IBM, ISVs and customers alike!"
— Mr. Shmuel Zailer, CEO
Raz-Lee Security
RJS Software Systems
"RJS is looking forward to the IBM rollout of IBM i 6.1. The new OS version adds new capabilities to the RPG programming language as well as several improvements to the DB2 database and the Java runtime environments. The new OS version will help us continue developing leading edge software for a leading edge operating system from IBM. i5/OS is state of the art."
— Richard Schoen, President and CTO
RJS Software Systems
REPEGLIO
"As 90% of System i customers are using RPG, the big challenge will be to extend RPG to the web and SOA. For Multi-threading support and many other enhancements, the programs need to be converted with IBM i 6.1. This conversion seems to be easy and fast; which is a very small effort for the major goal of moving RPG into the 21st century."
— Jean André Mikhaleff, Manager
REPEGLIO
Sun & Son Inc
"Sun & Son is pleased to announce our support for IBM i 6.1. We have recently successfully tested our 'Open' OMG XMI Meta Data Compliant Lotus Notes Meta Data Modeling tool on IBM i 6.1 and also successfully tested our Relational Data Bridge - mapping the Lotus Notes Meta Data Model onto DB2. With Domino 8.01 now supported on IBM i 6.1 we see IBM System i offering a market leading platform for Lotus Notes 8 Composite applications that brings the benefits of Lotus collaborative capabilities together with DB2 in a uniquely integrated offering. We look forward to working with IBM, IBM Business partners and customers to leverage the enhanced features and performance offered by the IBM i 6.1 and the new POWER6-based i5 platform offerings."
— Adrian Reason, VP Strategic Alliances
Sun & Son Inc
S4i Systems, Inc.
"S4i Systems has found the i 6.1 conversion of our document management system S4i Express to be painless and extremely quick. We will release a program fix as some of our installation routines were still compiled using the OPM pre-V5R1 model. Our customers will find that both S4i Express and S4i DASD-Plus will be up and running when they install the new i5/OS version."
— Spencer Elliott, President
S4i Systems, Inc.
SkyView Partners, Inc.
"Attaining and staying in compliance is a challenge for most organizations. The new security features integrated into i5/OS in i 6.1, including new encryption capabilities and expanded options for password and other user configuration attributes will help i5/OS shops with their compliance issues. And with the i 6.1 enhancements to operating system and data integrity features, i5/OS continues to be one of the most "secure-able" systems available in the market today."
— Carol Woodbury, President
SkyView Partners, Inc.
Software Management, Inc.
"Version 6.1 of i5/OS once more reaffirms my confidence in the System i product line. Even with changes in the fundamental structure of the System i, asset protection for the install base is not forgotten. I anticipate calls from my customers wanting know if SMI SuperVisor is compatible with IBM i 6.1. My response will be to say that while we have an upgrade available, your existing SMI SuperVisor release will continue to work just fine with i 6.1."
— Christopher Holke, President
Software Management, Inc.
SRJ Associates, Inc.
"SRJ Associates, Inc. developer of Programmer/User Request Management System™ - PURMS™ for the SMB marketplace decided to take part in the early release beta program for IBM i 6.1. We were pleasantly surprised when the installation went flawlessly and the tools provided by IBM gave us a clear concise picture of our upgrade roadmap. The power of i 6.1 was apparent when we noticed a reduced time to compile and a faster initialization of our program objects. Although we only use a small portion of the operational assets within i 6.1, its scalability from small to large machines gives present and future customers the ability to grow and maintain their software investment. IBM continues to produce a world class operating system that has grown with each release and continues to be one of the most secure operating systems on the market today."
— Leslie H. Goldstein, President
SRJ Associates, Inc.
StarQuest Ventures, Inc.
"StarQuest Ventures, Inc. specializes in deploying cross-platform solutions based upon Open Standards. StarQuest has certified its StarSQL DRDA compliant ODBC and JDBC drivers for Windows and UNIX platforms for use with IBM i 6.1. StarQuest has also certified its Java-based, real-time replication solution for i5/OS and Microsoft SQL Server. SQDR Plus/iSeries may be deployed using either the Classic and new JAVA VM support of i 6.1."
— Paul Rampel, President
StarQuest Ventures, Inc.
SystemObjects Europe
"We are pleased to announce that all our existing products are working with the IBM i 6.1 version. It was very simple, just to reload our libraries and to test, no trouble, no problems… as always with the System i. We expect a lot more power for our existing customers with this new Java version."
— Serge Charbit, President and CEO
SystemObjects Europe
TRADER’S S.A.
"Trader’s is pleased to announce that its software, Quick-EDD/HA, fully supports the new IBM i 6.1 operating system. The IBM team did a great job and sent a clear message to the market about nice perspectives for the System i. IBM i 6.1 offers significant and advanced features such as new database functionality and SQL improvements to open the door to lead other OS like AIX and new servers like IBM BladeCenter. Quick-EDD/HA is fully adapted to i 6.1 and will provide additional benefits to our clients. It has never been so “Switch Ready”! Our product remains ServerProven and the transition to i 6.1 for our customers should be transparent.”
— Thierry Roux, CEO
TRADER’S S.A.
Valid Technologies
"The security and productivity of i5/OS help make VSSA the best of breed solution for strong user authentication. The new System i and IBM i technologies strengthen our "Built on IBM Express" VSSA/i5 offerings and make strong and convenient biometric authentication more attractive to customers of every size."
— Greg Faust, Principal
Valid Technologies
Zend Technologies, Ltd.
"Zend has been collaborating with IBM over the past six months to enhance the delivery of it's product suite for the IBM i 6.1 release. We are delighted to announce the results have been extraordinary with an increase in the performance of Zend's industry leading PHP application server -- Core and Platform -- running on IBM i 6.1. Zend remains committed to continue supporting customer's efforts to leverage their existing infrastructure and move to SOA. IBM's continued efforts with partners to improve the customer experience of i5/OS cannot be understated."
— Jim Dillard, IBM Alliance Manager
Zend Technologies, Ltd.
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