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OS/400 Edition
Volume 2, Number 7 -- February 19, 2002
In This Issue
All the Product News That's Fit to Print.
Sponsored By
ALDON COMPUTER GROUP

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ResQNet Releases New App for Homeland Security
by Alex Woodie


ResQNet has released a new application designed to give companies an added measure of protection when dealing with business partners that they may not be as familiar with as they should be. AlertU 2.0 is a Java servlet that automatically checks a company's trading partners against the U.S. lists of suspected terrorists, drug traffickers, and other recognized groups and individuals with whom it is illegal to do business.
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Sutter Health Finds a Cure for Planned Downtime
by Alex Woodie


Sutter Solano Medical Center is a 100-bed hospital that serves Vallejo, northeast of San Francisco. The nonprofit medical center is not large by today's hospital standards. The IT department prides itself on running its networks and AS/400 server in a lean and efficient manner. But when faced with the prospect of bringing down its AS/400 for 10 hours to do regular file maintenance, the hospital realized that there had to be a better way.
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Sponsored By
BCD INT'L

See why WebSmart beat out 26 other vendors and was Voted the BEST iSeries -- AS/400 e-Business / e-Commerce tool in the market.

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Develop professional state-of-the-art applications in a day not months, all while using your existing skill set.

Visit www.BCDsoftware.com or call 630-986-0800, e-mail sales@bcdsoftware.com

Sponsored By
TRAMENCO

The Training and Mentoring Company (Tramenco) is dedicated to just one thing: Advancing your career by giving you the skills you need to solve real-world business problems.

Choose from a menu of training options to fit your needs: onsite seminars, public seminars, mentoring, consulting, books, CBTs, and Web-based training.

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ShowCase Debuts Software for
Sticking to Budgets

by Alex Woodie


ShowCase has started shipping a new plug-in for its core OS/400 business intelligence software. The plug-in helps users to create and abide by financial budgets. Powered by Essbase for iSeries, ShowCase's online analytical processing (OLAP) software, the new Budgeting Template allows users to correlate revenues with sources, perform detailed budgetary analyses, and predict how specific decisions might impact future sales and profits.
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Bristol Releases Enterprise Transaction Monitor
by Alex Woodie


Bristol Technology last week announced the immediate availability of TransactionVision Standard Edition 2.0, the latest release of its enterprise transaction monitor. TransactionVision uses message queue technology to monitor performance and to help debug distributed e-business systems that rely on messaging middleware, which joins multiple application and database servers, including OS/400, OS/390, CICS, Unix, and Windows systems.
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Sponsored By
RJS SOFTWARE SYSTEMS

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Whether it's Native AS/400 or PC-based, we have the solution.

For a FREE FULLY FUNCTIONAL DEMO CD, please visit our Web site at www.rjssoftware.com/mrs.asp.

Contact us at 888-RJS-SOFT or email us at sales@rjssoft.com

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Tool Supports Direct Binary File Transfers to IFS
by Alex Woodie


INPRO International has released a new version of its file transfer tool that features improved access to the AS/400 or iSeries Integrated File System. The tool, which is called inPROcgi/400, is designed to allow OS/400 application developers to use their existing RPG, COBOL, or CL programming skills to build dynamic Web-enabled applications.
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News Briefs and Product Shorts


Security threats continue to occupy the minds of software developers and users. This week's industry news reports on a recent warning CERT issued regarding SNMP and how a well-known HA software vendor is helping to secure the Olympics. Other topics include business intelligence and everything Microsoft .NET.

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Reader Feedback and Insights
We value your feedback and your insights into the OS/400 market. Feel free to drop us a letter to the editor and we will post them in a reader feedback column associated with this newsletter. READ MORE >
Corrections
Guild Companies strives to publish accurate information at all times. Minor errors of spelling, punctuation, and the like will be corrected on our Web site without notice. When we correct significant errors of fact or substance, we will note the correction on the page containing the corrected version of the original article, as well as in the next issue of the newsletter. READ MORE >
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THIS ISSUE
SPONSORED BY:
Aldon Computer Group
Quadrant Software
BCD Int'l
Tramenco
RJS Software Systems
SQLThing
BACK ISSUES
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ResQNet Releases New App for Homeland Security
Sutter Health Finds a Cure for Planned Downtime
ShowCase Debuts Software for Sticking to Budgets
Bristol Releases Enterprise Transaction Monitor
Tool Supports Direct Binary File Transfers to IFS
News Briefs and Product Shorts

Editor
Alex Woodie

Managing Editor
Shannon Pastore

Conributing Editors:
Joe Hertvik
Timothy Prickett Morgan
Shannon O'Donnell
Dan Burger

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