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The DR4i product is well underway, it will be an option for customers who are just looking for data replication (journalled objects only) between IBM i systems. The Receiver Apply Program (RAP) had become complex for installation which only required this facility which prompted us to build an alternative.
The product isn’t just a rip out of the RAP technology, we have taken the opportunity to build new Apply processes and controls which will allow a lot more flexibility to customers who are running with more than one journal, http://www.shieldadvanced.ca/products.php?id=2 will eventually pick up this technology as well. The main purpose of the product is to offer a simple to use solution with little to no skills required to install.
As part of this new product we are going to be shipping a PHP based status interface, this will allow the user to monitor DR4i from a web browser with access to a web server. We are hoping the technology can be a launch platform for our involvement with the EasyCom suppliers. We are testing the interface by using our Linux HTTP server which is making i5_Toolkit requests to the IBM i and our own service programs through the EasyCom server running on the IBM i, we have no HTTP servers or PHP servers running on the IBM i…
We are expecting to have the new product available byt the beginning of the 3rd quarter this year, the product is already built and running but we now need to add the rest of the PHP based status screens before finally packaging the product and getting ready for customer installs.
Here is a sample of the screens we have developed so far, its early days but the development is progressing well and we hope to have the rest of the screen developed in a few weeks.
We have had no time to publish further PHP information due to the time spent on this and other projects but we hope to get back to it once we have this project completed.
Chris…