Data centers are huge, power-hungry and inefficient. They consume electricity and IT budgets at staggering rates. HP wants to change that. The company's enterprise server division is developing efficient, compact machinery that's set to shatter our views of the traditional data center.  Read Full Post

With the release of Visual Studio 2010 and SQL Server 2008 R2, the way reports were being done for VS2008 has been changed and such we need to change the way we create our NeoBatch reports. Read Full Post

Picture this: You are an active NeoBatch user, you are constantly running jobs working with your JCL batch operations, day in and day out. After making some changes to your JCL, you notice that it’s slowed down a bit. After some more changes, you think you have it going faster again, but you start to wonder: Is there a way to look at the history of the jobs that you’ve run, and present them in a graph or chart? The answer is yes, there is. You’re looking for NeoBatch SQL Reports. Read Full Post

Unify Selects ATERAS and Alchemy Solutions for Migration of State Agency's Mainframe Systems to .NET Framework Read Full Post

The NeoBatch Server is hosted in IIS and is placed into its own IIS application pool. For some kinds of online applications, it is helpful that IIS has automatic settings that periodically recycle/restart the application pool in order to start anew. In the case of the NeoBatch Server, however, having the application pool recycle at undefined times is a very bad thing, because any jobs that the server has spawned will be abandoned and not be able to complete. The NeoBatch Server does clean up the state of the batch system when it is restarted (as well as attempting to cancel jobs that were abandoned), but it then becomes necessary to restart jobs that were not able to complete themselves. Read Full Post

Over the years, we’ve developed and sold a number of different products, many of which had different licensing mechanisms. In most cases, in order to activate a license for our software, you had to download and install the software, then email us a license request. Only after receiving a response from us could you actually begin to use the software. What a pain! Read Full Post