Customizing Your Development with Extensible RPG
by Joel Cochran

I introduced you to service programs and the binder source language in my last two articles. Now that you have bound your procedures into service programs, we need to refine our development method. These finishing touches revolve around reusability and make this approach truly complete and low-maintenance. The result is, effectively, your own "extended" version of RPG. READ MORE >

Persist Java Objects on DB2 for iSeries with JDO
by Marc Logemann

One of the most discussed Java standards is Java Data Objects, or JDO. Many people see this standard as a competitor of entity beans, from the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) world. You can persist data to a database with both, but with JDO you can also persist data in a client/server desktop environment, without running an application server. Because of the stability and robustness of DB2 for iSeries, JDO will be a perfect partner when working with database applications. READ MORE >

Back to Basics: Get That Code Out of Your RPG
by Kevin Vandever

As long as RPG has been around, in all its forms, there is still one thing that many of us haven't learned, and that is to stop making our RPG work so hard. Or maybe we do understand this, but because of the fast-paced nature of our business we take the easy way out. Whatever the case, I want to really get back to basics in this article and discuss how to improve applications as well as give RPG a little break by removing the record selection logic and placing it where it should be. READ MORE >

OS/400 Alert: Microsoft Exposes IE to Hackers
by Shannon O'Donnell

This issue of "OS/400 Alert" gives you the straight dope on a new vulnerability discovered in Microsoft Internet Explorer. Ironically, this new vulnerability was caused by the latest Microsoft security patch, and there was no fix available at press time. Also in this issue, you will learn about a new beta product from IBM and a new tool for downloading iSeries PTFs. And, finally, we alert you to the Web's most annoying new viruses and worms. READ MORE >

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