January 2000

• PTF Watch -
• Street Talk -
• Hot New Products -
• Saving the AS/400 from a Mac-like Fate - We’ve seen what can happen to superior technologies that suffer from poorly executed marketing programs or myopic corporate strategies. Bob Tipton implores us to not allow such a fate to befall the AS/400.
• In This Issue: Wild, Wild Web -
• Choosing Your AS/400 Web Development Gear - AS/400 shops have a variety of tools from which to choose for their e-business development efforts. Bill Benjamin summarizes the major categories in the market today to help you select the right tools for your applications.
• Rein in Your “Green-Screen” Apps for the Web - Brian Singleton discusses the strategic value of revamping “green-screen” AS/400 applications for the Web.
• AS/400 Post-Y2K: A New, Improved Install Base - The millennium change refreshes the AS/400 install base by identifying users who are current; thus, IBM implements strategies to move these current users to new technologies and win new midrange customers.
• CRM Puts Customers in Control - Nahid Jilovec says customer relationship management (CRM) is about suppliers altering their internal systems to let customers better manage their own accounts.
• Taming the Wild, Wild Web - Daniel Magid discusses how traditional and Web-based AS/400 application development environments differ and some strategies for managing an AS/400 Web-development project.
• RPG Breaks New Ground - Brian R. Smith says that the new IBM Redbook Who Knew You Could Do That with RPG IV? is a testament to RPG’s adaptability and was written to convince AS/400 administrators to move from RPG/400 to RPG IV.
• Letters -
• Tech Corner -
• Is the AS/6000 Just Around the Corner? - According to Roger Pence, the AS/400 has a secret — a Unix runtime environment called Private Address Space Environment (PASE) — that could save the platform.
• Newswatch Listings -
• XML: The Future Language of e-Commerce - SML, TalkML, and XML/EDI are just a few of many XML-based initiatives. Clive Astle explains how these and other XML derivatives may help businesses realize the full potential of e-commerce.
• The Power of User Indexes, Part 3 - Gary Guthrie concludes his user index series by adding procedures to retrieve user index entries, remove user index entries, and delete user indexes to service program IdxAPI.
• Jacada Connects to Domino Eases Domino Development - Jacada Product Marketing Director Rob Morris describes how his company’s Domino-to-AS/400 application integration tool captures 5250 emulation screens and helps link them with a Domino interface.
• AS/400 NetServer Adds Windows Terminal Support - Now that the AS/400’s file and print server supports Windows NT 4.0, Terminal Server Edition, learn how to configure it and create IFS directories and file shares to serve PC applications and files to TSE clients.
• Query Performance Tuner Consolidates Query Options - IBMer Kent Milligan explains how to work with the QAQQINI file, a single interface to use for setting all the attributes that affect the query optimizer. The query options file, or query performance tuner, is new in V4R4.
• Webserver: A Better Search Engine - NetQuestion, introduced in HTTP Server for AS/400 in V3R7, is a good search facility, but Terry Smith says the new Webserver Search Engine offers even more capabilities.
• There's Still a Place for Program Generators - Benoît Herr opines that programmer tools that focus on business process reengineering and Web commerce are getting ahead of the real needs of some AS/400 sites for traditional host-based applications.
• How do I determine when an object was last saved? -
• Must I always attach my alternate IPL tape device to the first system bus (bus one) to perform syste -
• Has IBM made any save performance improvements for saving objects in AS/400 Integrated File System ( -
• Debugging an SQLCBL or SQLRPG Program -
• FTP from PC to AS/400 Folder -
• Copying and Converting AS/400 Documents to Word -
• RPG IV Date Data Types -
• Automated Client Access Install -
• ANZQRY Problem -
• Full System Save -
• RPG IV vs. RPG III -
• Backup & Recovery FAQs -
• In Focus: Interview with AS/400 GM Tom Jarosh: AS/400 Update -