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From the Editor:
Where have all the apps gone? |
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Top 10 tips from our experts |
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Expert Technical Advice:
* Featured Expert: Ken Graap, backup and recovery
* In the Forums: How to change your system name
* Administrator Tip: Registration facility helps you tailor your system -- Part II
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* Optimizing Tomcat for Web applications
* 2004 iSeries Security Configuration Study
* Free book excerpt -- Eclipse: Step by Step |
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by Michelle Davidson, editor
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Where have all the apps gone?
A recent Search400.com article (Survey: Lack of apps still plagues iSeries shops) reported that there's a serious lack of applications for the iSeries. So, you have this amazing machine, but you have to search high and low to find applications for it -- or write your own. What's going on?
When the AS/400 was announced in 1988, IBM and IBM business partners announced at the same time more than 1,000 software packages for the platform. Fast forward to today, and we have a new line of i5 servers but few applications to go with it. I find that unusual, considering the size of IBM's software division. In the past couple of years, IBM has acquired several software companies and, in fact, in its stock was reclassified on the FTSE All World Index as a software and services company
rather than a hardware company. One would think that IBM would be able to develop its own applications for the iSeries.
As for third-party applications, data centers' increased shift to Windows and other platforms has certainly had an effect. If fewer people are using the iSeries, why should companies develop products for it? Additionally, IBM's past negligence of software vendors continues to affect development.
Yes, IBM is investing billions of dollars into getting ISVs and business partners to develop applications for the iSeries, and yes, it is reinvigorating the server line with new models and technologies. But is it enough?
What do you think? Will IBM's recent initiatives give the iSeries market the boost it needs? Will having more applications attract more customers? Will the new server models attract more customers? E-mail me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] with your thoughts.
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Featured Expert: Ken Graap, senior AS/400e system administrator, Northwest Natural Gas
Category: Backup and recovery
With all the data that companies generate and store, you can't afford to lose any. Ken can help you if you're in a bind.
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This Week: In the forums
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How to change your system name
Want to change your system name? "RMalloy" shows you how.
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Viewing remote users display session
"Wheeler5" was looking for a way to connect to another user's display device and view his current display. And "CLKelly" was right there with an answer.
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Need help doing a save option 21
"ISCRussell" writes, "We are trying to do a save option 21 and are running into all sorts of time issues. The actual save appears to take about two hours, but the entire job is running 13-plus hours. The operator cancels the job, and we bring the system back up. We notice that the tape contains all the libraries, and when we look at the job log we see that all the saves have been completed." Does anyone know what's going on? |
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The registration facility helps you tailor your system -- Part II
Manage exit points, programs with one utility
by Ron Turull
Previously Ron outlined the benefits of the registration facility, now it's time to get down and dirty and develop and deploy an exit program using this utility. Following his instructions, learn how to use the registration facility's Client Access exit points instead of the PCSACC network attribute to improve system performance.
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Optimizing Tomcat for Web applications
by Paul Holm
Apache's Tomcat is a powerful, easy-to-use and free alternative to WebSphere. But for you to get maximum performance out of it, there are a couple things you need to do. This month Paul Holm shows you step-by-step how to make Tomcat run faster and handle more of a data load, thereby allowing increased performance of the development of your Web application.
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2004 iSeries Security Configuration Study
This study is a detailed look at the state of security in the iSeries and AS/400 installed base. Learn about deficiencies that were found and how those could lead to misuse, theft and legal liability.
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Free book excerpt
Eclipse: Step by Step
Download for free Chapter 7 of Eclipse: Step by Step written by Joe Pluta and published by MC Press. This chapter, "A Simple Program," shows you how to create a simple program. You get step-by-step instructions for creating a program that can display data from a database.
Learn more about Eclipse: Listen to Joe's webcast -- Everything you want to know about WebSphere and Eclipse
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