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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.	Sponsored By INFINIUM SOFTWARE Infinium Offers Practical, Cost-Effective Web Applications Infinium's enterprise solutions combine proven, sophisticated business logic with a true XML Web architecture. The result: lower PC maintenance costs; practical, phased migration to the Web; lower training costs; and collaborative commerce and workflow. Find out more and get a free needs assessment at http://www.infinium.com .
IBM Debuts Hosting Services for WebSphere, Siebel, SAP by Alex Woodie IBM Global Services yesterday rolled out three new iSeries-based hosted service offerings designed to get customers quickly up and running on SAP, Siebel Systems, and WebSphere applications. Big Blue also took the opportunity to announce its first iSeries customer win under the new programs. The retailer Things Remembered has migrated its e-commerce site, www.thingsremembered.com, to WebSphere Commerce running on an iSeries server located in an IBM data center in Raleigh, North Carolina. READ MORE >	Fighting Windows Creep, in the Name of the iSeries by Alex Woodie You've probably heard the story before. A company with older AS/400 applications gradually invests in a Windows NT infrastructure, and before you know it, Windows boxes start replacing the AS/400s. Often the AS/400 types within the company, lacking the proper tools, skills, and clout to bring their systems into the modern age, are powerless to stop the momentum of change, to a predictable end. But there is one iSeries manager who is successfully fighting Windows creep and actually making headway in reversing the damage. READ MORE >
Sponsored By ALDON COMPUTER GROUP Free White Papers! Want to know more about Source Control Management and why it's important to every development shop? Want to know how to integrate WebSphere and Java Development in a multi-platform environment? We have the answers. See how IBM and Aldon have partnered to provide a comprehensive SCM solution for complex development. Find out more at www.aldon.com	Sponsored By PROFOUND LOGIC SOFTWARE Would you like to be able to look at RPG code and make sense of it in a fraction of the time it used to take? Thousands of programmers have adopted RPG-Alive, and are now able to read and understand RPG code 2 to 3 times faster. Get a Fully Functioning Trial of RPG-Alive by clicking here: www.RPGAlive.com/now
Profound Logic Breathes Life into Free-Format RPG by Alex Woodie Free-format RPG and Profound Logic Software's RPG-Alive share some interesting similarities. Both strive to break the bounds of traditional RPG to make coding easier and more efficient, in RPG-Alive's case by continually updating a color-coded outline of the source code's structure as you program, and in free-format RPG's case by eliminating columnar restrictions, giving it a more Java- or C-like appearance. Programmers also tend to either love or hate these two techniques, so it shouldn't come as a great surprise that RPG-Alive now supports free-format RPG. READ MORE >	Never Get Locked Out Again by Alex Woodie Do your jobs get hung up every now and then? Do you think it's because OS/400 or DB2/400 is applying locks to objects or records? If so, you might want to check out a new utility from Centerfield Technology, the Rochester, Minnesota, company that specializes in performance enhancement tools. lock/DETECTOR, announced last week, will detect job locks and provide the information you need to take corrective action and get things sailing smoothly again. READ MORE >
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. For more information about Tramenco's career enhancing opportunities, call (800)421-8031 or go to www.tramenco.com.	Sponsored By CENTERFIELD TECHNOLOGY "We used to spend hours tracking down DASD spikes. Now, disk/HUNTER not only tells us where they originate, but automatically tells us when DASD spikes reach our thresholds." Kirk Chalk, Sr. Staff Systems Analyst Shell Canada Where has all YOUR DASD gone? Find out how disk/HUNTER can help you take the guesswork out of iSeries DASD management! Click here for a demo or trial
ClientSoft Gives ClientBuilder a Power Boost by Alex Woodie ClientSoft recently issued a new release of its ClientBuilder middleware application, for developing new Web, Windows, and wireless interfaces from traditional OS/400, Unix, and mainframe screens. With ClientBuilder 7.5, ClientSoft says it redesigned the Windows-based application server to be 40 percent faster. Other improvements include expanded support for Unix data streams, a new integrated development environment that works with all three levels of ClientBuilder applications, and new team development options. READ MORE >	News Briefs and Product Shorts Operation Green Streak Topic of iSeries Nation Chat . . . SuSE Announces New Linux Enterprise Server 7 for iSeries . . . B.O.S. Announces New e-TwinPrint Protocol Converter . . . iSeries Helps Modernize Merrill Lynch Mainframe . . . Infinium Reports Steep Increase in Software License Fees . . . Federal Express Chooses Jack Henry Subsidiary's Outsourcing Services . . . iWay Software Joins UDDI Project . . . READ MORE >
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