April 2000

• In This Issue -
• e-Finishing School: Can Your CEO Pass the Mustard? - E-business has rewritten speed to market, branding, customer service, supply chain reengineering, and market capitalization dynamics. Bob Tipton asks whether your senior management can adapt.
• Street Talk - Soap suds, security, and brute force . . .
• PTF Watch -
• Hot New Products -
• Racing to a Componentware Standard - Jay Navneetha says that as application development shifts from the client/server model to an n-tier distributed model, a race is on to define a standard for interchangeable middleware components.
• During a recent disaster-recovery test at our hot site, users lost authority to commands that are st -
• When I restored a library using backup media, all the private authorities for the objects were missi -
• Backup & Recovery FAQs -
• I read in a March announcement letter that IBM intends to stop shipping the Client Access for Window -
• I use these clients. How should I prepare for IBM’s withdrawal of them? -
• I read at the IBM Web site that May 31, 2000, is the end-of-service date for V3R1M3 of the Windows 9 -
• Client Access Express Client FAQs -
• Making the Database Connection - ASNA’s Tim Janssen explains Acceler8DB (ADB) and DataGate/400 (DG/400), ASNA’s middleware solution for communications between modern applications and AS/400 databases.
• Using IBM’s ILE Debugger, Part 1 -
• Building Our Own Bridge to the Future - Julian Hill argues that adopting Java and SanFrancisco doesn’t automatically solve the problem of making large legacy application systems ready for e-business.
• A Fresh Look at CODE/400 - Sharon L. Hoffman presents an overview of this robust development tool that lets you work with nearly any combination of client- and AS/400-based components and provides syntax checking for most languages, a full range of editing functions, and more.
• OLE DB and ADO: Bridging the Gap Between Windows and the AS/400 - Michael Otey explains how to access relational and nonrelational data sources using the OLE DB for AS/400 provider and ADO interface.
• Colorize SEU! - Brian Stapleton explains how to color your RPG source with two simple utilities — COLORRPG for RPG/400 and COLORILE for RPG IV.
• Using a Web Registry File with Net.Data - Jef Sutherland shows you how to build a Web application that uses a Net.Data macro and Web registry file to let employees post their vacation data on an intranet.
• Newswatch Listings -
• Letters -
• April Fools: Mayans Link AS/400s to End of the World -
• April Fools: Catch a Rising Star -
• April Fools: Space Aliens Want to Steal Our Technology! -
• April Fools: Cut & Collect! Pookemoon Cards! -
• April Fools: 12 Ways to Stretch Your IS Budget -
• April Fools' Horoscopes -
• April Fools: The Matrix is Real, says Ted -
• April Fools: Classifieds -
• April Fools: Advice for the Non-Computerlorn -
• April Fools: The Multipurpose AS/400 with Carrying Case and Four-Wheeled Traveling Cart -
• Converting EBCDIC to ASCII with CPYTOIMPF -
• Missing Excel Data Transfer Option -
• Determining Needed Cume PTFs -
• System Request Menu -
• From the Editor in Chief -
• Sending a Save File via FTP -
• Copy from Physical File to a Save File -
• QUSRMBRD API -
• Passing an Indicator from RPG to CL -
• Tech Corner -
• Send Guaranteed Messages with MQSeries - Craig Pelkie explains the workings of MQSeries, IBM’s multiplatform messaging middleware product that makes it easier to implement cross-platform applications that communicate in realtime or near realtime.
• AS/400 Data Access Middleware Buyers Guide - This buyers guide surveys the features of a sampling of AS/400 data access products for Windows 95/98/NT/2000 clients, among them ODBC, JDBC, and OLE DB drivers, APIs, and DLLs.
• In Focus: PIE Charts a Course for AS/400 Education -
• In Focus: Interview with Frank Soltis: Unix, NUMA, and UDB -