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OS/400 Edition
Volume 2, Number 16 -- April 23, 2002
In This Issue
All the Product News That's Fit to Print.
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IBM Says Improved Tivoli Storage Manager Coming to OS/400
by Alex Woodie


IBM Tivoli is reaching out to OS/400. At the COMMON conference in Nashville last week, IBM said that later this year its Tivoli subsidiary would release improved OS/400 support in Tivoli Storage Manager, an archiving and backup/restore system for large companies that allows data from heterogeneous servers to be backed up to, and recovered from, a centralized server.
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New Data Replication Tool Connects iSeries with SQL, Oracle
by Dan Burger


The frequency with which Microsoft SQL Server- based solutions are finding their way into iSeries and AS/400 enterprises continues to pick up speed, and tools for data replication and transformation between these platforms advance as the demand grows. Or is it the other way around?
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Sponsored By
JACADA

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Help/Systems is pleased to announce the availability of Robot/TRAPPER, a plug-in for Robot/CONSOLE that can help you manage your servers, routers, hubs, switches, environmental monitors, shipping scales, and more! Learn more at: www.helpsystems.com

The Power of Business Integration
by Ashish Deshpande


When the integration market burst onto the scene in the late 1990s, companies were excited to climb on board. Espousing the benefits of enterprise application integration (EAI) and business-to-business integration (B2Bi), vendors promised all-encompassing solutions that would easily and seamlessly tie the company's systems together. Because of pressure from shareholders to spend aggressively or risk getting left behind by the competition, organizations responded. However, although considerable progress has been made on the business integration front, the promise has remained unfulfilled.
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SkyView Partners Building New iSeries Security Practice
by Alex Woodie


There was a new vendor on the floor of the COMMON expo last week in Nashville. SkyView Partners is less than one month old, but its two principals, Carol Woodbury and John Vanderwall, are well known in the iSeries and AS/400 community. Both are former executives of PowerTech Group, one of the leading vendors in the iSeries security field. SkyView is based out of Seattle, Washington. The new firm is focused on OS/400 security consulting.
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Sponsored By
TRAMENCO

If you work with the AS/400 or iSeries, there's one event this year you can't afford to miss: The iSeries and AS/400 Connection Conference, June 16-19, 2002, in Naples, Florida.

Continue your training and education with some of the industry's greatest minds leading you through what's hot in RPG, Java, Websphere, SQL, systems operations. There's something for everyone -- and it's all within a beautiful five-star resort in sunny Florida.

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ResQNet Goes to Version 4 with ResQPortal
by Shannon O'Donnell


Last week at the COMMON spring conference in Nashville, Tennessee, ResQNet announced ResQPortal Version 4, the newest version of the New York City company's legacy rejuvenation tool for Web-enabling mainframe or OS/400 applications and data. With this version, ResQNet debuts the Remote Customization Studio, a new component that the company says allows developers to more quickly customize green-screen iSeries applications with HTML front ends, and to do so without involving PCs in the development process.
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News Briefs and Product Shorts


Rainbow eSecurity Protects OS/400 Developers with Sentinel License Key System . . . Stampede Technologies Speeds Customer's Lotus Notes System by Warp Factor 5 . . . LXI Issues Tape Tracker 3.5, Announces Partnership with Computer Associates . . . Symantec Announces Linux-Based Enterprise Firewall for OS/400 . . . Office Depot to Install Courion's OS/400 Password Management Module . . . Benwin Announces General Availability Date for New iSeries . . .

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Aldon Computer Group
Computer Keyes
Jacada
Help/Systems
RJS Software Systems
Tramenco
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
IBM Says Improved Tivoli Storage Manager Coming to OS/400
New Data Replication Tool Connects iSeries with SQL, Oracle
The Power of Business Integration
SkyView Partners Building New iSeries Security Practice
ResQNet Goes to Version 4 with ResQPortal
News Briefs and Product Shorts

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Alex Woodie

Managing Editor
Shannon Pastore

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Joe Hertvik
Timothy Prickett Morgan
Shannon O'Donnell
Dan Burger

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