Add a Safety Net with Journalized Data Queues
by Kevin Vandever

With the iSeries possibly being one of many disparate platforms in your IT organization, it has become more vital to share data among these platforms. One way to accomplish the sharing of data is to use data queues. But one complaint about data queues is that they don't guarantee delivery. If something happens during the transmission of data, or a queue gets cleared or deleted, you're hosed. That is until V5R1 came along and IBM extended the journal function to include data queues. READ MORE >

Creating Editable Web Pages
by Shannon O'Donnell

You know that the AS/400 can be used as a Web server, capable of storing and serving HTML Web pages. This capability means that you can create a truly versatile suite of Web-based applications hosted on your AS/400. One type of Web-based application that you may not have considered yet is creating an online, HTML-based document-editing tool. You may be surprised at just how easy such an application can be to create. Read on. READ MORE >

Using Data Queues in VARPG
by Raymond Everhart

Somewhere in your company, there is someone downloading data into a spreadsheet, manipulating this data, and then presenting it to management, who will use it to make some decision. What if this person makes a mistake? What if he leaves the company and you have train someone else to do his job? What if a PC that contains several years' worth of spreadsheets suddenly crashes? The answer is usually the same: Call the IT department. READ MORE >

Sprinkle GUI on Your Green Screen Salad
by Bob Butcher

Remember when you got your first PC at the office? You had a new fancy Telnet session to get at your AS/400 and probably felt like throwing that old 3197 CRT into the garbage. You now had all of those neat drag and drop functions at your disposal. But if you are like most people, unfortunately, many of your legacy applications still remain in the green screen dungeon. So today we'll spice up your applications with a graphical user interface. READ MORE >

Back to Basics: Windowed Subfiles
by Kevin Vandever

I received several responses thanking me for the "Back to Basics" articles. Most responses had the same message: that we tend to write about new technology and forget about those who read our newsletter but have no opportunity to try out the new stuff. Many of you are buried in your daily battles, solving various IT issues, and don't have time to research technology, even if it's not new to OS/400. With that in mind, check out another oldie but goodie: windowed subfiles. READ MORE >

Easy Display File Printing
by Shannon O'Donnell

Here's a nifty technique for printing the contents of a display file every time a user does anything on the screen. There are hundreds of business uses for such a technique. How about using it to keep a printed, running total of a user's data entry? Or for printing the "tape" of a series of calculations in a calculator-like application? Whatever you use it for, you'll find that printing the contents of a display file is really quite simple! READ MORE >

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