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From the Editor:
The AS/400 turns 15 |
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Featured Topic:
iSeries storage: Storage Area Networks |
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Expert Technical Advice:
* Featured expert: Richard Belles, systems management
* FTP transfer of an iSeries file
* Always use data structure arrays
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Site Highlights:
* Poll: H1-B visas
* Wanted: A few good iSeries users
* New Best Web Link category -- On-demand Computing |
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by Michelle Davidson, site editor
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The AS/400 turns 15
Boy does time fly. In June the AS/400 (now called iSeries) celebrates its 15th anniversary.
When the system was announced in 1988, it was touted as the cream of the crop for small and midsize companies. It offered double the performance of the System/38 and five times that of the System/36. As part of the introduction, IBM and IBM Business Partners worldwide announced more than 1,000 software packages. By the time the first 400 shipped, more than 2,500 applications were available.
Over the years, IBM has improved and enhanced the midrange servers. Today, the i840 continues to set new records for server-side Java performance, beating Sun and Hewlett-Packard. And Big Blue says the iSeries boasts 99.9+% system availability and industry-leading customer satisfaction.
It's that customer satisfaction and user loyalty that has helped keep the system going. Alternatives may have looked attractive, but iSeries users have held true. And now, IBM says it has shipped more than 750,000 iSeries and AS/400 servers to customers in more than 150 countries.
To help celebrate the anniversary of the AS/400, we've created a fun quiz that takes a look back at how the server has changed over the years. How much do you know about the iSeries and its early beginnings? Take our quiz and find out.
Have some of your own AS/400 trivia that you'd like to share? Send it in. We can use it in another quiz later on.
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This Week: In the forums
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Record locking in COBOL
"Pandey" is developing an application in COBOL. He understands that to enable this application to run from multiple devices, record locking should be taken care. In COBOL, "read with no lock" exists, but while setting the pointer through "Start" there is no "No lock" keyword for it. Thankfully, "Mrusso" and "DougCMH" had some ideas.
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Can't start remote execution server from OpsNav
"Tsalamhandle" asks, "Is there is a procedure to track the remote execution server? The joblog indicates that the error is 3401, which means permision denied. Does anyone have an idea about this error?" "3Strikes" does and offers some advice.
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FTP transfer of an iSeries file
"Klcgmc" is looking for code for a simple FTP transfer of an iSeries file. He has a CLP that creates the iSeries file; he just needs to add the FTP command afterwards to transfer it. Do you have the necessary code? |
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| Tip of the Week: |
RPG data structure arrays better than multiple-occurrence
data structures
by Ron Turull
In case you haven't yet heard the news, as of V5R2 ILE RPG
compiler supports data structure arrays. That means you can
now specify the Dim keyword on the definition of a data
structure to dimension that data structure. Just as you can
dimension a stand-alone field to create an array of that type
of field, you can now dimension a data structure to create an
array of that kind of data structure.
Why should you care about support for data structure arrays?
They're much simpler to code and much less prone to bugs than
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IBM has been pushing its "on demand" capabilities. How do they apply to the iSeries and, more specifically, how do they affect you? The articles here help answer those questions.
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