This Week: Nominations begin for Products of the Year Awards

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Published by Search400.com  September 20, 2004 >> Receive this e-mail as text  >> About this e-mail   In this Issue >> From the Editor: Accepting nominations for iSeries Products of the Year Awards >> Featured Topic: Top 10 Administrator Tips >> Expert Technical Advice: * Featured Expert: Kent Milligan, DB2 UDB * In the Forums: Working with batch jobs and LDA * Administrator Tip: The value of hexadecimal formatting >> Site Highlights: * Live Expert Webcast: Improved CL documentation * Three tips for using WebFacing * Guide to FREE iSeries educational resources  From the Editor: by Michelle Davidson, editor Accepting nominations for iSeries Products of the Year Awards Have an amazing product that was released this year? Do you know of a product that has worked wonders for your shop? Here's your chance to get that product the recognition it deserves. This coming January, Search400.com will present its Second Annual iSeries Products of the Year Awards. The awards will highlight and celebrate those entries in the market that are deemed outstanding examples of new and innovative technological advancement for users. We will consider products in the following categories for selection: Security software High-availability products Application development tools (includes application development for the Web) Document/image management software (includes printing and output) Business-to-business solutions Backup and recovery tools To be eligible for consideration for the iSeries Products of the Year Awards, a product must have been introduced or significantly upgraded between Sept. 30, 2003 and Oct. 1, 2004. For previously available products, the upgrade must incorporate major new features, designed to meet new or evolving needs in the marketplace. To submit a product for review, a company representative just needs to complete an online application. Applications must be submitted by Oct. 25, 2004. Users can also nominate a product or products for consideration. All you have to do is send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and give us the name of the product, the name of company that manufactures it and contact information if you have it. Then we will contact the vendor and complete the submission process. The top three winners in each category will be announced in January, and the winning products will be included in a feature article to be published on Search400.com. Plus, winners will receive a Products of the Year logo that can be used in advertising and promotional materials. Don't let those amazing products go unnoticed. Submit your application or nominate a product today.  Featured Topic: Top 10 Administrator Tips by Michelle Davidson, editor What issues are iSeries admins most concerned with? Based on the popularity of Search400.com's Administrator Tips, performance, tuning and working with the IFS are the big ones. Here's a look at the top 10 Administrator Tips they've turned to so far this year. Below are tips 5-10. Click over to see which ones made it into the top 5. * Three basic system tools to help you tune your iSeries * How to use WRKSYSSTS to monitor your system -- Part I * Using WRKSYSSTS to tune your system * ILE CL can boost productivity and performance * How to get the most from WRKACTJOB Read more about this topic  Expert Technical Advice: Featured Expert: Kent Milligan, iSeries technology specialist in PartnerWorld for Developers, iSeries, IBM Category: DB2 UDB 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. Read previous Q&As or submit your own question This Week: In the forums >> Working with batch jobs and LDA One user writes, "We stored some values in LDA using our current job interactively, then we submitted a batch job. What we're wondering is, should that batch job retrieve the values from LDA of the interactive job?" "CLKelly" was on hand to explain how the process works. >> iSeries V5R2 swap to i5 V5R3 "JPinTO" writes, "I have a new i5 520 pre-installed with V5R3 that is replacing a 270 running V5R2. Is this a simple matter of using GO SAVE Option 22 to save all of the user data on the old 270, then doing the GO RESTORE Option 23 on the new i5? Does this strategy bring over networking settings like TCP?" "Skitch210" says no, and he explains what should be done. >> What's the cost of an OS/400 upgrade? "Aidrous" has an iSeries 825 running V5R2 and is interested in upgrading to V5R3. He's wondering what the estimated cost of this upgrade might be. Would you happen to know? Tip of the Week: The value of hexadecimal formatting How to use the ILE debugger to display the value of a variable in hexadecimal format by Ron Turull With the growing diversity of the ILE languages and the increased use of system APIs, knowing how to display the contents of a variable in other formats while debugging a program is essential. It not only saves you time, but it also makes the new ILE source debugger easier to work with. This tip looks at how hexadecimal formatting can help you. >> Read tip  Site Highlights Live Expert Webcast: CL Enhancements Part 2 Improved CL command documentation When: Sept. 21 at 2 p.m. EDT (18:00 GMT) Speaker: Guy Vig, senior software engineer, IBM Rochester For V5R3, several changes have improved the quality, consistency, and usability of CL command documentation. Find out why the changes were made and the resulting benefits. Register to attend Three tips for using WebFacing by Jim Mason Trying to find your way around IBM's WebFacing? Site expert Jim Mason guides you through three tricky areas: changing the DDS display file source member, alternatives to iSeries commands, and having a WebFaced application limit customers' view of data. Read tips Guides to FREE iSeries educational resources Bookmark these resources today Keeping abreast of the latest iSeries technology can be a tough task. A lot of shops have a slim-to-none budget for education and training, and finding the time to take a workshop or class can seem next to impossible. We've searched the Web and have come up with a ton of great links to online courses, tutorials, webcasts, white papers, tips, articles and much more. And best of all, these educational resources are all FREE. ** Check out both part 1 and part 2 of the learning guides. ** View all of the Search400.com Learning Guides. Free iSeries/i5 e-newsletters Select newsletters you would like to receive from the list below. 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