I've been working with a user on replacing their current web store with one that actually integrates with their System i POS system. Their old one printed an order form off, and they had to pick up the printer output, manually check inventory, grab it, complete the order, then notify the customer. If anything went wrong, they had to notify the customer. It was all asynchronous, which is not what most customers expect from a web transaction.

I've just discovered another use for Twitter.

Many customers with green-screen applications struggle with integrating these systems with a web store.  The challenges are daunting and in some cases have caused customers to shelve these initiatives.  In this series of articles, we will look at the steps and decisions required in order to build out this kind of solution without breaking the budget, and within a reasonable timeframe.

FusionWare's mvLynx Connect API makes it extremely easy for your MV/BASIC programmers to access data from SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, DB2/400, MySQL or other relational databases without having to have any expertise with connectivity tools.

In this article, we explain how it all works and give some simple examples.

This product has been in use for several years and handles large volumes of data for customers.

I've been on Twitter for over a month, now, and I think I'm only now starting to "get" it. I've been lurking, looking, and seldom tweeting at first, but now I'm starting to get the idea of some of what I can do with it and what it can do for me

Recently we had a customer with a large amount of data on an AS/400 on optical drives. They had an application on the AS/400 that would let them read and process this data so that they could view historical information. They had migrated their application to another system, but compliance regulations (and collections) required them to retain access to their historical data.