What’s IBM WebSphere Portal? Simply speaking, WebSphere Portal is a J2EE application that runs on the WebSphere Application Server. What’s the benefit of using it? Again, simply speaking, WebSphere Portal enables companies to build their own customer portal Web sites to serve different needs for employees, business partners, and customers. Why IBM Web Administration for i interface? Because WebSphere Portal is complex, but Web Administration for i makes it simple for customers. So how can it do that?

In this article, you’ll learn what IBM Web Administration for i can do to configure a WebSphere Portal on your IBM i

One of the fun things about editing this newsletter is reading the interesting ideas I get from you, the readers. One reader in particular, one of the several David’s from whom I hear, comes up with interesting questions, comments and ideas. Here’s an SQL tip he came up with. I thought I’d share it with you.

Many of us use files with “buckets” (a list of repeating fields), in order to easily present data to users in an intuitive format. A file with repeating fields violates First Normal Form (1NF), and can cause grief when the number of buckets must

I want to set up a private storage pool on our i/OS machine for our debit card subsystem. I want to protect its storage since we frequently time out on transactions, even when we run the programs run at priority 16. The debit card programs already run in their own subsystem, but how do I make sure the subsystem pool is getting enough memory?

–David

There are two ways you can approach this problem: give the subsystem a fixed amount of memory that never varies, or give the subsystem its own shared storage pool that contains a range for how