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Creating an RPG-based Web Service Using WDSC, Part 1
by Shannon O'Donnell

Unless you've been hiding under a rock for the last couple of years, you cannot help but to have heard about Web Services. According to the industry experts, whoever they are, Web Services will solve every problem you have ever had and ever will have in your quest to send and receive data from one computer to another over the Web. And while that may be a bit of an overstatement, it is true that Web Services really do make communicating with another computer system on the Web very easy. In this article I am going to show you how to create a simple Web Service using Websphere Development Studio Client that will allow you to query item data from your iSeries through an RPGLE program. READ MORE >

SQL May Be Catching Up with DDS
by Ted Holt

As enthusiastic as I am about SQL, I am not ready to abandon the native DB2-for-i interfaces. There are a few things that DDS and native I/O op codes do that SQL doesn't handle as well. However, in V6R1 IBM has eliminated one of the DDS advantages. READ MORE >



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Admin Alert: Redundancy is Good, Redundancy is Good, Re…
by Joe Hertvik

The next time you order a Power i upgrade, pay special attention to the redundant components that are available. As the computing world moves toward more and more redundancy options, many 24x7 i5/OS shops are requiring absolute redundancy in almost everything available. This week, I'll look at some of the redundancy options available for i5/OS machines and how they can help your shop. READ MORE >


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Stratus Builds Its First HA Clustering Product Atop Xen

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Creating an RPG-based Web Service Using WDSC, Part 1

SQL May Be Catching Up with DDS

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