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In This Issue
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Grab your beverage of choice, get comfortable, and read this newsletter.
Sponsored By
 SEAGULL
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Replace 5250 with open XML?
Blow the lid off scalability with batch processing? That's the kind of outside-the-box thinking that evolves your iSeries to strategic Web architectures, leveraging hardware and software investments.
Introducing X-Caliber, a new LegaSuite module from SEAGULL that replaces the 5250 data stream with XML and moves processing out of interactive into exponentially more scalable batch mode.
Learn more: at www.seagullsw.com
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Sponsored By
 JACADA
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Jacada Introduces Break-Through iSeries
App Development Tool
Jacada Studio for iSeries is a revolutionary WYSIWYG design tool that enables developers to build thin-client GUI applications using RPG and COBOL.
This first-ever product allows RPG & COBOL developers to build web applications without having to learn Java, HTML, or CGI.
Learn more and get a FREE 30-day evaluation copy at http://www.jacada.com/Studio/Product62
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IBM Says New iSeries Hardware, OS/400 Due in 2003
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
I've been trying for months to pin down what IBM is going to do with the iSeries in 2003, and have been getting mixed signals. According to some sources, IBM has no plans to announce new hardware or software in 2003. Others say there will be new hardware but no new software. While at COMMON last week, I got a very clear signal from high-level IBM sources who said that Big Blue will indeed roll out new iSeries products next year. READ MORE >
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Driving Fast with Dr. Frank Soltis at the iSeries Nation Town Hall
by Alex Woodie
The OS/400 platform's founding father was in peak racing form during a 30-minute address to the faithful at the biannual iSeries Nation town hall meeting held during the COMMON conference in Denver last week. The two-hour event featured awards, customer stories, and an unusually tame "sound off" session. But the highlight of the show was Dr. Frank Soltis, iSeries chief scientist and Porsche aficionado, as he effectively wielded a sports-car analogy to communicate IBM's iSeries strategy. READ MORE >
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Sponsored By
 MAXIMUM AVAILABILITY
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If you are from one of the
iSeries shops asking:
1. Can we eliminate our back up window entirely without adding a second processor?
2. Can we do our back-ups during normal business hours without mirroring to another system or configuring an LPAR?
With *noMAX, the answer is YES.
Get more information about *noMAX and DOWNLOAD a free white paper from Maximum Availability now.
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Sponsored By
 QUADRANT SOFTWARE
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Replace pre-printed forms with digital documents delivered via print, email, and fax using Electronic Document Distribution (EDD) solutions for the iSeries 400 enterprise.
Engineered with Brooktrout intelligent technologies, these EDD solutions seamlessly integrate with major business applications and offer error-free creation, management, and automated delivery of mission-critical documents, electronic forms, MICR checks, and bar code labels, all with plug-and-play implementation.
www.quadrantsoftware.com www.brooktrout.com
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A Conversation with IBM's New VP of iSeries Marketing
by Alex Woodie and Timothy Prickett Morgan
Marketing the OS/400 platform has always been a delicate dance for IBM. Trumpet the platform's benefits too much, and you risk disparaging Big Blue's other moneymakers. Cecelia Marrese, an 18-year IBM veteran, was recently promoted to the influential position of vice president of iSeries marketing. Guild Companies editors Timothy Pricket Morgan and Alex Woodie sat down to talk with Marrese at the COMMON conference in Denver last week. Here is an edited transcript of the conversation. READ MORE >
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Admin Alert: Configuring PC5250 for Inactive Job Disconnection
by Joe Hertvik
I didn't expect my column on dealing with inactive jobs to become a continuing story. It started a few weeks ago, when I explained how to configure OS/400 to dispose of inactive jobs. A week later, reader Robert Boling suggested additional configuration parameters, but we also discovered that automatic job disconnection didn't work correctly for some Telnet sessions. In this column, I'll resolve the Telnet disconnection problem by demonstrating how to configure PC5250 for fixed device names. READ MORE >
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Sponsored By
 BCD INT'L
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NO MORE -- Java Jitters !
Extend BPCS, MAPICS, JDE or any other app with BCD's Award Winning WebSmart
-- Quickly and Affordably.
Unlike many IBM iSeries WebSphere sites, 95+% of WebSmart users DO NOT have to upgrade hardware saving $20K to $200K! WebSmart ILE/CGI web/browser based apps DO NOT consume interactive resources & run significantly FASTER than Java-generated apps. Run on iSeries or multi-platform.
Try WebSmart on a FREE Download
Click & Visit -- www.bcdsoftware.com
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Sponsored By
 ELECTRONIC STORAGE CORPORATION
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What secret advantage do 1000 iSeries and AS/400 sites have over YOU?
LaserVault!
LaserVault is THE easy-to-use, affordable software solution for archiving and distributing reports from your AS/400. Access your reports and invoices instantly and securely via the Internet, your PC, or a workstation. And best of all. . .Realize a ROI in as little as 6 months.
Visit www.laservault.com today for a FREE 30 day trial.
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Big Blue Rises Above the IT Market Downdraft
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Everybody is looking for a little good news these days, and IBM did its part by telling Wall Street analysts and investors last week that although 2002 was a tough year, the company would, as Sam Palmisano expected, do better than many of the other companies running in the IT pack and, more important, would return to double-digit profit growth in 2003. Yippee! And everybody started talking about how Big Blue is bucking the IT spending crunch. READ MORE >
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Jacada Studio Leverages RPG, COBOL Skills to Make New GUI Apps
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
OS/400 shops using, and software houses peddling, green-screen applications have lots of ways to put a graphical front end on those applications that gives them the modern Windows or HTML look that users expect these days. Jacada, which has been selling tools for modernizing 3270 and 5250 apps for more than a decade, will today launch Jacada Studio for iSeries, a development tool that allows shops with RPG and COBOL applications to leverage their skills in those languages to create new GUI applications. READ MORE >
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Sponsored By
 COSYN SOFTWARE
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Are you running BPCS and frustrated by BPCSOUTQ limitations? Are you upgrading to a new BPCS version and paying expensive programmers to modify your vanilla software just to change spool file behavior?
Let COSYN SPOOL MANAGER do it for you.
You'll be up and running in no time with our simple install and supplied BPCS template. Find out why Spool Manager has been successful for companies like Firestone, Nestle, Marley and many more. Get more information or try it for yourself at www.cosynsoftware.com.
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Sponsored By
 AFFIRMATIVE COMPUTER
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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 .
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As I See It: The Vision Thing
by Victor Rozek
While in college, I worked the swing shift at the local Coca Cola bottling plant, reconciling daily sales receipts against the actual product delivered by drivers. For me it was a temporary job; the work wasn't demanding and the hours suited my class schedule. But for others, selling Coke was a career, a fact that both intrigued and baffled me. So one day I asked the sales manager one of those impertinent questions with which the young challenge their elders. READ MORE >
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But Wait, There's More . . .
Get the Latest OS/400 PTF Guide . . . Van Symons New VP of Sales for CRM Vendor Clear Tech . . . Sirius on a Roll, Acquires Second Company in Two Weeks . . . Touchtone Gains iSeries ServerProven Validation for OS/400 CRM App . . . Lakeview Launches the Information Availability Institute . . . 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 send a letter to the editor. We will consider your letter a candidate for the reader feedback column associated with this newsletter, but we will contact you before we make your email public. READ MORE >
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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
Hesh Wiener
Alex Woodie
Publisher and
Advertising Director:
Jenny Thomas
Advertising Sales Representative
Kim Reed
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