1. Notes Development for the Web

If you know how to develop Notes applications, you're already a Web developer.

2. Workflow Made Easy

To develop effective electronic workflow systems, you must first define your business processes.

3. How to Use Lotus Notes' Multivalue Fields

Find out how you can use this unique field type in Notes

4. Lotus: It's Not What You Know, It's How You Manage It

So what's all this noise about Lotus knowledge management products?

5. iNotes on iSeries

Richard explores iNotes and how it can deliver your Notes apps to the Web.

6. Focus on Collaboration

The AS/400 and its follow-on, the iSeries, are systems that have always been a little hard to describe. The iSeries and AS/400 computers aren’t PCs and they aren’tmainframes—they’re somewhere in the middle. But those who have had

7. Quick Collaboration with Lotus QuickPlace

Find out how QuickPlace makes it easy to keep your team rowing in the same direction.

8. Should You Make the Exchange?

For a long time Microsoft has been enhancing its Exchange server product to better compete with Lotus Domino as a collaborative application server and development tool. Unfortunately for Microsoft, Exchange is still used primarily as an email server.

9. Understand the Cards Before You Place Your Bet

Two things were happening at the time I wrote this material: Lotusphere Europe 2000 (in Berlin, Germany) was just ending, and registration for Lotusphere 2001 (in Orlando, Florida) was beginning.Organizers are advising those who plan to attend Lotusp

10. Domino Joins the WebSphere Family

IBM recently announced the bundling of WebSphere and Domino. Richard explains the benefits and drawbacks.

11. Notes Bookmarks

Save time and trouble with Notes R5 bookmarks.

12. Jump-start Servlets and JSPs with WebSphere Version 3.0.2

Take WebSphere version 3.0.2 for a test drive.

13. Domino R5 Designer: Web Development Made Easy

Domino R5 Designer can help to energize the process of application development with a variety of exciting visual tools.

14. Create a Real-time AS/400-Domino Connection with DECS

Lotus' new domino Enterprise connection Services brings real-time AS/400 data to your Domino databases.

15. A Melting Pot of Programming Languages

Domino uses a hearty brew of languages. Learn how to cook up some great business apps with a variety of ingredients.

16. The Joy of JavaScript and Domino

Write a happy ending for the Web and Domino with JavaScript.

17. Use Notes as Your Data Passport

Pass your data through Notes' native import function, the Ellis Island of data migration.

18. DB2 Data Slides into Lotus Notes

Let us show you a quick trick for moving AS/400 data into Notes.

19. DB2/400 via Lotus Notes: Free Delivery!

When you're tallying up all the great features of Notes, don't forget to include native data exchange.

20. Play Domino on Your AS/400

Domino is the biggest game in town. Let us show you how to play.

21. Client-to-DB2/400 Connectivity with JDBC

JDBC-it's just ODBC with a jolt of Java.

22. Record-level Access with the AS/400 Toolbox for Java

You?ve heard all about Java; here?s how to use it.

23. Writing Your First RPG CGI Data Entry Program

With V3R2 and V3R7, the AS/400 gained the ability to deliver graphical applications to anyone in the world through the Internet. This new HTML interface requires a lot less work than you might think.... That's right, much less work than you might thi

24. TechTalk: Creating a communications configuration backup.

The demand for computer networking and connectivity is increasing at an astonishing rate. The bottom line is that most of us are dealing with more communications configurations on our AS/400s than ever before. In a typical AS/400 installation, it wou

25. RPG IV Expression Support

It has always been easy to find fault with RPG, yet, despite the criticism, it's alive and well. RPG is kind of like an old Volkswagen-it may not be pretty to some and may seem a little crude, but it still gets you down the road. In fact, RPG is carr

26. TechTalk: Keeping iterations in a DO loop equal to the subfile size.

When loading page-at-a-time subfiles, programmers often create DO loops in which the iteration count is equal to the subfile size. For example, if the subfile size is 10, you might see code like this: DO 10 . . load subile . . E

27. TechTalk: Defining the API error parameter.

Q: I am trying to create a program that will run in the background to monitor QBATCH job queue. I want to send a break message alerting someone to the bottleneck when the job queue has more than 10 jobs. I'm using the QSPRJOBQ API to retrieve informa

28. GO CLEANUP Your System

One of the great things about OS/400 is all of the functions you get with the base operating system. A good example is Operational Assistant (OA). OA is a menu-driven interface that helps perform many operational tasks, such as work with printer outp

29. TechTalk: The built-in functions of the new system debugger.

The system debugger available in V3R1 is great! Finally, AS/400 programmers can view a program's source statements while the program is running in debug mode. Viewing the value of a variable in an ILE program running in debug mode can be as simple as

30. TechTalk: Improving SQL fetch performance.

When retrieving information with embedded SQL, it's common for programmers to set up a loop to execute multiple FETCH statements. For example, a do loop iterates 100 times to retrieve 100 rows of information. Within the loop, the SQL FETCH statement

31. Access AS/400 Data with Microsoft Access

Microsoft Access is a relational database programmer's dream come true. It offers an intuitive graphical interface to powerful database features, such as designing and creating tables (files), queries, reports, and graphical forms for viewing and edi

32. TechTalk: Installing PTFs

You may encounter a problem if you attempt to install a PTF for a licensed program that is at a different release level than OS/400. Fortunately, there's a solution to the problem. Let me explain. IBM occasionally creates a substantial update to a

33. FTP Made Easy

No matter what type of computer it is or who manufactures it, it is probably able to communicate with TCP/IP?TCP/IP is everywhere. With TCP/IP comes its native file transfer application, FTP. Although FTP isn't the most sophisticated file transfer ap

34. DB2/400 Stored Procedure Implementation

When IBM announced V3R1 in May 1994, the database enhancements were touted as a major reason AS/400 shops should move quickly to the new release. Now that V3R1 is a reality, you'll want to take a closer look at the new functions. This article examine

35. The Display Trigger Description (DSPTRGD) Command

The new DB2/400 trigger function is a very useful addition to an already great database. Properly implemented, triggers can increase the intelligence of your database by causing it to automatically respond to database events such as adding, deleting

36. Array Definitions in ILE RPG

It's hard to imagine programming without arrays. Arrays simplify how we solve problems with computer programs. One of the first things an RPG programmer learns is how to use arrays. With ILE RPG, the way you define arrays has changed for the better.

37. TechTalk: New System APIs Include Members

With V3R1, there's a new library called QSYSINC. It comes with files containing source members that define many of the structures used by OS/400 application program interfaces (APIs). For example, you can find data structures and variables defined fo

38. RPG Data Structures Primer

Data structures can be used to solve many programming problems encountered in everyday work in RPG. Many operations used to rearrange data can be eliminated by effective use of data structures. Data structures can be externally defined, allowing prog

39. Converting RPG/400 to ILE RPG

ILE RPG brings some long-awaited improvements to RPG. For instance, you can finally work with file names of the same length as those the operating system supports; and you can create logical and mathematical expressions that simplify the coding proce

40. TechTalk: Client Access for Windows

Client Access for Windows 3.1 doesn't support some DOS client functions that are supported under the DOS clients of PC Support and Client Access. The functions that aren't supported include the following: * File Transfer (RFROMPC, RTOPC, RFROMPCB, a

41. New Display File DDS Keywords

Here is a complete list of the new display file DDS keywords included with V3R1. CSRINPONLY HLPSHELF MOUBTN PSHBTNCHC PSHBTNFLD SFLCHCCTL SFLMLTCHC SFLRTNSEL SFLSCROLL SFLSNGCHC VALNUM WDWTITLE WRDWRAP You can find a complete description of all of

42. Converting S/36 SFGR to DDS

Those contemplating converting S/36 SFGR formats to DDS should be aware that the Create S/36 Display File (CRTS36DSPF) command automatically converts SFGR source statements to DDS. Use the To DDS source file (TOFILE) and the To DDS source member (TO

43. If You Can't Beat 'em, Join 'em

In this day of relational database design, most databases incorporate some degree of file normalization. Designing systems using normalization techniques can make accessing information more difficult since, in general, the design spreads data among n

44. The ILE Source Debugger

When it comes to tracking down a problem in your program, tracing the actual program code while the program is running is the quickest method for finding the problem. This method, known as source-level debugging, has been around for years. With a so

45. The EXCSQLSTM Utility

Brief: Although every AS/400 has a relational database, OS/400 doesn't facilitate access to Structured Query Language (SQL) without the SQL/400 licensed program. The Execute SQL Statement (EXCSQLSTM) command presented here provides a command interfac

46. Query Management Magic

The common denominator for relational database access is SQL. If you're working with a relational database-no matter what the system-you can probably use SQL to retrieve and manipulate the information in it. The success of the AS/400 as the "server o

47. Control Files in Shared Folders

Brief: If your PCs are linked to an AS/400 through PC Support/400 (or Client Access/400), here's a no-nonsense utility that provides file version control. Many AS/400 installations use PCs connected to the AS/400 to process PC files. For example, mo

48. Message Queue Housekeeper

Message queues tend to become cluttered. Often, you find they have so many messages that it's difficult to locate the messages that need your attention. Many of the messages are obsolete because the jobs that issued them are no longer active. If one

49. Empower Help Support

Brief: The AS/400's help support is one of its great strengths. A powerful feature of this help support is an index search function known as InfoSeeker. Learn how you can create your own custom search indexes to provide users with powerful help searc

50. Automatic Window Placement

Do you ever tire of having to determine and specify the start row and column of your DDS windows? Then, here's some good news. Beginning with V2R3, there's a new, simplified method for specifying DDS window placement. You can specify a special value