IBM i Products

Through a network of some of the world’s leading IBM i vendors, we can deliver a flexible and comprehensive range of tools and products to get the best our of your IBM i (AS400 / iSeries) products and tools.

Our partners include the likes of Fresche Solutions, Remain Software, Ivanti, StayLinked, Raz-Lee, Utilities 400 and Maxava.

These products will help you to maximise your investment in the IBM i, providing tools to meet all your development, modernisation and IT management needs:

Make the most of modern technologies and programming languages
Meet the growing and changing demands in your business demands
Free up IT resources and speed up IBM i application development
Build on your existing IT investment.

As with any IBM i product, Proximity can provide additional staff and technical IBM i resources if required – anything from development to supporting, maintaining and modernising IBM i applications. You can learn more about our IBM i services by following the link.

Products & tools for your IBM i

Products & tools from the world’s leading IBM i vendors
Develop, maintain & manage your IBM i applications
Maximising the value of your IBM i.

Proximity

Your IBM i application partner

Optimising, customising and improving your IBM i applications has never been easier with products such as Presto, X-Analysis, WebSmart, SmartTE, Velocity, TD/OMS and our very own i Order Management.

For over 10 years, Proximity has been using these very tools to deliver modern web user interfaces; develop IBM i applications; provide the ability to access applications through mobile devices; automate code conversion; or maintain IBM i applications for clients across the world.

We know these tools inside and out, so we can advise you on which tool will suit your needs most.

What’s more, Proximity can also provide day-to-day project management, consultancy, analysis, development and support skills through our IBM i managed services, support and maintenance team.

X-Analysis

Presto

TD/OMS

WebSmart

Raz-Lee iSecurity

Terminal Emulation

RouteOne

ProActive

iRoute

iKeyer

Maxava Monitor Mi8

Zend Server for IBM i

Formtastic

Catapult

Newlook

i Order Management

Clover

Nexus

GUI, Web & Mobile Enablement & Development

For any organisation, of any size, access to modern, user-friendly applications is now an essential part of doing business. For enterprise-level organisations though, modernising a legacy system on the IBM i into a user-friendly, browser-based and mobile-enabled application can be a daunting prospect. Fresche Solution’s suite of GUI, web and mobile enablement and development tools are built to help you develop and modernise legacy IBM i applications. They include:

Presto, which transforms legacy IBM i 5250 green screens into a native GUI
WebSmart, which helps to rapidly develop web & mobile applications in PHP, Node.js & RPG on the IBM i
NewLook Developer, for automatic modernisation transformations of 5250 green screens into modern desktop, web and mobile UIs
NewLook Server, which gives access to IBM i data by easily creating modern web applications.

IBM i Analysis, Monitoring & Productivity

Fresche Solutions and Remain Software’s analysis, productivity and application lifecycle management tools help developers working on the IBM i to gain visibility and understanding quickly of their data, business rules, application code composition and much more. Analysis and productivity tools include:

X-Analysis View, which gives developers the data insight they need to speed up and simplify IBM i application modification, testing and maintenance. Upgrade at anytime to X-Analysis Advisor
X-Analysis Advisor, which gives RPG and COBOL application developers automated, interactive analysis, impact analysis and documentation
TD/OMS delivers a scalable, cost-effective and easy to use IBM i , Windows and Unix / Linux software change management solution
RouteOne provides your IT team and ‘power users’ with the ability to build and maintain IBM i data exports quickly and securely.
ProActive from Utilities 400 delivers workflow automation to previously manual processes across your IBM i enterprise
iKeyer delivers an IBM i virtual terminal which picks up data from external sources and automatically keys that data into your IBM i using the 5250 green screen
Monitor Mi8 from Maxava provides an intelligent, cloud-based monitoring solution for for your IBM i, AIX, Linux and Windows.

Terminal Emulation & Windows CE migration

Terminal emulation still remains the most implemented application deployed on ruggedised mobile devices as it is incredibly fast and incredibly reliable. Through StayLinked, Ivanti and Zebra Technologies, IBM i organisations in the warehousing, manufacturing, transportation, logistics and retail industries can take advantage of world-class solutions for transforming green screen applications and moving from the soon to be unsupported Windows CE operating system.

StayLinked SmartTE and StayLinked iQ: deliver risk-free terminal emulation and server / mobile data monitoring for both Android and iOS devices
Ivanti Velocity (powered by Wavelink): enables businesses to move existing telnet and web apps to Android in minutes.

IBM i reporting & documentation distribution

Reporting and documentation distribution tools make up a core part of the Fresche Solutions product suite for anyone developing, maintaining or modernising applications on the IBM i, including:

Clover, which accesses DB2, MySQL and MS SQL data to enable users to quickly create web reports in real-time
iRoute solves the problem of accepting and processing data from multiple sources and updating your IBM i database.
Formtastic, which removes the requirement for recording and development when extracting data from plain-text spool files and inserting it into custom-designed document overlays
Catapult, for automatic distribution of spool files and PC files as electronic PDF and XLS files
Nexus, which offers secure, organised access to enterprise information, via a browser, in an IBM i-hosted web portal.

See how some of these tools are put to use

With an extensive network of the world’s leading IBM i vendors, you can access the best IBM i specific development, support, maintenance and security products on the market. Not only that, you also get access to our IBM i product specialists so you can get the best of these products. Read the case studies below to see how we are helping to make the best use of their IBM i.

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