April 1999

• Buyers Guide: AS/400 Change Management Tools - NEWS/400 compares features of 11 AS/400 change management software tools offered by several companies.
• RPG IV Style: Writing Solid Code - In this article, I'd like to share some ideas about how to write solid code.
• In This Issue -
• Letters -
• e-Business: A Tempest in a Teapot? - Robert Tipton maintains that even by the rosiest forecasts, e-business will represent a minuscule part of the total economy for years to come.
• The 64-Bit Computer with Two-Bit Documentation - Roger Pence argues that IBM needs to upgrade its printed and online AS/400 documentation to make it clear, complete, concise, consistent, and easily searchable.
• APRIL FOOLS: After Y2K: The Next Challenge - Xavier Delorme takes a tongue-in-cheek look at what other data field-length crises await developers who've mastered their Y2K challenges.
• Newswatch -
• Calling the Plays: Strategies for Successful IS Team Management - Jeremy Likness shows you how to keep your IS team motivated, satisfied, and productive.
• VPNs - Paving the Way to e-Commerce - Nahid Jilovec reveals how VPNs are becoming the preferred communications option for Web-enabled business environments by offering the security and reliability that e-commerce demands.
• Getting an AS/400 Web Site Up and Running - Jim Hoopes explains the steps needed to build an AS/400 Web site, including how to plan the site, implement security, and make Web pages available on your AS/400.
• Web Server Performance Secrets Revealed! - Brian Singleton discusses ways to boost the performance of HTTP Server for AS/400, or any other AS/400 Web server, by tuning TCP/IP, your Web server configuration, and Windows 95/98 clients.
• Using HTML Forms with Net.Data - Jef Sutherland shows you how to develop interactive Web pages using a Net.Data macro that calls and processes an HTML form.
• RPG Looks to the Future in V4R4 - Bryan Meyers explains how V4R4 moves RPG - the trusty rear guard of AS/400 applications - closer to the emerging front lines of Java, the Internet, and client/server.
• JavaBeans for Data Access - Alfonso Rodriguez explains how two VisualAge for Java beans let you skip low-level JDBC coding and build data-access applications by pointing and clicking.
• Using Blackboards with Trigger Programs - Mike Cravitz explains how to use a "blackboard" to send additional data between an application and a trigger program when the information sent with a trigger buffer isn't enough.
• Surveyor/400 Version 1.00 - Bryan Meyers reviews Linoma Software's Java-based graphical interface that makes AS/400 database information more accessible and doesn't require Client Access.
• Who's Visiting Your Web Server? - Gary Guthrie's UPDHTTPLOG utility command uses the access logging feature in HTTP Server and other AS/400 Web servers to capture fully qualified domain names of clients accessing your Web server.
• AS/400's NetWare Integration Adds TCP/IP Support - IBMer Richard Sinn explains new features in the V4R3 version of the OS/400 Enhanced Integration for Novell NetWare licensed product.
• FastSite 2.0 - Brian Singleton reviews Lotus's FastSite, a tool that lets you create Web sites from existing documents and publish them to an AS/400 or other Web server.
• Build a History of AS/400 Disk Usage - Terry Smith's Library History utility has two parts: A CL program collects AS/400 library size information as often as you choose and stores it in a database file. A Web front end uses HTML forms, Net.Data macros, and third-party Java applets to display library information in a Web browser.
• APRIL FOOLS: Tech Corner -
• New Products & Services -
• Street Talk -
• Lingo Bingo -
• PTF Watch - PTF Watch lists selected High Impact Pervasive (HIPER) PTFs that aren't — or aren't yet — part of a cumulative PTF package.
• April Fools: Maintaining Correct Operating Temperatures -
• Tech Corner -
• From Which Job Queue Was that Batch Job Started? -
• Forward AS/400 Mail to Another Mail Server -
• NT on the IPCS and Defrag Software -
• Displaying Information on Multiple Workstations -
• Why Use Service Programs? -
• Viewing Locks on DLOs -
• Enabling F9 to Retrieve Previous Commands -
• Data Area Problem -
• Converting RFT-DCA Documents to Word -
• ILE Export/Import Variables -
• Updating a Database File via CL -
• Tracking Changes to an Object -