July 1998

• Read Only Access: Programming With VisualAge for Java -
• Read Only Access: JBuilder Essentials -
• In This Issue -
• Letters -
• The Keys to the Enterprise -
• Moving Right Along - The Blue Screen of Death - PC failures are no laughing matter, and Robert Tipton says it's time to hold Microsoft accountable for the thousands of catastrophic PC-related failures that occur every day.
• Newswatch -
• Lotus eSuite WorkPlace: Business Tools for Network Computing - Richard Sinn introduces the Lotus eSuite WorkPlace, a set of Java business productivity software designed for the network computing environment.
• Finally! TCP/IP Print Emulation and Device ID - Pam Jones reports on IBM's enhanced Telnet Server for OS/400, which debuted with V4R2 and is finally giving users network printing over TCP/IP that equals what they've enjoyed for years over SNA. Pam also covers emulation vendors' planned support for the new features.
• Network Station Pays Off for Tennessee Equipment Firm - Cheryl Ross profiles Thompson Machinery's move to the IBM Network Station, a change made in pursuit of better reliability, manageability, and control of the desktop.
• Intranet Answers -
• Extend Your Intranet with VPNs and PPTP - A virtual private network (VPN) reduces your long-distance communications costs by turning the Internet into your company's very own WAN. Brian Singleton tells how to set up a VPN using Windows 95/NT and the Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP).
• Put AS/400 Spool Files on the Web! - Brian Singleton shows how you can let users access AS/400 reports via the Web with utility SNDSPLWEB, which converts spool files to HTML documents and moves them to an AS/400 Web server.
• The Network Station Revisited - IBM's network computer has been generating headlines for almost two years. But is it the stuff that real-life networks are made of? One of our technical experts, John Enck, takes another look.
• Interpol 1.6 - A sophisticated firewall doesn't have to be expensive and hard to manage. Mel Beckman reviews Sonic Systems' Interpol firewall, which gives you serious protection in an inexpensive, easily administered package.
• V4R2 RPG: What's New? - Bryan Meyers examines the latest release of OS/400, which enhances RPG IV's indicators, compiler options in the source, variable-length fields, and more.
• Controlling Java Program Execution Flow - IBMers George Farr and Phil Coulthard help you master the similarities and differences between RPG IV's and Java's conditional and loop structures in the seventh article in the Java for RPG Programmers series.
• Jacana 1.1 - Chuck Lundgren reviews Momentum's Jacana - a Windows report writer.
• Easy SNA File Transfer Between AS/400s - Jean-Jacques Risch's two utilities, one based on DDM and the other on ICF's FTS facility, move files over an SNA link without requiring SNADS configuration.
• Prevent Network Denial of Service Attacks - Mel Beckman explains that computers on a TCP/IP network are vulnerable to denial of service attacks - whether the network is connected to the Internet or not - and outlines the measures to take to prevent such attacks.
• How Secure Is Java? - IBMer Patrick Botz explains how mechanisms in the Java language, compiler, and runtime environment make Java applications and servlets safe and Java applets secure.
• Remote Journal - The Backup System Enabler - Roger Mittelstadt introduces V4R2's remote journal function, which for the first time enables synchronous journaling to a remote AS/400 database for use in data replication and hot-backup environments.
• The Case of the Too Popular Pop-Up - Frequently used programs can impact your AS/400's performance. Dan Cruikshank and James Stewart show you how to improve CPU by minimizing the impact of jobs starting and ending.
• Tech Corner -
• Client Access Family FAQs -
• Security FAQs -
• New Products & Services -
• Buyers Guide: Java-based 5250 Emulators - NEWS/400 reports the features of Java-based 5250 emulators from nine vendors.
• Street Talk -
• The QINACTITV system value controls how long a job can be inactive before some action is taken, such -
• I’ve had some client/server applications fail because the profile they run under has an expired pass -
• Can I prevent several users with *SPLCTL authority from accessing certain confidential output queues -
• How do I replace several users’ *CHANGE authority to a file with *USE authority to the file? -
• Unattended Reclaim Storage -
• Net.Data Program -
• Batch Changes to Physical Files -
• FTP File Transfers -
• Call Stack Level Problem -
• History Log File Numbers -
• Make ILE Procedure Prototypes More Accessible -