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Volume 11, Number 5 -- February 2, 2011
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Synchronize Your Outlook Calendar with DB2 for i ERP Data
Hey, Mike:

We would like to merge the Resource Assigned Calendar from our JDE Service Management software with the Outlook Calendar so that we only need to look in one place. We also want to receive an email from Outlook and create a case. READ MORE >

Another Reason Why Function Subprocedures Should Not Modify Their Parameters
by Ted Holt

I've never liked the idea of functions modifying their parameters. It seems to me that a function should accept zero or more input values and return one and only one value. READ MORE >



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Admin Alert: QPWDRULES Rules!!! Opening Up User Password Options with i 6.1
by Joe Hertvik

Like many i/OS shops, we recently started upgrading several systems from i/OS V5R4Mx to i 6.1. One of the more interesting features about i 6.1 is the new Password rules (QPWDRULES) system value, which allows you to control and extend password composition settings to designate all your password rules in one place and to include password composition options that weren't available in earlier versions of the operating system. READ MORE >


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VMware Go promoted to Pro

Intel shakes off $1bn chipset flaw

Intel finds flaw in Sandy Bridge chipset

VMware creates private clouds for newbies

Verizon borgs Terremark for $1.4bn

Mellanox itching to close Voltaire, crank up InfiniBand

Deliveries for final Apple Xserves stalled to April

Xen sends Citrix Q4 into the clouds

Dell talks shopping in Davos

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Robust network spending drives Juniper's Q4

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Synchronize Your Outlook Calendar with DB2 for i ERP Data

Another Reason Why Function Subprocedures Should Not Modify Their Parameters

Admin Alert: QPWDRULES Rules!!! Opening Up User Password Options with i 6.1

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