September 1998

• Buyers Guide: Is Data Replication Right for Your Enterprise? - Is maintaining the same database on more than one AS/400 something you need to do? Some basic questions can help you decide if and howmuch you need.
• In This Issue -
• Letters -
• Just Say No to Vacuum Tubes - Like vacuum-tube television sets, today's network computers aren't the long-term answer we once thought they might be, says Robert Tipton.
• A Needlessly Bitter Pill - IBM has made it tough to swallow, but Roger Pence says Software Subscription for AS/400 actually may be good for you.
• Learning to Flip Hamburgers - René Rodríguez and Eduardo Ross explain why RPG is a better business language than Java on the AS/400.
• Betting on Java or RPG - Paul Conte argues that Java can replace RPG in business application programming environments.
• Newswatch -
• Full Speed Ahead: IBM Announces V4R3 and Hot High-End Hardware - IBM's September 1 announcements power up the AS/400 hardware line and boost the system's Java, e-business, and system management capabilities. Al Barsa, Jr., and Sharon Hoffman summarize the high points. Sidebars by Cheryl Ross focus on the e-business and database announcements.
• Building on a Solid Foundation - Building a house is different from building an information system, but there are lessons to learn from housing contractors, Paul Kjer says, about the fundamentals of good project management.
• From Static to "EC-static" Web Sites - Nahid Jilovec reviews some rules to keep in mind when you design an e-commerce Web site.
• AS/400 TCP/IP Gains Ground - V4R2 updates existing TCP/IP protocols, adds new protocols and services, and improves TCP/IP performance. V4R3 has fewer, but still important, enhancements. Plus, IBM makes a major user interface policy change: Some new functions have no supporting CL commands. Read all about it in this article by Mel Beckman.
• AS/400 Telnet Catches Up to APPC Clients - Dawn May explains the new Telnet support for exit points, printer emulation, automatic sign-on, specified device descriptions, inactive-job time-out, and disconnected jobs.
• Client Access Supports AS/400 Telnet Enhancements - You asked for it, and now you've got it. IBMer Carole Miner gives a quick look at how Client Access lets you assign TN5250 emulation sessions to a specific device, bypass sign-on, and emulate AS/400 printers.
• Set Up Client Access's New TCP/IP Printer Emulation - This complete guide by IBMer Becky Schmieding provides the required PTF and service pack numbers, helps you choose which type of emulation's right for you, steps you through configuration, outlines how to collect information on printing problems for IBM support, and tells where to go for more help.
• Sentinel/400 1.1 - Remote access authentication gets complex when users at multiple remote locations need dial-in access to multiple corporate sites. Mel Beckman reviews Better On-Line Solutions' Sentinel/400, which brings the network-standard RADIUS protocol to the AS/400, giving you centralized administration for passwords and other remote access security attributes.
• Essbase/400 - Jim Hoopes reviews ShowCase Corporation's Essbase/400, an online analytical processing (OLAP) tool that's part of ShowCase's Strategy data warehousing offering.
• No More SNADS Snags - Peter Clifford's CPYOBJ utility lets you avoid SNADS hassles and transfer objects from one AS/400 to another in one quick step.
• Save Time with Client Access Silent Installations - Brian Singleton explains how to create a standard Client Access configuration and deploy it to numerous PCs in a fraction of the time manual installation requires.
• Configuring and Administering Lotus eSuite WorkPlace - Richard Sinn describes how to install, configure, and administer the Lotus eSuite WorkPlace and provides some troubleshooting tips.
• Send Internet Mail from an ILE Program - IBMers John Hall and Susan Hall explain the V4R2 QtmmSendMail API (also available via PTF for V3R7 and V4R1), which provides a more flexible way for an ILE RPG, C, or Cobol program to send Internet mail messages than using the SNDDST command.
• RPG Utility Puts QtmmSendMail API to Work - David Leland explains ILE RPG utility SNDEMAIL, which provides an example of how to use the QtmmSendMail API to send Internet text e-mail messages and attachments from an RPG program.
• Tech Corner -
• Security FAQs -
• New Products -
• Street Talk -
• Can our AS/400 use object-level security at security level 20? -
• If I define a program for the password-validation program (QPWDVLDPGM) system value, when is the val -
• If a program is defined in the QPWDVLDPGM system value, why isn’t it called when I run the CHGUSRPRF -
• One of the exit points in the OS/400’s File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server application passes a user -
• Why must this exit point receive a password? -
• Create an Interactive SQL Utility -
• Copying OV/400 Directories via FTP -
• Displaying Status Messages -
• Query/400 and Database Files -
• V.35 vs. V.24 Communications -
• UPDDATA and Validity-Checking Program -
• "Serious Storage Condition" Message -
• Copying AS/400 Screens to Word in Win95 -
• CA for Win95 Exit Programs -
• ISDB Question -
• Viewing Suspended Jobs -
• CPYTOPCD Command -
• Message Queue Security -