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August 2002

Security
  • In This Issue -
  • Letters -
  • f.y.iSeries -
  • A Software Forklift for Your Data Warehouse - If a data warehousing project is in your future, Coglin Mill's RODIN offers a structured approach and a broad palette of tools that can make the task much easier than building everything on your own.
  • Hot New Products -
  • Single Sign-on Support in V5R2 - Enterprise Identity Mapping, a new feature in V5R2, combines with Kerberos to simplify user authentication and ease password maintenance woes for administrators, end users, and application providers.
  • Designing Security into Applications - The best way to secure new applications is to design security features into the software from the start. Some planning pointers and capabilities recently made available by IBM provide the tools necessary to get the job done.
  • Across the Platforms with Java RMI - Java RMI is an ideal solution for lightweight distributed computing across platforms. Here's an example of how to use Java RMI to connect your legacy iSeries applications to newer applications on remote platforms.
  • CGI Calls Ye to the Web - Do your traditional AS/400 programming skills have you feeling left behind in the e-commerce world? With the CGIDEV2 tools, RPG and Cobol developers can program Web applications using familiar concepts and languages.
  • Set Your Code Free with RPG Toolbox - Linoma Software's RPG Toolbox not only converts fixed-format to free-format RPG, it also converts RPG III to RPG IV and provides several productivity tools for iSeries developers.
  • Lock Down System Service Tools with V5R1 - Using the service tools user profiles in V5R1 gives you more control over who can access your system service tools and lets you grant users varying degrees of access to them.
  • Destination: IFS, Part 2 - Enhanced performance, longer path names, and journal support are just a few of the benefits you'll realize by storing stream file data in the iSeries' integrated file system (IFS). Here's how to move data to the IFS from Unix and NetWare.
  • Take Control of IFS Disk Storage - If you need help managing the IFS, then check out the DspIFSObj utility. DsIFSObj lets you track each object's name, type, and size in a user-specified path to quickly isolate disk usage issues.
  • Dr. I. Doctor - Dr. I. Doctor discusses wireless security and traffic shaping.
  • Tech Corner -
  • Setting Up ODBC Drivers at the Network Level -

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