THIS WEEK: Ask IBM execs your tough questions

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October 07, 2002 >> Receive this email as text  >> About this email   In this Issue >> From the Editor: Ask IBM execs your tough questions >> Featured Topic: Regatta servers >> Expert Technical Advice: * Featured expert: Tim Granatir, application development * Cumulative PTFs and Group PTF alignment problems * Enable CGI programs and Net.Data for your V5R2 HTTP server >> Site Highlights: * Search400.com IT Excellence Awards * Poll: How long have you worked on the 400? * Month in Review: September 2002  From the Editor: by Kate Evans-Correia, news editor Ask IBM execs your tough questions Next week, editors from Search400.com will be in Denver at the fall COMMON user conference. As part of our coverage, we'll be talking to IBM executives (from marketing types to the product development guys) about the iSeries. We'll spend three days sitting in on interviews and press conferences with the executives you might not have direct access to. We know what the executives have to say is important to you, but often at these user shows the one thing you wanted to know never gets addressed. Let us ask it for you. If you were sitting in on any of these interviews, what would you ask? What issues concern you? Send us your questions, and we'll do our best to get to the IBM executive who can answer it for you. We'll follow up with an exclusive article on Search400.com. Send your questions to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Search400.com will also have a booth at the conference. So if you plan to attend the show, stop by booth 601 to say hi. We'd love to meet you.  Featured Topic: Regatta servers by Debra Tart, assistant editor Thanks to the Regatta i890 server, IBM is making headway into the high-end server market. Learn more about this powerful server and how it compares to others. Read more about this topic  Expert Technical Advice: Featured Expert: Tim Granatir, vice president of Technical Services, Interlink Technologiesv Categories: Application Development, systems management Tim has experience in a range of iSeries subjects, such as application development and systems management. Not only does he answer Ask the Expert questions, but he also helps moderate the Search400.com discussion forums, and he writes programmer tips. Submit an application development question This Week: In the forums >> How to "refresh" a subfile "Simson" says he created a "monitoring" program with subfile screen display. This program will monitor things such as active jobs or number of user signed on. And the screen needs to be refreshed every five minutes or so. He got some help from "spebola" and "Arbatros". Read what they had to say. >> Cumulative PTFs and Group PTF alignment problems "Bburgoyne" asks, "Is anyone else having problems with IBM releasing Group PTFs soon after they include (SF99501) with a Cume PTF package? Why can't IBM synchronize this so that systems management among multiple systems can be better coordinated and standardized?" Click over and share your thoughts. >> No, no! I want Work with Spooled Files "Bluesoul" says whenever he does 'wrksplf' his screen goes to 'Work With Printer Output' instead of going to 'Work with Spooled Files'. What is going on here? Fortunately "MindNL" knew what to do. Tip of the Week: Enable CGI programs and Net.Data for your V5R2 HTTP server Having problems configuring Net.Data with the new HTTP Server (powered by Apache)? Get the advice you're looking for here. Brian R. Smith, senior consulting I/T specialist in the IBM International Technical Support Organization, shows you how to enable your server to support dynamically generated Web pages. >> Read full tip  Site Highlights Search400.com IT Excellence Awards Are you pushing the limits of your iSeries? Developing creative ways to use it for e-business? If so, we want to hear from you. Nominate end-user organizations for their achievements using the iSeries. Submit a nomination for one of two categories: scalability or e-business New Search400.com poll How many years have you been working on the AS/400? Cast your vote and read current results Month in Review: September 2002 There's no reason you shouldn't know what's going on at Search400.com Here are a few of last month's tips and featured topics: * Use DSPFD to track file accesses and nip performance issues in the bud * Use CPU utilization guideline values to monitor high-priority (interactive) jobs * Unique user profiles are critical to OS/400 security * WebFacing extends the reach of your legacy code * Disaster recovery -- be prepared Tips contest winners Manolis Mariakakis took top honors in the September contest for his tip Convert spooled files to PDF using Java. Runner-up winners: Nico Beekhuijs and Jeff Worthington. Hall of Fame Be prepared The new SearchSecurity.com guide, "Managing Viruses in the Enterprise," provides a wealth of knowledge on virus prevention. Order today and take advantage of our no-risk offer. 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