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Don't Let Your RPG Just Drift, Grab an OAR!
by Jon Paris

When IBM Rational Open Access (OAR): RPG Edition was announced, all the buzz was about how it would (or would not) impact the green-screen world. But the possibilities for OAR go far beyond workstations. Perhaps more to the point, while few people have the skills to write their own 5250 handlers, writing handlers for other purposes is well within the grasp of the average RPG programmer. READ MORE >

Counterintuitive Table Creation
by Ted Holt

To be able to create one table that is described exactly like an existing table or view is good. But how you create that table determines whether the new table is exactly like the old one or not. Believe it or not, something as trifling as a pair of parentheses can make a difference. READ MORE >



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Admin Alert: Will i5/OS V5R4Mx Support Run Out on April 7, 2015?
by Joe Hertvik

I recently performed a best guess analysis on when IBM i5/OS V5R4Mx support will actually run out. My client wanted to estimate how long they could theoretically get IBM support for running on V5R4Mx without having to upgrade. I came up with a possible final end of software support date for i5/OS V5R4Mx of April 7, 2015. Sound crazy? Check my logic and tell me where I'm wrong. READ MORE >


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The Four Hundred
IBM i Dominates the CPW Capacity Budget

Sundry Power Systems and BladeCenter Announcements

.NET in the Midrange: Not Migration So Much As Integration

As I See It: The Contrarian

IBM Adds More Social Networking Features to LotusLive

Four Hundred Stuff
IBM Unveils New Disk Arrays, Updates Storage Software

RDP 8.0 Brings Linux Client, New Java Tools to IBM i Developers

IBM Updates DB2 Web Query

nuBridges Delivers Format Preserving Tokenization for IBM i

IBM i Shops Warming to Free & Open Source Dev Tools, CNX Says

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

System i PTF Guide
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September 11, 2010: Volume 12, Number 37

September 4, 2010: Volume 12, Number 36

August 28, 2010: Volume 12, Number 35

August 21, 2010: Volume 12, Number 34

TPM at The Register
Marathon everRun MX: 'major' multicore virty breakthrough

Stratus adds Hyper-V virt to fault tolerant servers

IBM tweaks rack and blade servers

Ubuntu Server 10.10 rides distributed file systems

Citrix beefs up virtual computing

AMD says it is definitely, really not for sale

ScaleMP, IBM bond to fluff x64 systems

HP ramps up containerized data centers

Cisco buffs Borderless Networks brand gear

HP sprinkles GPU chips on new cookie sheet servers

Rogue Wave eats Acumem

SGI bags vanishing stimulus dough

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Don't Let Your RPG Just Drift, Grab an OAR!

Counterintuitive Table Creation

Admin Alert: Will i5/OS V5R4Mx Support Run Out on April 7, 2015?

Four Hundred Guru

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