September 2004

• Industry Observer - These resources provide information about the changes in e-business, the issues involved in implementing a wireless network, developing and integrating JavaServer Faces, and more.
• Buyers Guide to iSeries High-Availability Solutions - Are system demands forcing you to consider ways to reduce planned and unplanned outages? A high-availability (HA) solution may be the answer. This buyers guide surveys some features of HA products and gives you a place to start looking.
• Time to Reconsider Java - Today's applications typically use a mix of different technologies, including Java, RPG, and Cobol. The key to enabling such technologies to coexist is the Model-View-Control (MVC) architecture. Using MVC opens a host of development possibilities.
• Hot New Products -
• Back to the Future - iSeries NEWS launches a new monthly column about iSeries product news, its general relevance, and market issues related to products.
• More Power for POWER - In this humor column, Astro, our canine correspondent, overhears some exciting tidbits about the new POWER6. The solution for achieving more power is so simple, it's hard to believe that no one has thought of this before!
• LPAR: The Solution to Your Consolidation Needs? - LPAR is a natural for consolidation, but you must still consider several important factors to be sure that it's the right solution for your shop.
• Offshoring IT: Should you take the Plunge? - Simply moving projects offshore does not always save money. In fact, it may cost you more than if you handled them domestically. Offshoring is a business strategy for which you must consider many factors beyond the dollars.
• Network Chemistry's RFprotect - Network Chemistry's RFprotect is a Wi-Fi monitoring system that detects and helps mitigate Wi-Fi vulnerabilities, such as rogue access points, unencrypted clients, and denial of service attacks.
• The LPAR Evolution Continues - Early adoption of LPAR technology was limited to large shops with complex infrastructures, but today more than 20,000 partitioned machines are in production, and companies are using LPAR in ways IBM never envisioned.
• f.y.iSeries - iSeries Pricing, IBM 2Q04 Results, iSeries Homeland Security, Software Licensing, and more.
• IBM Brings Out the Big Iron - IBM delivers new i5 570 models, new backup servers, and two new capacity on demand options.
• Improve Application Architecture with Database Solutions - Using triggers, stored procedures and user-defined functions enhances modularity and code reuse, helps ensure reliability and security for networked applications, and can often improve application performance.
• FAQs: iSeries Access Family -
• Free Your Apps from Key Generation with a DB2 Sequence - New in V5R3, the DB2 Sequence object lets DB2 take care of simple application code such as key value generation. This can reduce the amount of code you must write as well as make your solutions more efficient.
• Dr. I. Doctor - Dr. I. Doctor explains why you should block AOL’s Internet client on your corporate network and how to troubleshoot a weird DHCP problem.
• Tech Corner -
• From Power Tips for iSeries Database and SQL: Updating Fields with New V5R2 ILE RPG BIF -
• Placing an SQL Schema in an ASP -
• From Power Tips for RPG IV -
• Rounding Intermediate Results -
• The Good, The Bad, The Ugly -
• More Web Tools for iSeries Programmers - Continuing on the RPG-to-J2EE road map, explore how to use the Web tools in WDSc to actually build a running piece of a Web application, leveraging only existing RPG code and your existing RPG skills.
• Introduction to the iSeries Graphical Systems Debugger - The iSeries graphical system debugger uses an advanced feature called Service Entry Points to make multi-job debugging tasks a breeze.
• Automating Domino Authentication on the Web - Here's an example of how to integrate a standard portal application with a Domino authentication application by letting a Web site visitor simply click a link to successfully authenticate with the Domino server.
• Managing Partitioning with iSeries Navigator - Since V5R1, iSeries Navigator has offered lots of partitioning functions for creating and managing partitions on the iSeries. You can, for example, move memory around as you see fit, monitor partitions, and automate partition configuration.
• Build In TCP/IP Security - TCP/IP presents multiple challenges for security, but it's an inevitable part of our networks. Here's how to build in security from the start.
• Lock Down Your Wi-Fi Network - If you have, or are considering, a wireless LAN, you might also have a security problem. Wi-Fi networks are attractive targets for all manner of hackers, and securing them is difficult. Find out what you're up against – and how to lock out the unwashed.
• What is my Job Waiting For, and Why? - The PEX Analyzer tool provides multiple levels of information for iSeries disk I/O operation analysis, including data showing how long a job had to wait for disk operations or other types of waits.
• LDAP Simplifies Intranet Access Control - Using the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) to authenticate user profiles provides intranet authentication across diverse non-iSeries services. This look at LDAP concepts shows how to provide OS/400 users access to a non-iSeries intranet site.
• A Plug-and-Play Output Queue Monitor - Fully automate spooling file management using spooled file support and this handy plug-and-play output queue monitor utility, which handles all monitoring functions for you.