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All the Product News That's Fit to Print.
Sponsored By
 MKS |
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Are you transitioning from developing traditional applications to e-business? MKS offers a proven solution for BOTH iSeries and Java developers.
Whether using Websphere, Eclipse, Visual Age, Lotus Domino, AIX, Windows, Unix, or Linux for development, MKS can help!
Learn about MKS's workflow-enabled configuration management solutions for distributed and multi platform development.
Download your free white paper at:
www.mks.com/ads/midrangeibmwp
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Sponsored By
 ACOM SOLUTIONS |
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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.
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Wireless Apps for Southern Wine & Spirits Creates a Buzz
by Dan Burger
Southern Wines & Spirits, the nation's largest distributor of wine, spirits, and beer, and an IBM iSeries convert, made the decision that wireless could work for its sales force. READ MORE >
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Help/Systems Enables Graphical Viewing of Job Schedules
by Alex Woodie
Help/Systems last week announced Robot/SCHEDULE 9.0, the newest version of its OS/400 job scheduling utility. With this version, AS/400 and iSeries operators can view their jobs and compare selected jobs to one another, a normally difficult task in a text-based environment. This new graphical capability is being delivered through an interface to Microsoft Visio. READ MORE >
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Sponsored By
 ALDON COMPUTER GROUP |
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Free Whitepaper on Application Modernization Through Multi-Platform Development.
Aldon Computer Group, the industry leader in multi-platform change management, offers a cutting-edge solution for companies seeking e-business success. Aldon Affiniti is the only application development tool that allows you to manage all your code, whether RPG, JAVA, COBOL, C++, or anything else from ONE single screen.
Find out more at www.aldon.com.
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Sponsored By
 KEY INFORMATION SYSTEMS |
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KEY provides TOTAL High Availability across your entire enterprise. . . NO MORE DOWNTIME is not only a reality on OS/400 and UNIX, but now easily available on Windows Server and Linux, too! Events:
FREE LUNCH* at KEY's "Proof-Positive" TotalStorage Solution Center Seminar on June 13 in Los Angeles.
FREE BREAKFAST* at KEY's "No More Downtime" (Fault Tolerance for Windows Server) Seminar on June 19 and 20 in Milipitas.
Click here to learn more.
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Centerfield Addresses DASD Spikes at Protective Shell
by Alex Woodie
Shell Canada Ltd. is one of the largest iSeries shops in North America. The company operates a lights-out data center in Calgary, Alberta, that consists of four large iSeries systems running J.D. Edwards applications, among others. As a fully automated data center, Shell Canada is very attuned to the efficiency of its infrastructure, and keeps an especially close eye on its 7 TB of iSeries DASD. However, when the IT staff started noticing spikes in DASD usage, they rightly became concerned. READ MORE >
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Java Servlet Reporting Added to mrc-Productivity Series
by Alex Woodie
Earlier this month, michaels, ross & cole announced it has added a Java reporting feature to its rapid application development tool for OS/400 systems. Previous releases of the mrc-Productivity Series gave users Java servlet capabilities. With this latest announcement, mrc told users they can build reporting applications that provide real-time intelligence about their company's data, and they can do it using the versatile, run-almost-anywhere Java servlet. READ MORE >
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Sponsored By
 TRAMENCO |
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iSeries and AS/400 Connection Conference Extends Savings Deadline!
Good News! There is still time to join your colleagues at the ultimate iSeries and AS/400 conference this June 16 – 19, and save $200 in the process. Sign up for the iSeries and AS/400 Connection Conference in beautiful Naples, Florida, before June 7 and the standard registration is only $1,395.
To register, or to view the complete course agenda, click to www.tramenco.com/naples. But you have to hurry! Time is running out and hotel rooms are filling up fast. Reserve your spot today.
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Sponsored By
 NETWORK-LINK |
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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.
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Orenburg Announces New Release of Data Miner
by Alex Woodie
Business intelligence software vendor Orenburg USA last week announced Board Management Intelligence Toolkit 4.7, the latest release of its multidimensional database application for mining data from host applications such as J.D. Edwards' WorldSoftware and SSA Global Technologies' BPCS. New features introduced in this release include data compression facilities, for speeding the transfer of data into the Board database, improved Internet access, and new peer-to-peer computing capabilities. READ MORE >
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News Briefs and Product Shorts
J.D. Edwards Announces Next-Generation Applications: J.D. Edwards 5 . . . BCC Technologies Announces Free "Double Your Capacity" Disk Swap . . . Gartner, IDC Forecast Slow Growth for IT Industry for Rest of 2002 . . . SolCom Wins Medical Award for Second Straight Year . . . New Generation Software Updates Excel-to-iSeries Data Loader . . . ACOM Solutions Announces EZeDocs 5.1 . . . iSeries/Windows Integration Spawns New High-Availability Partnership . . . READ MORE >
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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 >
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Editor
Alex Woodie
Managing Editor
Shannon Pastore
Contributing Editors:
Dan Burger
Joe Hertvik
Shannon O'Donnell
Timothy Prickett Morgan
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