Feature Articles

Feature Articles - October 2006

Are you suffering from a false sense of security?
by Frank Booty
For a long time, the security of System i has been a byword. Indeed, it has been a core strength and one of the platform’s key selling features. But horrors, what’s this? There are newer, TCP-enabled features of the robust operating system that require enhanced protection from emerging threats.

At The Coalface with G. Kelly -- The agile effect
G.Kelly asks whether agile programming methods could improve your project management skills.

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Feature Articles from past issues of iSeries NEWS UK

February 2005

Will RFID take over the world?
The shape of things to come
Humour: Phil's Home Page - Less is more.
iSeries NEWS UK feature article update

January 2005

The battle to beat downtime
A new model for systems documentation
Getting it right on the web.

December 2004

Tales from the crypt
How good is your systems documentation?
IT commoditisation -- don't believe the hype!
Humor: Phil's Home Page -- What's in a name?

October 2004

Which way to the web?
Filling the compliance prescription
Opionion: Clearing up the HA smog
Are you certifiable?
Humor: Phil's Home Page -- Like it's 1999

September 2004

All together now
Inside the IXS
Humor: Phil's Home Page -- Project Management?

August 2004

The ERP report
Humor: Phil's Home Page -- On message

June 2004

You've come a long way, baby.
Church and state?
Back to web school
Tech tips: Making file transfers redundant

May 2004

View from the top.
The Holy Grail of EAI
Tech Tip -- IFS access across multiple systems.
Humor: Phil's Home Page -- The numbers game.

April 2004

The consolidation game
Humour: Phil's Home Page - By royal command

March 2004

Knowledge is power
BACS to the future
It's regulation time!
Humour: Phil's Home Page - Love Action

February 2004

The 'O' word
Storage -- the EMC perspective
Humour: Phil's Home Page -- Partial eclipse

January 2004

Tiger, tiger, burning bright.
Case study -- Fuel for thought
Humour: Phil's Home Page -- Pod people

November 2003

Double jeopardy -- how secure are your systems?
Opinion: Cooking up a return on investment
Paperwork – on demand
Will switchover be OK?

October 2003

Fingers crossed for high availability?
When two become one

September 2003

The XML effect
Special report -- Tough times for RPG programmers
Humour: Phil's Home Page -- Smoking gun
Humour: Phil's Home Page - How to get ahead in advertising

July 2003

Has Java been roasted?
Getting to grips with Linux
Humour: Phil's Home Page - Probablity theory

June 2003

The shape of things to come
Case study -- Portal of opportunity
Logical partitioning for the wary
Humour: Phil's Home Page - The U-word

May 2003

Working in a wireless world
Outsourcing -- dong the deal
Humor: Phil's Home Page -- On message

April 2003

Winning with web enablement
Special report: What's the SP?
Case study: The perfect pasty
Outsourcing: is it right for you?

March 2003

Low cost High Availability
Precision engineering
All aboard!
Humour: Phil's Home Page - Haute cuisine

February 2003

Humour: Phil's Home Page - It all adds up?
Case study: Under construction
Humour: Phil's Home Page - Talkin' about a revolution?

January 2003

Wising up to web services
Case study: All bar one
Humour: Phil's Home Page - Relaxation Therapy

December 2002

Mission control
Case study: Banking on the penguin
Humour: Phil's Home Page - Secrets and lies

November 2002

The seven ages of Domino
Goodbye Office Vision/400
Humour: Phil's Home Page - Smoke gets in your eyes

October 2002

Real-world CRM
Humour: Phil's Home Page - No news is good news?

September 2002

The Middleware Maze

July 2002

Learning to love Linux
Your iSeries is no longer an island
Case study: The perfect pick-me-up
Humour: Phil's Home Page - The Shape Of Things To Come
Humour: Phil's Home Page - Everything Starts With An "E".

June 2002

What now for RPG?
Is thin in?
On Form

May 2002

All change

April 2002

LPAR takes centre stage
Linux points to the future
Creating information output
Humour -Teleworking time

March 2002

Security matters
Local politics
Getting to grips with CRM
Humour: Phil's Home Page

February 2002

Don't believe the hype?
LPAR – what is it good for?
Ripping yarns
Humour - Phil's Home Page

January 2002

Web war!
Parts and parcel
Fortress Mentality - part 2
Humor - Phil's Home Page: Conference call
Chuck out your chintz!

December 2001

Fortress Mentality

November 2001

Always there

October 2001

What do we want? – Information!

September 2001

The evolution of ERP
A new chapter in database design?
Gateways of the future?
Here comes the euro

July 2001

iNotes, iSeries? iThink iMight!
The Domino effect

June 2001

Java in the brave new world
The road from RPG to Java

May 2001

Linux partitioning on the iSeries
M-commerce or m-business; a cool appraisal.
It's everywhere, you know
Bar Coding with the AS/400

April 2001

The ASP challenge - opportunity knocks?
Making the customer king
Myth of the paperless office

March 2001

Marrying the good couple
Everything you ever wanted to know about WebSphere (but were afraid to ask).
Domino and WebSphere integration - it takes two to tango.

February 2001

Heavy Metal

January 2001

Chain of Command
Exclusive preview: COMMON comes to London!
Setting up WebSphere part 1

December 2000

Getting into Java
Year 2000 - a year of reincarnation
Making e-business work with WebSphere

November 2000

Hack Attack!
The soft stuff for the noughties
Tool time - OfficeVision/400 migration part two
Beyond e-business

October 2000

Thin Clients - slashing the cost of ownership?
The ultimate e-business machine
OfficeVision/400 Migration part one - where do you want to go tomorrow?
Surveyor/400 by Linoma Software

September 2000

Get your Act together
AS/400 storage – a closed environment?
Open the Gate on your AS/400
Plus ça change…
Letter from Africa and the Middle East

July 2000

Banking on the AS/400
BACS payments with the AS/400
How to use packet filtering
IBM’s ‘O’LAP of honour
Letter from Central Europe
AS/400 Exposed as PC server!
A guide to coding for a better style

June 2000

Is dedication what you need?
What’s in store?
The secret world of disaster recovery
Letter from Central Europe

May 2000

Clustering with the AS/400
MySAP.com – the next generation