August 2008

• Safari Safari: On the Trail of Priceless Information - Quickly accessing the most current technical information is critical to keeping your to-do list short. O’Reilly’s Safari online book service is one of the best paths to that knowledge.
• Your Server Could Have a Second Life - Who are we to make assumptions about the servers behind the web? If web services are truly driven by standards, any server should be able to take on the persona of a web service.
• The VoIP Devil You Know - Sean uses broken equipment as an opportunity to try a different VoIP service and finds that old adage about Beelzebub to be only too true.
• f.y.iSystem (August 2008) -
• IBM Announcements (August 2008) -
• VIP Could Put IBM i on Growth Path - With more than $500 million in sales, the VIP initiative has exceeded all IBM’s expectations by targeting micro-markets that need high-quality IT solutions but typically don’t have the resources available to implement and manage them — a perfect breeding ground for the black box previously known as the System i.
• Hot New Products (August 2008) -
• Need a Fix? Try a PTF - The System i is indeed a great work of art. Help it preserve its inner divinity with an occasional fix.
• Defect Tracking and Reporting Essentials - Tracking, prioritizing, and managing defects are critical tasks for effective software development. To help ease these chores, this article outlines the defect tracking process and discusses the requirements for selecting a defect tracking tool.
• Work Out Your Database with Applied Logic's File Edit Utility - With Applied Logic's FEU, your database will get the workout of a lifetime. Just install FEU and you are ready to go! FEU offers a simplified and flexible way to manage your database, something that may have seemed impossible before.
• Practical Web Services on the System i - Which approach for creating web services from existing System i programs appeals to you? Check out what the IBM Integrated Web Services Server for i and Rational Developer for System i offer.
• Get More from Your Cascading Style Sheets - Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) can do more than make a web page more visually appealing — they can help make your whole website more flexible and functional. This article shows some CSS basics to get you started.
• V5R4 CL Support in an API List-Processing Program - As of V5R4, CL now supports variable types, subroutines, and BIFs. This list-processing program shows how you can use them.
• Pattern Recognition: The Maintenance Benefit - With a tiered design, client programs do not require knowledge of the database’s location or format. You can alter the core service program used to maintain the database without affecting any of the clients that use subprocedures in the service program.
• DNS Episode III - The Domain Name System (DNS) is the single most important mechanism for reliable Internet communications. Learn about recent DNS developments that affect your organization and how they can improve your network resilience, enhance security, and ease your transition to IPv6.
• OpenSSH: The Swiss Army Knife for Secure Networking - The OpenSSH toolkit has tools for interactive logons, file transfers, tunneling, and remote command execution, and it does it all with industry-standard cryptography and authentication. See how you can leverage this free toolkit from your i5/OS programs.
• Storage Area Networks Virtualize Disk - Storage Area Networks traditionally operate in the proprietary network world of Fibre Channel, but the advent of iSCSI brings SANs into the mainstream enterprise LAN. Learn how the new SAN lets you virtualize disk storage, gaining economies of scale that save money, time, and energy.
• Industry Observer (August 2008) - Contemplating Programming Languages * Standardizing Protection for Online Transactions * Beyond Archiving * Audit Trails for E-Voting * Data Interpretation
• Tech Corner (August 2008) - Calling a Procedure with RPG Free
• Feedback (August 2008) -
• The Essential Guide to Document Management - V6R1 provides the latest in new products and tools to give added flexibility to the native print functions integrated into the operating system.
• Dr. I Doctor (August 2008) - Dr. I Doctor explains the latest spam plagues and compares Fibre Channel and iSCSI for storage virtualization.