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OS/400 Platform to Participate in Grid-Based Web Services
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Sources at IBM tell me that the company has plans to
grid-enable the OS/400 platform so it can fully participate in two evolving and possibly merging computing
architectures. The first is grid computing, which seeks to loosely couple workstations, servers, clusters, and
supercomputers together into an information utility grid; the second is Web-based services. Exactly how
the iSeries will participate in either architectures individually or in these architectures if they merge is
unclear. But either architecture alone offers interesting possibilities.
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IBM Previews Revamped DB2 Tools, Offers OLAP Promotion
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
IBM last week announced a preview of two revamped
tools related to its DB2 family of databases. These tools will be available on July 26, probably alongside
OS/400 V5R2 if that operating system ships on time. IBM has launched into the DB2 tools business in the
mainframe and midrange markets in the past year, in some cases stealing business from its partners. IBM
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OS/400 platform.
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IBM Dreams Itself to the Top of the Web Services World
by Kristin Palitza
If you had to use a single word to describe IBM's Web
services vision, it would be heterogeneity. IBM claims it is committed to this strategy and willing to
cooperate with its rivals if that is what it takes to come out further ahead of them. "Web services will be
published by one, but have to be readable by all," said John Swainson, general manager for application and
integration at IBM's middleware division, at the company's Web Services Day last week.
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IBM Neutral on Passport vs. Liberty Security Efforts for Now
by Kristin Palitza
IBM will not take a stance on the application security
efforts of Microsoft's Passport technology and Sun Microsystems' Liberty Alliance Project--at least for the
moment. IBM says it will wait until one or the other matures. It will take at least another few months until
Passport and Liberty are far enough evolved for IBM to decide which one it wants to go with, said Arvind
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last week.
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Microsoft Again Postpones Delivery of Windows .NET Servers
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Microsoft this week quietly pushed out the expected
delivery date for its next generation of server operating systems by several months, or possibly longer. It
seems very likely that the delays in bringing Windows .NET Server, the kicker to the current Windows
2000 products, has to do with beefing up security and making sure the .NET Framework it includes does
not increase the exposure companies may face in moving ahead.
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BCC Sells Refurbished IBM Disks, Offers 35 GB Units
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
BCC Technologies, one of the two remaining
independent disk storage vendors for iSeries and AS/400 servers, is offering refurbished IBM disk drives in addition to its own disk subsystems, which are based
on brand new IBM disk drives. As BCC gets new customers, it often takes their existing AS/400 and
iSeries disks in trade to help lower the cost of a move to BCC drives. This was common practice in the
open AS/400 memory card market, when there was one, in the early 1990s.
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Admin Alert: V5R1 Adds *AUTOSTART to STRTCPSVR
by Joe Hertvik
In the story two weeks ago about OS/400 SNMP vulnerabilities,
I stated that when you use OS/400's Start TCP/IP Server
(STRTCPSVR) command with the SERVER(*ALL) parameter, STRTCPSVR would ignore any
AUTOSTART parameters you set for your TCP/IP servers. In installing OS/400 V5R1 this week, I found
that this statement was only half-true and that IBM has
changed the STRTCPSVR command to observe TCP/IP AUTOSTART parameters in V5R1. Here's how
this updated command works with V5R1.
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Shaking IT Up: ILE Is Not New Technology
by Kevin Vandever
Let's play a word association game. Actually it's phrase association, and we're going to play it a little
differently than the way you may have played in the past. Instead of me providing a bunch of phrases and
you popping off the first thing that comes to mind, I am going to provide one phrase and you are going to
tell me what technologies come to mind. (You didn't think you were going to have to work, did you?)
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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.
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Editor
Timothy Prickett Morgan
Managing Editor
Shannon Pastore
Conributing Editors:
Joe Hertvik
Shannon O'Donnell
Victor Rozek
Alex Woodie
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