As the saying goes “all good things must come to an end.” And alas, this is the last in my series of tips on improvements to DB2 for i in V6R1. This final tip will cover the hodgepodge of remaining notable features added since the V5R4 that haven’t been covered in the prior tips. Stick around because there is some good stuff in here.

ALTER FUNCTION Statement

V5R4 gave us the ALTER PROCEDURE statement and now, at long last, DB2 has the ALTER FUNCTION statement. Prior to 6.1, when a function needed a modification, developers were forced to drop and

Over the last couple of years I have spent a lot of time playing around with Web pages. You can see the results of my efforts at www.systemideveloper.com. One of the really fun parts of getting to grips with Web pages has been learning about some of the weird and wonderful things that can be done with Javascript.

In this article, I want to share two of my favorite Javascript functions. Hopefully, you might find them useful or they might spark you on to something even better.

Fighting the Spam Bots

When I first set up the System i

My vendor wants me to install IBM licensed program 5722-AC3 (128-bit Cryptographic Access Provider). However, I can’t find that product in my i5/OS V5R4 partition. I could have sworn it was there before we upgraded from version V5R3. What happened to 5722-AC3?

–Sam

With i5/OS V5R4, IBM made some changes to the way it manages encryption. After a V5R4 upgrade, you will notice that the following IBM licensed program products (LPP) are no longer available on your system:

• 5722-AC3–Cryptographic Access Provider–In earlier versions, this was referred to as the 128-bit Cryptographic Access Provider, because there also used to be a