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Midrange Stuff - Hardware, Software & Services
OS/400 Edition
Volume 2, Number 19 -- May 14, 2002
In This Issue
All the Product News That's Fit to Print.
Sponsored By
PRODATA COMPUTER SERVICES

We brought you DBU, the iSeries #1 database utility, and now this!

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Sponsored By
ACOM SOLUTIONS

Besides representing a significant expense, pre-printed paper forms used for invoices and other documents may be costing you time and money.

So why use paper when you don't have to? ACOM's EZeDocs gives you the option: print documents from stored electronic templates when you must. Otherwise, send them electronically, faster, bypassing the paper stage. The information is what counts.

Learn how to juice up your procedures, including your collections. Click here for details.

MAPICS Announces First ERP for iSeries Linux
by Alex Woodie


MAPICS scored a first among iSeries ERP vendors last week when it announced that its enterprise suite of software for manufacturers now runs on iSeries Linux. While the announcement thrust the Atlanta, Georgia, software company ahead of its competitors in the movement toward open-source software and Linux, MAPICS insists that its Linux move is not about radically altering how software is shaped and distributed, but about giving customers as much choice as possible.
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Performance Navigator 7.1 Supports Dynamic Logical Partitioning, i890
by Alex Woodie


Behold the marvelous technology: 32-way iSeries Model 890s, dynamic resource allocation for logical partitions, new capacity upgrade on demand options. It's enough to make you want to start consolidating OS/400 workloads right now. But when it comes to buying your new system, how will you configure it to meet your exact needs? Version 7.1 of Performance Navigator from Midrange Performance Group helps to take the guesswork out of dealing with these new options.
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Sponsored By
QUADRANT SOFTWARE

Our fax, forms, email, and print solutions leverage the iSeries 400 integrated enterprise to create and deliver mission-critical documents quickly, reliably, and cost-effectively.

Our solutions stand alone or work together to fax, print, and email documents in batch or on the fly directly from within your users' familiar business application.

Eliminate pre-printed forms and stand-alone fax machines by calling 800-258-3399 or visit www.quadrantsoftware.com/products

Sponsored By
TANGO/04 COMPUTING GROUP

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Why get stressed trying to recreate errors? With VISUAL Debugger you can graphically DEBUG, DIAGNOSE and even SOLVE errors as they happen, without canceling.

Save those critical batch jobs: use remote source code, edit variables, QTEMP, LDA, LIBL, run commands, and more!

Call 800-545-9485, or DOWNLOAD now: www.softlanding.com or www.tango04.com/vdw

CCSS Seeks to Reduce iSeries Disk Dramas
by Alex Woodie


Keeping customers free of iSeries disk crises is the focus of the latest software release from CCSS, the English OS/400 systems management software vendor that sells QSystem Monitor, QMessage Monitor, and QRemote Control. CCSS recently announced that it has enhanced QSystem Monitor with a new disk usage inquiry command that gives iSeries operators a snapshot of how the system is using its disks and helps to identify potential problems before they take a dramatic turn.
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Visual RPG Expands Horizons of OS/400 ERP Vendor
by Alex Woodie


In late April, Xdata solutions started shipping a new suite of ERP software that had been in development for two years. GXD is based on the core functionality of XMAS/400, the suite of enterprise manufacturing, distribution, and accounting software that Xdata has been selling since 1992. But whereas XMAS/400 was written in pure RPG, GXD was developed in ASNA's Visual RPG, which allows GXD to feel equally at home on a Windows server as it does on the OS/400 platform.
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Sponsored By
RJS SOFTWARE SYSTEMS

Save TIME AND MONEY with our AS/400-iSeries Report and Data Delivery Systems

Delivering AS/400 reports via email, web, Lotus Notes, Domino or CD.

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.

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

Sponsored By
NETWORK-LINK

Complete your High Availability implementation by receiving TCP/IP alarms of threatening environmental conditions and malfunctioning "legacy" equipment!

The Network-LINK™ monitors functionality of AC units, battery status of UPS systems, temperature/humidity in individual racks, and many more critical devices and conditions.
Protect against unwanted downtime by managing and escalating alarms using existing SNMP software deployed to monitor network devices, e.g. IBM Tivoli® HP OpenView®, Help/Systems' Robot/TRAPPER®, etc.

Speed and Print Management Highlight New Matrix Printer
by Dan Burger


Many industrial environments--manufacturing, shipping, wholesale, and retail--are still getting by with outmoded band printers. Yes, they are slow. Yes, they are more costly to operate. But if it ain't broke, don't fix it, right? With the introduction last week of the IBM 6400 Model 020, Big Blue has slipped an impressive new player into its industrial printer lineup.
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News Briefs and Product Shorts


Red Hat Ships Linux 7.3 for Servers . . . Pueblo Gets Its iSeries . . . IBM Releases Redbook on iSeries LDAP . . . Karora Strikes Document Management Deal with IDT . . . JDA Software Group and MAPICS Host Conferences . . . Problems for Peregrine Systems Continue . . . Mayonnaise Manufacturer Will Lose No More Passwords . . .

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MAPICS Announces First ERP for iSeries Linux
Performance Navigator 7.1 Supports Dynamic Logical Partitioning, i890
CCSS Seeks to Reduce iSeries Disk Dramas
Visual RPG Expands Horizons of OS/400 ERP Vendor
Speed and Print Management Highlight New Matrix Printer
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Alex Woodie

Managing Editor
Shannon Pastore

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

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