Welcome to the TandemWorld Newsletter for December 2004.
We would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
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Contents
TapeLabs EMEA Sales Office Opens
TANDsoft Releases FileSync Version 1.5
LIEMUR LAUNCHES UML2 & JAVA 1.5 TRAINING!
OPTIView
GoldenGate Provides the Premier Solution for Transactional Data Management
Virtual TapeServer offers Enhanced Enterprise Integration with Tivoli Storage Manager.
Decrease Costs in 2005 With Single-Point Monitoring of Your Critical IT Estate
Combining PROGNOSIS and HP OpenView to serve the total environment 
Fusion95 -- PC To Unix connectivity
If you run J2EE you must read this analyst white paper and case study 
CCCL Security Survey
ITUG News
Employment
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TapeLabs EMEA Sales Office Opens
Tape Laboratories, in conjunction with Brightstrand International Limited and Twinsoft GmbH are pleased to announce the establishment of a sales office in the EMEA region. Headquartered in the UK, TapeLabs EMEA will offer a central point of contact for all Virtual TapeServer inquiries from end users, DSPP members, and HP staff within Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The telephone number for TapeLabs EMEA is: +44 (0) 141 248 4919. A dedicated email address has also been established: emeasales@tapelabs.com HP staff are encouraged to use this office for Virtual TapeServer sales and pre-sales support. 
Virtual TapeServer, available from HP, is in heterogeneous production use by multiple referenceable NonStop system users. For more information, contact TapeLabs at +1 (310) 577 1700, or visit http://www.tapelabs.com. Contact Brightstrand International Telephone +44 (0) 141 204 4046, or visit http://www.brightstrand.com Contact Twinsoft GmbH at +49 (02102) 3004-28, or visit http://www.twinsoft.de.
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TANDsoft Releases FileSync Version 1.5
TANDsoft, a provider of enabling software products for NonStop systems, has released FileSync version 1.5, which automatically synchronizes Guardian and Open System Services (OSS) files, SQL tables, and application environments between NonStop servers. 
FileSync 1.5 features include;
· Complements real-time database record replication software, such as DRNet, RDF, Extractor/Replicator and Shadowbase.
· Support for all NSK and OSS file types, over TCP/IP or Expand.
· Synchronization can be scheduled or on an as needed basis.
· Execution of TACL triggers, before or after file synchronization.
· Support for NCI-Sync, business continuity software for CONTROL and CONTROL-CS from Network Concepts Inc., a leading provider of software management and cross-platform development products.
TANDsoft has created strategic partnerships, providing HP Nonstop customers with a complete business continuity solution. 
Other TANDsoft products include; 
·	OPTA2000 – Tandem Clock and Time Zone simulator. 
·	AutoASAP – Extension to ASAP(Availability Stats & Performance monitor) – Entities include TCP/IP, Pathway, Measure subsystems and Customer applications. 
·	ASAP Reporter – Historical Trend analysis, by hour, day, month or year, for all ASAP entities. 
·	BusinessLink – Application enabler, with NO source code changes, supports Automatic TMF, application business metric monitoring and alerting. 
Please visit http://www.tandsoft.com/news.html for additional TANDsoft product information and a list of our worldwide distributors(NTI, Legato, BrightStrand and ADC).
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Merry Christmas & A Prosperous New Year - LIEMUR LAUNCHES UML2 & JAVA 1.5 TRAINING!
Liemur, a Training, Mentoring and Consultancy company specialising in the provision of support for OO software development, has successfully delivered it's new UML2.0 & Java 1.5 training courses to the European Space Agency (Frankfurt) and École des Mines (Nice). 
We provide project based training aimed at delivering the specific skills and knowledge needed to ensure the success of the customer's development programme in a highly focussed and cost-effective manner. The training and mentoring sessions are delivered on a Just-In-Time basis using real-life customer problems as Lab work to maximise the effectiveness of knowledge transfer to the individuals working on the project. Our product portfolio covers OO development, Unified Process methodologies, UML techniques and specific development technologies including Java, C# and XML. 
A full range of courses and mentoring modules are available to address all key project roles from Sponsor/Stakeholder through to Software Developer. 
For more information contact sales@liemur.com 
www.liemur.com 
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OPTIView
OPTIView is a real-time tool for monitoring the performance of both Nonstop systems and Applications. It is a 6530, block-mode application and users are free to configure the data that is to be measured, retrieved and displayed and also to navigate between screens. OPTIView currently works with Measure CPU, PROCESS, DISC, TMF, SYSTEM, CLUSTER, WAN and Process User-defined counter (UDC) entities. 
OPTIAlert additionally allows the User to configure Alert thresholds and to raise EMS events. 
For more information please contact phil@cardlink.co.uk 
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GoldenGate Provides the Premier Solution for Transactional Data Management
GoldenGate continues to build on a solid platform, and now has three new modules that further enhance it. These modules will shortly be available via Insession Technologies.GoldenGate Resync – Designed with data integrity in mind, this module will verify that databases are completely synchronised. Typically, databases can become unsynchronised in several ways:
Extended systems or network outages leading to two systems getting out of sync. 
User errors, operator errors, or unexpected behaviour from a new application causing inadvertent data corruption thus leading to discrepancies.A new application that you’ve deployed(user or operator errors can cause inadvertent data corruption).
Use of solutions other than GoldenGate that cannot handle complex operations such as rollbacks of uncommitted transactions.
GoldenGate Resync will assist in this area, as it can compare two active databases, generate reports, and reconcile the data differences between them. Once the comparison is complete, GoldenGate Resync presents a summary that shows the discrepancies, allowing you the flexibility to choose how to proceed. 
Since Resync allows you to compare both static and open databases, you can continue your operations uninterrupted, even whilst the detection and repair of any inconsistencies is occurring. This ultimately prevents any potential impact to your business operations. 
Resync is currently available for HP NonStop Enscribe and SQL/MP databases with support for additional databases planned for the future.GoldenGate Director – An optional module for the GoldenGate platform that offers a visual and intuitive way to define, configure, manage, and report on all GoldenGate processes. GoldenGate Director is a graphical enterprise application that redefines how you manage transactional data across your business. Equally appropriate for both new and existing GoldenGate users, technical or non-technical, GoldenGate Director offers ease of use, timesavings, consistency, and visibility. Whether you need proactive monitoring and management of your existing GoldenGate network, or are looking to deploy GoldenGate as a solution into new environments, GoldenGate Director is the key to complete control.
Also available now and developed specifically for the Base24 application is the new D24 module.D24 – is a module intended for use with the BASE24 application from ACI Worldwide. It provides the necessary logic to seamlessly integrate two BASE24 systems in a bidirectional configuration, allowing the workload to be distributed across two nodes. This ensures that the exposure to risk in the event of an unscheduled outage is kept to a minimum. In the event of either a scheduled or unscheduled outage, the full transaction load will be carried by the remaining BASE24 system, ensuring continuous availability. This architecture can prove especially useful when upgrading hardware, software, or operating system releases and downtime is not an option. This is the only solution approved and recommended by ACI Worldwide for dual live processing.
To find out more information about any of these new modules, please go to www.insession.com/goldengate, or email mbox-uk-insession@insession.com for further details. Alternatively call +44 1923 812721 and speak to your Insession Representative. 
Insession Technologies would like to wish everybody a very Happy Christmas.
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OutsideView - 2 Licenses for the Price of 1!
* The only NonStop Emulator that provides centralized administration
* Multiple Emulations-one single price!
*Client-side Security included
With a subscription to our new and improved Star Support receive: 
* 2 upgrade licenses for the price of one!
* ALL previous versions** are eligible
* Automatic upgrade to OutsideView 7.3
(scheduled for 1st quarter '05) 
Be sure to check out the exciting new additions to Star Support! 
Or contact us via email at StacyA@crystalpoint.com 

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Virtual TapeServer offers Enhanced Enterprise Integration with Tivoli Storage Manager
Tape Laboratories (TapeLabs) announces extended Virtual TapeServer support for Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM). 
This no-charge feature seamlessly integrates this popular open system backup management application with the Distributed Systems Management (DSM) or MediaCom catalog of the NonStop system without requiring special software on the NonStop server. 
Backups performed by NonStop system users to Virtual TapeServer may be exported by TSM and restored to the NonStop system without operator intervention. Calls for files from the NonStop server are retrieved automatically from the open system by Virtual TapeServer, which immediately makes them available to the NonStop server.
Virtual TapeServer is in heterogeneous production use by multiple referenceable NonStop users and is available from HP. 
For more information, contact TapeLabs at +1 (310) 577 1700, or visit the TapeLabs website at http://www.tapelabs.com 
For EMEA please contact BrightStrand International at info@brightstrand.com or 00 44 (0) 141 204 4046
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Decrease Costs in 2005 With Single-Point Monitoring of Your Critical IT Estate
It has been a busy year for Insider Technologies Limited in pushing up the bar for both comprehensive middleware monitoring and future-proofed NSK batch scheduling. As part of wishing Happy Christmas to all readers, ITL would also like to thank all those who have contributed during 2004, to each of the ITL products and look forward to continuing the good work in 2005.
Middleware - ITL 2004 Timeline Summarised
- WebSphere MQ Conquered
In the early part of 2004, Insider Technologies announced its Open MQ Lifecycle strategy for the management of multi-platform WebSphere MQ middleware. Based on either HP NonStop or Windows .NET architecture, SENTRA MQ provides a unique set of Functions to configure, manage, track and automate the deployment of WebSphere MQ middleware across all nominated enterprise systems. 
The software is based on an open "meta-layer" of function that is implemented through agents on each target platform allowing for both a Web Browser and/or WIN32 interface to be used to carry out total management, reporting and tracking across a network. 
The management suite traps all errors and events, providing in context drill down to problems; and responds with scripted automation and automated escalation to graphical icons, email, SMS and certified enterprise gateways such as HP OpenView, Tivoli and BMC. Uniquely among such management systems, SENTRA MQ provides a user toolkit to create business-tracking applications from the raw flow of MQ data. Examples in the financial, government and military sectors are already in use.
- XPNET Soon to Follow
Insider Technologies did not stop at WebSphere MQ and in August 2004 announced the completion and release date of a new product SENTRA ES-MTM. SENTRA ES-M allows users to stay abreast of new transaction processing initiatives without adding to growing maintenance budget headaches. 
SENTRA ES-M deployed extraction layers push further into the lower layers of each middleware platform relaying data from relevant sources, e.g. WebSphere MQ, XPNET, UNIX syslogs, message server log files, EMS and OSS. State, Rate, Queue monitoring and Interchange metrics can be relayed to SENTRA ES-M via XPNET extraction layers, deployed on HP NonStop systems.
- Middleware Monitoring Innovation
As the crowning glory, Insider Technologies announced in the November 2004 newsletter, SENTRA Hypervisor. This deliverable forms a completely new and innovative way of representing your critical IT estate and infrastructure with browser based, diagnostic user views of the SENTRA object and performance database. SENTRA Hypervisor equips users with the ability to view business functions, middleware and object level hardware and software across disparate platforms in one or many tailored screens. 
Incorporated into this powerful enterprise ‘field-of-view’, user can actually embed their preferred real-time graphs alongside business functions to give instant flagging of SLA failures. A ‘flash’ demonstration of this product is available from ITL.
Third Millennium, Future-Proofed Approaches to NSK Batch Scheduling 
- What is ‘MCP’?
At the ITUG in October, ITL demonstrated the next generation of the MultiBatch product. Called MCP (MultiBatch Control Point), the software provides an improved set of facilities which will allow configuration, monitoring and creation of batch process management from a single interface (both NSK and OSS). Dynamic configuration changes will also be available allowing a user (with appropriate security) to make configuration changes to a job, or jobs from within the MCP interface.
Ad-hoc queries against an SQL database are also available, e.g. "Show me all jobs that have abended within the last seven days".
Management Information reports are also available, for viewing, printing or e-mailing; this facility can be used to graphically represent the numbers of consistent MultiBatch Unit Failures, or to trend an increase in batch execution time over a period. 
- NetBatchTM to MultiBatch Conversion
For users of HP’s NonStop Netbatch batch scheduler, ITL have developed conversion routines to migrate NetBatch schedules into ITL’s MultiBatch system. By converting batch schedules to MultiBatch, users can avail themselves of continuous development of MultiBatch with the added confidence of the product being in-step with HP technical programmes for NSK, e.g. ITANIUM, HP OpenView Operations.
MultiBatch is distributed by Insession Technologies.
ITANIUM
Insider Technologies Limited is registered with HP as a member of the Itanium validation program, enabling ITL to validate solutions and ensure the solution in readiness by First Customer Ship (FCS).
ITL is also a member of the NSAA (NonStop Advanced Architecture) group.
’Go Interactive’ with the ITL Product Suite
Utilising ‘WebEx’ technology, Insider Technologies can share applications with prospects, customers and partners. This enables Insider to recreate the experience of a face-to-face meeting by allowing all participants to view the same document, browser or application. It also enables prospects and customers to have a personal demonstration of Insider’s solutions in which they can actively participate, ask questions through a chat forum and visually highlight areas that need clarification.
As well as an interactive walk-through, a ‘flash’ demonstration can be downloaded for a number of the ITL products from their website:
http://www.insidertech.co.uk/product_demonstrations.html
Reflex ‘User Group’ Meeting
The next Reflex User Group meeting is scheduled for 26th January 2005, at LloydsTSB in London. Invites will be sent in due course to ITL’s Reflex / MultiBatch customer base.
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Combining PROGNOSIS and HP OpenView to serve the total environment 
HAVING A CONSOLIDATED, UP-TO-THE-SECOND VIEW OF critical customer and business data across the enterprise delivers a powerful competitive advantage, but the story doesn’t end there. It’s also important to understand the role that systems management and automation play in the real-time environment.
Careful monitoring—combined with the automation of disk space allocation, hardware and software failure notification, data path switching, and similar tasks—is essential to keeping the Adaptive Enterprise running smoothly.
This is the job that Integrated Research has been handling for the past 16 years with its cross platform PROGNOSIS performance management software. Already the world’s largest supplier of systems and application management solutions for HP NonStop servers, Integrated Research recently took another giant step forward by integrating PROGNOSIS with HP OpenView. The newly released product is called PROGNOSIS Smart Plug In (SPI) for HP OpenView.
"PROGNOSIS SPI for HP OpenView was developed in direct response to customer demand," noted Gary Stearns, senior product manager and technical consultant at Integrated Research. "Many organizations that use PROGNOSIS to manage their NonStop systems also run HP OpenView software in other parts of their environment. Our customers wanted the ability to extend the advanced metrics and monitoring capabilities of PROGNOSIS across the total environment. The SPI makes this a simple process."
DEVELOPING THE INTERFACE
Integrated Research and HP worked with Boston Communications Group, Inc. (bcgi), a leader in transaction processing solutions for wireless carriers, to develop the SPI interface between NonStop servers and OpenView. bcgi was using the NonStop platform to support its mission-critical applications, while HP OpenView for Windows® monitored the network operations center (NOC).
"To ensure user acceptance, we had to provide information in formats that were familiar to the various specialists," recalled Stearns. "For example, the NOC help desk operators use OpenView to monitor network performance. They wanted to continue using the familiar OpenView screens, augmented by a clear view of root cause analysis on the NonStop systems. The increased level of insight and control provided by the PROGNOSIS SPI product exceeded the expectations of bcgi."
bcgi wanted to integrate the NonStop systems management solution with OpenView to streamline its mission-critical network monitoring and management processes, while providing a comprehensive view of its platforms and systems. bcgi required a solution that would allow it to meet the management and reporting needs of both the NonStop and OpenView environments. The company also required the solution to obtain HP OpenView certification prior to being introduced to a production environment.
"PROGNOSIS offered an elegant solution that enabled us to seamlessly integrate our HP NonStop servers and OpenView system to provide a single, real-time view of our systems and platforms," stated Robert Cline, vice president of production systems for bcgi. "It enabled us to fully leverage the training and knowledge of our network monitoring team by allowing the front-end environment to remain practically unchanged, while introducing the ability to combine real-time monitoring capabilities with a clear view of root cause analysis."
CLEAR BENEFITS
With PROGNOSIS SPI for HP OpenView, bcgi has further streamlined its network monitoring and management by reducing both the points of management and the time taken to resolve network impacting issues. By creating an interface between the NonStop servers and OpenView, the company has gained further visibility and control of the heterogeneous infrastructure and applications that are crucial to its business and that of its carrier customers.
"We were proud to help spearhead the development and certification of PROGNOSIS SPI for HP OpenView," concluded Cline. "As thought leaders in large-scale transaction processing and network management, bcgi has always been at the forefront of developing tools that set the industry standard for monitoring and managing complex systems where anything less than 24 x 7 uptime is unacceptable."
Now more than ever, organizations rely on the performance and availability of key business systems and applications to support their critical business functions. The ability to streamline the management of these systems and applications provides immediate benefit, by identifying and resolving performance issues before they impact the business. HP OpenView applications have long helped organizations increase the performance of their computing infrastructures, anticipate and correct problems before they become critical, and automate and manage change in real time.
With PROGNOSIS SPI for HP OpenView, a whole new set of capabilities is available for advanced monitoring and management of the total enterprise environment.
Advanced monitoring and management
PROGNOSIS SPI for HP OpenView delivers the following advantages: 
■ Real-time metrics and performance alerts for NonStop servers, including hardware and software
■ Monitoring of critical middleware and business application components, such as Pathway, Tuxedo, WebSphere MQ, JVM, WebLogic, iTP WebServer, BASE24, and OpenCall INS
■ Automatic population of service views to the component level for both applications and system infrastructure
■ Event management with customizable filtering, message grouping, and service identification
■ Preconfigured thresholds for performance and availability, all fully customizable

For more information please contact Contact: 
Steve Douglas
Integrated Research 
+44 1344 386671
steve.douglas@ir.com
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Fusion95 -- PC To Unix connectivity
Fusion95, for file and print sharing, brings the power of Windows 98/NT/2000/XP editors and development tools to the NonStop Himalaya environment. Fusion 95 allows the NonStop Himalaya server to appear in your Windows workstation's Network Neighbourhood and its file system to appear as a network disk. So Windows hosted programs such as web publishing tools, editors, compilers and development tools can access files without the inconvenience of explicit uploads and downloads of the file.

More info is available on http://www.april.se/english/tandem.asp

Features and Benefits
O Use programs such as Windows Explorer to browse the NonStop Himalaya file system.
O Read and write access to Guardian Edit (101), C Data (180) and Unstructured files.
O Read and write access to NonStop Himalaya files from Windows applications without separate upload or download of the files.
O Uses native Guardian NSK security for all file accesses (the system administrator maps Windows Users to Guardian User IDs using the system administration program.)
O Printers attached to the NonStop Himalaya system can be used by Windows applications.
O Read and write access to all OSS files.
O Easy installation. No need to install any additional client software on individual workstations.

About April System Design - since the company was formed in April 1989 it has been know to design advanced connectivity products that 'integrate PC's with UNIX', based on market standards. April has sold over 500.000 software licenses in more than 60 countries. info@april.se or www.april.se http://www.april.se/english/tandem.asp

CMS Software Ltd are April System's authorised dealers in the UK and they can be contacted at 01708 640382 or sales@cmssoft.co.uk
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If you run J2EE you must read this analyst white paper and case study 
Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) research has shown that losses due to outages of critical J2EE systems can range from US $50,000 to over $1 million per hour. 
Produced by EMA, J2EE Application Performance: Beyond the Bean (http://www.myrego.com/integratedresearch/paper.cfm?p=p017ej&dx=s8458B) is vital reading for anyone running J2EE and highlights the importance of monitoring to prevent such catastrophes.
Not only does this in-depth paper answer the performance monitoring questions you've been afraid to ask – it also lists the Top-10 questions you need to ask! 
J2EE Application Performance: Beyond the Bean features 		
•	A case study on Germany's Bank-Verlag 	
•	The Top-10 requirements for J2EE performance management 	
•	An overview of PROGNOSIS for J2EE Performance Monitoring 	

The whitepaper is also available at http://www.tandemworld.net/prognosis.htm
For further information please contact Steve.douglas@ir.com
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CCCL Security Survey
CCCL (Computer Security Consultants Ltd) leading IT audit and security management consultants would like to request you participation in a survey of NonStop Security issues.
To participate please go to www.tandemworld.net/sec_form.htm
For further information regarding the results of this survey please contact kavita.singh@cccl.net or call 00 44 20 7488 2100
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ITUG Hot News
2005 ITUG European Conference Call for Speakers
http://www.itug.org/events/euro/2005/cfp.cfm

2005 Ebug Conference
http://www.ebug.org.uk/mta/mta_main.php
RUG & SIG Calendar
http://www.itug.org/regions/sig-rug-cal.cfm
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Employment
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