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 . . .
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.