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Volume 8, Number 1 -- January 9, 2008
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Scrubbing Your Web Data with Elbow Grease and AJAX
by Bob Butcher

Our salespeople were complaining that they could never get at customer information when making customer visits. Everything was green-screen on our AS/400, the VPN was slow, and an initiative was presented to me to see if I could create something Web-based for the salespeople to use in the field. After three months, my project was complete. The new Website, written with Active Server Pages (ASP), connected to our AS/400, and had all the bells and whistles. I was so proud that I had enabled our sales folks to have access to customer invoices, purchase orders, and orders information via the Internet. READ MORE >

Odds and Ends
by Ted Holt

I hope everybody enjoyed the holidays and got to take some time off. Christmas was wonderful for me. I am blessed more than I deserve to be. To start off a brand new year is this collection of odds and ends. I hope you find something useful. READ MORE >



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Admin Alert: Making Educated Guesses on CPU Utilization
by Joe Hertvik

In previous issues, I discussed how to activate and deactivate trial Capacity on Demand (CoD) processors on a System i 550 box. Once the trial ends, however, you have to decide whether the additional capacity helped system performance and whether your organization should permanently activate those processors. To help with that decision, I'll demonstrate a rough method for comparing before and after CPU performance in a trial CoD situation. READ MORE >


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We value your feedback and insights.  Feel free to send a letter to the editor.  Letters may be printed, unless otherwise specified, and edited for clarity or length. READ MORE >


 
Senior Technical Editor: Ted Holt
Technical Editors: Howard Arner, Joe Hertvik, Shannon O'Donnell, Kevin Vandever
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The Four Hundred
A New Year, A New IBM Systems and Technology Group

Rocket Software Buys NetManage for $69 Million

Servers Get Their First Power and Performance Benchmark

Mad Dog 21/21: Motherboarding

IDC 2008: It's Post Disruption, the Aftermath of Webification

The Linux Beacon
Red Hat Taps New CEO As It Reports Solid Third Quarter

Supermicro Preps for Quad-Socket Blade Push

IDC 2008: It's Post Disruption, the Aftermath of Webification

Servers Get Their First Power and Performance Benchmark

A New Year, A New IBM Systems and Technology Group

Four Hundred Stuff
Vision Seeks to Simplify HA Options with 'Hybrid' Solutions

PowerTech i5/OS Security Conference Open to All

CCSS Adds System i Battery Monitoring to QSystem Monitor

Quadrant's Formtastic Keeps Closer Watch on Print Jobs

Help/Systems Buys International Distributor

Big Iron
Sine Nomine Shows Off Solaris on System z

Top Mainframe Stories From Around the Web

Chats, Webinars, Seminars, Shows, and Other Happenings

System i PTF Guide
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December 29, 2007: Volume 9, Number 52

December 22, 2007: Volume 9, Number 51

December 15, 2007: Volume 9, Number 50

December 8, 2007: Volume 9, Number 49

December 1, 2007: Volume 9, Number 48

The Windows Observer
Windows Server 2008 RC1 Debuts with Group Policy Enhancements

Eleven Security Flaws Patched by Microsoft

AMD Stalled by a Bug in Barcelona Opterons

IDC Says Server Buyers Weigh Economy and Power in Q3

The Unix Guardian
Sun Open Sources Sparc T2 Chip, Too

AMD Stalled by a Bug in Barcelona Opterons

IDC Says Server Buyers Weigh Economy and Power in Q3

As I See It: What's Past Is Prologue

Four Hundred Monitor
Four Hundred Monitor's
Full iSeries Events Calendar

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Scrubbing Your Web Data with Elbow Grease and AJAX

Odds and Ends

Admin Alert: Making Educated Guesses on CPU Utilization

Four Hundred Guru

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