July 2000

• RPG IV Hits Its Stride - Pam Jones explains that the need to modernize legacy applications has made many in the AS/400 community take a new look at RPG IV.
• Silicon-on-Insulator: A New Era in Chip Technology - Frank Soltis explains a major breakthrough in silicon chip technology called silicon-on-insulator (SOI). This technology will produce faster, cooler chips that improve performance.
• Open Source and the AS/400 - Leslie Russell says that although the original, grass-roots Linux open-source campaign sought to transfer vendors' power to developers and end users, the budding AS/400 open-source community must embrace vendors as partners.
• CVTSPLSTMF Makes Spools Cool - Peter Clifford's nifty utility lets you publish AS/400 reports as ASCII text, HTML, or PDF files using the CVTSPLSTMF command.
• Distribute Spooled Files and Merged Forms via E-Mail - Distributing AS/400 spooled documents and merged forms via e-mail can be an economical answer for companies that rely heavily on paper forms. Formation mg's flashMail400 can provide a simple solution.
• New AS/400 Hardware Takes Performance to the Extreme - IBM's latest 8xx/270 hardware significantly boosts performance over previous hardware releases, yet V4R5 brings little new function to OS/400.
• An Introduction to PTFs - Gary Guthrie provides a step-by-step guide to AS/400 PTFs, explaining how to determine when PTFs are required on your system, what PTFs you need, how to order PTFs, and how to install and apply those PTFs.
• Using IBM's ILE Debugger, Part 2 - Gary Guthrie reviews the breakpoint features of IBM's ILE Debugger to show how to find runtime errors in ILE RPG applications.
• PTF Watch - Check out the latest significant HIPER PTFs for V4R1, V4R2, V4R3, and V4R4.
• Backup and Recovery FAQs -
• Migrating to the Express Client - As end-of-service dates for older clients draw near, it's time to migrate to Client Accss Express. Learn the important details before you join the flock.
• Servlets in Action - Julian Monypenny provides some advanced Java tips and techniques to help you create easy-to-use Web forms.
• Street Talk - Rochester code names; Orphan System/400; Internet Setup Wizard
• RPG IV's EVAL Operation - Bryan Meyers shows how to use RPG IV's EVAL opcode to handle complex calculations more easily by assigning a value to a result in a single expression and use full-length field names for greater code clarity.
• Completing the Task in RPG - Jef Sutherland provides an RPG-based solution for a simple transaction-processing function.
• Choosing the Best Approach - Jef Sutherland introduces an article series in which he and NEWS/400 tech editors Mike Cravitz and Dan Darnell each provide a solution to a common development task. The three approaches they use are RPG IV, embedded SQL in RPG IV, and Java.
• Completing the Task Using RPG IV with Embedded SQL - Mike Cravitz uses RPG IV and embedded SQL to provide a solution for a simple transaction-processing function.
• Completing the Task in Java - Dan Darnell offers a simple Java-based solution to a sample membership transaction-processing function.
• Letter from the Editor in Chief -
• Letters -
• In This Issue -
• Hot New Products -
• Tech Corner -
• In Focus: AS/400 AD Tools Strategy Brings e-Business Mountain to Mohammed - Tools Bundle will make e-development easy and affordable.
• In Focus: PASE Branches Out -
• Newswatch Listings -
• In Focus: AS/400 Gets Hip to the Wireless Jive -
• Client Access Express Client FAQs -
• Converting OV/400 Doc to Word -
• Short and Long Table Names -
• Easy Stored Procedure Result Set Debug -
• RUNRMTCMD User ID and Password -
• CRTSRCPF Parameters -
• OLE DB Provider -
• Retrieve an IP Address via a CL Program -
• Working with the AS/400 iPTF Function - Gary Guthrie and Craig Pelkie take a closer look at IBM’s iPTF function, which you can use to download AS/400 fixes from the Internet.
• Does Client Access Express for Windows provide 5250 emulation and Data Transfer? -
• Does PC5250 display emulation let me assign a unique workstation device ID, or does TN5250 assign it -