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HELP/SYSTEMS
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IBM Talks Up OS/400 V5R2 at COMMON
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
IBM has been keeping its exact iSeries hardware and OS/400 software plans for 2002 and beyond a secret, but it did take the opportunity at the COMMON midrange user group meeting in Nashville last week to leak some information about the upcoming release of OS/400, V5R2. Having shipped more than 25,000 licenses of V5R1 in about a year, IBM is keen on doing even better with V5R2 over the next 12 months.
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Frustrated by Losses and Glitches, IBM to Exit Hard Drive Biz
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Maybe IBM should have kept its disk design teams and manufacturing operations for 3.5" disk drives in Rochester, Minnesota. Back in the early days of the AS/400 business, the disks created and made in the same facilities as the AS/400 set the pace for hard drive innovation. Last week, with mounting losses and more than a year of engineering woes and field failures, IBM is effectively selling off its disk business to rival Hitachi.
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MAXIMUM AVAILABILITY
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New Complimentary Journaling Utility
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As the experts in data replication using Journaling and Remote Journaling on the iSeries, Maximum Availability now offers a free down loadable utility, Journal Analyzer , so that you can better understand and manage your Journaling environment.
Get Journal Analyzer today and you will know you are ready for *noMAX - the data replication product for the iSeries.
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COMPUTER KEYES
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IBM Slapped Hard in First Quarter by Economic Downturn
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
If you are lucky enough to have any IT budget left in this down economy, give IBM a call and play just a little hard to get, but interested. There has never been--as the commercials used to say in the early Gerstner years--a better time to buy from Big Blue. IBM's sales in the first quarter of 2002 were down 12 percent, to $18.6 billion; first quarter net income was down 32 percent, to $1.75 billion; and earnings per share were down 31 percent, to 68 cents.
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ASC and Tango/04 Help OS/400 Shops Cut Interactive Costs
by Dan Burger
In 1993, IBM created server models with governors, diminishing the performance of green-screen applications when compared with regular systems based on the same hardware. To many OS/400 shops, this artificial distinction between systems and servers amounts to an interactive tax on RPG and COBOL applications. A new set of performance tools created by Tango/04 Computing Group and sold by Advanced Systems Concepts helps users better balance their interactive capacity usage with their budgets.
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AFFIRMATIVE COMPUTER
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Affirmative Computer Products is dedicated solely to thin clients, replete with 122-keyboards and Windows CE and Linux versions specially designed for IBM-hosted networks, midrange and mainframe environments.
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SSA GT Has Its Work Cut Out for It
by Alex Woodie
As reported in last week's issue, SSA Global Technologies bought most of the assets of Computer Associates' interBiz division for an undisclosed amount of cash three weeks ago. The acquisition included 13 back-office business applications, including PRMS, and increased SSA GT's installed base by about 5,000 companies. While the acquisition demonstrates that SSA GT has made quite a turnaround to be in a position to acquire a rival ERP package, it has also raised several questions about how the company will position itself in the future.
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Admin Alert: Starting DST Without an IPL
by Joe Hertvik
In the April 8 "Admin Alert," I discussed how to use the Dedicated Service Tools menu to reset the QSECOFR user profile password by entering DST during a manual IPL. For the sake of brevity, I skipped over a more direct way to start DST. This week, I'll make up for that omission by discussing how to activate DST without performing an IPL on non-partitioned and partitioned iSeries and AS/400 boxes.
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TRAMENCO
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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.
To register, call 800-897-5923 or go to www.tramenco.com/naples
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Sponsored By
ISERIES NATION
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iSeries Nation is excited to invite you to a conference
call April 23, Bill Zeitler, IBM senior vice president and group
executive, Server Group.
Bill will join Buell Duncan, general manager, IBM iSeries, in an
iSeries Nation Chatting with Citizens program.
The conference call will feature IBM strategy and the strategic role that iSeries plays in it.
Please note that you must register prior to this call. You may do so
by clicking here
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Division at FORMation mg Spawns Two New Companies
By Dan Burger
When the midrange forms and electronic document software vendor FORMation mg was dissolved in January, the outgrowth was two companies that are going head to head in same marketplace. The two businesses, inFORM Decisions and Elite Document Solutions, have a lot in common: like staffing, customers, and at least for now, products.
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But Wait, There's More . . .
Get The Latest OS/400 PTF Guide . . . Vision Solutions Rejects DataMirror Takeover Offer . . . Vision Solutions Ships Symbiator 4.0, Inks Deal with IBS . . . Pfastship Integrates Its Shipping Automation Software with V3's Warehouse Management System . . . Turbolinux Makes 64-bit Turbolinux 7 for iSeries Generally Available . . . PowerTech Adds Nair, Reising to Its Management Team . . .
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Editor
Timothy Prickett Morgan
Managing Editor
Shannon Pastore
Contributing Editors:
Dan Burger
Joe Hertvik
Kevin Vandever
Shannon O'Donnell
Victor Rozek
Alex Woodie
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