WebSphere Development Studio Client for iSeries 5.0: Worth the Wait
by David Morris

The recent release of WebSphere Development Studio Client for iSeries 5.0 was worth the wait. IBM has been working on a new version of the iSeries interactive development environment (IDE) based on Eclipse 2.0 for the past year. The enhancements in WDSc 5.0 focus on Web development and iSeries integration. Now iSeries developers don't have to choose between great Java, XML, and Web tools or the latest RPG development tools. With WDSc 5.0, both are provided in one package. READ MORE >

iSeries Wireless Access with JDBC
by Marc Logemann

This article will explain how to enhance the iSeriesMonitorME application (see "iSeriesMonitorME: A Real-World Wireless iSeries Application"), which is capable of calling a system program on an iSeries, to show you a way to access an iSeries database from a wireless device with IBM's JTOpen JDBC package, called JdbcMe. READ MORE >

Display AS/400 Data on a PDA
by Shannon O'Donnell

If your company is like many others, it is likely that your users are starting to use PDAs for such things as checking e-mail or surfing the Web. It's only a matter of time before those users come knocking on your office door requesting that you provide them with data access to your AS/400 from their PDA. In this article, I'll show you a way to retrieve and display AS/400 data on a Pocket PC 2002 PDA. READ MORE >

Back to Basics: Introduction to Subfiles
by Kevin Vandever

This newsletter normally covers cutting-edge technology, but every once in a while, either by request or by choice, I decide to write a "back to basics" article. I do this because not all of you readers are seasoned veterans. Some are new to the industry and want to see more basic information. So I've decided to interrupt my recent series of Java/RPG interface articles to bring you this introduction to subfiles. READ MORE >

Reader Feedback and Insights

We value your feedback and insights on the OS/400 market. Feel free to send a letter to the editor. We will consider your letter a candidate for the reader feedback column for this newsletter, but we will contact you before we make your e-mail public. READ MORE >

Correction

The article "Using Pointer-Based Variables in RPG IV" has been corrected since its was first published. The number of bytes referred to in the sentences that read "The first 95 bytes of the trigger buffer were always subdivided the same way. The layout of the data following the 95th byte was determined by the length of the file's record format and by the number of fields contained in the record" has been changed to 96 bytes. [Correction made 4/24/03.]