Similar to how we enhanced the original Send Update program, SNDUPD, and the Check Last Send program, CHKLSTSND, to incorporate a level of operational friendliness to the job at hand with SNDUPD2 and CHKLSTSND2, today we'll make comparable changes to the SNDUPD3 and CHKLSTSND3 programs. As a reminder, the task we are working on is to send an alert from one program (CHKLSTSNDx) when another program (SNDUPDx) has not successfully run in over six hours.
Battle lines form around who will dominate emerging rich Internet applications.
By Chris Smith
As the 2008 Summer Olympics fade into memory and the athletes bring home the gold from what is being dubbed the "great haul of China," technophiles are noting the win that Microsoft scored at the games through its successful trial of Silverlight, which millions of users have now downloaded onto their computers.
Implementing a security plan can be a hassle, but nothing like the hassle you could have if you don't.
By Paul Howard
For many organizations, the need to add to or introduce security in order to meet regulatory compliance is seen as a serious burden being imposed upon them with no defined advantages. This article examines security from all angles and exposes how it can be perceived as an asset and/or a burden to an organization.
First, let's outline the views on how security can be construed as either a burden or an asset, and then we'll put the integration issues into perspective.
The browser is the successor to the 5250, but the rich client is its replacement.
By Joe Pluta
The 5250 turned the midrange computer into the indispensable component of the computer world. You can reasonably argue that interactive screens transformed data processing into information technology as we know it today. Prior to that, computers were about entering data and printing reports--data processing. It wasn't until green-screens made information available instantly to users that the idea of IT came into its own. It was a revolutionary event in the history of computers. We're poised at a similar point: while Web access through thin clients using technologies like JavaServer Faces is a (much-needed) evolutionary step, a true UI revolution is simmering under the surface and is ready to leap into the IT world. The technology has various names, from Web 2.0 to rich client, but the point is not what you call it but what you can do with it and how easily you can transform your existing business logic into new applications.
By Bruce Vining
By Chris Smith
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