NFS has long had a tentative relationship to security. As with its cousin, CIFS/SMB (more commonly know as Windows File Sharing), security was not an area of primary focus. The elements of security that exist are significant, but they are nontrivial to implement, particularly across operating systems and with third-party applications.
Because Webdocs maintains a separation between its internal file structure and the operating system’s, you can organize documents for your users in one manner, while organizing them on the IFS in an entirely different manner. This article takes you through the steps of reorganizing the folder structure on the IFS.
The dream of taking your company into a completely paperless world may feel daunting. But there are little things that can assist you in taking that big step toward your paperless goals, all while saving your business money and helping the environment. So where do you start?
Wondering about best practices for automating your IBM i processes with Robot systems management solutions? Take a look at this list and get off to a good start.
Founded in 1867, Bank of Stockton has always been at the forefront of banking technology innovation. With 17 branches in five counties across central California, Bank of Stockton is known as a community bank with a reputation for continually investing in new technology-based products and services to better serve its customers. Whether working to attract and retain customers, protect privacy, or...
Canvas is the foundation of many great works of art. For many years, Tara Materials has been a major supplier of canvas. Its leading product line, Fredrix, was first manufactured in 1868. Today, Tara has two factories in Tijuana, California and Lawrenceville, Georgia that assemble more than three million pieces of stretched canvas and make about half a million yards of coated canvas each year.
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Cashman Equipment Company is not only one of the highest-rated Caterpillar equipment dealers in North America, but it is also one of the largest privately-owned companies in Nevada. Headquartered in Henderson, they employ over 600 dedicated team members of various professional and technical backgrounds. Nationally recognized by Caterpillar for outstanding sales performance, Cashman Equipment is a...
Part of the American Automobile Association (AAA) family, AAA Life Insurance Company offers a variety of competitive life insurance, annuity, and travel accident products. With over one million policies, many people rely on AAA Life to help provide protection for their loved ones.
As Senior Systems Engineer at AAA Life, Randy Wittner is in charge of their IBM i environment, overseeing two S824...
When TPi began to evaluate opportunities in this area, customers were not yet battering down the doors demanding electronic invoices and statements, but the company recognized the market trends and proactively decided to provide Web access for many of the documents it produces.
Toter sells primarily to municipalities, but also to private haulers. That business generates a large number of documents in the form of bids, proposals and contracts. Warrantees associated with contracts can last for as long as 10 years. Consequently, the related documents must be retained for a considerable time.
Food quality and safety is a paramount concern for everyone from farmers and food processers to end-consumers, and everyone in between. Not surprisingly, ensuring food quality requires the management of a considerable volume of documents.
All organizations must take into account two important characteristics of documents. First, the information they contain is often invaluable. Second, paper burns. These two traits were on the school district’s mind when it decided to look for a way to better protect critical personnel documents.
Traditionally, the road between an instrument-maker and music-makers was paved, in part, with paper. For example, Roland stores over 200,000 pages of legal documents alone. Because they were stored on paper, searching through them to find a specific document was time consuming.
A medical center’s goal is superior health outcomes. Medical treatments and services are clearly paramount in achieving that objective, but good healthcare also demands good recordkeeping. Each patient visit generates documents, including not just the patient’s medical chart, but also registration information and various forms required to receive reimbursement from insurance companies or the government.
The number of forms and documents required for most real estate transactions makes the business of providing title insurance not only labor-intensive, but paper-intensive. Reams of paper documents are generated, all of which need to be easily accessed and safely and securely stored. Realstar quickly learned that the 20-30 documents involved in a typical closing created a document management problem.
It’s natural to think of a college as meeting its educational objectives in lecture halls, seminar rooms and labs. That’s largely the case, but the business of education also requires the processing of a lot of paper.
According to some pundits of years gone by, we’re supposed to be living in a paperless world now. So much for pundits! Paper is still very much a part of most offices, but the Ontario Universities’ Application Centre (OUAC) has reduced its paper burden with the help of Webdocs from Fortra.
Managing healthcare billing can be a major challenge for hospitals. Kansas-based Midwest Healthy System developed a data center that supports 29 rural hospitals in Kansas and Nebraska for just that reason.