1. TechTip: Sharing WDSC Projects Without CVS

The trick is to use an EAR file.

2. IMHO: Where Have All the Jobs Gone?

A decade ago, programmers had it made.

3. TechTip: Configure iSeries for Web Serving

This step-by-step video shows you how.

4. TechTip: Installing the iPTF Plug-in for iSeries Navigator

It's not rocket science, but it can be a little confusing.

5. TechTip: Locking Down FTP Using Operations Navigator--A Video Tutorial

Learn how to secure FTP on your iSeries at both the user profile and system levels.

6. TechTip: System Service Tools User Profiles--A Video Tutorial

More than just a description of steps, this video actually shows you exactly what to do.

7. The Wonderful World of Wizards

Check out the new networking configuration wizards in OpsNav.

8. TechTip: Calling Java from RPG!

One of the coolest things with the new V5R1 RPG IV compiler is the ability to call Java classes as if they were native procedures. This ability is accomplished through the use of the Java Native Interface (JNI) protocols. JNI is relatively complex to

9. Can You Afford Free Web-based Access to Your iSeries?

Take advantage of V5R1's new iSeries Access for Web product.

10. V5R1: Excitement for OS/400 Administration and

Operations

11. V5R1: Networking Enhancements

The subject of computer networking has become extremely familiar to the average person. For that, we can thank the proliferation of PCs and the Internet. What used to be an arcane art has quickly become a common topic of conversation in mainstream so

12. Is It Time to Work from Home?

Maybe it's time to send your employees home.

13. End of Service for AS/400 and iSeries Software

It may be time to upgrade your version of OS/400.

14. Java Fundamentals for OS/400 Programmers

Talk the talk before you attempt to walk the walk.

15. Lest We Forget

Don't forget to take steps not to forget.

16. FTP the Easy Way Using Java

Use the Java FTP classes for fast FTP service!

17. Transcode to Get Data Where It Needs to Be

Get

18. Accessibility Software Opens the Door to Nontraditional Workers

Today's technologies can help people overcome physical challenges.

19. Focus on High Availability and Clustering

If there’s one topic that has caught fire over the last couple of years more than any other, it’s the need for your systems to have high availability. In this Internet-connected world, the need for systems that are available 24 hours a day,

20. New Options for Capacity Planning

Last month I told you about IBM’s new Capacity Upgrade on Demand feature offering for the iSeries 840 line. This program offers iSeries owners the opportunity to temporarily (or permanently) add processors to their n-way 840 systems as needed. H

21. Are You Ready for Apache?

Barring unforeseen circumstances, IBM is planning on making the iSeries implementation of the ubiquitous Apache HTTP Server available in December of this year. Apache HTTP Server will be able to run alongside the existing HTTP server on your iSeries

22. Compress AS/400 Files Using IFS Access

Learn how to use the Java AS/400 IFS classes with this handy zip utility!

23. PC Commands from the AS/400

Here is the definitive guide to executing PC commands.

24. GUI Builder Makes Java GUI Development Easy

Take the pain out of Java GUIs.

25. The Demise of SEU?

By now, you’re probably aware that IBM has created a new package offering for their many development tools. What used to be a series of unrelated tools—VisualAge for Java (VAJ)—Professional Edition, Visual RPG, Code/400, and SEU—i

26. Focus On AS/400 Security

Regardless of what hardware platform you’re running your business on or what software package you’re using, security should be your No. 1 priority. If it’s not, there may come a time when you’ll wish that it had been. It’s ki

27. Focus On Communication Technologies

In this information age, getting your data from point A to point B can be quite confusing at times. This is a problem that's not made any easier by all the choices available for shuttling data from one place to another. In fact, quite the opposite is

28. Can Your Business Really Afford a PC Server?

One of the biggest arguments you hear from non-AS/400 people is that the AS/400 is just too expensive to be used as a server. They'll tell you that they can purchase a new Compaq two-way server, such as the ProLiant ML 370, for about $4,500. Next, th

29. Secure Your AS/400 with IP Filtering

Separate the wheat from the chaff to help thwart hacker attacks.

30. Are Punch Cards Making a Comeback?

As computers have grown larger in processing power yet smaller in size, the need to store data in evermore dense areas has become paramount. This need will soon lead disk-storage manufacturers to face a new problem: the superparamagnetic effect (SPE)

31. V4R5: Networking News Is Light, Wait for Next

Release

32. V4R5: Of Wizards and Korn Shells

V4R5 brings several important enhancements to the capabilities and admininstration of the AS/400.

33. How to Build OpsNav Plug-ins Using Java

Learn how to extend OpsNav functionality!

34. Thinking About Putting Your AS/400 on the Internet?

It can be expensive or inexpensive, depending upon what you want to do.

35. Thin-client Solutions Made Easy

Using thin-client technology allows administrators to have positive control over their clients, and the TCO of users' workstations goes way down.

36. From Bad to Worse!

Paying attention to detail and always being prepared should be the highest priorities in your shop.

37. DDOS and the Old West

Distributed Denial of Service attacks are a real threat to the Internet economy. Here are some defense techniques.

38. Why Commitment Control Is Important for High Availability

Check out this do-it yourself guide to high availability.

39. Can Your UNIX Apps Keep Up the PASE?

Porting UNIX to PASE is more work than you might imagine!

40. Is IBM Pushing You Around, or Are You Dragging Your Feet?

Is IBM emphasizing new technology for valid reasons? And should you care?

41. A Better Way to Distribute Your AS/400 Software Changes

Take advantage of TCP/IP for software distribution.

42. E-commerce: Getting There Quickly

Build or buy? Ready-made e-commerce solutions abound. Are they for you?

43. Don't Hang from the Rafters

One of my first jobs in this industry had me doing pretty much anything my boss could think of. Sometimes that was a good thing, sometimes not. For example, there’s the time I found myself hanging upside down by my knees from the rafters in the

44. Systems Administration & Operations: IBM Gives Us a Better AS/400 Webserver Search Engine

I remember when I first learned to program in BASIC. Man, I couldn’t believe how cool that language was and all the neat stuff I could do with it. Then I got onto the AS/400 and learned RPG and thought, “Wow! Now this is really the cat’

45. Don't Believe Everything You Read

I’ve been getting a lot of phone calls lately from telemarketers trying to sell me everything from life insurance to Florida vacations, and some of the marketing strategies they come up with to try to get my money are really clever. The current

46. Get to the Point with PPP

My point, and I do have one, is that PPP takes your AS/400 data where you want it to go.

47. SSL and Express Client Do Battle with Microsoft

When Microsoft's new products and the AS/400 meet, it just might be a marriage of inconvenience.

48. Systems Administration & Operations: A Reprieve for OV/400 Users

When I was at COMMON in Anaheim in the fall of ’98, I asked an IBMer what the future of OfficeVision/400 was going to be. When she told me that OV/400 would be “phased out” in another couple of releases of OS/400, I wasn’t surpris

49. Around the World Wide Web in 80 Ways

For information about the AS/400, you don?t need planes, trains, or automobiles?just a few keystrokes.

50. QNTC: Opening Windows NT to the AS/400

QNTC gives your black box a breath of fresh air