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Ten Best-Kept Secrets of AS/400 With all the choices in the marketplace today, choosing information technology that meets your needs and positions you for the future can be difficult. How do you know if you are really making the best selection? With the evolution from host-based to client/server to network-centric, fat and thin clients, data warehouse, groupware, mail, wireless LANs, new server technology, RISC-processors and openness, it's not easy for you to make the right choice. We are committed to evolving AS/400s hardware and software to meet your business requirements, while maintaining what makes AS/400 unique - a system that is easy to use, easy to implement and easy to own. 1. 64 Bits, No Buts! 64-bit Power PC AS/400 models offer faster processors and enable information to move quickly through your system. This allows you to easily accommodate larger files and objects that are required for today's client/server data warehousing, Internet, image and groupware applications. AS/400 is every bit 64-bit, from its hardware and operating system to its database and all of your software applications. 2. Open Client Open Client allows the AS/400 server to support your end-user interface of choice: OS/2, Windows® 3.1, Windows 95, Windows NT workstation, DOS, MAC and UNIX; your client's database access of choice: SQL, DRDA®, ODBC, CLI and DAL; and your midware method of choice: CPI-C, DCE or message-based. All are delivered in a protocol-independent manner and give you the benefits of integrated openness. 3. Internet Serving The built-in 5250-HTML Gateway allows AS/400 applications to be accessible by any Web browser including OS/2, WARP, Netscape TM, etc., with no code changes. DB2WWW gives remote users the ability to query the AS/400 data-base with a Web-enabled application. The AS/400 integrated file system supports the storing and retrieval of Java applets. Ultimedia System Facilities support full-motion and sound. AS/400's integrated security features, unparalleled in the industry, ensure protection against unauthorized access and provide secure transmission of sensitive data. 4. AS/400 is Year 2000 Ready Today IBM AS/400 software products provide operational and programming support for the Year 2000 and beyond. In addition, OS/400 is providing additional application enablers to facilitate customer applications in becoming operationally safe themselves. 5. Workgroup Computing The FSIOP inside AS/400 enables Lotus Notes, Novell Netware and OS/2 LAN Server to run effortlessly. Lotus Notes applications can access AS/400 database files. Data in Lotus Notes databases can also be used to update AS/400 files. Novell Netware and OS/2 LAN Server allow high-speed file and print serving under management of the AS/400. 6. Open Communications AS/400 also supports native TCP/IP along with SNA and IPX/SPX. AnyNet® support allows applications to be transport-independent. APPC applications can run over TCP/IP. Sockets application can run over SNA. SNMP agent capability of AS/400 permits it to be managed by products like NetView®/6000 and HP Openview. POP3 and MIME support permits the exchange of mail with the Internet and PC-based mail products cc:Mail and ms:Mail. DRDA and open client APIs allow remote databases to share information. 7. Price/Performance Leader AS/400 is consistently rated by independent consultants as the lowest cost-to-own platform for both host-centric and client/server applications. Factors contributing to the low cost of ownership include ease of use, scalability and advanced systems-management capabilities. 8. DB2 for OS/400 Is one of the most widely used multi-user RDBMs in the world. State-of-the-art features such as referential integrity, stored procedures, triggers and two-phase commit provide the capabilities required to support mission-critical applications. Native support for ANSI SQL, DRDA, DAL CLI and ODBC makes DB2 for OS/400 the openness standard among database management systems. Also, DB2 for OS/400 is integrated into the hardware and operating system, not an add-on layer. 9. IBM AS/400 and AS/400 Thin Client Support AS/400 thin client permits application and installation to be downloaded on demand, simplifying installation and support and significantly reducing the cost of server solutions. AS/400 thin client is PowerPC-based and offers twinax, token ring, Ethernet and dial-up SLIP connectivity. It provides easy access to Web-based Internet/intranet data and applications, along with 5250 and 3270 terminal emulation. 10. Data Warehousing/Data Mining Advanced parallel technologies and query optimization produce the performance required to support terabytesized data warehouses. Supporting both relational multidimensional database models provides greater flexibility in designing your own data warehouse. The AS/400 Intelligent Miner incorporates the latest IBM research data mining algorithms to find hidden information in your data. Data warehousing on the AS/400 can start for as little as $11,000. Horizontal scalability allows coupling 32 four-way processors with up to 16 terabytes of data. four-way processors with up to 16 terabytes of data. Copyright 1998 Software PM, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Design & Graphics created by Diamond Consulting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.