The Essential Guide to Free-Format RPG by iPro Developer
In "The Essential Guide to Free-Format RPG," Bryan Meyers introduces you to this exciting new version, leads you through the conversion process from fixed format, and provides a handy reference for future free-format programming tasks.
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The Essential Guide to True High Availability by iPro Developer
Did you cut corners when implementing your high-availability solution? How sure are you that your systems will be online all day, every day, no matter what happens? In this Essential Guide, Richard Dolewski examines the faulty thinking that prevents many companies from realizing the full potential of their high availability solutions. Downtime has many causes — if you make sure you are prepared for all of them, your business will weather any storm.
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The Essential Guide to XML by iPro Developer
XML is more than just a language; it’s quickly becoming the go-to standard for data transfer across different systems and for document storage and processing. Here’s a look at XML’s origins, its uses, and different ways you might use it in your applications. This guide covers standards, syntax, terminology, and basic parser concepts, and includes an absolutely essential compendium of additional resources to help you along your path to XML mastery.
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The Essential Guide to SCM by iPro Developer
Software Configuration Management (SCM) tools and processes do more than just provide an audit trail; they comprise the foundation of any successful software development effort and will prove to be indispensable in your shop, too. From change request tracking and source version control to automated system builds and audit reporting, this guide identifies the essential SCM practices and tools and their benefits. It also alerts you to the essential audit questions for which you need to prepare.
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The Essential Guide to Thwarting Hackers by iPro Developer
Hackers are knock, knock, knocking at your network door around the clock. What many network admins don’t realize, however, is that hackers seek low-hanging fruit: networks that have inadvertently designed known weaknesses into their security. Learn how to systematically lock down your network and continuously scan it for new vulnerabilities by following the recommendations in this guide.
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The Essential Guide to Stored Procedures by iPro Developer
Stored procedures provide improved performance and security for client applications and enable you to invoke server functions that aren’t directly available as part of the database interface. This Essential Guide highlights these and other benefits, as well as some basic guidelines for coding.
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Special Report: Integrating Microsoft.NET with the IBM i by iPro Developer
Of necessity, I'll be talking about Microsoft quite a bit in this article, in relation to its earlier products, the development of .NET, and how .NET fits in with other Microsoft products. From what I've observed during the past several years, all but the most stalwart of IBM i shops have encountered or are using some .NET applications. Regardless of your feelings about if, how, or where .NET fits in with the IBM i, becoming conversationally familiar with what .NET encompasses is not harmful
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The Essential Guide to Encryption by iPro Developer
This Essential Guide teaches you how encryption can add an additional layer of protection for your data and describes the steps that you must take to ensure that your encryption project succeeds.
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The Essential Guide to IFS Security by iPro Developer
To avoid becoming hacker chum in the Internet ocean, you must understand the IFS security architecture, learn how to manipulate its security features, and establish some basic auditing functions to help you catch intrusion attempts.
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The Essential Guide to Business Intelligence by iPro Developer
This Essential Guide focuses on database query optimization. Your essential knowledge of query optimization will ensure that any BI application runs smoothly and that you fully leverage the technology you've invested in. And the good news is, everything discussed here is a part of DB2 for i5/OS!
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The Essential Guide to SQL by iPro Developer
To use SQL in the System i5, you also need to know many other essential facts and techniques, and this guide covers a variety of them.
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The Essential Guide to EDI Security by iPro Developer
This Essential Guide shows the protocols, techniques, and software to become familiar with on your journey to secure EDI.
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The Essential Guide to Supporting a High Availability Environment by iPro Developer
The world of high availability (HA) is changing, and several major announcements show the importance people now attach to the HA marketplace. If you are considering an HA solution, you should do your homework before plunging into a project and buying a product.
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The Essential Guide to Security and the Data Warehouse by iPro Developer
The data warehouse is a repository of data consolidated from potentially many different sources — spreadsheets, ERP systems, web applications, and even purchased consumer demographic information. It is a single repository holding many of the kingdom's crown jewels. Keeping it secure is of utmost importance, so here, we cover some of the considerations for protecting that asset.
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The Essential Guide to PHP Basics on the System i by iPro Developer
PHP is celebrating two years on the System i. Dive into this scripting language, which offers a powerful way to perform database-to-web functions at little or no cost. Learn the ins and outs in Mike Pavlak's "Essential Guide to PHP Basics on the System i."
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The Essential Guide to Remote Journaling by iPro Developer
Remote journaling is a technology offered on System i5 to facilitate sending copies of journal entries from a production system to a secondary system in realtime. The remote nature of such a connection is predicated upon having local journaling already established.
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Essential Guide: Nine IT Security Pressure Points by iPro Developer
In the martial arts, pressure points are used to produce maximum effect for minimal effort. The metaphor seems like a good one for IT security practices. It’s easy to expend a lot of effort without achieving significant results, but you need to do the opposite. With thousands of best practices, security products, and open-source tools to choose from, however, where do you start?
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The Essential Guide to Backdoors, Bugs, Trojans, Tunnels, and Tricksters by iPro Developer
Hackers are attacking your network on multiple new fronts: via backdoors, software defects, malware, new pathways, and novel approaches to social engineering. Learn about these new attacks and how to protect against them by reading "The Essential Guide to Backdoors, Bugs, Trojans, Tunnels, and Tricksters."
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Special Report: Performance Management by iPro Developer
Today's POWER systems running IBM i have some of the best capabilities of any system available: the world's fastest microprocessors, memory capacities in the TB space, massive I/O capability, a world-class database that's integrated with the operating system, a 128-bit architecture that insulates the programs from the current 64-bit hardware, and a single level storage architecture with best-in-class work management capabilities.
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Special Report: System i and .NET Integration by iPro Developer
In this Special Report I’ll show you how to build graphical System i applications by integrating the Microsoft .NET Framework with the System i. First, you’ll get an overview of how the .NET Framework compares to other modern System i development options. Next, you’ll learn about the prerequisites that you need in order to connect .NET applications with the System i. Finally, you’ll get an in-depth example showing how to create .NET applications that work with System i data.
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The Essential Guide to Document Management (June 2009) by iPro Developer
Although document management systems are ideally suited for organizations with paper-intensive processes (e.g., financial institutions and insurance companies), just about every business can take advantage of its many benefits.
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Special Report: Data as a Profit Center by iPro Developer
Over months, years, and sometimes decades, your computer systems have acquired and stored data—maybe vast quantities of it. This data is placed in a storage system where it sits waiting to be discovered by some curious and clever explorer. Your boxes of data could prove to be extremely valuable.
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The Essential Guide to Document Management (March 2010) by iPro Developer
Early Enterprise Content Management systems focused on managing images and emphasized specific line-of-business applications such as insurance claims processing or personnel files. The systems often featured proprietary technology and managed only a few types of documents. Today’s systems manage nearly every type of information, integrate with other applications, and serve as an infrastructure much the same as databases, networks, or middleware.
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The Essential Guide to Connecting Excel and the iSeries by iPro Developer
Over the years, IBM has evolved the iSeries into one of the most flexible and well-integrated systems available and has provided a number of different tools to facilitate integrating iSeries data to other platforms — particularly Windows and Excel. This essential guide shows you how to retrieve data from the iSeries and import it into Excel.
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The Essential Guide to Backup and Recovery by iPro Developer
It is imperative that your disaster recovery plan documents in detail when backups are executed, the complete contents of your backup, the frequency of your backups, and your vaulting procedures. Additionally, an effective disaster recovery plan should detail all the steps to support the process for restoring this data within the business’s specified timeframes.
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The Essential Guide to WDSc for PDM/SEU Users by iPro Developer
This Essential Guide shows the key steps to maintaining, editing, and compiling your source code with WDSc version 6. The guide also gets you started on using Service Entry Points (SEP) for debugging your server applications.
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The Essential Guide to Global Data Synchronization by iPro Developer
In this Essential Guide, we examine the basics of GDS, review its benefits, and discuss some of the challenges you will face in implementing it. The guide also covers the background information you need to effectively use GDS with your trading partners.
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The Essential Guide to Implementing RFID by iPro Developer
In "Choosing an RFID Option," (January 2006, article ID 20373 at iSeriesNetwork.com), author Marc Doyon outlined some of the technical details associated with implementing RFID technology. This Essential Guide touches briefly on some of those points, but it also provides a more in-depth look at the nuts and bolts of RFID.
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The Essential Guide to Network Security Tools by iPro Developer
This Essential Guide enumerates the best of commercial security products, while giving you guidance on attributes you should look for in commercial products when you're ready to buy them. With these tools in your anti-intruder arsenal, you'll be well equipped to fend off the next wave of Internet barbarians.
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The Essential Guide to Audit Reporting on IBMi by iPro Developer
In this Essential Guide, security specialist George Lemen provides a checklist of requirements for reporting tools (both IBM i-supplied and third party) that perform regulatory compliance functions. Hopefully, this will help you select the appropriate tools to meet your installations reporting and compliance requirements
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Special Report: Open Access for RPG: What It Is, How It Works, and Hands-on Experience by iPro Developer
Here, I look at what Open Access is and how the IBM i community has responded to it. I pursue possible uses for this new technology, as well as what is being done already. Then I relate my own experience of writing an Open Access handler. Finally, I cover the key considerations for deciding whether to adopt Open Access in your shop.
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Special Report: Beyond POWER7: Performance for Power Pros by iPro Developer
An IBM Power Systems server may very well be the Swiss Army Knife of the enterprise world, but it's useful only when wielded by capable hands. To help, we've put together six articles packed with handy tips and options you might not have considered--all of which will help Power System pros become more efficient.
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Special Report: Realtime Data Integration by iPro Developer
In this special report, you’ll learn about the requirements for implementing realtime data integration with the IBM i and get an overview of the driving forces behind realtime data integration and the business benefits that it can provide.
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The Essential Guide to Going Paperless by iPro Developer
Going paperless doesn’t mean we will no longer have paper among us. It implies, at least for now, a reduction in paper consumption; that is, in paper-based documents.
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