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From the Editor:
The price is right -- or is it? |
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Featured Topic:
Find a user group nearest you |
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Expert Technical Advice:
* Featured Expert: Kent Milligan, DB2 advice
* From the Forums: COBOL copying DDS with alias replacing
* Programmer Tip: The Lazy Coder -- Get the bugs out
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Site Highlights:
* Webcast Premiere: Government regulations and security strategies
* New Book Excerpt: The Modern RPG IV Language, Third Edition
* WebSphere Strategies: Finding the Value in SQL and WebSphere |
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by Kate Evans- Correia, senior news editor
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The price is right -- or is it?
IBM has a new pricing strategy that is meant to make it easier for ISVs to sell the iSeries (excuse me, and i5) to customers outside the platform (read Microsoft customers). The idea is to lower the price of the platform and therefore eliminate any argument that an iSeries is too expensive.
Although lowering prices is a good solid strategy to move product, this isn't Wal-Mart nixing the cost of a lamp from $14.97 to $12.77. We all know how complex IBM's pricing can be. We all know that the price of an iSeries is never the price of an iSeries.
Or is it?
According to a poll we ran last week, 47% of you say it's about time IBM lowered the price -- and we're sure IBM will be pleased to hear you agree with this new strategy. But the bigger question for me now is do you believe the new pricing model will work its way into other areas, say services, upgrades, processors, and licenses? Or will IBM continue to gouge you on price? In general, do you really believe it will help fuel sales? Will it make it easier for you to sell your CIO on an iSeries?
What's your take on this? E-mail me and then take our poll if you haven't already.
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Featured Expert: Kent Milligan, iSeries technology specialist in PartnerWorld for Developers, iSeries, IBM
Kent has years of experience with DB2, and he speaks and writes about relational database issues regularly. So if you have a question, he's your man.
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Read previous Q&As or submit your own question
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This Week: In the forums
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COBOL copying DDS with alias replacing
"Michael3658" had created a DDS and specified a DDS alias for each field. It copied the DDS and specified the aliases, but it didn't do the replaces. He also tried using the REPLACE command and that didn't work either. He contacted IBM and found out what he was doing wrong.
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Help needed to debug a batch program
"Seymour" needs to debug a program that runs in batch, and he's running into problems. He read about using STRSRVJOB and then doing the STRISDBG statements. He wonders if there are certain parms that the CLP or RPG must be compiled with in order to debug it in batch. Do you know? Click over and help him out.
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User profile over 10 characters?
Search400.com member Anne Nelson wonders if IBM will ever expand the user profiles beyond 10 characters on the iSeries. All of her network file servers and e-mail systems are converting from an eight-character convention to a full name. She'd like to convert the iSeries IDs at the same time. Her users are getting frustrated by having to have different IDs for everything. "OldRPGMan" doesn't think it will ever happen, but he recommends contacting IBM. What are your thoughts? |
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| Tip of the Week: |
The Lazy Coder: Get the bugs out
by Andrew Borts
You've created the masterpiece of all masterpieces. This is THE definition of GREAT programming. But then Q/A calls and says there's a problem. Unfortunately, you need to go back find the bugs wreaking havoc. Here are some tips for debugging your programs and how to troubleshoot your programs as you build them to avoid problems at the end. |
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Webcast Premiere
Government regulations: How do they affect your security strategy -- or do they?
When: Friday, May 28 at 9 a.m. EDT (14:00 GMT)
Speaker: Carol Woodbury, president, CEO, SkyView Partners
Much has been written about government regulations and acts such as HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley and GLBA and whether they affect your security strategy. Carol Woodbury sets the record straight in this webcast. She will discuss various government regulations and their implications to a security strategy. Specific OS/400 issues and resolutions will be discussed.
-- Download the slides from Carol's presentation
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New Book Excerpt: The Modern RPG IV Language, Third Edition
Log on and download for free Chapter 6 of The Modern RPG IV Language, Third Edition written by Bob Cozzi and published by MC Press.
This chapter, "Program Organization," focuses on source file location, source file member contents, module definition, static and automatic storage and more.
Win a copy of the book:
After you read the chapter, test how much you've learned and then send us the results for a chance to win a copy of The Modern RPG IV Language, Third Edition.
Check out the chapter now
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WebSphere Strategies Tip
Finding the Value in SQL and WebSphere
by Paul Holm and Colin Slade
A frequent problem encountered in Web application development is when attempting to allow optional selection criteria. Many applications allow users to select records based on selection criteria. The big trick, however, is to get the search to ignore values in the search if the user does not specify them. This article details how this type of search can be coded. View other tips by Paul
Holm
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