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Important Announcements and Links - Book Excerpt: Re-engineering RPG Legacy Applications - User Survey: What are your spending plans for 2004? - Tip Contest: Win a 128MB Amoeba MP3 player - Gadgets & Gizmos Guide: Looking for some hip high-tech gadgets? ____________________________________________________________________ **** SPONSORED BY Lakeview Technology, the developers of MIMIX **** WEBCAST - iSeries Recovery: No Tapes. No Journaling. No Problem. Need a Better-than-Tape Backup solution? MIMIX dr1 provides an economical, self-installable iSeries recovery solution WITHOUT JOURNALING, allowing you to find multiple recovery points throughout your operations day without disrupting your iSeries users! View the webcast replay at your convenience to discover how MIMIX dr1 works and see where to download your own FREE Preview copy of MIMIX dr1! http://search400.com/r/0,,22627,00.htm?track=NL-17&lakeview ==================================================================== Today's Featured Tip ==================================================================== Get up to speed on the restore/display journal receiver command Search400.com member Dennis Cote explains the ins and outs of the restore/display journal receiver command, and he provides step-by-step code to run this command. According to Dennis, using this command can save programmers a lot of debugging time. It also enables you to quickly retrieve answers on how things got updated when your users are questioning if your systems are working right. The programmer can see that the actual physical file date is split up into the correct fields, as well as the display journal fields that are added to the top of the file (i.e. user name, job name, program name, etc.) >> CLICK here for the full tip: http://search400.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid3_gci939739,00.html?track=NL-17 =================================================================== Answers to Other Programmer Questions =================================================================== TAKE COMMAND OF YOUR COMMANDS User-defined commands are one of the most under utilized objects in OS/400. The way they are defined, created and used is often misunderstood, so programmers stay away from them. Once they're mastered, however, they become a great tool to have in your toolbox. Site expert John Kohan explains these commands and provides a brief example to get you started using them. http://www.search400.com/tip/1,289483,sid3_gci874086,00.html?track=NL-17 USER-DEFINED COMMANDS TO THE RESCUE Search400.com member Eitan Rosenberg shows you a technique for submitting a report using a homegrown command. http://search400.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid3_gci552241,00.html?track=NL-17 RESTORING ISERIES OBJECTS One user writes, "I want to restore objects from the Save file on the tape. Is there any way to restore objects without restoring save files on the system?" Search400.com expert Ken Graap says absolutely. http://www.search400.com/ateQuestionNResponse/0,289625,sid3_cid548194_tax288615,00.html?track=NL-17 TOP 10 BACKUP COMMANDS In this Featured Topic Search400.com addresses the backup basics with these top commands. Learn when it's the best time to use each one, then put the commands to use with the tips provided. http://search400.techtarget.com/featuredTopic/0,290042,sid3_gci932918,00.html?track=NL-17 ___________________________________________________________________ ***************** Enterprise Outsourcing Decisions **************** March 24 - 26, Atlanta, GA Is cost still the main reason for outsourcing? What aspects of your business should you outsource - the critical or non-critical business functions? Enterprise Outsourcing Decisions delivers answers to these questions and more for companies already outsourcing or still in the decision-making process. Learn how to achieve greater ROI from your investments, make smart offshore outsourcing decisions, choose the right vendors and set your sourcing strategy. 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