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Sponsored By HELP/SYSTEMS TAKE A VACATION FROM ISERIES AND AS/400 MESSAGES! Make Robot/CONSOLE your message management assistant. Let it sort your messages. It suppresses useless ones, replies as you've directed it to others, and works with Robot/ALERT to page or e-mail you when it finds one it can't handle. For more information: www.helpsystems.com	Sponsored By SOFTLANDING SYSTEMS 80% of all unplanned downtime is caused by Application Failure or Operator Error, according to IBM. Keep your applications available, reliable, and bug-free with the leading Change Management, Debugging, Testing, Deployment, Problem Diagnosis, and Security solutions from SoftLanding. Manage all your e-business/WebSphere & RPG/COBOL/CL applications. FREE trial copies and downloads at www.softlanding.com/products/400
IBM Improves Its Capacity on Demand for iSeries Servers by Timothy Prickett Morgan While the dot-com bubble has wreaked all sorts of havoc with the economy in general and in the IT industry in particular, one good idea emerged from the chaos and is being embraced by server and storage suppliers--capacity on demand enabled by sophisticated Web-based controls, implemented by hardware vendors. As part of the iSeries Model 890 announcements, IBM has significantly improved its Capacity Upgrade on Demand offering for the iSeries. IBM's changes make CUoD a standard, free feature that is available on more iSeries machines. READ MORE >	Special Report: The State of OS/400 User Groups, Part 4 by Alex Woodie Three years ago, the relationship between COMMON and local OS/400 user groups left something to be desired. Leaders in the user group community say COMMON was difficult to talk to, showed little respect for their operations, and wouldn't think twice about scheduling conferences that conflicted with user group activities. Then things began to change, and today user group leaders are starting to praise COMMON for its new user group programs. READ MORE >
Sponsored By QUADRANT SOFTWARE Help celebrate the release of Formtastic Fusion5 and Win a 5-Day trip for 2 to Italy! See how our new electronic forms solution for the iSeries 400 eliminates pre-printed forms. Combine Fusion5 with FastFax and eDocMail for a complete EDD solution to create and deliver mission-critical documents via email or fax. Better Documents. Better Delivery. Better Together. For details, visit our Web site at: www.quadrantsoftware.com/italy	Sponsored By ITERA Reorganize While Active! Now you can recover deleted record space without locking users out of your files when you reorganize them. With iTera's™ new Reorganize While Active™ solution, you can reorganize any size file with just a few seconds of downtime--whether the file is 5 GB in size or 100 GB! Want to help your company eliminate downtime? Email us at info@iterainc.com or call (801) 799-0300 ext. 128 or visit us at www.iterainc.com
DataMirror Debuts Clustering for iSeries-Symmetrix Combos by Alex Woodie DataMirror recently announced that it is shipping a new version of its OS/400 clustering software designed to work in AS/400 and iSeries shops that use Symmetrix disk arrays manufactured by EMC as the storage devices for their servers. The iCluster for EMC Symmetrix integrates with EMC's backup and recovery facilities, TimeFinder and Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF), and gives users two different ways to keep their OS/400 applications running when disasters or other types of down time threaten the processing of transactions. READ MORE >	Web Application Server Vendors in a War of Attrition by Dan Burger Right at the heart of any company's e-business applications infrastructure is a Web application server. It is perhaps the most critical of all components in devising an e-business strategy. Why? Because most custom and packaged applications will run on the application server in the future. The vendors who compete in this $3 billion market--including IBM, BEA Systems, Microsoft, Oracle, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, and Sybase--are scratching and clawing for each customer they can capture. READ MORE >
Sponsored By BCD INT'L WebSmart -- Superior Technology to create your OWN solutions iSeries News Editors Choice Finalist, & 2001 PEA Winner Best e-Business/e-Commerce Development tool. Extend AS/400 apps and use existing skills. -- You'll be stunned at how fast, easy & affordable developing robust, elegant & secure Intranet/Internet and browser based applications can be! Try the #1 Web tool for FREE. Click www.BCDsoftware.com or call us at 630-986-0800.	Sponsored By AFFIRMATIVE COMPUTER IBM recently abandoned its thin client NetVista™, leaving a large group of users wondering where to go for thin clients. 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. Is Affirmative the premier provider of thin clients? The answer is yes! To learn more, call 888-353-5250 or visit www.affirmative.net.
IBM Previews WebSphere Application Server V5 by Joe Hertvik At IBM's recent developerWorks Live conference, the company introduced WebSphere Application Server Version 5, which is scheduled to be available in the third quarter. New features in Version 5 include support for J2EE 1.3, more support for Web services, authorization and security upgrades, and improved XML-based administration capabilities. And to keep WebSphere sales flowing in the short run, IBM has promised a free Version 5 upgrade to any customer who purchases Version 4 before the new software hits the shelves. READ MORE >	IBM Repositions Client Access with iSeries Access Rebranding by Joe Hertvik With OS/400 V5R2, IBM's Client Access group continues its migration from a Windows-only product line toward a broader set of tools that allow iSeries users to access their servers from a variety of devices. This migration, which has been occurring for at least two years, will bring the group's various programs under a new brand name--the V5R2 iSeries Access Family--that may provide a marketing boost and does away with the idea of the client being centric when it comes to access software. READ MORE >
Sponsored By MKS 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	Sponsored By TRAMENCO 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
As I See It: Surviving the Life by Victor Rozek Interminable delays at the airport, days of driving, motel rooms that reek of stale smoke and Lysol, bad water, strange food, hostile locals, exotic illnesses, and high prices--all coupled with the desperate urgency of trying to squeeze a year's worth of living into two cramped weeks. These are just some of the possible delights encountered on the great American vacation. It's little wonder many of us return home more exhausted than when we left. READ MORE >	But Wait, There's More . . . IBM Holds Top Slot in Worldwide Server Sales . . . IDION Tells DataMirror No Deal for the Last Time . . . J.D. Edwards to Resell Informatica's Data Extraction Software . . . ROI Reports Third Quarter Revenue Increase of 60 Percent . . . Ron Vangell Appointed CEO of Gauss Interprise . . . Jack Henry President Terry Thompson to Retire . . . READ MORE >
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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