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1995 Issue 19                                           15 December 1995
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o  IBM OS/2 Warp Server Beta 2 Program                          servbet2
     Objectives and feedback. How to obtain worldwide.
 
o  IBM CommonPoint Application Developer Toolkit and            cpadt
   Application System for OS/2 Warp
     In brief...  Overview. Making development easier.
     Description. Product positioning. Hardware requirements.
     Software requirements. Limitations. Ordering information.
     NOTE: This item is 508 lines long.
 
o  IBM Licenses Java Technology from Sun Microsystems for Use   javalic
   in Internet Products
     For Web browsers, servers, and Lotus Notes. On OS/2, AIX,
     Windows. About Java. Expanding network-centric computing.
     Available starting 1Q96.
 
o  The Fuss About Java                                          javafuss
     What is Java? Java scenarios. Object-oriented.
     Interpreted. Pointers and garbage collection. Applets.
     Java components. Java class libraries. Tools. Java and
     Lotus Notes. IBM's announcement. More information.
 
o  IBM Introduces Internet Application Porting Center           portinet
     iNet Porting facility. Industry-leading software tools.
     Porting resources. No charge. More information.
 
o  IBM Offers Support for Developers of Distributed Computing   dcedevel
   Solutions
     Increasing market potential. Reduced time and cost.
     Program highlights. Part of Open Blueprint. More
     information.
 
o  IBM Application Development Within an Enterprise: A White    adwstrat
   Paper
     The role of application developers. Modeling and design
     tools. IBM business process re-engineering tools. IBM
     information engineering tools. IBM object modeling tool.
     Build tools. Visual construction from pre-built parts. A
     programming language of choice and a platform of choice.
     Evolutionary utilization of objects. Development and
     asset-management tools. Summary.
     NOTE: This item is 618 lines long.
 
o  IBM's MVS Achieves Open Systems Brand from X/Open            mvsopen
     XPG4 Base certification. Open, network-enabled
     applications. Standards for enterprise computing.
     Evolving role of large servers. Transformation of
     System/390.
 
o  SOMobjects Service Classes                                   objclass
     In brief...  Description. Education support. Hardware
     requirements. Software requirements. Ordering
     information. Charges.
 
o  High-Level Assembler Toolkit Feature                         hlassem
     In brief...  Overview. Description. Hardware requirements.
     Software requirements. Ordering information. Charges.
     NOTE: This item is 334 lines long.
 
o  IBM COBOL Family Questions and Answers                       cobqnas
     OS/2 COBOL. AIX COBOL. Host COBOL. Client/server COBOL.
     Object-oriented COBOL. SOM. Host offload. CICS.
     Prerequisites. Miscellaneous.
     NOTE: This item is 588 lines long.
 
o  DB2 Professional Certification Program from IBM              db2cert
     In brief...  Overview. Description. Benefits. Testing.
     Education. Publications. Enrollment and more information.
 
o  NetComber Internet Suite (Beta) for OS/2 Warp                combnet
     For casual and novice users. How to obtain. Feedback.
 
o  IBM Internet Connection Servers and Client Available in      5lang
   National-Language Versions
     For AIX, OS/2, and Windows. Creating a presence on
     Internet. The IBM Internet Connection family.
     Network-centric computing. More information.
 
o  IBM Announces OS/2 Warp Preload Agreements in Eastern        preleur
   Europe
     R-Style Computers. Stins Coman. Formoza. Vobis
     Microcomputer. OS/2 awards and statistics. IBM press
     releases.
 
o  IBM Software Allows Phone Messages to be Retrieved via       webfone
   World Wide Web
     DirectTalkMail. Scenarios. Try it! Network-centric
     computing. New release of DirectTalk. More information.
 
o  Lotus Adopts New Pricing Model for Its Notes Business        modlpric
     New estimated retail prices. Notes Mail: Advanced
     messaging, web access, and groupware. Notes clients.
     Notes servers. Major enhancements in Notes release 4.
 
o  Lotus Outlines Plans to Deliver Powerful Integration of      webnotes
   Notes and World Wide Web
     Native WWW protocol support. InterNotes web publisher to
     be available free. Highlights. Web development and
     application hosting environment. Extensible business
     applications. Direct and automated Web access.
     Availability and pricing. About Lotus and Notes. More
     information.
 
o  Live from Lotusphere: Lotus Notes Release 4                  4sphere
     22 January 1996, 8:30 - 10:30 a.m. EST. Broadcast venues.
     Sign up now!
 
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o  The IBM Solution Developer Program                           progsdo
     Welcome from Jim Gant. Matrix of offerings. Technical
     services. Business services. Marketing services. Developer
     Assistance Programs and environments. More information.
     NOTE: This item is 484 lines long.
 
o  How to Join the IBM Solution Developer Program for OS/2      joinhow
     Worldwide Services. Commercial Services. Premier Services.
     Solution Developer Program for OS/2 contacts worldwide.
 
o  Software Vendor Marketing Partnerships Enhances Programs     svmpprog
     National Software Remarketing. Software Vendor Marketing
     Programs. Membership and Developer Support Programs.
     Marketing Support Services. Developer Support Services.
 
o  The Solution Partnership Centers: Access to IBM              spcovu
     Access people and information. Port and test across
     platforms. Solve technical questions on site. Recruit
     vendors and partnerships. Access industry-leading IBM
     solutions. Solution Partnership Center locations.
     Inquiry form.
 
o  The IBM OS/2 Developer Assistance Program in Europe,         dapemea
   Middle East, and Africa
     Open to anyone in EMEA actively developing for OS/2.
     Access to World Wide Web service. Marketing programs.
     More information.
 
o  IBM Solution Developer Operations Worldwide Contacts         wwsdo
     Asia and Pacific region. Europe, Middle East, and Africa.
     North America.
 
o  IBM Device Driver Support Center                             ddsc
     Worldwide device-driver developer support. Specialized
     device-driver development workshops. The DUDE, a
     dedicated BBS. Contacting the device-driver team.
 
o  The Developer Connection for OS/2: The Power of the Future   powerdev
   Delivered to Your Door
     Developer Connection overview. Put The Developer
     Connection for OS/2 to work for you ... now. Features and
     benefits. Prices. Ordering information.
 
o  Q and A about The Developer Connection for OS/2              devconqa
     What it is. Prices. Solution Developer Program discounts.
     Contents. CompuServe forum. Additional licenses. Future
     growth. License expirations. Availability outside USA. How
     to subscribe. CompuServe introductory membership. Access
     to OS2DF2 forum on CompuServe. DEVCON FORUM on TALKLink.
     Getting help. Obtaining The Developer's Toolkit for OS/2
     Warp. Obtaining the OpenDoc Developer's Kit for OS/2.
     OpenDoc. The Developer Connection Device Driver Kit for
     OS/2. Subscribing to the Device Driver Kit. Obtaining the
     SMART tool.
 
o  Subscription Information for The Developer Connection for    subdcon
   OS/2 and The Developer Connection Device Driver Kit (DDK)
     Worldwide phone and fax numbers for ordering. Electronic
     support. Additional Developer Connection DDK electronic
     support (DUDE).
 
o  DB2 Developer Assistance Program                             dapdb2
     Encompassing all versions of DB2. Free of charge. Program
     benefits. Enrollment.
 
o  CICS OS/2 Developers                                         os2cics
     CICS OS/2 program code available for 90 days, and longer
     for developers who commit to exploit CICS OS/2.
 
o  TCP/IP Application Partners Program                          os2tcp
     For products that interoperate with TCP/IP for OS/2 V2.0.
 
o  AIX POWER Team                                               poweraix
     For products exploiting POWER architecture and RS/6000.
     Technical support. Development. Equipment. Marketing.
     Education. Technical, business, marketing information.
     Who is eligible? More information.
 
o  The AS/400 Developer Connection on CD-ROM: Connecting        rom400
   Developers with Development
     Description. Content of volume 2. Price. More information.
 
o  AS/400 Partners in Development Membership                    part400
     Offerings: In person. Electronic access. Hard goods (and
     hard copy). 1-800 support. Topics. Fees. Enrollment.
 
o  Object Connection for VisualAge                              connobj
     Who can join? Object Connection services. More information.
 
o  PenAssist Program                                            helppen
     A variety of programs. Who is eligible? More information.
 
o  IBM Product Compatibility Program                            compprog
     Compatibility testing opportunity. Resource for making
     wise purchasing decisions. Value of tested compatibility.
     Compatibility Program description. Ready for OS/2 Warp
     and Ready for OS/2 Warp LAN Server. Tested and Approved
     for OS/2 Warp LAN Systems. Publicity: Where to find
     compatible product information. Program Q-and-A via fax.
     More information.
 
o  Professional Certification Program from IBM                  certprof
     OS/2 and LAN Server roles. Other certification roles.
     Testing. More information.
 
o  Professional Certification Program from IBM: Questions and   certqa
   Answers
     General program. Test preparation. New OS/2 and LAN Server
     tests. OS/2 and LAN Server instructor certification. More
     information.
     NOTE: This item is 316 lines long.
 
o  Connections to IBM Announcement Letters                      lettconn
     Internet. IBM Fax Information Service. IBMLink. More
     information.
 
o  800 Phone Numbers                                            800nos
 
o  Trademarks, Registered Trademarks, Service Marks             tmarks
 
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              | IBM OS/2 Warp Server Beta 2 Program |           servbet2
              +-------------------------------------+
 
IBM is initiating the IBM OS/2 Warp Server Beta 2 program. Orders for
the beta program will be accepted starting immediately. The Beta program
is available to commercial customers, developers, and resellers.
 
Objectives and Feedback
-----------------------
 
The objective of this beta is to gather feedback about the OS/2 Warp
Server beta as it relates to your specific environment, network,
hardware, and software, as well as installation and the interaction of
different components within the software package. We appreciate your
comments about these areas. Feedback will be accepted via fax and
mail-in surveys. No forum support will be provided.
 
How to Obtain Worldwide
-----------------------
 
To order the IBM OS/2 Warp Server in the United States, call
1-800-393-8922. A cost of 15.95 USD will be charged to cover shipping
and handling.
 
In Canada, call 1-800-IBM-CALL (1-800-426-2255), extension 1292.
 
In Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, use IBM order part number
53H7939 and telephone one of the following numbers at IBM SMS in Denmark
to place your order:
 
 English    +45-48101500        Italian   +45-48101600
 Dutch      +45-48101400        Spanish   +45-48101100
 French     +45-48101200        Danish    +45-48101300
 Norwegian  +45-48101250        Swedish   +45-48101150
 German     +45-48101000        Finnish   +45-48101650
 Facsimile  +45-48142207
 
Additional information about the Warp Server Beta II, and full order
instructions for Europe, are available on the World Wide Web at:
 
  http://www.europe.ibm.com/getdoc/psmemea/progserv/beta
 
For Asia/Pacific countries, contact your local IBM branch office.
 
In Central and Latin America, contact the following:
 
Argentina       313-0014      Buenos Aires
Bolivia         35-1840       La Paz
Brasil          546-4646      Rio de Janeiro
Chile           200-6000      Santiago
Colombia        623-0111      Bogota
Costa Rica      223-6222      San Jose
Ecuador         56-5100       Quito
El Salvador     98-5011       San Salvador
Guatemala       231-5859      Ciudad Guatemala
Honduras        32-2319       Tegucigalpa
Mexico          91-800-00-316 Mexico, D.F.
Panama          263-9977      Balboa
Paraguay        444-094       Asuncion
Peru            436-6345      Lima
Rep.Dominicana  566-5161      Santo Domingo
Uruguay         92-3617       Montevideo
Venezuela       908-8901      Caracas
 
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          | IBM CommonPoint Application Developer Toolkit |        cpadt
          |     and Application System for OS/2 Warp      |
          +-----------------------------------------------+
 
In Brief ...
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IBM CommonPoint for OS/2 Warp provides software developers with the
foundation technology for building next-generation applications by:
 
o  Providing a new level in object-oriented programming technology for
   experienced C++ programmers using integrated frameworks
 
o  Offering a complete object-oriented programming model that allows
   software developers to focus on business requirements
 
o  Providing rich prebuilt functions for real-time collaboration,
   2-D / 3-D graphics, access to existing SQL databases, and much more
 
o  Providing prebuilt functions for use as-is or easily customizable
 
o  Creating portable applications across modern 32-bit workstation and
   PC operating systems
 
Overview
--------
 
IBM CommonPoint for OS/2 Warp lays the foundation for advanced
object-oriented software development. IBM CommonPoint for OS/2 Warp
consists of two products: IBM CommonPoint Application Developer Toolkit
for OS/2 Warp, and IBM CommonPoint Application System for OS/2 Warp.
 
The CommonPoint system provides a complete object-oriented programming
model for developers with substantial new function not available on
competing systems. It improves the development process by delivering a
new architectural paradigm based on the pervasive use of object-oriented
frameworks. Each CommonPoint framework is a set of prebuilt C++ objects
that encapsulate expertise for a particular problem set. The
comprehensive set of CommonPoint frameworks provides function spanning
the spectrum from user interface to multimedia, networking,
communications, and data access.
 
IBM COMMONPOINT APPLICATION DEVELOPER TOOLKIT FOR OS/2 WARP provides
information and tools required to use, modify, and extend the
CommonPoint frameworks. The developer toolkit consists of the
frameworks, application system, header files, libraries, tools, and
samples. It also includes cpConstructor, a GUI development tool that
facilitates the rapid creation and prototyping of application user
interfaces. This developer toolkit enables developers to create
customized solutions in their area of expertise by taking advantage of
the supplied frameworks and tools.
 
IBM COMMONPOINT APPLICATION SYSTEM FOR OS/2 WARP is a rich set of
extensible frameworks. This set of frameworks provides OS/2 users the
necessary foundation to run applications developed using the IBM
CommonPoint Application Developer Toolkit for OS/2 Warp. IBM CommonPoint
Application System for OS/2 Warp consists of application- and
system-level frameworks, supporting data, desktop, graphics, text
editing, storage, multimedia, collaboration, and system services.
 
Making Development Easier
-------------------------
 
Traditional software development environments create software that is
procedure-oriented and, therefore, difficult to reuse, modify, or adapt
as new technologies and user needs evolve. Object-oriented software
addresses these shortcomings.
 
CommonPoint Application System frameworks make development easier. This
application system delivers a new architectural paradigm based on the
pervasive use of object-oriented frameworks. Each CommonPoint framework
is a set of prebuilt C++ objects that encapsulate expertise for a
particular problem set. The comprehensive set of CommonPoint frameworks
provides function spanning the spectrum from user interface to
multimedia, networking, communications, and data access.  The
CommonPoint system provides a complete object-oriented programming model
for developers with substantial new function not available on most
competing systems.
 
CommonPoint frameworks allow software developers to reuse both code and
design. Software development begins at a higher level, and products can
be built more quickly, because frameworks provide generic solutions that
can be used as foundations. Because common technology is already
implemented, developers can focus on providing creative, customized
solutions in their areas of expertise. These solutions allow developers
to continue extending and modifying them as user and market needs
evolve.
 
The initial release of IBM CommonPoint is specifically intended for
professional developers (solution providers) who already have C++ skills
and object-oriented programming experience and want to initiate
framework application development using CommonPoint. It is strongly
recommended that purchasers of these products attend CommonPoint
training classes.
 
Description
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IBM CommonPoint for OS/2 Warp includes a comprehensive set of
frameworks, services, tools, and integration enhancements designed to
develop collaborative, distributed applications. Developers will be able
to develop local language applications using the English language
versions of the CommonPoint Application Developer Toolkit and the
CommonPoint Application System. The frameworks are conceptually divided
into two categories: Application Frameworks and System Services. The
Application Frameworks provide a rich feature set for developing
interactive applications of all kinds. System Services comprise a
complete set of operating-system-independent services on which the
Application Frameworks are built.
 
ARCHITECTURAL OVERVIEW
 
o  C++ Object-Oriented Frameworks
 
   Develop applications faster. Make applications extensible, flexible,
   and adaptable to changing business and customer needs.
 
o  Portability
 
   CommonPoint application source is portable to any environment where
   the CommonPoint Application System is installed. Today, IBM offers
   this in the AIX and OS/2 Warp environments. Taligent's other
   investors, Apple and HP, as well as Taligent itself, have publicly
   stated their plans to deliver CommonPoint on a number of high-volume
   operating systems.
 
o  Compatibility
 
   CommonPoint applications co-exist with existing OS/2 applications and
   support access to existing information and data.
 
o  32-Bit Architecture
 
   Harness the speed and power of 32-bit microprocessors and 32-bit,
   preemptive multitasking operating systems.
 
APPLICATION FRAMEWORKS
 
The CommonPoint Application frameworks are divided into three broad
groups: Desktop Frameworks, Embeddable Data Types, and Application
Services.
 
CommonPoint developers begin programming with the Desktop frameworks,
which implement the heart of the Taligent programming model. The
Embeddable Data Types, a group of frameworks, provide ready-made
embeddable data types for creating graphics, text, data access, and time
media components and related objects. The Application Services
frameworks provide underlying support for text, graphics, and other
application-programming domains.
 
DESKTOP FRAMEWORKS: The Desktop frameworks are designed for creating
embeddable CommonPoint components such as those provided by Embeddable
Data Types. Learning to use the Desktop frameworks is a prerequisite for
most forms of application development. Some examples of Desktop
frameworks are:
 
o  The Work Space frameworks allow developers to create new stationery,
   set attributes of elements, create appliances, and perform other
   basic tasks involving the workspace.
 
o  The Document frameworks consist of the Shared Documents, Compound
   Document, and Basic Document frameworks. They provide the basic
   capabilities of embeddable components.
 
o  The Presentation framework combines the embedded data concepts
   provided by the Document frameworks with user interface elements
   provided by the User Interface frameworks. It provides the generic
   presentation capabilities typical of interactive applications.
 
o  The User Interface (UI) frameworks consist of frameworks and classes
   that support human interface elements such as controls, windows,
   palettes, and buttons. The UI frameworks also include the View system
   and the Input system, which control the display and input of data,
   respectively.
 
EMBEDDABLE DATA TYPES: These frameworks provide ready-made embeddable
data types for specific application domains. These frameworks make
extensive use of both the Desktop frameworks and the Application
Services frameworks. Some examples of Embeddable Data Types frameworks
are:
 
o  The Graphics Editing framework provides classes based on the
   Presentation framework that developers can use with some of the 2-D
   Graphics classes to assemble a range of graphics editing elements,
   from simple drawing components to CAD programs and other specialized
   drawing applications.
 
o  The Text Editing framework provides classes based on the Desktop
   frameworks and the text system that developers can use to assemble a
   range of text editing elements, from simple text boxes and controls
   to simple word-processing applications.
 
APPLICATION SERVICES: Application Services provide services in six
application domains:
 
o  The Graphics system supports 2-D and 3-D graphics, graphics device
   drivers, colors, and fonts. Key features include high-level curve
   geometries defined by Non-Uniform Rational B-Splines (NURBs),
   device-independent 2-D and 3-D coordinate systems, integrated 2-D and
   3-D graphics, a uniform interface for accessing all kinds of fonts, a
   rich set of color spaces, and color matching.
 
   The Graphics system also provides low-level support for sprites,
   pixel buffers, and displays.
 
o  The Text system supports the storage, manipulation, and display of
   multilingual text based on the unicode character-encoding standard.
   Multiple script systems can be combined wherever text can be
   displayed. All text in the CommonPoint system can be styled,
   including menu items, labels, editable fields in dialog boxes, and
   text-in-text components.
 
o  The Time Media frameworks provide classes that developers can use to
   assemble and connect a variety of audio, MIDI, video, and telephone
   components, collectively called media components. Media components
   model traditional hardware components, but are implemented entirely
   in software.
 
o  Interoperability services support the conversion of CommonPoint data
   types to non-CommonPoint data types using Graphics Converters, Text
   Converters, and the Data Translation framework.
 
o  The Printing frameworks support printing for all applications based
   on the Document frameworks. They can also be extended to support
   specialized printing requirements and the CommonPoint equivalent of
   printer drivers.
 
o  Localization services support multilingual text input and output,
   localization of system and application interfaces, text analysis,
   and text scanning and formatting.
 
SYSTEM SERVICES
 
The System Services frameworks are divided into three broad groups:
Enterprise Services, Foundation Services, and OS Services.
 
ENTERPRISE SERVICES: These services provide high-level distributed
services that support key enterprise desktop capabilities such as
data access, collaboration, and system management. These services, in
turn, rely on the underlying transport mechanisms provided by the
Communications frameworks. Some examples of Enterprise Services are:
 
o  The Data Access framework handles communication among applications,
   connectivity software, and databases.
 
o  The Caucus framework provides transport facilities for the Shared
   Document framework and collaborative applications.
 
o  The Remote Object Call (ROC) Services allow applications to invoke
   remote CommonPoint services running on various hosts.
 
o  The System Management frameworks support the Licensing Services
   framework.
 
o  The Concurrency Control and Recovery classes provide basic
   transaction-processing capabilities that ensure logical consistency
   of data that can be modified by multiple tasks at the same time.
 
FOUNDATION SERVICES
 
Foundation Services provide basic services for use by all CommonPoint
applications and frameworks. Some examples of Foundation Services are:
 
o  The Notification framework provides a system-wide mechanism for the
   propagation of change information among objects.
 
o  The Identifiers classes support three ways of associating textual
   names with other data. Associating textual names for data is done
   through Properties, Attributes, and Tokens.
 
o  The Object Storage classes support persistent storage of objects and
   their structure in memory through the use of Archives, Data
   Structures and Collections, and Streams and Persistence classes.
 
o  The Math and Language libraries include the numerics libraries for
   floating-point calculations and the standard C and C++ libraries.
 
OS SERVICES: OS Services provide CommonPoint object abstractions for
low-level services performed by the host operating system. OS Services
include the following:
 
o  The Communications frameworks facilitate local and remote
   communication between threads.
 
o  The File System interface provides object abstractions for
   manipulating files, directories, and volumes that reside on hardware
   or on virtual devices.
 
o  Time Services provide a hardware-independent model for timing
   support.
 
o  Object Runtime Services support heap management, exceptions, shared
   libraries, and metadata services.
 
o  Microkernel Services support tasking, scheduling, synchronization,
   and system shutdown using the OS/2 system services.
 
TOOLS
 
IBM CommonPoint for OS/2 Warp includes an implementation for the data
access frameworks, which allows access to the DB/2 and DB2/400
databases.
 
FrameworkCrafter is a code-generation tool for OS/2 CommonPoint that
eases the development effort required to create a CommonPoint
application. The tool generates application "starter code" based on the
content of an archive file created by cpConstructor. The generated code
can be used as a learning aid or starter code for rapid application
development.
 
The cpConstructor UI Builder provides the support for rapid design and
prototyping of application user interfaces through the use of Parts
Palettes and Attribute Inspectors. You assemble application front-ends
by dragging and dropping objects from the palettes to the application
windows.
 
IBM INTEGRATION ENHANCEMENTS
 
The CommonPoint/OpenDoc Wrapper (CPODWrapper) is a tool that provides
the ability to create OpenDoc compound document parts using the
CommonPoint compound document components. The CPODWrapper uses the
OpenDoc code available with the OpenDoc SDK found on The Developer
Connection for OS/2, Volume 8 (also called DevCon8).
 
IBM CommonPoint for OS/2 Warp includes an implementation for the License
framework to use the SystemView License Suite Management products for
OS/2. The implementation is called GLIFIN. CommonPoint developers may
use GLIFIN to provide license controls for their CommonPoint
applications. To take advantage of this feature, customers must purchase
the Gradient License Frameworks for OS/2.
 
IBM CommonPoint for OS/2 Warp also includes CommonPoint Client
Extensions for OS/400. Client Extensions provide a set of interfaces
that allow the AS/400 to be used as a server for CommonPoint
applications. The OS/400 services that can be used are: data queues,
message queues, user spaces, and data area. These extensions will let
developers develop object-oriented applications on the OS/2 clients.
These applications access AS/400 data and services from the client while
gaining the benefits of object-oriented technology and reusable
frameworks. To take advantage of this feature, customers must purchase
the Client Access Optimized OS/2 Client for OS/400.
 
Product Positioning
-------------------
 
IBM CommonPoint for OS/2 Warp is intended to be compatible with IBM
CommonPoint for AIX. IBM CommonPoint expands beyond C++ and Smalltalk
application development environments, and should be considered when
there is:
 
o  High emphasis on reuse of existing fine-grained frameworks
 
o  High emphasis on business logic, as opposed to system-level
   development (as these are provided)
 
o  New enterprise applications being undertaken that require low,
   long-term maintenance and rapid adaptation to changing requirements
 
Hardware Requirements
---------------------
 
IBM COMMONPOINT APPLICATION DEVELOPER TOOLKIT FOR OS/2 WARP
 
o  CD-ROM drive (required for installation only)
 
o  32 MB of physical memory (RAM) (assumes 8 MB for OS/2 Warp Connect
   Version 3, and 8 MB for VisualAge C++ for OS/2)
 
o  423 MB disk space for storage
   -  10 MB additional HPFS disk space for developer toolkit
   -  143 MB additional HPFS disk space for optional run-time pubs
   -  170 MB additional HPFS disk space for optional samples
   -  40 MB additional HPFS disk space for SWAP (on top of application
        system)
   -  50 MB additional HPFS disk space for compiler TMP directory
   -  10 MB additional HPFS disk space for FrameworkCrafter
 
The minimum hardware system should provide a 90 MHz Pentium.
 
The graphics capabilities of the system should meet the following
minimums:
 
o  1024 x 768 resolution
o  8-bit (256-entry) color table
o  Standard OS/2 PM driver
 
IBM COMMONPOINT APPLICATION SYSTEM FOR OS/2 WARP
 
o  CD-ROM drive (required for installation only)
 
o  32 MB of physical memory (RAM) (assumes 8 MB for OS/2 Warp Connect
   Version 3)
 
o  120 MB disk space for storage
 
   -  80 MB additional HPFS disk space for binaries and run-time data
   -  40 MB additional HPFS disk space for SWAP and SPOOL growth
 
The minimum hardware system should provide a 90MHz Pentium.
 
The graphics capabilities of the system should meet the following
minimums:
 
o  1024 x 768 resolution
o  8-bit (256-entry) color table
o  Standard OS/2 PM driver
 
Software Requirements
---------------------
 
IBM COMMONPOINT APPLICATION DEVELOPER TOOLKIT FOR OS/2 WARP
 
Required software:
 
o  OS/2 Warp Connect Version 3.0 (WOW 5622-671; WINOS2 5622-672)
o  VisualAge C++ for OS/2 Version 3.0, or later
 
Optional software:
 
o  The Developer Connection for OS/2, Volume 8
   -  For the capability to embed CommonPoint compound document
      components in an OpenDoc compound document part
 
o  GRADIENT License Frameworks for OS/2
   -  If GRADIENT Licensing is required
 
o  Client Access Optimized OS/2 Client for OS/400
   -  If access to AS/400 facilities or databases is required
 
IBM COMMONPOINT APPLICATION SYSTEM FOR OS/2 WARP
 
Required software:
 
o  OS/2 Warp Connect Version 3.0 (WOW 5622-671; WINOS2 5622-672)
 
Optional software:
 
o  The Developer Connection for OS/2, Volume 8
   -  For the capability to embed CommonPoint compound document
      components in an OpenDoc compound document part
 
o  GRADIENT License Frameworks for OS/2
   -  If GRADIENT Licensing is required
 
o  Client Access Optimized OS/2 Client for OS/400
   -  If access to AS/400 facilities or databases is required
 
Limitations
-----------
 
IBM CommonPoint is the first release of an exciting new technology. The
program interface to the IBM CommonPoint Application System for OS/2
Warp includes, but is not limited to, class definitions, method calls,
and APIs. Changes in subsequent releases of the product will require
recompilation of the application. Additionally, applications using IBM
CommonPoint Application System for OS/2 Warp programming interfaces may
need to be modified to migrate to a subsequent release of the product.
 
Ordering Information
--------------------
 
Orders for new licenses are being accepted now. Shipments will begin on
15 December 1995.
 
To order these programs for order type, specify the order type number,
feature number, part number, program name, media, and quantity.
 
These programs are supplied on CD-ROM only.
 
PROGRAM PACKAGE: Program media with documentation.
 
                                            PART       ONE-TIME
PROGRAM NAME                                NUMBER      CHARGE
 
Order Number 5801-AAR
 
IBM CommonPoint Application Developer
  Toolkit for OS/2 Warp                     25H7978   2,999 USD
 
IBM CommonPoint Application System for
  OS/2 Warp                                 25H7977     249 USD
 
ADDITIONAL LICENSE COPIES: Authorizes the customer who has a program
package to make a single copy of the program media and printed
documentation. The authorization is given by providing the customer a
Proof of Entitlement for Additional License -- with Certificate, which
has its own part number and feature number.
 
                                            PART       ONE-TIME
PROGRAM NAME                                NUMBER      CHARGE
 
Order Type 5802-AAR
 
IBM CommonPoint Application Developer
  Toolkit for OS/2 Warp, One Additional
  License--with Certificate                 28H0002   2,899 USD
 
IBM CommonPoint Application System for
  OS/2 Warp, One Additional License--
  with Certificate                          28H0068     239 USD
 
IBM CommonPoint Application System for
  OS/2 Warp, Five Additional Licenses--
  with Certificate                          28H0001     999 USD
 
========================================================================
 
             +-------------------------------------------+
             |   IBM Licenses Java Technology from Sun   |      javalic
             | Microsystems for Use in Internet Products |
             +-------------------------------------------+
 
IBM announces that it has licensed Sun Microsystems, Inc.'s Java
programming language, and intends to use it to enhance the way customers
view and interact with content on the Internet World Wide Web.
 
For Web Browsers, Servers, and Lotus Notes
------------------------------------------
 
IBM plans to implement the Java technology in products that exploit the
Internet, such as web browsers and web servers, and its Lotus Notes
integrated messaging and groupware software.
 
On OS/2, AIX, Windows
---------------------
 
In addition, IBM intends to port the Java technology to its OS/2 and AIX
operating systems, as well as Microsoft's Windows 3.1, and will make
those ports available over the World Wide Web so users can begin to work
with Java on these platforms.
 
About Java
----------
 
Java, developed by Sun, is an object-oriented programming language that
operates independently of any operating system or microprocessor. Java
programs, called applets, can be transmitted over a network and run on
multiple clients, providing the multimedia richness of a CD-ROM over
corporate networks and the Internet.
 
Applets provide World Wide Web users with ready access from their local
system to additional web page content that can be delivered in a more
visually compelling way, such as through the use of animation. The user
can view and interact with an applet -- for example, requesting that a
product image rotate to provide a fuller view of its appearance -- and
then discard it when no longer needed.
 
Expanding Network-Centric Computing
-----------------------------------
 
By providing this type of flexible, "on demand" software delivery and
enhanced viewing and interaction support, IBM is expanding its range of
network-centric computing capabilities. Network-centric computing is
IBM's strategy to provide customers with the ability to easily receive,
use, and share applications and services across worldwide voice networks
and data networks such as the Internet.
 
Available Starting 1Q96
-----------------------
 
IBM expects to make its ports of Java to OS/2, AIX, and Windows 3.1
available on the World Wide Web starting in the first quarter of 1996.
By licensing Java, IBM also gains access to JavaScript, the new
scripting language announced by Sun and Netscape Communications.
 
========================================================================
 
                         +---------------------+
                         | The Fuss about Java |                javafuss
                         +---------------------+
 
Use and popularity of the Internet has exploded. There are currently
over 16 million World Wide Web sites, and the number is growing daily.
 
The latest Internet development is Java. This paper explains what all
the fuss is about.
 
What is Java?
-------------
 
Java is the result of a five-year development project at Sun
Microsystems. Java is an object-oriented language, derived from C and
C++ (so that the vast pool of programmers familiar with these languages
would feel at home with Java). Like C++, Java is object-oriented. Unlike
C and C++, Java is interpreted, not compiled, and is meant to be
platform-independent, so that a Java program will run without change on
a variety of platforms.
 
In addition, Java provides the proper architecture and class libraries
that allow a Java program (called an applet) to be imbedded within an
HTML file, so that when the file is received over the Internet by a
browser, the Java applet will run on the receiving computer. Prior to
Java, users could download text, graphics, and multimedia files from the
Internet. With Java, they can also transparently download and seamlessly
run applications -- this is what is causing the excitement about Java.
The application might be as simple as animating the title of the HTML
file, or something much more complex, such as automatically retrieving
desired information from various sties around the Internet and
manipulating it.
 
Java received a significant boost in its prospects for success when
Netscape Communications agreed to incorporate Java into its next release
of Netscape Navigator. What this means is that the next release of
Netscape will be capable of detecting Java applets imbedded in HTML
files, and run them. In other words, Netscape will incorporate the Java
interpreter.
 
Another significant endorsement of Java is IBM's recent announcement
that it has licensed Java, and has already ported early versions of Java
to OS/2 and AIX, with ports also under way for AS/400 and MVS.
 
Java Scenarios
--------------
 
Before describing Java, let's envision a couple of possibilities for it:
 
o  Current Web browsers come with, or link to, a number of file viewers
   (such as GIF and JPEG; these are also called helper applications), so
   that when such a file is retrieved, the browser can display the
   contents of the file without involvement from the user. However, if
   a proper viewer is not available for the file format, the browser can
   do nothing more than copy the file to the user's disk. With Java, the
   file can come with the appropriate program to view, process, or run
   the file, transparent to the user.
 
o  A professor can place an exercise for students on a Web page. The
   exercise is in Java, so the student can use a Web browser to access
   the exercise from the professor's home page. Once the application is
   received, it starts running without any specific action needed by the
   student. The application can automatically transfer the results of
   the exercise (again, transparent to the student) back to the
   professor.
 
Now, let's look at some of the features of the Java language.
 
Object-Oriented
---------------
 
Obviously, Java is not the first object-oriented language. While it is
derived from C and C++, it is neither a superset nor a subset of those
languages. While C++ allows a programmer to revert to procedural, as
opposed to object-oriented, programming technique, Java does not. The
Java developers decided to start clean, as opposed to inheriting the
problems that would result from creating an extension to C++, which is
an extension of C. Java is also multi-threaded.
 
Bottom line: Java incorporates the latest technology.
 
Interpreted
-----------
 
Java is interpreted, and for two reasons. First, platform independence.
No matter which computer receives the file containing a Java applet, one
can be assured that the applet will run as-is. This is because the Java
language targets a virtual machine, the interpreter. To implement Java
on a new platform, one has only to write the interpreter for that
platform. This is the same approach taken by ScriptX.
 
The second reason is security. In this world of virus infestations,
users are justifiably leery of allowing an application to download
itself from the Internet and to start running on their computers. By
being interpreted, the code that actually runs on the user's computer --
the interpreter -- does not come over the Internet, and thus its
reliability can be assured. The code that actually comes over the
Internet never gains control of the user's machine; it is checked and
run by the interpreter.
 
Bottom line: Java is platform-independent and secure.
 
Pointers and Garbage Collection
-------------------------------
 
Java departs radically from C and C++ in that it neither supports nor
implements pointers, which are mainstays of these two languages. The
Java developers felt that pointers, while very useful and powerful, are
the cause of countless program bugs, and thus should be excluded from
the language. The banishment of pointers also helps improve security,
since the programmer no longer has the ability to address arbitrary
regions of memory.
 
Since there are no pointers, the Java programmer, unlike the C and C++
programmer, does not manually allocate and free memory. This is handled
by the program. Thus the program has to manage the process called
garbage collection, in which the memory space taken by objects no longer
used by the program is identified and freed.
 
Bottom line: Java is easier to code and more reliable.
 
Applets
-------
 
As mentioned above, one of the features of Java is that Java
applications can be imbedded in HTML documents, and automatically
executed by the Java interpreter when the document is received. The
importance of this capability should not be discounted. It allows for
the development of interactive applications.
 
Bottom line: Java promises new function for the Internet.
 
Java Components
---------------
 
Components of Java include:
 
o  Java class libraries
o  The Java compiler, called Javac.
o  The Java interpreter.
o  Hot Java, the Sun-developed Web browser that incorporates the Java
     interpreter.
 
Java Class Libraries
--------------------
 
Key to every object-oriented language is its class library, which is the
collection of object classes provided with the language. Java contains a
nice class library. This library includes classes that take care of the
requirements of making applets; handle Internet protocol; and implement
threading, including thread locking and synchronization.
 
Tools
-----
 
Java, as mentioned, includes the Hot Java browser, the Interpreter, and
the Javac compiler. In other words, what one needs to create and run a
Java application does indeed exist, although not in final release form.
However, Java does not yet have any visual development tools such as
those comprising IBM VisualAge. It is expected that the popularity of
Java will result in these tools becoming available in 1996.
 
On 4 December, Sun Microsystems announced JavaScript, which should make
it easier for developers to code Java programs.
 
Java and Lotus Notes
--------------------
 
Even if one could not do certain things on the Internet before, now,
with Java, anything is possible. This has led to the notion that
products such as Lotus Notes are obsolete. This notion is mistaken.
 
Notes starts out with a much higher level of functionality. In addition,
this functionality can be augmented by use of Notes' macro and scripting
facilities, which are easier to use than an object-oriented programming
language. Notes has become, and continues to be, popular because it
provides function that cannot be obtained through other tools.
 
IBM's Announcement
------------------
 
IBM will incorporate Java into its Web browsers and other
Internet-related tools. It will also port Java to OS/2, AIX, and Windows
3.1, and these ports should be available to customers over the Internet
in the first quarter of 1996. In addition, Lotus will incorporate Java
into Lotus Notes.
 
Bottom line: IBM will bring its customers the best technology there is,
and maintains its commitment to the Internet, open systems, and
network-centric computing.
 
More Information
----------------
 
For more information, contact Ed Pinheiro at ejp@vnet.ibm.com .
 
========================================================================
 
        +----------------------------------------------------+
        | IBM Introduces Internet Application Porting Center |  portinet
        +----------------------------------------------------+
 
Demonstrating its commitment to leadership in network-centric computing
and the Internet, IBM announces a new "iNet Porting" extension to its
Solution Partnership Center (SPC) in San Mateo, California, to assist
software developers in creating applications for the Internet.
 
iNet Porting Facility
---------------------
 
This iNet Porting facility will make it easier for application
developers to exploit the power, scalability, and installed base of the
IBM RISC System/6000 (RS/6000), and AIX, IBM's advanced UNIX operating
system, by providing developers access to systems, support, and tools,
either over the Internet or in person at the San Mateo SPC.
 
"We intend to make the RS/6000 the Internet server of choice," said Tom
Fornoff, director of workstation marketing, IBM RISC System/6000
Division. "We're working with some of the leading tool vendors as
co-sponsors of the iNet Porting center to foster the explosive growth in
Internet applications development. We're confident that developers using
this facility will realize the advantages in performance and flexibility
that the RS/6000 offers."
 
Industry-Leading Software Tools
-------------------------------
 
A wide variety of industry-leading software tools are being made
available at the center by IBM and a number of co-sponsoring companies
to create a comprehensive development environment. Many of these
companies worked through the SPC to bring their own products to the
RS/6000 platform.
 
"We have had an excellent experience working with IBM," said Philip
Gust, vice president of engineering, RAD Technologies, Inc. "IBM worked
closely with us to port RAD PowerMedia to the RS/6000 platform. They are
committed to excellence on the Internet, and we will continue to work
with them in the future."
 
Porting Resources
-----------------
 
Among the resources the iNet Porting facility will provide are:
 
o  A new iNet Porting World Wide Web (WWW) home page at http://www.spc.
   ibm.com providing developers information on both the center itself
   and how to take advantage of its resources.
 
o  Internet access to a number of RS/6000 systems running AIX, allowing
   developers to "test drive" the platform and experience its extensive
   Internet server capabilities.
 
o  Scheduled, secure Internet access to a range of RS/6000 servers,
   software development tools, and technical support for porting or
   creating Internet applications for the RS/6000 platform.  While
   software developers will be encouraged to bring their applications to
   San Mateo for in-person support and assistance, the same resources
   will also be available over the Internet using IBM's state-of-the-art
   security products.
 
o  The systems available for these scheduled development sessions will
   include the latest RS/6000 uniprocessor, symmetric multiprocessor,
   and IBM RS/6000 Scalable POWERparallel Systems (RS/6000 SP).
 
o  The tools available during these scheduled development sessions will
   include products in the IBM Internet Connection Family and from IBM
   Global Network, as well as a variety of the latest third-party
   software, including products from BlueStone Inc., Illustra
   Information Technologies Inc., Lotus Development Corp., NetScape
   Communications Corp., Prodigy Services Co., Progressive Networks, RAD
   Technologies Inc., Spyglass Inc., VDOnet Corp., Verity Inc., Worlds
   Inc., Xing Technology Corp., and others. These vendors will also
   provide technical support and training for the use of their products.
 
o  Marketing support for developers' Internet applications ported to, or
   created for, the RS/6000 platform. This support will include:
 
   --  a listing in a newly created "Hot Internet Applications" Web page
         directory on the SPC's home page
   --  marketing linkages with IBM channels, product divisions, and
         Industry Solution Units (ISUs)
 
No Charge
---------
 
Best of all, the above resources are being offered at no charge to
developers, on an as-available basis.
 
The iNet Porting WWW home page, test drive systems, and on-site
porting facilities are available immediately, with secure, remote
scheduled, development sessions available starting in early 1996.
 
More Information
----------------
 
The IBM home page can be found on the Internet at http://www.ibm.com
The IBM RS/6000 home page can be found at http://www.rs6000.ibm.com
The Solution Partnership Center home page can be found at
  http://www.austin.ibm.com/developer/facilities/spc.html
The iNet Porting home page can be found at http://www.spc.ibm.com
 
========================================================================
 
                  +------------------------------------+
                  | IBM Offers Support for Developers  |        dcedevel
                  | of Distributed Computing Solutions |
                  +------------------------------------+
 
IBM is expanding its Solution Developer Program to include a distributed
computing specialty. Specialized assistance will be provided to
independent solution developers who create open, client/server
applications based on the industry-standard Open Software Foundation
(OSF) Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) technology.
 
Increasing Market Potential
---------------------------
 
"The addition of distributed computing to our Solution Developer Program
will help developers increase the market potential for their products,"
said Jim Gant, vice president, IBM Solution Developer Operations. "DCE
is attractive to developers because it allows them to create
heterogeneous, client/server applications that are scalable from small
business to large enterprise. Using DCE also reduces development costs
and time to market, and allows developers to provide customers with
solutions that offer significant administration savings."
 
Reduced Time and Cost
---------------------
 
The distributed computing support within IBM's Solution Developer
Program is targeted at developers creating multi-platform, client/server
solutions, systems administration tools, and application development
tools. DCE provides software vendors with a client/server development
environment that is common across different platforms, such as IBM's
OS/2, AIX, MVS/ESA, and OS/400; Hewlett-Packard HP-UX; DEC OpenVMS; SCO
UNIX; SUN Solaris; Silicon Graphics IRIX; and Microsoft Windows 3.x and
Windows NT. Through DCE's rich set of directory, security, and
communication APIs and services, developers can write a single
application for multiple platforms rather than writing separate
applications for each. As a result, DCE significantly reduces
developers' time and costs associated with supporting multiple operating
platforms.
 
"We are excited about IBM's addition of distributed computing to their
Solution Developer Program," said Nick Zaldastani, president and CEO of
Open Horizon, Inc.  "It is exactly what this industry needs to encourage
more software vendors to develop open, DCE-based client/server
solutions. Open Horizon's commitment to DCE is based on our customers'
need to have secure and easy access to multiple databases on a variety
of platforms from their desktop applications without having to do custom
programming."
 
Program Highlights
------------------
 
Through the program, commercial developers receive, free of charge:
 
o Specialized technical support, to help create superior DCE software
  products
 
o Marketing assistance, to help developers raise awareness of their
  products
 
o DCE software, to make it easier and faster for users to develop on
  AIX, OS/2, and Windows
 
o Early DCE code offerings, so participants can be the first to develop
  products based on current DCE technology
 
o Access to educational classes on DCE administration and programming,
  so that developers can be ahead of the curve on DCE technology.
 
This program complements the existing IBM System/390 Developers
Association, which provides similar benefits to commercial developers
who use the MVS/ESA platform.
 
"IBM's implementation of DCE confirms Open Environment's belief in DCE
technology as a platform to develop three-tier distributed client/server
systems for our customers," said Ram Sudama, chief scientist and vice
president of technology at Open Environment Corporation.
 
Part of Open Blueprint
----------------------
 
DCE is an integral part of IBM's client/server strategy, providing the
distributed services layer of the IBM Open Blueprint. DCE is based on
the OSF code, provides a common reference platform to all members, and
results in multi-vendor, multi-platform interoperability for the
industry. The distributed services layer of IBM's Open Blueprint
provides the services for open, distributed, heterogeneous computing.
The Open Blueprint is IBM's infrastructure model for the development,
deployment and maintenance of client/server applications.
 
More Information
----------------
 
Additional information about IBM's Solution Developer Program, including
Distributed Computing support, is available by calling 1-800-627-8363 in
the U.S. or 1-770-835-9902 from outside the U.S.
 
========================================================================
 
                 +------------------------------------+
                 | IBM Application Development within |         adwstrat
                 |    an Enterprise: A White Paper    |
                 +------------------------------------+
 
  This paper presents the IBM approach to application development
  within an enterprise. It is intended to inform IBM customers of our
  strategy, and to briefly describe IBM application development
  products. It discusses development tools in the context of a
  strategy for providing complete solutions to application developers.
  It also includes positioning of IBM tools, object technology, and
  Lotus Notes, and provides a glimpse of future releases based on our
  strategy to be the provider of a complete set of application
  development tools, including the programming languages of choice for
  the platforms of choice and development and asset-management tools.
 
The Role of Application Developers
----------------------------------
 
Corporate downsizing, changing regulations, increasing competition,
expanding markets ... all put pressures on business, and therefore more
pressures on application developers, than ever before. The role of
information technology (IT) departments is evolving to enhance support
for the distribution of IT resources and provide global access to
information on heterogeneous systems and protocols. This must be
acccomplished while continuing to control complexity, reduce cost, and
provide optimal business systems support for competitive advantage.
 
How can application developers play a key role in this environment?
Most businesses need to develop and enable new types of applications for
competitive advantage. Usually, this means developing new applications
that fit new business processes, and workflows that have been
re-engineered to enhance customer service. On the other hand, developers
benefit most by investing their skills in the fewest number of tools
that produce applications that address these needs and build adaptive
application systems designed to respond to change.
 
In order to rapidly build competitive business solutions, it is
imperative to create a total team development approach that engages the
business process experts with the software development staff who know
how to build scalable, functionally robust applications. These teams
need to cooperate in building new competitive solutions. The team
members need the right systems, tools, and technology. They also need
service offerings that address the phases of a development environment
that promotes quality, productivity, sharing of information, and a
rigorous development management process.
 
IBM believes that our leadership in the application development business
will require a complete set of tools:
 
o  Business and information modeling tools to support business process
   re-engineering, including workflow modeling and control, prototyping,
   and management
 
o  Visual programming, to improve productivity using
   construction-from-parts capabilities to enhance the traditional
   approach of building applications using programming languages, i.e.,
   a compiler or interpreter for source-code programs
 
o  An object repository to manage and store the assets of development,
   i.e., models, source code, visual objects, test cases, execution
   control, documentation, etc.
 
o  Software configuration management and build facilities such as
   version control, configuration management, problem tracking and
   change control, distributed and parallel builds, and distribution
   services
 
IBM's strategy is to provide an integrated development environment that
addresses all these needs, focuses on enterprise businesses and
workgroups, and can be characterized by the IBM application development
principles depicted in Figure 1.
 
            +-----------------------------------------------+
            | Support for business and information modeling |
Design      |                                               |
            | and workflow management                       |
            +-----------------------------------------------+
 
            +-----------------------------------------------+
            |   Visual construction from pre-built parts    |
            |                                               |
Build       |       A programming language of choice        |
            |                                               |
            |             A platform of choice              |
            +-----------------------------------------------+
 
            +-----------------------------------------------+
Manage      |   Iterative, roles-based team development     |
            +-----------------------------------------------+
 
         +-----------------------------------------------------+
         |        Evolutionary utilization of objects          |
         +-----------------------------------------------------+
 
Figure 1. Application Development Principles
 
IBM's marketing approach to application development is to offer
solutions for:
 
o  modernizing legacy applications
o  automating business processes
o  developing object-oriented applications
 
These solutions are offered as functional combinations of software tools
with complementary application creation and maintenance:
 
o  Modeling and design
o  Build or construction
o  Development and asset management
 
Modeling and Design Tools
-------------------------
 
Modeling tools help describe a business problem and define an
information technology solution. Design models must be a complete
representation of the business process. Modeling tools must be able to
update existing models to implement desired changes. Tools need to work
together and share model information for different operations, i.e.:
 
o  Business process re-engineering tools to assist with business process
   improvement and automation
 
o  Information engineering tools to organize data and application
   construction for more efficient development and maintenance of
   information systems
 
o  Object modeling tools to develop new applications that use object
   technology to improve maintainability, flexibility, and implement
   applications directly from the modeling tool
 
IBM Business Process Re-Engineering Tools
-----------------------------------------
 
IBM's business modeling tool, built on a time-tested IBM methodology,
the Line of Visibility Engineering Methodology (LOVEM), graphically maps
the way work moves through an organization. Process design teams can
actually "see" a process while documenting, evaluating, and redesigning
it. Processes are described in standard business terms, including
process goals, critical success factors, and quality measures. In this
manner, teams highlight crucial points and identify bottlenecks.
 
The business modeling function also identifies ways to improve team and
customer interaction, identify new business opportunities, and assess
the impact of change on customers, vendors, and suppliers. These
features enable teams to be more responsive to changes in their business
environment.
 
Through integration with FlowMark, professional developers can take the
business model to the next step by creating, defining, documenting,
simulating, and testing the supporting workflow processes. FlowMark is
used to assign key company resources including people, programs, and
data to get the job done. FlowMark then manages and tracks execution of
the process, i.e., through measurement and monitoring functions provided
by FlowMark, companies can ensure that the processes fulfill their
identified business goals, creating a closed loop for continuous process
improvement.
 
Creating applications that integrate with FlowMark is simplified with a
library of visual construction parts that support workflow
functionality. These applications can be procedural or object-oriented.
Flowmark also supports the linking of existing applications with its
runtime management, permitting businesses to use their existing
application investments with the workflow application.
 
This reuse capability will be enhanced through the business rules
management function that will be integrated with FlowMark and the
business modeling functions. This tool checks rules that support the
business and workflow processes against the rules that have already been
implemented. The business rules management function also provides a link
between the modeling teams and the application developers. It provides
visual capabilities that support the transformation of business rules
(described in business terms) to definitions and descriptions useful to
application builders.
 
The combination of business modeling and workflow management results in
a complete set of visual process design tools from IBM. They provide
simulation, control, execution, and measurement for re-engineering a
business process. IBM modeling tools also support developing
applications from process models.
 
Another complete set of modeling and design tools which complements
IBM's workflow and process modeling approach for producing applications
comes from Compagnie Generale d'Informatique (CGI), a wholly owned
subsidiary of IBM. PACBASE/CS is a full life-cycle CASE environment for
client/server, batch, and online application development. It has unique
strengths in methodology support, including IBM's SDDM, Merise, and
Yourdon. It supports applications in several OLTP, database, and
communications environments that run on more than 40 IBM and non-IBM
target systems. PACBASE/CS is especially appropriate when a single
development environment is required to support IBM and proprietary
systems from BULL, DEC, UNISYS, and a variety of UNIX environments.
 
IBM Information Engineering Tools
---------------------------------
 
Information engineering tools model database designs and the
relationships of data elements and programs. An understanding of these
relationships helps to more easily translate business changes into
applications. Tools that keep track of the implementation of business
rules and the use of information and data elements help reduce
redundancy and promote reuse.
 
IBM's business rules management function, mentioned earlier, visually
helps translate business changes into application designs. It enables
the description of business requirements to be recorded in a consistent
fashion and with the discipline necessary for a complete implementation
design by developers.
 
DataAtlas allows you to conceptually model the use of information by
different applications. It keeps track of data element and record
definitions, suggests physical database designs, and generates these
designs for optimum database performance. DataAtlas also includes data
dictionary functions that are available to all other application
development tools.
 
DataAtlas, the business rules tool, and the build tools provide you with
a complete development environment for many of the tasks associated with
maintaining, modernizing, and extending most of today's enterprise
applications (see Figure 2). They can be used in an integrated way with
IBM's business process re-engineering tools.
 
            +-----------------------------------------------------+
            | +---------------+  +------------+  +--------------+ |
            | |  DataAtlas    |  |  Flowmark  |  |   ObjChart   | |
            | |               |  |            |  |              | |
Design      | |  Information  |  |  Business  |  |  Executable  | |
            | |   Modeling    |  |  Process   |  |  Object      | |
            | +---------------+  |  Modeling  |  |  Modeling    | |
            |                    +------------+  +--------------+ |
            +-----------------------------------------------------+
 
            +-----------------------------------------------------+
            |            Visual Development Environment           |
            |                                                     |
            | +-------------------------------------------------+ |
            | | GUI building            Construction from parts | |
            | +-------------------------------------------------+ |
            |                                                     |
            |             RPG  PL/I  VisualGen  COBOL             |
Build       |                                                     |
            |             BASIC  C/C++  Smalltalk REXX            |
            |                                                     |
            | +-------------------------------------------------+ |
            | |         S/390  OS/400  AIX  OS/2  HP-UX         | |
            | |                                                 | |
            | |             Solaris  MacOS  Windows             | |
            | +-------------------------------------------------+ |
            +-----------------------------------------------------+
 
            +-----------------------------------------------------+
            |                   TeamConnection                    |
            |                                                     |
            |   LAN repository                 Software           |
Manage      |   o  Source                      Configuration /    |
            |   o  Object                      Distribution       |
            |   o  Model                       Management         |
            +-----------------------------------------------------+
 
Figure 2. A Complete Set of Application Development Tools
 
IBM Object Modeling Tool
------------------------
 
Movement to object-oriented technology is growing in popularity. Many
organizations find that this technology fits their business needs
better. Critical to the successful use of object technology is a good
design for the application. IBM is developing a new form of modeling
that makes use of object-oriented technology. The developer is able to
model applications using business objects that represent business
processes and messages, and the tool produces an application based on
the model.
 
Although this technology is still in development, ultimately it will
produce object applications and frameworks that represent business
functions. These object applications can then be used in conjunction
with visual build tools and with database design tools to produce an
efficient and complete application system. Frameworks produced in this
way can be re-used as templates for other applications. Together, these
visual object modeling and build tools offer a complete object-oriented
application development environment for those wishing to pursue the
advantages of the rapidly emerging object technology.
 
Build Tools
-----------
 
Application developers have been using programming languages to build
applications for years. This traditionally has involved understanding
syntax, logic structure, and specifications for applications interacting
with the environment where they run. This process is labor- and
skills-intensive, frequently too slow to satisfy business needs, and
often produces applications that don't satisfy users' requirements.
There is a large inventory of existing applications that must be
maintained with new user functions and integrated with new applications.
 
In order to successfully implement and manage application solutions,
developers need build tools and development management capabilities. IBM
is providing a comprehensive set of build tools to improve developer
productivity. IBM build tools support three key application development
principles:
 
o  Visual construction from pre-built parts for build-time productivity
 
o  A programming language of choice and a platform of choice to leverage
   programming skills for scalable client and server applications
 
o  Evolutionary utilization of objects to mask the complexity of new
   technology and ease future application maintenance
 
Visual Construction from Pre-Built Parts
----------------------------------------
 
IBM's strategy is to enable the developer to focus on business issues
while lowering the barriers (depth of skills) to developing
applications. Developers will be able to build applications from
pre-built components -- construction from parts. This will dramatically
improve development productivity while lowering the required entry skill
for developers. IBM offers this visual development environment across a
broad set of existing programming languages.
 
The visual construction approach provides benefits to those with
existing transaction and database applications with visual tools to
modernize these applications. It also provides for the addition of new
client applications for existing host or workstation server functions.
Since visual development using construction from parts reduces the need
to know the underlying programming language and technology, it masks
much of the complexity of developing client/server applications, and
benefits those wishing to evolve to object application technology.
 
The VisualAge family of products -- VisualAge for Smalltalk, VisualAge
for C++, and VisualAge for COBOL -- provides power programming for a
distributed environment. These tools use visual construction from
predefined parts on a developer's palette to more easily build
applications without using a programming language. Palettes are provided
that combine easy client graphical user interface (GUI) construction
from parts with powerful parts that represent application function such
as business logic, data access, communication protocols, and multimedia
to quickly build an application. A developer can use tools that come
with VisualAge to build queries to databases without knowing the
structured query language (SQL). The tools will visually take the
developer through the data access using information from the database
and pre-built data access parts. VisualAge supports C++, COBOL, and
Smalltalk applications for both responsive development and optimized
object application execution.
 
VisualGen is a high-productivity visual tool for three-tier (or one- or
two-tier) client/server application generation. It is an object-based
tool that uses the power of visual construction for both client and
server applications. VisualGen has the unique ability to develop client
and server parts as a single unit, then generate the tested applications
to several different execution environments without changing
specifications.
 
IBM is extending its 3GLs with the inclusion of new technology and
visual development environments. For example, VisualAge for COBOL for
OS/2 and IBM COBOL for MVS will add object function to enable the many
developers familiar with its specifications to use this next-generation
COBOL to add object technology and visual construction of
client/server applications to their skills without leaving the popular
commercial COBOL language. COBOL and PL/I are offered on MVS, OS/2, and
AIX with the same compiler technology. The visual tools for PC and
workstation environments can be used to cooperatively develop
applications for execution on other platforms such as MVS.
 
These 3GL integrated development environments include tools to help
maintain and modernize existing applications. For example, visual tools
will be provided to assist with program and application understanding
and restructuring. Additional tools will be provided to more easily test
3GL distributed applications. Visual assistants are provided to enhance
developer productivity for building transaction and database
applications.
 
Visual development environments from IBM are being delivered to extend
several other 3GL programming languages such as RPG, REXX, and BASIC.
VRPG, which will run on OS/2 and several members of the Windows family,
enables AS/400 programmers to extend their skills to client/server
applications.
 
Lotus Notes development tools enable rapid development of applications
that expand and extend Notes. Notes tools provide:
 
o  Access to the Notes data store from VisualBasic
o  A high-level, object-based C language API for Lotus Notes
o  A common language for cross-application scripting in Lotus products
 
IBM is planning access to Lotus Notes from VisualAge and a converged
scripting tool in 1996. IBM's implementation of visual BASIC-like
functions, in conjunction with libraries of BASIC controls and visual
parts, will support new applications including database, file access,
and Notes. It will run on your platform of choice in the BASIC
client-centric programming language, and is designed for scripting and
building Basic OpenDoc components. IBM's scripting languages are
designed to best serve the needs of a specific business requirement. For
example, Script/X is designed for multimedia authoring. Object REXX is a
general scripting tool best suited to write 'glue' code to build
new applications using pre-existing functions in the operating system or
applications.
 
A Programming Language of Choice and a Platform of Choice
---------------------------------------------------------
 
IBM's strategy is to leverage existing skills, code, and systems by
providing the widest choice of languages across the widest choice of
execution environments. IBM will provide its key compilers for IBM
systems -- S/390, OS/400, AIX, and OS/2, and for non-IBM systems --
Windows, MacOS, HP, and SUN. This will enable developer skills to apply
to scalable client and server applications for a broad range of
computing capacity.
 
For example, the languages of VisualAge are being offered on many
platforms today (OS/2, Windows, and AIX), and the list is growing (C++
was recently made available for MVS, OS/400, and SUN; Smalltalk for AIX;
PL/I for AIX; and COBOL for OS/2 and AIX). This enables both client and
server applications to be developed in the same language with the same
development environment. C++ and Smalltalk will lead the trend to
multiple platforms, and soon will be offered for several other
environments, including additional Windows and UNIX environments.
 
VisualGen includes a 4GL language for developer productivity. This
allows it to generate the same application to different platforms
without changing application specifications. VisualGen also generates
character-based terminal applications, enabling developers' skills to
easily evolve to building both these host-based applications and
client/server applications using the same tool. VisualGen supports data
access across several data structures, a variety of middleware, clients
on OS/2 and Windows, and servers on S/390, OS/400, AIX, and OS/2. It,
too, will soon add more Windows platform support.
 
Traditional host 3GLs are being offered on additional platforms. Both
COBOL and PL/I come with a visual development environment on OS/2 and
AIX. COBOL for 32-bit Windows and UNIX will soon extend the range of
COBOL skills to applications on those platforms as well.
 
IBM continues to have close affinity with standards groups for all
programming languages. For instance, IBM is working with the COBOL
standards committees to ensure that IBM COBOL conforms to the emerging
object standards for the COBOL language.
 
Conformance to ANSI and ISO programming language standards and offerings
of the same IBM compiler technology across multiple platforms leads to a
high degree of portability of applications developed using these tools.
Portability is enhanced by using consistent middleware based on industry
standards. IBM's Open Blueprint identifies categories of middleware, and
documents what resources are offered on several system platforms.
 
Evolutionary Utilization of Objects
-----------------------------------
 
For those who recognize that object technology may be the best way to
develop distributed applications, IBM offers visual construction from
pre-built parts in C/C++ and COBOL that support both procedural and
object application development. This enables the migration of skills to
the best technology for solving business problems, especially in
conjunction with visual construction that can mask the underlying tech-
nology from the developer.
 
VisualAge for Smalltalk supports new object oriented applications using
visual construction that can reuse many existing resources, including
access to databases, transactions, and communication protocols, support
distributed applications, and wrappers for VisualBasic controls (Windows
only) and PC applications written in C or COBOL. This enables existing
applications to be extended with new components that use object
technology enabled on a wide choice of platforms.
 
The latter is part of our systems strategy to allow application
components written in different programming languages to work together.
This can be accomplished through the use of IBM's System Object Model
(SOM). These applications consist of components that can be distributed
across multiple servers and clients using Distributed SOM (DSOM). Our
object strategy is to include a set of IBM pre-built parts with IBM
tools, e.g., IBM Open Class and IBM Smalltalk class library. IBM is also
working with industry suppliers through programs such as Object
Connection to build parts in an open architecture that enable those
parts to be used and reused in application solutions built with the
VisualAge family.
 
VisualAge for C++, VisualAge for COBOL, and IBM BASIC will support
direct-to-SOM compilation to provide objects for management by each
operating system that supports SOM/DSOM (i.e., OS/2, Windows, AIX/6000,
OS/400, and MVS), as well as those that conform to the Object Management
Group (OMG) Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA). In
addition to these direct-to-SOM compilers, build tools such as VisualAge
for Smalltalk can reuse SOM objects as part of the application, even
though it uses a different object model (i.e., Smalltalk) for execution.
VisualAge for Smalltalk includes SOM and DSOM Client support.
 
Today, class libraries are provided with tools like VisualAge for C++
and VisualAge for Smalltalk. Functions include collection classes of
basic application building blocks, user interface classes,
communications classes, data access classes, and multimedia classes to
be reused as a part of the application being built.
 
IBM Open Class, introduced with VisualAge for C++, and IBM Smalltalk
class library represent IBM's strategy to promote productivity from
reuse of code and design. They contain a growing number of classes and
frameworks that will simplify access to resources. This is done by
abstraction of middleware interfaces (selecting parts is much simpler
than coding procedural APIs) to protect the developer from the
complexity of client/server environments, and to enable rapid
development of functionally rich GUI-based applications.
 
IBM Open Class and the IBM Smalltalk class library enable a single
development environment to provide portability to multiple execution
platforms without changes to the application itself. The use of class
libraries masks the complexity of underlying systems infrastructures,
and provides pre-built and pre-tested functions for building
applications and running them on multiple systems. They enable your
organization to build upon these classes with cross-industry and
industry-specific classes and frameworks that provide additional
improvements in developer productivity and in application development
responsiveness to business' needs.
 
Development and Asset-Management Tools
--------------------------------------
 
All modeling, design, and build tools need a place to store the results
of development. These roles-based assets need to be shared among teams
of developers who apply different skills for designing and building
applications and managing the development process. Assets must be
managed for iterative change and different versions, and configured for
installation with a build function to deliver the resulting application
to its eventual execution environments and systems. Until recently, the
integration of modeling information with application development tools
has primarily been a manual process, prone to error.
 
TeamConnection, groupware for developers, integrates software
configuration management functions and object-oriented repository
services. It provides a model for tool integration to support
roles-based team development in a client/server environment.
TeamConnection supports the development of host based applications and
client/server workstation and distributed applications. The developer
has the choice of using either a procedural or an object development
paradigm. Source, object, and model assets will be stored, updated, and
managed for distribution to a variety of developers, and for a variety
of systems infrastructures. Other development resources such as JCL,
README files, and documentation can be managed consistently with
modeling and workflow information and the executable application assets.
 
TeamConnection integrates problem tracking and change control to ensure
that application developers are more productive, and that project
leaders can effectively manage and track the development process.
TeamConnection automates and streamlines the application build process,
and integrates it with version and change management. The build function
is tied to release management and extended to provide a framework for
delivery to clients and servers using NetView Distribution Manager.
 
An open, extensible information model provides the vehicle for data
sharing among the modeling and design tools and the build tools like
VisualGen, VisualAge for C++, VisualAge for COBOL, and PL/I. The
information model ensures continued support for new versions of existing
tools, and the integration of new tools with those that already exist.
It has an extensible architecture, and an object-oriented information
model that is an integral part of TeamConnection. Its repository
services include constraint checking, version management, concurrent
and distributed access, and data exchange for information model assets
produced by several different modeling tools.
 
TeamConnection's LAN-based implementation allows developers to browse
and reuse development assets with great speed. Host applications could
be developed by checking out an entire program from a host-based
library, and little additional control was needed. The iterative object
development technique, using modular parts to assemble complete
applications, is significantly different from developing those
traditional applications. A LAN-based implementation of asset management
supports browsing different development objects, and even different
versions of the same object stored in a the repository. To enable easy
migration to new techniques and coexistence of both object and
procedural development, TeamConnection supports storage, retrieval, and
consistent management of all data elements, design, model, code parts,
and objects in the same LAN-based client/server development environment.
 
TeamConnection provides persistent data store on OS/2 (server function),
tool services at the client on OS/2, and distributed build functions for
OS/2 and MVS. The platforms supported by TeamConnection will be quickly
expanded. Server functions will be provided for Windows NT, AIX, and
other UNIX platforms. Client functions will be available for the Windows
family of products, as well as for multiple UNIX systems. Distributed
build capabilities will be extended to other IBM platforms, such as VSE,
OS/400, and AIX, as well as to Windows platforms and other variants of
UNIX. This will provide unprecedented platform range and support for the
heterogeneous environments found in many enterprises.
 
Summary
-------
 
IBM's complete set of application development offerings provide
significant value in a number of ways. Higher levels of developer
productivity are enabled through intuitive and visual tools for
automating business processes, modernizing existing applications, and
leveraging the advantages of new technology. They enhance productivity
through support for visually building applications from pre-built parts
by teams of developers with different roles and skill levels. Parts are
provided to leverage middleware and infrastructure, based on industry
standards such as those identified in the Open Blueprint, and
implemented across a broad spectrum of heterogeneous client and server
systems.
 
Modular construction enabling easier maintenance and application changes
is supported through object and workflow technologies. IBM's development
and execution management assumes and manages the complexity of
client/server applications that require support on many systems and
configurations to ensure adaptability through flexibility and
scalability.
 
IBM provides industry-standard implementation of technology, and brings
leadership and experience to bear on your needs, through education,
consulting, and services offerings. IBM can help determine the best
course to follow, and the best approach to getting started. IBM wants
to satisfy your business requirements at a pace which is based on your
priorities, your existing application assets, and your skills and
capabilities.
 
IBM's application development approach helps you get the most from
people, leverage your application assets, minimize risk, waste, and
failure, and use technology as a competitive weapon to deploy superior
applications.
 
========================================================================
 
         +---------------------------------------------------+
         | lBM'S MVS Achieves Open Systems Brand from X/Open |   mvsopen
         +---------------------------------------------------+
 
In an effort to help customers realize the benefits of cross-platform,
client/server computing, IBM announces that it has achieved open systems
branding for its System/390 MVS/ESA operating system.
 
XPG4 Base Certification
-----------------------
 
The "XPG4 Base" brand certification was awarded by X/Open Company, Ltd.
and ensures that IBM's large server operating system is compliant with
current open industry standards.
 
Once thought of as a proprietary system, MVS is one of the first
"non-native UNIX" platforms to achieve this brand from X/Open.
 
Open, Network-Enabled Applications
----------------------------------
 
MVS is an integral part of IBM's overall network-centric computing
strategy, and the XPG4 Base certification will increase customers'
flexibility to launch open network-enabled applications on the server
operating system.
 
MVS customers will also benefit from validation of a common set of
popular programming interfaces, as well as easier application
portability and migration.
 
Standards for Enterprise Computing
----------------------------------
 
"The award of the X/Open Brand to IBM's MVS operating system is indeed a
landmark, and indicates just how far the open systems marketplace has
come in the last ten years," said Geoff Morris, President and CEO,
X/Open Limited. "With this announcement, IBM has demolished the
argument which claims that standards cannot be applied to enterprise
computing. This certification shows the way to those vendors who
continue to offer customers only proprietary products."
 
"This move recognizes, protects and leverages decades worth of
technology investments for major corporations and their customers," said
Mike Manley, Director, Corporate Computer Services, Motorola
Corporation.
 
Evolving Role of Large Servers
------------------------------
 
"The XPG4 Base certification of MVS is another example of the evolving
role of large servers in the world of open, network-centric computing,"
said Linda Sanford, General Manager, System/390 Division, IBM. "It is
the next step in our drive to transform System/390 into an undisputed
open server."
 
"We are pleased to see MVS join the 'open' club," said John W. Higgins,
Manager, Computing Operations, Shell Services Company. "As a current
MVS 5.2.2 user, we believe that MVS can play a significant role in
client/server environments, allowing for scalability and maximum return
on existing investments."
 
"We applaud IBM's MVS XPG4 Base branding," said Calvin Guidry, Director
of Product Development for BMC Software. "BMC Software is committed to
providing our products on all the IBM platforms, and a standard, open
industry interface like this will allows us to more quickly bring
IBM-based solutions to our customers."
 
"MVS has long been the leading environment for OLTP systems. As a TUXEDO
System provider and a System/390 Solution Developer, we're very excited
that XPG4 Base brand for S/390 allows us to bring the leading UNIX OLTP
software to MVS," said Glenn Rose, CEO, Information Management Company.
"Now we can give our TUXEDO customers MVS' commercial reliability and
scalability."
 
"We are starting to realize the benefits of networked systems for
enhancing our ability to share ideas and acquire knowledge, while
changing the way we teach and the way we learn," said Linda Mainord,
Director, Special Technology Projects, Memphis City Schools. "But, we
realize that none of this is possible without a common standard
infrastructure -- one that allows us to share innovation with others
throughout the world."
 
"For education, the certification of MVS couldn't have happened at a
better time," added Mainord. "It allows us to move forward with
confidence in our plans for the future. It's nice to know that
System/390 and MVS have 'officially' joined the family of open systems,"
said Mainord.
 
In order to achieve XPG4 Base brand certification, IBM had to run X/Open
test suites on one-half-million lines of MVS code, and pass every aspect
of their evaluation.
 
Transformation of System/390
----------------------------
 
This announcement exemplifies the recent transformation of IBM's
System/390 into a large, scalable server designed to provide open,
client/server computing, and application portability to a wide range of
commercial customers. System/390 provides new open systems
functionality, while retaining the classic large system strengths that
customers continue to demand in today's network-centric computing
environment.
 
System/390 is one of IBM's four server platforms: PC Server, AS/400,
RS/6000, and S/390.
 
========================================================================
 
                   +----------------------------+
                   | SOMobjects Service Classes |               objclass
                   +----------------------------+
 
In Brief ...
------------
 
SOMobjects service classes:
o  Allow you to use your current DB2 database to store SOM objects
o  Ensure application control of database updates through a powerful
     unit-of-work management capability
o  Simplify buffer management and object retrieval
 
SOMobjects service classes extend the power of SOMobjects for MVS, which
is based on the System Object Model (SOM) technology for defining and
managing binary class libraries.
 
SOMobjects service classes provide solutions to common application
development challenges such as:
 
o  Storing and retrieving objects
o  How to group objects for the purpose of commitment control and
     memory management
o  How to handle large collections of persistent objects
 
These application development challenges are addressed through
frameworks and classes such as:
 
o  A persistence framework that operates with VSAM and DATABASE 2 (DB2)
     datastores
o  A stream framework for managing collections of persistent objects
o  Unit-of-work framework that eases the programmer's implementation of
     object updates and memory management
 
Software Announcement 295-072, dated 28 February 1995, describes the
other SOMobjects service classes (previously referred to as SOMobjects
application classes) that will be evaluated over time and incorporated,
as appropriate, in OS/390.
 
Description
-----------
 
SOMobjects service classes extend the power of SOMobjects for MVS by
providing:
 
o   A persistence framework which operates with VSAM and DB2 datastores
o   A stream framework for managing collections of persistent objects
o   Unit-of-work framework that eases the programmer's implementation of
      object updates and memory management
 
The persistence framework eases the construction of persistent objects.
The persistent class provides the services that enable access to objects
in a database. This not only allows access to new data but also, through
wrappering, allows access to existing data. Object persistence services
provide the basis for converting objects between memory and the
database, and will automatically connect to the right database to
"materialize" an object into memory and "dematerialize" it back to its
proper store. Because object retrieval and object updates are
centralized in the persistence services, businesses can make major
changes to where and how an object is stored without disrupting the rest
of the application.
 
Because the object oriented (OO) strategy is to adhere to OO standards,
it should be noted that any anticipated Object Management Group (OMG)
standards, with respect to the persistence architecture, may differ from
those of the SOMobjects persistence architecture.
 
If you already have DB2, you can store your objects using your existing
databases, thereby eliminating the expense of having to buy a separate
database to store them.
 
The stream framework enables an application to manage access to an
arbitrarily large collection of persistent objects. Built-in buffer
management frees the application from mundane details, while enabling
full program control over memory utilization. The stream framework
provides the structure for specifying object selection criteria and
object order, plus navigational interfaces for traversing collections.
 
The unit-of-work framework groups related objects for a given task,
which can then be managed together as a unit. This eases the
programmer's implementation of updates and memory management. Groups of
objects can be created, materialized, updated, and committed (or rolled
back to a previous level) to a database. This maintains the integrity of
the information in the database, and is independent of any transaction
managers such as CICS and IMS. The application determines which work
activities are related and need to be kept together in the same unit of
work. The application also controls the creating and discarding of the
unit of work that contains the objects needed to perform related
activities. This application control eliminates problems usually
associated with other object-oriented systems that leave it to the
programmer to ensure that all objects are properly discarded and that
memory is returned to the system memory resource pool.
 
In addition to the classes described above, there are other classes you
can use. Development-related classes help facilitate the development of
applications, and other classes can be used in applications to
facilitate problem diagnosis.
 
SOMobjects service classes run in the same environments, and support the
same languages that SOMobjects for MVS supports.
 
Education Support
-----------------
 
In order to take full advantage of the benefits of object-oriented
technology, programmers need the appropriate skills and training. This
includes familiarization with OO concepts, the ability to design
feasible OO class structures for the business problem being solved, and
the ability to program, develop, and test in the object paradigm.
Programmers who have worked with the technology on workstation platforms
will find much of their skills directly transferable to the MVS
environment.
 
IBM Education and Training currently offers courses on OO technology and
analysis, design, and development methodologies.
 
Descriptions of all classroom and self-study courses are contained in
IBM education catalogs. Call IBM Education and Training at
800-IBM-TEACh (1-800-426-8322) for education catalogs, schedules, and
enrollments.
 
In addition, Semaphore offers education on SOMobjects for MVS. For more
information, contact:
  Steve Mosca
  Semaphore
  800 Turnpike Street
  North Andover MA 01845
  Telephone: 1-508-794-3366
  Internet:  74743.16@compuserve.com
 
Hardware Requirements
---------------------
 
There are no special hardware requirements.
 
Software Requirements
---------------------
 
The following programs are required at or above the levels stated:
 
REQUIRED
o  MVS/ESA SP Version 5 Release 2.2 (5655-068 or 5655-069)
o  SMP/E Version 1 Release 8 (5668-949) with PTFs
o  Language Environment for MVS and VM Version 1 Release 4 (5688-198) or
    or MVS C/C++ Language Support Feature on MVS/ESA SP Version 5
    Release 2.2 at Language Environment for MVS/VM Version 1 Release 4
    level
 
OPTIONAL
o  SOMobjects for MVS Version 1 Release 1 (5696-822) Application
   Development Environment for application and class development
o  DB2 Version 3 Release 1 (5685-DB2)
o  Query Management Facility Version 3 Release 1.1 (5706-254) for ad hoc
     queries of DB2 databases
 
Ordering Information
--------------------
 
CURRENT LICENSEES: Installed users of MVS/ESA Version 5 Release 2.2 who
desire the new SOMobjects service classes must place an MES order to add
the appropriate SOMobjects service classes media feature.
 
NEW LICENSEES: Orders for new licenses will be accepted now. Shipment
will begin on the planned availability date. New users of SOMobjects
service classes should specify:
  TYPE   MODEL
  5655    068
  5655    069
 
BASIC LICENSE: Refer to the MVS/ESA SP Version 5 Release 2.2
Software Announcement 295-405, dated 26 September 1995, for complete
ordering information. Review the BASIC MACHINE-READABLE MATERIAL section
for the appropriate SOMobjects service classes media feature.
 
BASIC MACHINE-READABLE MATERIAL: To order, select the feature number
of the desired distribution medium. Users of SOMobjects service classes
must select one of the following features:
 
FEATURE  DISTRIBUTION
NUMBER   MEDIUM
 
5284     9/6250 bpi tape
5285     3480 cartridge
5716     4-mm DAT
 
UNLICENSED DOCUMENTATION: A memo, program directory, and one copy of
each of the following publications are supplied automatically with the
basic machine-readable material for the SOMobjects service classes
feature:
 
                                       ORDER
TITLE                                  NUMBER
 
MVS/ESA SOMobjects Service Classes
 Class Library Reference               GC28-1552
MVS/ESA SOMobjects Services Classes
 Programmer's Guide                    GC28-1542
 
Additional copies of these publications will be available for a fee
immediately after product availability. These copies may be ordered
from your IBM representative, through the System Library Subscription
Service (SLSS), or by direct order.
 
Subsequent updates (maintenance changes in the form of either softcopy
"refreshes" and/or hardcopy revisions) to these publications will be
distributed to the user of record for as long as a license for this
software remains in effect. A separate publication order or
subscription is not needed.
 
Charges
-------
 
SOMobjects service classes are a no-charge feature. There is no
additional information.
 
========================================================================
 
              +--------------------------------------+
              | High-Level Assembler Toolkit Feature |           hlassem
              +--------------------------------------+
 
In Brief ...
------------
 
The High-Level Assembler Toolkit Feature supports productivity
enhancements by providing:
 
o  A powerful and sophisticated symbolic debugger
o  A complete set of macro instructions for structured programming
     constructs
o  A disassembler
 
Overview
--------
 
The High Level Assembler Toolkit Feature is an optional, separately
priced feature that provides a powerful set of tools to improve
application development, debugging, and recovery on MVS and VM systems.
The productivity-enhancing tools include:
 
o  A powerful, sophisticated symbolic debugger that simplifies and
   speeds the development of correct and reliable applications written
   in Assembler and other languages.
 
o  A complete set of macro instructions that implement the most widely
   used structured programming constructs (IF, DO, CASE, SEARCH) to
   simplify coding and eliminate errors in writing branch instructions.
 
o  A flexible disassembler that helps in understanding programs in
   object format, and helps with recovery of lost source code.
 
For more information about IBM High-Level Assembler for MVS, VM, and
VSE, refer to Software Announcement 295-006, dated 26 January 1995.
 
Price: 4,750 USD (one-time charge)
 
Description
-----------
 
The High-Level Assembler Toolkit Feature is an optional, separately
priced feature that contains three items: a debugger, a set of
structured programming macros, and a disassembler.
 
The HIGH-LEVEL ASSEMBLER TOOLKIT INTERACTIVE DEBUG FACILITY (IDF)
supports a rich set of capabilities that speeds error detection and
correction.
 
o  IDF is designed for debugging Assembler Language programs on MVS and
   VM systems, and it can also be used advantageously to debug programs
   written in most high-level languages.
 
o  IDF provides multiple selectable views of a program, including
   separate "windows" for address stops, breakpoints, register displays,
   object code disassembly, storage dumps, language-specific support,
   register histories, non-traced routines, and other information. These
   These views can be used in any order or combination.
 
o  Execution of a program can be controlled by stepping through
   individual instructions or between selected breakpoints or routines.
 
o  When source code is available, IDF can display source statements as
   the program is executed.
 
o  At any breakpoint, control can be passed to exit routines written in
   REXX or compiled languages to determine subsequent actions.
 
o  Instruction executions can be counted, and an instruction "execution
   history" can be maintained.
 
o  Storage areas and register contents can be modified dynamically
   during debugging by simply typing new values on the displays.
 
o  A powerful interface to the REXX language allows user-written
   functions to capture, analyze, and respond dynamically to program
   conditions.
 
o  IDF supports a special class of conditional breakpoints called
   "watchpoints", which will be triggered only when a specified
   condition has occurred.
 
o  A command-level record and playback facility allows a debugging
   session to be re-executed automatically.
 
o  Extensive tailoring capabilities allow the end user to establish a
   familiar debugging environment. Most debugging actions can be easily
   controlled by PF key settings.
 
The HIGH-LEVEL ASSEMBLER TOOLKIT STRUCTURED PROGRAMMING MACROS simplify
the coding and understanding of complex control flows, and help to
minimize the likelihood of coding errors in managing branch
instructions. These macros support the most widely used programming
control structures without having to code explicit branches.
 
o  Execution of one of two blocks of code, depending on a true-false
   condition (IF-THEN-ELSE macros).
 
o  Executing a block of code repeatedly until a limit is reached, or a
   condition is satisfied (DO, DO-WHILE, DO-UNTIL macros).
 
o  Executing one or more blocks of code selected from a set of such
   blocks, based on a computed numeric value (CASE macros).
 
The HIGH-LEVEL ASSEMBLER TOOLKIT DISASSEMBLER selects control sections
(CSECTs) from object or executable modules, and converts them to
Assembler Language statements that can be assembled to generate the same
object code.
 
o  A rich variety of control statements can be supplied in the primary
   input stream to the disassembler, or can be saved in a library and
   invoked by a COPY statement.
 
o  Control statements can specify that certain areas of the module are
   known to contain data only, instructions only, or are uninitialized.
 
o  Other control statements can define data structures (DSECTs) and
   assign user-specified labels to designated positions in the program.
 
o  Symbolic resolutions of halfword base-displacement storage
   addresses can be requested by supplying control statements giving
   base addresses and registers to be used for addressing.
 
o  Registers are given symbolic names, branch instructions use
   extended mnemonics where possible, and supervisor call (SVC)
   instructions are identified when known.
 
o  The disassembler listing provides a full summary of the inputs and
   outputs of the disassembly.
 
When the disassembler-generated statements are assembled by High-Level
Assembler using the ADATA option, the resulting SYSADATA file can be
used as input by program analysis and understanding tools.
 
Together, these tools provide the programmer with a powerful set of
capabilities to speed application development, diagnosis, and recovery.
 
Hardware Requirements
---------------------
 
The High Level Assembler Toolkit Feature requires the same hardware
environments as IBM High Level Assembler for MVS, VM, and VSE Version 1
Release 2. Requirements for 24-bit Virtual Storage are:
 
o  IDF: 600K bytes
o  Disassembler: 100K bytes
o  Plus working storage (depending on the application)
 
Software Requirements
---------------------
 
The High-Level Assembler Toolkit Feature operates in all MVS and VM
environments where IBM High Level Assembler for MVS and VM and VS
Version 1 Release 2 (MVS and VM Edition) operates. The High-Level
Assembler Toolkit Feature does not operate in VSE environments. (The
structured programming macros may be usable under VSE/ESA, but they have
not been tested and are not supported in VSE/ESA environments.)
 
Ordering Information
--------------------
 
To order or to request more information, you can contact IBM Direct, our
national direct marketing organization, can also arrange to put your
name on the mailing list for catalogs of IBM products.
 
  Phone:     1-800-IBM-CALL (1-800-426-2266)
  Fax:       1-800-IBM-4FAX (1-800-426-4329)
  Internet:  ibm_direct@vnet.ibm.com
  Mail:      IBM Direct
             Dept. LE001
             PO Box 16848
             Atlanta GA 30321-0848
  Reference: LE001
 
To identify your local IBM Authorized Business Partner or IBM
representative, call 1-800-IBM-4YOU (1-800-426-4968).
 
CURRENT LICENSEES: This feature can be ordered as an MES for installed
users of the MVS and VM Edition of IBM High Level Assembler for MVS, VM,
and VSE. The charge type selected must be the same as the base program
(one-time charge or monthly license charge).
 
NEW LICENSEES: For ordering information on the base program, IBM
High-Level Assembler for MVS and VM and VSE, refer to Software
Announcement 295-006 dated 26 January 1995.
 
New users of IBM High Level Assembler for MVS, VM, and VSE should
specify:
 
  TYPE  MODEL
  5696  234
 
BASIC LICENSE: To order this feature for the basic license, specify the
program number and feature number 9001 for asset registration. Specify
feature number 0170 for a monthly license charge or feature number 0171
for a one-time charge. Specify the feature number of the desired
distribution medium shown below.
 
ENTRY SUPPORT LICENSE (ESL): To order this feature for an ESL license,
specify the program number, feature number 9001 for asset registration,
and the applicable ESL one-time charge feature number. Also specify the
feature number of the desired distribution medium.
 
                                            ESL
PROGRAM                               ONE-TIME CHARGE
NUMBER     DESCRIPTION                 FEATURE NUMBER
 
5696-234   High Level Assembler for
           MVS, VM, and VSE                 0172
 
Note: ESL machines can be determined by referring to the IBM Entry
End User/390 Attachment (Z125-4379).
 
BASIC MACHINE-READABLE MATERIAL:  To order, select the feature number
of the desired distribution medium:
 
              FEATURE
ENVIRONMENT   NUMBER    DISTRIBUTION MEDIUM
 
  MVS         5820      9/1600 Tape
  MVS         5821      9/6250 Tape
  MVS         5822      3480 Tape
  MVS         6100      4-mm DAT
 
              FEATURE
ENVIRONMENT   NUMBER    DISTRIBUTION MEDIUM
 
  VM          5830      9/1600 Tape
  VM          5831      9/6250 Tape
  VM          5832      3480 Tape
  VM          5834       1/4-inch QIC 120
  VM          6101      4-mm DAT
 
CUSTOMIZATION OPTIONS: Select the appropriate feature number(s) to
customize your order to specify the delivery options desired. These
features can be specified on the initial or MES orders.
 
EXAMPLE: If publications are not desired for the initial order, and for
future updates, specify feature numbers 3470 to ship media only, and
3480 to ship media updates only. In the future, if publication updates
are required, order an MES to remove feature number 3480, and the
publications will ship with the next release for the program.
 
                                          FEATURE
DESCRIPTION                               NUMBER
Initial Shipments
Serial Number Only (suppresses shipment
  of media and documentation)             3444
Ship Media Only (suppresses initial
  shipment of documentation)              3470
Ship Documentation Only (suppresses
  initial shipment of media)              3471
Update Shipments
Ship Media Updates Only (suppresses
  update shipment of documentation)       3480
Ship Documentation Only (suppresses
  update shipment of media)               3481
Suppress Updates (suppresses update
  shipment of media and documentation)    3482
Expedite Shipments
Local IBM Office Expedite
  (for IBM use only)                      3445
Customer Expedite Process Charge
  ($30 charge for each product)           3446
 
Expedite shipments will be processed to receive 72-hour delivery from
the time IBM Software Manufacturing Solutions (SMS) receives the order.
SMS will then ship the order via overnight air transportation.
 
DSLO LICENSE: To order this feature for a DSLO license, specify the
program number and feature number 9524 for a monthly license charge, or
feature number 9525 for a one-time charge.
 
Ordering a DSLO feature will result in IBM maintaining a record of this
customer location as a DSLO user only. All material for the DSLO license
must be ordered by the basic licensee. If a user selects DSLO, no other
feature numbers are valid for this order, and no program materials or
updates will be shipped.
 
UNLICENSED DOCUMENTATION: A memo and one copy of the following
publications are supplied automatically with the basic machine-readable
material:
 
                                                    ORDER
TITLE                                               NUMBER
 
High-Level Assembler for MVS, VM, and VSE Toolkit
  Interactive Debug Facility User's Guide           GC26-8709
High-Level Assembler for MVS, VM, and VSE Toolkit
  User's Guide                                      GC26-8710
High-Level Assembler for MVS, VM, and VSE Toolkit
  Toolkit Installation and Customization Guide      GC26-8711
High-Level Assembler for MVS, VM, and VSE Toolkit
  Interactive Debug Facility Reference Summary      GC26-8712
High Level Assembler for MVS, VM, and VSE Toolkit
  Licensed Program Specifications                   GC26-4944
 
Additional copies of unlicensed publications will be available for a fee
immediately after product availability. These copies may be ordered from
your IBM representative, through the System Library Subscription Service
(SLSS,) or by direct order.
 
DISPLAYABLE SOFTCOPY PUBLICATIONS: High-Level Assembler Toolkit Feature
manuals are offered in displayable softcopy form. All unlicensed manuals
are included. The displayable manuals are part of the basic
machine-readable material. The files are shipped on the same media type
as the basic machine-readable material.
 
These displayable manuals can be used with the BookManager READ licensed
programs in any of the supported environments.
 
Subsequent updates (technical newsletters or revisions between releases)
to the publications shipped with the product will be distributed to the
user of record for as long as a license for this software remains in
effect. A separate publication order or subscription is not needed.
 
Charges
-------
 
                         Basic       DSLO
Basic       DSLO         Monthly     Monthly
One-Time    One-Time     License     License
Charge      Charge       Charge      Charge
 
4,750 USD   3,565 USD    99 USD      74 USD
 
 
                                          One-Time Charge
 
Entry End User/390 Entry Support License      727 USD
 
========================================================================
 
               +----------------------------------------+
               | IBM COBOL Family Questions and Answers |        cobqnas
               +----------------------------------------+
 
This is a working document with frequent updates. If you have comments
or questions, please submit them to USIB2HC6 at IBMMAIL or
acrema@vnet.ibm.com.
 
OS/2 COBOL
----------
 
Q 1: What comes with the IBM VisualAge for COBOL for OS/2 product?
 
A 1: IBM VisualAge for COBOL for OS/2 comes with compiler, visual
builder, debug tool, LPEX editor, performance analyzer, GUI code
assistant, data assistant, and transaction assistant.
 
Q 2: Which products will work with the new IBM COBOL workstation
products?
 
A 2: The new IBM COBOL workstation products are 32-bit compilers.
Therefore, products that support 32-bit will work.
 
Q 3: Can I use the IBM COBOL workstation utilities (debug tool, editor,
execution analyzer, etc.) to develop applications using COBOL and C++?
 
A 3: Yes, these are common components and hence support both COBOL and
C++.
 
Q 4: Can I use the IBM VisualAge for COBOL for OS/2 product to develop
Presentation Manager applications?
 
A 4: IBM VisualAge for COBOL for OS/2 includes a visual builder to
enable the user to write COBOL applications that support PM. However, it
does not provide direct support of the PM API.
 
Q 5: Does the IBM VisualAge for COBOL for OS/2 debug tool look like the
CODE/370 workstation feature or Micro Focus Animator?
 
A 5: The IBM VisualAge for COBOL for OS/2 debug tool looks closer to the
CODE/370 workstation feature. It does not closely resemble Micro Focus
Animator.
 
Q 6: Can you edit directly from the IBM VisualAge for COBOL for OS/2
Debug Tool?
 
A 6: You can invoke the editor directly from the debug tool listing
window by selecting Edit from the Project pulldown, but you cannot
edit the debug tool listing window itself. Note that the debug tool must
have been invoked in a WorkFrame environment in order for this feature
to be available.
 
Q 7: Is there a LAN version of the IBM COBOL workstation products? What
considerations should I be aware of in a LAN development environment?
 
A 7: The IBM COBOL workstation products CD cannot be installed on a LAN.
However, the IBM COBOL CD images can be placed on a LAN with the
appropriate license agreement.
 
Q 8: Can the IBM COBOL workstation products be used to integrate mixed
languages within an application, similar to the Language Environment
capability on the MVS mainframe?
 
A 8: Yes. However, the Language Environment callable services are not
available on the workstation. Any applications which use the Language
Environment callable services (e.g., condition-management functions)
have to be modified.
 
Q 9: Are the Language Environment callable service routines available in
the IBM COBOL workstation products?
 
A 9: The Language Environment callable services are not available on the
workstation. It is our intent to provide the Language Environment
callable services in future releases.
 
Q10: Is remote edit and compile available with the IBM COBOL workstation
products?
 
A10: Remote edit and compile beta is available with IBM VisualAge for
COBOL for OS/2.
 
Q11: Will IBM VisualAge for COBOL for OS/2 run in Windows?
 
A11: We are evaluating plans to support the Windows operating systems.
 
Q12: Are there plans to provide non-IBM database support in the IBM
COBOL workstation products?
 
A12: We are evaluating the plan to provide non-IBM database support in
the IBM COBOL workstation products.
 
Q13: Can AS/400 data be accessed from OS/2 via COBOL?
 
A13: Yes, using remote VSAM.
 
Q14: Using IBM VisualAge for COBOL for OS/2, will every created package
require the runtime, or will you be able to tell the feature that the
runtime was included in a previous package?
 
A14: You can package one or more programs (an application) in a runtime
package, which has a single set of runtime code. We do not look at
previous application packages that were built to determine an
incremental package. You can have multiple applications using the same
runtime routines. If you install the applications in the same
subdirectory, each new package would overlay any pre-existing runtime
routines.
 
Q15: Does a package created by the PACKAGE feature of IBM VisualAge for
COBOL for OS/2 require the runtime, or will the runtime be part of the
package?
 
A15: You can package the runtime that is needed for your application, or
you may package the runtime and your application separately.
 
AIX COBOL
---------
 
Q16: What comes with the IBM COBOL Set for AIX product?
 
A16: IBM COBOL Set for AIX comes with compiler, LPEX editor, program
builder, program debug tool, integrated with the Common Desktop
Environment.
 
Q17: Which products will work with the new IBM COBOL workstation
products?
 
A17: The new IBM COBOL workstation products are 32-bit compilers.
Therefore, products that support 32-bit will work.
 
Q18: Can you edit directly from the debug tool in the IBM COBOL
workstation products?
 
A18: While you cannot edit the debug tool listing window itself, you can
invoke the editor directly from the debug tool listing window by
selecting Edit from the Project pulldown. Note that the debug tool must
have been invoked in a WorkFrame environment in order for this feature
to be available.
 
Q19: Can the IBM COBOL workstation products be used to integrate mixed
languages within an application, similar to the Language Environment
capability on the MVS mainframe?
 
A19: Yes. However, the Language Environment callable services are not
available on the workstation. Any applications that use the Language
Environment callable services (e.g., condition-management functions)
have to be modified.
 
Q20: Are the Language Environment callable service routines available in
the IBM COBOL workstation products?
 
A20: The Language Environment callable services are not available on the
workstation. It is our intent to provide the Language Environment
callable services in future releases.
 
Q21: Are there plans to provide non-IBM database support in the IBM
COBOL workstation products?
 
A21: We are evaluating the plan to provide non-IBM database support in
the IBM COBOL workstation products.
 
Q22: Can AS/400 data be accessed from AIX via COBOL?
 
A22: Yes, using remote VSAM.
 
Q23: How do you debug a packaged application running on a target
execution environment (e.g., create on OS/2 and execute on AIX)?
 
A23: The first release of the IBM COBOL workstation products do not
provide this support.
 
Host COBOL
----------
 
Q24: Does VS COBOL II source run on the workstation?
 
A24: VS COBOL II source at ANSI 85 level (compiled with NOCMPR2) will
compile with the IBM COBOL workstation products.
 
Q25: Can mainframe VS COBOL II programs using VSAM execute in an IBM
COBOL workstation environment? Are there any limitations?
 
A25: VS COBOL II programs at ANSI 85 level (compiled with NOCMPR2) using
VSAM will compile and execute in an IBM COBOL workstation environment.
There are no utilities to bring down VSAM data.
 
Client/Server COBOL
-------------------
 
Q26: What does IBM VisualAge for COBOL for OS/2 offer for client/server?
 
A26: Client/server applications are supported by IBM VisualAge COBOL for
OS/2 through CICS, DB2, remote file access (via SMARTdata Utilities
(SdU)), MQSeries, IMS CS/2, and DCE. This enables, for example, the
application to access remote data and business logic on the host from
the workstation.
 
Q27: What are the emulation plans with IBM VisualAge for COBOL for OS/2?
 
A27: The IBM approach is to enable access to the host data (e.g.,
VSAM/SAM, PDS, DB2) from the workstation rather than emulating them.
This eliminates, for example, the need to replicate host data on the
workstation and keep the data in sync with changes to the host data.
 
Q28: Do IBM COBOL client/server applications mix with C?
 
A28: Yes. Since InterLanguage Communication (ILC) between C and COBOL is
enabled, client/server applications, such as those exploiting CICS, DB2,
MQSeries, distributed file support and/or DCE, can consist of both COBOL
and C components.
 
Q29: Do IBM COBOL client/server applications mix with PL/I for OS/2?
 
A29: Yes. Since InterLanguage Communication (ILC) between PL/I and COBOL
is enabled, client/server applications, such as those exploiting CICS,
DB2, MQSeries, and/or distributed file support, can consist of both
COBOL and PL/I components.
 
Q30: Does IBM VisualAge for COBOL for OS/2 support IMS?
 
A30: No, but we are working to enable remote DL/I data access from OS/2
COBOL programs with DL/I call statements in a future release.
 
Object-Oriented COBOL
---------------------
 
Q31: Which IBM COBOL products support object-oriented extensions?
 
A31: Object-oriented extensions are supported in the IBM COBOL for MVS
and VM Release 2 (MVS only), IBM VisualAge for COBOL for OS/2, and IBM
COBOL Set for AIX.
 
Q32: What are the object-oriented extensions based on?
 
A32: The object-oriented extensions are based on the System Object Model
(SOM), which defines an architecture for defining and managing binary
object class libraries. SOM conforms with the Object Management Group's
(OMG) Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA).
 
Q33: Will other platform environments, besides MVS, OS/2, and AIX,
support IBM COBOL object-oriented extensions?
 
A33: The IBM object-oriented extensions are based on the System Object
Model (SOM) technology. At this time, MVS, OS/2, and AIX support SOM.
We are currently evaluating this support for other platforms.
 
Q34: What objects or class libraries are provided with the IBM COBOL
workstation products to assist in object-oriented programming
development?
 
A34: With IBM COBOL, you can access the class libraries provided with
the SOM developers toolkit. Other class libraries will become available
over time.
 
Q35: Is a "class browser" provided within the IBM COBOL workstation
products to view class libraries available to use? Is this the same
class browser used in VisualAge for C++? Can this "browser" allow me to
look at other class libraries created by third-party vendors or created
by C++?
 
A35: A class browser is not available in the first release.
 
Q36: I understand that SOM-enabled objects can be invoked by IBM COBOL
object-oriented applications. If the SOM-enabled object is created
outside of IBM COBOL, is SOM compliance enough to ensure usability?
 
A36: Usually, but not always. Work to define guidelines for
mixed-language SOM applications is under way.
 
Q37: Are there plans to support OpenDoc or Taligent's CommonPoint
product initiatives within the IBM COBOL object-oriented extensions?
 
A37: This support is under evaluation.
 
Q38: Are there any plans to support OLE with a Windows version of COBOL?
Any plans to support OLE with any version of workstation COBOL?
 
A38: Support for OLE is under evaluation.
 
SOM
---
 
Q39: What is the direction of SOM as it relates to Language Environment?
 
A39: SOM and DSOM now use, and will continue to use, Language
Environment Services.
 
Q40: Will there be a SOM browser to search for objects?
 
A40: A SOM browser is needed, but is undefined at this time.
 
Host Offload
------------
 
Q41: What is available for host offload?
 
A41: For host offload, CICS, DB2, and remote VSAM are available.
 
Q42: What is IBM's position using IBM COBOL workstation products for
"host offload"?
 
A42: This is one of the objectives of the IBM COBOL workstation
products, as well as the support of workstation production and
client/server applications. We intend to make enhancements to the
products with additional host offload features, based on customer
feedback for specific situations.
 
Q43: What VSAM and IMS access facilities are provided in the IBM COBOL
workstation products?
 
A43: MVS file (VSAM/SAM, PDS) access is supported from the workstation,
based on SMARTdata Utilities (SdU) features including the optional data
conversion. We are working to enable remote DL/I data access from OS/2
COBOL programs with DL/I call statements in a future release.
 
Q44: What are some of the considerations I have to be aware of to get
mainframe COBOL applications to execute on the workstation?
 
A44: The applications must be compiled with the IBM COBOL product for
the target workstation platform. Other key considerations include: the
location of the data accessed from the application, whether the
application is a transaction (e.g., CICS) or batch, and if the
application has specific dependencies on the mainframe unique hardware
or software characteristics (e.g., printer control characters).
 
Q45: What considerations do I need to know in developing COBOL
applications on the workstation and executing them on the host?
 
A45: The key considerations include:
 
o  Workstation COBOL language extensions not supported by IBM COBOL for
   the mainframe:
 
   -  USAGE COMP-5
   -  ORGANIZATION LINE SEQUENTIAL
   -  LOCK MODE IS AUTOMATIC
   -  ASSIGN USING data-name
   -  READ ... PREVIOUS, START ... <, <=
   -  SET statement extension
 
o  Any applications dependent on the internal representations
   workstation's native data:
 
   -  ASCII
   -  ASCII based Zone Decimal
   -  Little endian (or byte reversed) binary
   -  IEEE floating point
   -  DBCS
 
   Note: For many COBOL applications the internal data representations
   are transparent to the application behavior.
 
o  System resource naming conventions
 
   e.g.: Avoid using special characters in the system file name even if
         they are supported on the workstation.
 
Qxx: Can mainframe VS COBOL II programs using VSAM execute in an IBM
COBOL workstation environment? Are there any limitations?
 
Axx: VS COBOL II programs at ANSI 85 level (compiled with NOCMPR2) using
VSAM will compile and execute in an IBM COBOL workstation environment.
There are no utilities to bring down VSAM data.
 
CICS
----
 
Q46: What release of CICS for OS/2 is required?
 
A46: IBM VisualAge for COBOL for OS/2 runs with CICS for OS/2 Version 3.
This product will be generally available in early 1996. CICS for OS/2
Version 3 is shipped as beta code on the IBM COBOL CD. Recommendation is
not to run CICS applications in production until after the general
availability of CICS for OS/2 Version 3. CICS for OS/2 Version 3 normal
beta support of one-week turnaround will be available until general
availability in early 1996.
 
Q47: If I have CICS for OS/2 Version 3 beta code on my IBM COBOL CD, how
do I get the generally available (GA) version of the product? Is there a
charge with the purchase of the GA version?
 
A47: The CICS for OS/2 Version 3 GA version will not be available until
early 1996. Yes, there will be a charge with the purchase of the GA
version.
 
Q48: Can IBM VisualAge for COBOL for OS/2 applications run with CICS for
OS/2 Version 2?
 
A48: IBM VisualAge for COBOL for OS/2 applications run in CICS for OS/2
Version 3 but for client, CICS for OS/2 Version 2 is required. The CICS
for OS/2 Version 2 client code is not on the IBM COBOL CD, and would
need to be purchased separately. IBM VisualAge for COBOL for OS/2 will
not run with CICS for OS/2 Version 2, because CICS for OS/2 Version 2
does not have the required preprocessor and runtime changes needed by
IBM VisualAge for COBOL for OS/2.
 
Q49: How are CICS calls made in IBM VisualAge for COBOL for OS/2?
 
A49: CICS calls are made via external calls, direct to CICS, or client
calls.
 
Q50: Is there any assistance with generating CICS code?
 
A50: The IBM VisualAge for COBOL for OS/2 Transaction Assistant
generates External Call Interface (ECI) calls that will invoke CICS
applications. However, the Transaction Assistant does not generate or
imbed any CICS code in the OS/2 COBOL product.
 
Q51: Can a programmer use the IBM COBOL workstation products to build
CICS applications, other than invoke a CICS application using the CICS
ECI?
 
A51: Yes, command-level CICS can be used with IBM COBOL workstation
products.
 
Q52: What do I need to know in developing COBOL applications that are
portable between OS/2 and AIX?
 
A52: IBM COBOL applications are portable between these platforms, with
very few exceptions. The primary consideration is if the program is
sensitive to different binary data representations and character code
pages. In general, these differences should be transparent to the COBOL
applications, unless they are written in such a way to depend on the
internal data representations. OS/2 GUI applications are not portable.
 
Prerequisites
-------------
 
Q53: What is the MVS requirement for IBM COBOL/370, and IBM COBOL for
MVS and VM?
 
A53: IBM COBOL/370 Release 1 and IBM COBOL for MVS and VM Release 2
(with no OO support) require MVS/ESA Version 3.1.3. IBM COBOL for MVS
and VM Release 2 (with OO support) requires SOMobjects (5696-822), which
requires either MVS/ESA Version 4 or Version 5.
 
Q54: What is the prerequisite environment, and what products are
required, to run the IBM VisualAge for COBOL for OS/2 product?
 
A54: When using the compiler option only, the minimum memory requirement
is 16 MB of RAM. When using the GUI developer along with the compiler, a
minimum of 24 MB of RAM is recommended. Performance would be optimized
with additional RAM. For space requirements, the compiler requires 15 MB
of storage. The default installation of the full product, which includes
all tools and utilities is 115 MB.
 
If you are planning to use DB2 on the workstation, Version 2.1 is
required. If you are planning to use CICS on OS/2, then CICS for OS/2
Version 3.0 is required. Use of the SMARTdata Utilities connecting to an
MVS platform requires DFSMS Version 1.2 on your MVS platform. All host
connectivity can be provided by Communications Manager/2 Version 1.1.
 
Q55: What is the prerequisite environment, and what products are
required, to run the IBM COBOL Set for AIX product?
 
A55: The IBM COBOL Set for AIX operates in the AIX 4.1.3 environment. If
you are planning to use DB2, DB2/6000 Version 2.1 is required. If you
are planning to use CICS, CICS/6000 Version 2.1 is required. Use of the
SMARTdata Utilities connecting to an MVS platform requires DFSMS Version
1.2 on your MVS platform. All host connectivity can be provided by AIX
SNA Server/6000 Version 2.2.
 
Miscellaneous
-------------
 
Q56: Is there any IBM COBOL information available on the internet?
 
A56: You can find the IBM COBOL Family on the World Wide Web. Start at
the IBM Software Home Page (http://www.software.ibm.com), and search on
the keyword GoCOBOL.
 
Q57: What is the source-level compatibility between the IBM COBOL Family
products?
 
A57: There are different flavors of source levels. Table 1 describes the
differences between the IBM COBOL products.
 
              Table 1. IBM COBOL Source Level Comparison
 
COBOL Source Levels                   MVS1 MVS2  VM  VSE  400  OS/2 AIX
 
ANSI 85                                x    x    x    x    x    x    x
 
ANSI 85 + LE-Callable Services         x    x    x    x    x
 
ANSI 85 + OO                                x                   x    x
 
ANSI 85 + LE-Callable Services + OO         x
 
ANSI 85 + Addendums                    x    x    x    x    x    x    x
 
ANSI 85 + Addendums +
  LE-Callable Services                 x    x    x    x    x
 
ANSI 85 + Addendums + OO                    x                   x    x
 
ANSI 85 + Addendums +
  LE-Callable Services + OO                 x
 
Legend:
 
MVS1 = IBM COBOL/370 Release 1
MVS2 = IBM COBOL for MVS and VM Release 2
  VM = IBM COBOL/370 Release 1 and IBM COBOL for MVS and VM Release 2
 VSE = IBM COBOL for VSE
 400 = IBM ILE COBOL/400
OS/2 = IBM VisualAge for COBOL for OS/2
 AIX = IBM COBOL Set for AIX
 
Q58: How can the new IBM COBOL workstation products be utilized in the
migration from OS/VS COBOL to newer levels of IBM COBOL?
 
A58: IBM COBOL workstation products does not provide migration support
from OS/VS COBOL to newer levels of IBM COBOL. However, you can use CCCA
for source conversion support on the host environment. CCCA converts
ANSI 68 and ANSI 74 source to ANSI 85, which is supported by the newer
IBM COBOL products.
 
Q59: Are there any IBM services supporting the IBM COBOL Family?
 
A59: Yes. To assist you with IBM's expanded COBOL capabilities quickly
and with minimum effort, IBM is providing services, education, and
mentoring programs. From client/server configurations to object-oriented
programming, IBM COBOL Services can extend your ability to use the IBM
COBOL family products effectively in every part of your enterprise.
 
With experience in handling COBOL challenges in many different
situations, the consultants who perform IBM services bring a level of
expertise to your organization that is difficult to match with in-house
staff. This bolsters the skills of in-house resources, and allows you to
move forward with confidence.
 
To discuss your specific COBOL service requirements, contact your local
IBM representative or call 1-800-IBM-4YOU (1-800-426-4968).
 
Q60: What are the considerations to migrate existing Micro Focus COBOL
applications to the IBM COBOL workstation environment?
 
A60: Applications conforming to ANSI 85 COBOL are, in general, portable
between Micro Focus COBOL and IBM COBOL. Additionally, language
extensions defined by the host IBM COBOL products (MVS, VM, VSE) are
generally supported compatibly between Micro Focus COBOL and IBM COBOL
for the workstation. Most of the Micro Focus extensions are not
supported. You can use the Micro Focus COBOL options to identify Micro
Focus COBOL unique extensions to see if specific applications can be
easily migrated to IBM COBOL.
 
Q61: Is there support for Assembler on the workstation?
 
A61: There is no workstation Assembler product. If there is Assembler
code in COBOL applications used as a callable service, IBM would like to
hear about as a requirement for a COBOL callable service.
 
Q62: Will there be support between IBM COBOL and Smalltalk?
 
A62: We are evaluating plans for IBM COBOL interoperability with IBM
VisualAge for Smalltalk.
 
Q63: What communication protocols does SMARTdata Utilities (SdU) use in
its remote file access?
 
A63: SdU uses the SNA LU 6.2 protocol.
 
Q64: Will the SMARTdata Utilities (SdU) support PS and PDS datasets?
 
A64: Yes, SdU does.
 
Q65: What are the plans to introduce the maintenance workbench and the
test workbench for the IBM COBOL workstation products?
 
A65: It is IBM's intent to provide the maintenance workbench in the near
future, with the highest priority for COBOL. Other languages will be
determined by market needs and customer requirements.
 
Q66: Will the maintenance and test workbenches support multiple language
maintenance/development (e.g., PL/I and COBOL, or COBOL and C++)?
 
A66: It is IBM's intent to have the maintenance and test workbenches
support multiple languages, with highest priority for COBOL. Other
languages will be determined by market needs and customer requirements.
 
Q67: Is there a plan to support ODBC for non-IBM database access in the
IBM COBOL workstation products?
 
A67: We are evaluating the plans to support ODBC for non-IBM database
access in the IBM COBOL workstation products.
 
========================================================================
 
         +-------------------------------------------------+
         | DB2 Professional Certification Program from IBM |     db2cert
         +-------------------------------------------------+
 
In Brief ...
------------
 
The DB2 Professional Certification Program from IBM will help achieve:
o  Worldwide industry recognition for DB2 professionals
o  Competitive advantages
o  Enhanced potential for individual career growth and recognition
 
Overview
--------
 
In today's highly competitive environment, companies are becoming
increasingly focused on finding an objective, standard way to measure
the skill levels of their employees, their customers, and the technical
consultants they hire. The DB2 Professional Certification Program from
IBM provides a consistent framework to measure skills on the DB2 Version
2 Common Server products, and to aid in achieving industry recognition
for their proficiency.
 
The Professional Certification Program from IBM is a comprehensive
certification program providing international industry recognition to
technical professionals who demonstrate proficiency in support of IBM
solutions. To certify, individuals must pass a series of tests
designated by IBM to establish knowledge of critical skills to service
and support selected IBM products.
 
Technical database professionals can now become certified by IBM on the
DB2 family of Version 2 common server products. DB2 Database
Administration and DB2 Application Development roles are being offered
through the DB2 Professional Certification Program from IBM. This
program is an extension to the Professional Certification Program from
IBM.
 
The announced certification programs support the DB2 Version 2 common
server products now available on OS/2, AIX, and Windows NT. Beta
programs for DB2 Version 2 on HP-UX, Sinix, and the Solaris Operating
Environment are currently under way, and the certification programs in
this announcement will also support these platforms.
 
The following benefits may be realized by obtaining a certification
level:
 
o  Corporations
   -  Increased employee productivity
   -  Competitive advantage
   -  Cost reductions
 
o  Computer Professionals
   -  Advancement in current job/profession
   -  Competitive advantage -- differentiate yourself from other
        candidates
   -  Technical recognition
 
o  Consultants/Business Partners
   -  Third-party validation of skills
   -  Competitive advantage -- over uncertified competitors
   -  Optimizes revenue opportunities
 
Description
-----------
 
The DB2 Professional Certification Program from IBM is a formal program
that provides a method for individuals to demonstrate their knowledge
and proficiency in the areas of Database Administration and Application
Development for the DB2 family of Version 2 common server products.
This program is an extension to the Professional Certification Program
from IBM, which is a comprehensive program providing international
industry recognition to technical professionals who demonstrate
proficiency in support of IBM solutions.
 
This new program offers candidates the opportunity to validate their
skills on the DB2 Version 2 Common Server products in the areas of DB2
Database Administration and DB2 Database Application Development.
 
If you support day-to-day database administration and installation, you
can benefit from this certification program. As a Certified DB2 Database
Administrator, you can validate your skills and expertise required to
install and configure database servers/clients, implement database
structures, and perform basic recovery and performance-tuning
procedures.
 
If you are responsible for the design and development of DB2
applications, you can also benefit from this certification program. As a
Certified DB2 Application Developer, you can validate your skills and
expertise required to implement database structures, write DB2 programs
using various application interfaces, and perform basic application
performance-tuning procedures.
 
If you are an individual working with DB2 Version 2, these professional
certification programs can help identify areas where you can improve
your skills, or validate that you have acquired key skills in the DB2
Version 2 products. Certification will demonstrate your technical
achievement which may lead to improved job opportunities, competitive
advantages, and rewards.
 
If you are a customer who has implemented DB2 in your company, the
professional certification program can assist in determining whether
your staff have the right skill levels to perform their jobs, identify
skill gaps, and lead to improvements in the operation of your business.
 
Benefits
--------
 
Upon successful completion of the certification tests, you will
receive a number of benefits, including:
 
o  Certificate of achievement
o  DB2 gift (first 250 certified individuals world-wide will receive a
     DB2 watch)
o  Permission to use IBM certification logo
o  Listing in the Professional Certification Program Directory
o  50 percent discount on per-incident DB2 service calls through the
     Support Line
o  One free copy of the DB2 Client/Server Family CD-ROM
o  Subscription to the DB2 Family Newsletter
 
Testing
-------
 
Two tests are required for the DB2 Database Administration or DB2
Application Development certification roles.
 
To become a Certified DB2 Administrator, you must pass the following
tests:
 
o  DB2 Fundamentals   (test number 500)
o  DB2 Administration (test number 501)
 
To become a Certified DB2 Application Developer, you must pass the
following tests:
 
o  DB2 Fundamentals   (test number 500)
o  DB2 Application Development (test number 502)
 
Drake Prometric's charge for the administration of each test is 100 USD.
 
The certification process is completed after all tests have been passed.
It is not necessary for a certification applicant to attend a course to
pass a test. The test can be completed successfully if the applicant has
product experience equivalent to the information available through DB2
education courses.
 
It is important that certified individuals keep their knowledge and
information current. Recertification may be required from time to time,
such as when a new release of the DB2 product is made available. IBM
will notify the individuals when recertification is required.
 
Education
---------
 
A variety of DB2 Version 2 education courses are available from IBM to
aid in preparation for the certification tests:
 
o  Database Administration Workshop for DB2 for AIX (U4264)
o  Database Administration Workshop for DB2 for OS/2 (U4263)
o  DB2 Programming Fundamentals for UNIX, OS/2, and DOS (U4228)
o  DB2 Intermediate Programming for UNIX, OS/2, and DOS (U4229)
o  DB2 Common Server Overview and Functions (U4250)
o  SQL Workshop (U4045)
 
Publications
------------
 
The following publications provide detailed information about specific
aspects of the Professional Certification Program from IBM. Call
1-800-959-EXAM (1-800-959-3926) to order.
 
o  Professional Certification Program from IBM Catalog: GR28-5110
o  Professional Certification Program from IBM Brochure: GR28-5111
 
Enrollment and More Information
-------------------------------
 
To enroll in the DB2 Professional Certification Program from IBM,
contact Drake Prometric at 1-800-959-EXAM (1-800-959-3926).
 
Drake will send you the Professional Certification Program from IBM
catalog, and help you schedule a convenient time for testing at a local
Drake Authorized Testing Center. You can also obtain certification
roadmaps, test objectives, and sample tests to aid you in preparing for
certification.
 
If training is required, courses (listed above) are available through
IBM Education and Training.
 
For information about courses and course materials, call 1-800-IBM-TEACh
(1-800-426-8322). Program information, test objectives, sample tests,
and course descriptions are also available via a toll-free FAX service,
1-800-IBM-4FAX (1-800-426-4329). This service is available 24 hours a
day, 7 days a week.
 
========================================================================
 
           +-----------------------------------------------+
           | Netcomber Internet Suite (Beta) for OS/2 Warp |     combnet
           +-----------------------------------------------+
 
IBM has introduced a beta version of an elegant new Internet suite
called Netcomber, which includes WWW, Mail, News, FTP, Chat, and Telnet.
The OS/2 Warp version is now available for download and evaluation.
 
For Casual and Novice Users
---------------------------
 
Netcomber complements IBM's Internet Connection family. Developed
expressly for the casual or novice user, Netcomber features a clean,
simple interface and an integrated design that brings productive use of
the Internet to a new audience, without an extended learning curve.
 
Netcomber features a multitasking design that allows the user to send
mail, read newsgroups, and browse the Web from a single application,
quickly and efficiently. Netcomber's bookmarks, nicknames, many
ease-of-use features, and on-line Internet help guide make NetComber
ideal for the less technical user who may have concerns about the
complexity of other Internet tools.
 
How to Obtain
-------------
 
Netcomber recently received a very positive reception at both Internet
World and Comdex. See for yourself why the demonstration caused this
excitement -- visit the Netcomber home page at
http://www.raleigh.ibm.com/ncr and select the "Software Updates and
Technical Information" option to receive and use the latest beta
version.
 
Feedback
--------
 
We welcome your comments and suggestions to help us ensure that pending
production versions of Netcomber deliver the greatest value and
usability. You can reach us at netcombr@watson.ibm.com.
 
========================================================================
 
           +--------------------------------------------+
           | IBM Internet Connection Servers and Client |          5lang
           |  Available in National-Language Versions   |
           +--------------------------------------------+
 
IBM announces that three members of its Internet Connection software
family will be available in five European languages and Chinese.
 
For AIX, OS/2, and Windows
--------------------------
 
The IBM Internet Connection Server for AIX and the IBM Internet
Connection Server for OS/2 will be offered in Chinese, French, German,
Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. The IBM Internet Connection for
Windows will be offered in Chinese, French, Italian, and Spanish.
 
These national-language versions, shipping on 19 December 1995, offer
all features of the previously released English-language versions, but
the user interfaces, documentation, and on-screen messages have been
translated.
 
Other members of the IBM Internet Connection software family will be
offered in national-language versions at a later date.
 
"Regardless of geography, with Internet Connection, software businesses
can be a part of the global marketplace where individuals connect with
others and with the vast information resources on the Net. These are
truly solutions that make the world a smaller planet," said Randy
Mysliviec, brand manager, Internet Connection and TCP/IP products for
IBM's Networking Software Division.
 
Creating a Presence on Internet
-------------------------------
 
The AIX or OS/2 Warp server software enables a business to create a
presence on the Internet. For example, a company could use the software
to offer an illustrated merchandise catalog over the Internet. The
Internet Connection for Windows can be used to "browse" such a catalog
or any of the other information resources on the Net.
 
The IBM Internet Connection Family
----------------------------------
 
In just over a year, the Internet Connection software family has grown
to 12 members. These include three Internet access packages, a security
"firewall", and server software for a wide range of hardware platforms.
Many of the Internet Connection products are available in secure
versions, giving customers and businesses the security to conduct
commerce over the Internet.
 
The first member of the product line was the IBM Internet Connection for
OS/2 Warp, which was included with the 32-bit operating system as a
no-charge component of the Warp BonusPak. The Internet Connection for
OS/2 Warp was the first Internet access package to come as a standard
operating system feature.
 
The Internet family will continue to grow with expected additions that
include access products supporting Windows 95 and server software for
the Windows NT environment, as well as other non-IBM platforms.
 
Network-Centric Computing
-------------------------
 
The Internet Connection products are a component of IBM's strategy to
provide people and organizations with network-centric computing, which
is IBM's plan for enabling people to receive, use, and share
applications and services across worldwide voice and data networks.
 
IBM, the world's largest software provider, creates, develops, and
manufactures the industry's most advanced information technologies,
including networking systems, software, computing systems, storage
devices and microelectronics.
 
More Information
----------------
 
For Internet users, IBM offers complete information about the company,
its products, services and technology on the World Wide Web. The IBM
home page is at http://www.ibm.com. The fastest, easiest way to get
information about IBM software is to go to the IBM Software home page at
http://www.software.ibm.com. For more information about this
announcement, go to the IBM Networking home page at
http://www.raleigh.ibm.com starting on 19 December 1995.
 
========================================================================
 
                 +---------------------------------+
                 | IBM Announces OS/2 Warp Preload |             preleur
                 |  Agreements in Eastern Europe   |
                 +---------------------------------+
 
IBM Central Europe and Russia (CER) announces that four PC manufacturers
in Russia and Poland have signed OS/2 Warp preload contracts. Three of
the top five Russian manufacturers -- R-Style Computers, Stins Coman
Corporation, and Formoza -- as well as Vobis Microcomputer of Poland,
all made preload announcements within the last month.
 
"We are pleased with the overwhelming success of OS/2 Warp in Eastern
Europe," said Dan Lautenbach, IBM vice president, Emerging Markets and
OEM Sales. "These companies account for a significant portion of the
Russian operating system market. In addition, Vobis Microcomputer in
Poland adds to the worldwide momentum of OS/2 Warp."
 
R-Style Computers
-----------------
 
R-Style Computers has committed to make the English-language version of
OS/2 Warp available as a preload on at least 95 percent of the company's
hardware, and will begin using the Russian-language version when it is
available. "We believe that OS/2 Warp is worthy of being introduced to a
greater number of users," said Valery Schukin, R-Style Computers'
commercial director.
 
IBM and R-Style will participate in joint marketing activities, and IBM
will provide R-Style specialists with technical training. The company
shipped 24,000 PCs in 1994, and expects more than 40,000 shipments in
1995. R-Style estimates that the addition of OS/2 Warp will boost 1996
sales figures by 7 to 10 percent.
 
Stins Coman
-----------
 
Stins Coman will begin preloading Russian-language OS/2 Warp on 30
percent of the company's products in December. The demand for OS/2 from
corporate customers and the public sector strongly influenced Stins
Coman's decision to preload OS/2 Warp, said the company's president,
Sergey Anisimov. "This announcement continues to build on the momentum
that OS/2 Warp is gaining in the Russian market," said Peter Perregaard,
IBM software sales director for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa
(EMEA). "IBM and OS/2 Warp have the superior technology and the superior
strategy that is so important to the customer today."
 
Stins Coman is also launching an advertising campaign highlighting the
availability of Stins Coman computers preloaded with OS/2 Warp. The
Stins Coman Corporation anticipates PC sales of 26 million USD in 1995,
and has a target of 45 to 50 million USD in 1996.
 
Formoza
-------
 
Formoza, the second largest Russian OEM, plans to preload 14,400
machines with Russian-language PC DOS in the next 12 months, and 12,000
machines with OS/2 Warp, including 2,400 machines with the OS/2 Warp
Connect English-language version. The company shipped approximately
20,000 PCs in 1994, and expects shipments of 50,000 by the end of this
year.
 
Vobis Microcomputer
-------------------
 
Half of all Vobis 486 and Pentium class computers will be pre-installed
with the Polish version of OS/2 Warp. "Vobis consistently aims to offer
state-of-the-art systems that are tailored to the needs of our
customers," said Danusz Pietraszkiewicz, Vobis Microcomputer country
manager. "Beyond doubt, many of our customers find OS/2 to be their
preferred operating system, so the number of OS/2 users is rapidly
growing."
 
The company shipped 8,000 PCs in 1994, and expects to ship double that
in 1995. Vobis is also the largest computer retailer in Poland, with 18
retail outlets.
 
OS/2 Awards and Statistics
--------------------------
 
OS/2 Warp has earned 23 awards since its release last year, including
InfoWorld Readers' Choice Product of the Year, PC Magazine Number 1 for
User Satisfaction, PC World Product of the Year, Byte Readers' Choice
Software Product of the Year, and the Best Operating System of the Year
at the UK Computing Awards for Excellence. OS/2 has won 70 industry
awards since December 1992.
 
There are more than ten million OS/2 users worldwide. Over four million
copies of OS/2 Warp have been sold since November 1994. In 1995, more
than 125 software developers have announced plans to offer new native
OS/2 applications, adding to the 2,500 OS/2 applications already on the
market.
 
IBM News Releases
-----------------
 
IBM news releases are available on the Internet, via the IBM Home Page
at http://www.ibm.com. The IBM Fax Information Service allows you to
receive facsimiles of prior IBM product press releases. Dial
1-800-IBM-4FAX (1-800-426-4329) and enter 99 at the voice menu.
 
========================================================================
 
              +------------------------------------------+
              | IBM Software Allows Phone Messages to be |       webfone
              |  Retrieved via Internet World Wide Web   |
              +------------------------------------------+
 
Now, it's possible to check phone messages from the Internet's World
Wide Web with new software from IBM. Voicemail users can now listen to,
delete, and save their messages directly from their computers, using web
browsers such as those in the IBM Internet Connection family.
 
DirectTalkMail
--------------
 
With the new IBM DirectTalkMail software, it's possible to check phone
messages from either a computer or phone, providing users with more
choice and flexibility. Here are some likely scenarios:
 
DirectTalkMail, a new voice messaging feature of IBM's DirectTalk/6000
voice response software, is suitable for organizations that require a
few hundred voicemail boxes or a few thousand. It allows users to be
notified of incoming voice messages via electronic mail, phone, or
pager.
 
In addition, users of IBM DirectTalkMail can send messages to users of
another voice messaging system, provided that it supports the Audio
Messaging Interface Standard (AMIS).
 
Scenarios
---------
 
Here are some likely scenarios:
 
-- It's possible to be on a phone call while another call comes in, then
   check to see who has called without interrupting the current call.
 
-- While travelling, business executives can use the one available phone
   line in a hotel room to connect their computers, then check for
   e-mail and phone messages at the same time.
 
-- Those who work at their computers most of the day may find it more
   convenient to check phone messages from the computer screen. Or,
   those who don't want to tie up their phone line for incoming calls
   can check for new messages directly on the computer screen.
 
Try It!
-------
 
Anyone can try the new IBM DirectTalkMail software -- it's easy!
Instructions for the trial can be accessed at the World Wide Web URL
http://www.hursley.ibm.com/dtmail. As part of the trial, you will have
to make a call and leave a message at the IBM laboratory in the U.K.,
where the software was developed. The length of your call depends on
the length of your message. Within minutes, you can retrieve your own
message from the World Wide Web, and hear your own voice without having
to pick up the telephone.
 
Network-Centric Computing
-------------------------
 
This announcement is another example of IBM's network-centric computing
strategy -- IBM's plan to enable people to receive, use, and share
applications and services across worldwide voice and data networks.
 
New Release of DirectTalk
-------------------------
 
The new release of DirectTalk/6000 (Version 1, Release 6) includes the
DirectTalkMail option. The family of DirectTalk voice response software
products enable access to information via the telephone. Manufacturers
can provide order, shipping, and warranty information, and universities
can offer course availability and schedule information.
 
With the new release comes speech-recognition technology, so that users
can access information by simply by saying their name, without having to
enter account numbers on a telephone. The speech recognition also
provides security for calls placed over cellular connections, since the
user's voice and speech are recognized and no account numbers have to be
entered.
 
The new release of DirectTalk will be available on 2 February 1996. The
software runs on the IBM RISC System/6000 using the AIX operating
system.
 
More Information
----------------
 
To learn more about DirectTalk/6000, release 6, as well as about IBM's
other voice/data offerings, contact your IBM representative or
authorized reseller. In the U.S., call 1-800-426-4211, extension 149.
Outside the U.S., call +44-1962-940018.
 
For Internet users, IBM offers complete information about the company,
its products, services, and technology on the World Wide Web. The IBM
home page is at http://www.ibm.com. The fastest, easiest way to get
information about IBM software is to go to the IBM Software home page at
http://www.software.ibm.com. For more information about this
announcement, go to the IBM computer telephony home page at
http://www.raleigh.ibm.com/cti/ctiover.html.
 
IBM news releases are available on the Internet, via the IBM Home Page
at http://www.ibm.com.
 
========================================================================
 
     +-------------------------------------------------------+
     | Lotus Adopts New Pricing Model for Its Notes Business |  modlpric
     +-------------------------------------------------------+
 
Lotus Development Corp. announces a new Notes Mail client and a
significant price reduction for the runtime client version of its Lotus
Notes software. The new mail client and the reduced price are expected
to accelerate sales and deployment of Notes, the world's leading
messaging and groupware software.
 
New Estimated Retail Prices
---------------------------
 
Notes Mail will have an estimated retail price (ERP) of 55 USD per
single-user license, and will ship concurrent with Notes Release 4. The
ERP for a single-user license for Notes Desktop, the runtime version of
Notes, will be reduced by 55 percent to 69 USD from 155 USD, effective
immediately. All Notes Release 4 client software will include InterNotes
Web Navigator, a feature that allows users to access the World Wide Web.
 
Under the new pricing model, Notes server pricing will also change.
Notes server software for single-processor systems will have an ERP of
495 USD, and Notes server software for multiple processor systems will
have an ERP of 2,295 USD. The new server prices will take effect when
Notes Release 4 ships.
 
Notes server software currently has an ERP of 275 USD for all
processors. InterNotes Web Publisher software, which enables
organizations to extend Notes information and applications to the Web,
will be available free via the Web to Notes customers, effective with
shipment of Notes Release 4. Web Publisher Release 2.0 currently has an
ERP of 2,995 USD. The "per user" cost of Notes server software and the
overall cost of ownership are also expected to be lower as a result of
performance enhancements to Notes Release 4 and support for large,
symmetric multiprocessor systems. These enhancements will permit
individual servers to handle more clients.
 
The price of NotesSuite Desktop upgrade, which includes a single-user
license of Notes Desktop, the SmartSuite desktop productivity
applications, and the NotesSuite Application Collection, will also be
reduced by 33 percent to an ERP of 199 USD through available OEM
channels.
 
"The new, more aggressive pricing for Notes will allow our customers to
more quickly deploy Notes throughout their organizations. In particular,
the new mail client and lower pricing will make Notes much more
attractive for users who need electronic mail and Internet access," said
Jeff Papows, Lotus' executive vice president and chief operating
officer. "This new pricing model is one example of the benefit of our
merger with IBM. Lotus can now take a longer-term financial perspective,
and position ourselves as the price and value leader in the messaging
and groupware market."
 
Notes Mail: Advanced Messaging, Web Access, and Groupware
---------------------------------------------------------
 
The new Notes Mail client software includes:
 
o  advanced messaging features
o  InterNotes Web Navigator, which allows access to the Internet
o  the award-winning cc:Mail user interface
o  support for mobile users
o  agents to automate routine tasks
o  discussion databases
o  document libraries
o  workflow applications
 
Notes Desktop client software includes the ability to run all custom
Notes applications, as well as all the features of Notes Mail.
 
Full Notes client software, with an ERP of 275 USD per user license,
includes Notes application development tools, in addition to all the
features of Notes Desktop client software.
 
Notes Clients
-------------
 
                                Notes Mail  Notes Desktop  Full Notes
 
Advanced messaging                   X            X            X
Mobile user support                  X            X            X
Discussion Databases                 X            X            X
Document Libraries                   X            X            X
Run Custom Applications                           X            X
Develop Applications                                           X
 
ERP (*) with Release 4 shipment     55 USD       69 USD      275 USD
Current ERP (*)                     N/A         155 USD      275 USD
 
* estimated retail price for volume purchases
 
Notes Servers
-------------
 
                                      Single
                                     Processor     Multiprocessor
                                      Server           Server
 
Web Publisher (*)                        X               X
Multithreaded Replication                X               X
Field Level Replication                  X               X
Multithreaded Mail Routing               X               X
Improved Administration Tools            X               X
Mid 1996 HTTP Server Combination         X               X
Up to 1000 concurrent users (**)                         X
 
ERP (***) with Release 4 shipment      495 USD       2,295 USD
Current ERP (***) in USD             275 + 2,995    275 + 2,995
 
*   on selected operating systems
**  on selected platforms
*** estimated retail price for volume purchases
 
Major Enhancements in Notes Release 4
-------------------------------------
 
Lotus Notes Release 4 includes enhancements in six key areas:
 
o  Integrated Client/Server Messaging - Notes Release 4 includes
   world-class, robust client/server e-mail and messaging, bringing a
   wide range of new enterprise messaging capabilities to users,
   administrators, and application developers
 
o  Ease of Use - In addition to user interface enhancements, Notes
   Release 4 adds intuitive new tools, such as intelligent agents, to
   make it easier for users to store and navigate information.
 
o  Mobility - Mobile users have always benefitted from Notes' unique
   replication capabilities. Notes Release 4 has additional usability
   enhancements and tools for managing information remotely.
 
o  Internet integration - New features in Notes Release 4 give users
   access to the Internet, and allow them to integrate Internet
   information into their Notes environments.
 
o  Application Development and Programmability - Notes Release 4
   includes LotusScript 3.0, a cross-platform, BASIC-compatible,
   object-oriented programming language, in addition to advanced Notes
   programming tools.
 
o  Enterprise Management - For administrators, Notes Release 4 offers
   enhanced administration and management; increased server performance;
   and greater scalability for more efficient management of
   mission-critical, enterprise-wide Notes applications.
 
========================================================================
 
            +------------------------------------------+
            | Lotus Outlines Plans to Deliver Powerful |        webnotes
            | Integration of Notes and World Wide Web  |
            +------------------------------------------+
 
Lotus Development Corp. has outlined an Internet strategy that
integrates the powerful combination of Lotus Notes messaging and
groupware services and the ubiquity of the World Wide Web (WWW).
 
Native WWW Protocol Support
---------------------------
 
Lotus announces that, in 1996, its Notes Release 4 server will
directly and natively support key WWW protocols, such as HTTP, HTML,
and Java technology, thereby allowing users with either Notes clients
or Web browsers to benefit from the full range of Notes team-oriented
applications.
 
InterNotes Web Publisher to be Available Free
---------------------------------------------
 
Additionally, Lotus announces that its InterNotes Web Publisher,
previously available for an estimated retail price of 2,995 USD, will be
available free via the Web to Notes customers effective with shipments
of Notes Release 4. Lotus also says that it is expanding the
capabilities of the Notes Release 4 client to allow user-directed and
automated access to Web servers.
 
"The Internet is at the epicenter of client/server computing and Note
is the de facto standard in messaging and groupware," said Michael D.
Zisman, Lotus executive vice president and chief executive officer.
"The integration of the two delivers the best environment for
developing, managing, and hosting collaborative business applications
for millions of Web users. By plugging Notes into the Web, we are
expanding the reach of Notes unique class of business applications that
allow organizations to coordinate the communication and collaboration of
workgroups."
 
Highlights
----------
 
Next year -- following Notes Release 4 -- Lotus will:
 
o  Deliver a Notes server that joins HTTP, HTML, and Java technology
   with existing Release 4 Notes server technology, providing a
   best-of-breed Web development and application hosting environment
 
o  Deliver extensible Web-enabled business application frameworks that
   can be customized by Lotus Business Partners and customers
 
o  Extend the power of Notes clients with the InterNotes Web Navigator,
   a Notes Release 4 Web browsing facility that, among other
   capabilities, allows users to automate Web access in Notes
   applications (i.e., Web-enabling Notes applications).
 
Web Development and Application Hosting Environment
---------------------------------------------------
 
The new Notes server will offer a robust application development and
hosting environment for Web applications. Users will benefit from
advanced Notes services, including a document database, database
navigation capabilities via views, an integrated Verity search engine,
rich forms capabilities, and the ability to participate in custom
workflow applications.
 
Customers and Lotus Business Partners will be able to reduce the cost of
developing custom Web applications through the use of existing tools in
the Notes rapid application development environment and newly supported
Java technology. Network administrators can reduce costs by using
existing Notes remote monitoring and management tools. Additionally, the
ability of Notes to maintain replicated databases brings a unique
capability to the Web that further reduces cost of ownership.
 
Extensible Business Applications
--------------------------------
 
Lotus' strategy to embrace the Web includes plans for developing a
series of extensible electronic application frameworks (eApps) that will
allow customers to leverage their existing IT infrastructures.
 
eApps take advantage of the Web's reach to establish a direct
relationship between a company and its employees, customers, prospects,
business partners, and suppliers. Leveraging Notes' existing technology
and capabilities and access to mainframe data, eApps will provide new
and extensible business solutions, including a set of electronic
publishing, commerce, marketing, and service components.
 
The first of these eApps is electronic publishing, as demonstrated by
Lotus Notes:Newsstand, which is currently being used by information
providers to publish material on Notes networks. Newsstand is scheduled
to be available on the Web within the first half of 1996.
 
Direct and Automated Web Access
-------------------------------
 
All Notes Release 4 clients are fully Web-enabled, meaning Web pages can
be accessed anywhere in a Notes application via doc links or LotusScript
commands. Previously, doc links were text links only to documents in
Notes databases. With Notes Release 4, a doc link now can be a Web URL,
which is automatically detected by Notes clients and converted to a hot
spot or doc link. For example, when an e-mail message contains a URL,
the URL is automatically detected and highlighted when the message is
displayed. When a user clicks on the hot spot, the Web page is retrieved
and displayed.
 
Additionally, when Web pages that have been retrieved by Notes clients
are forwarded or stored in a Notes database, the pages are still live.
For example, when users receive forwarded Web pages in e-mail, they can
click on the hyperlinks in the displayed page. These hyperlinks will be
automatically processed by the client.
 
Moreover, the Notes client provides a standard Web browsing facility.
Similar to standard Web browsers, a user can key in a URL, and it will
be processed and displayed. Several facilities in the Notes Release 4
InterNotes Web Navigator support collaborative access to the Web.
 
Availability and Pricing
------------------------
 
Effective with shipments of Notes Release 4, the InterNotes Web
Publisher, which previously had an estimated retail price of 2,995 USD,
will be available free via the Web to all Notes customers.
 
Notes and Internet server integration will be delivered in two phases.
In the first quarter of 1996, Lotus will deliver a bundle (previously
code-named Spike) that includes an HTTP server, the InterNotes Web
Publisher, and a Notes server.
 
Beginning in midyear 1996, Lotus will ship a completely integrated HTTP
Notes server on all standard Notes server platforms. The estimated
retail price will be 495 USD for single processor systems, and 2,295 USD
for symmetrical multiprocessing (SMP) systems.
 
About Lotus and Notes
---------------------
 
Lotus Notes is the leading client-server platform for developing and
deploying strategic groupware applications that help organizations
communicate, collaborate, and coordinate strategic business processes
within and beyond their organizational boundaries to achieve improved
business results. More than 7,000 companies and more than 3.3 million
people use Notes to improve key business processes, such as customer
service, sales and account management, and product development. Lotus
Notes supports all major operating systems: IBM OS/2 Warp, Apple Mac
OS, UNIX platforms including IBM AIX, Sun Solaris, HP-UX, and SCO
OpenServer, and Microsoft Windows and Windows NT. Notes is also
available as a NetWare loadable module for the Novell environment.
 
Lotus Development Corp., a wholly-owned subsidiary of IBM Corp., offers
high quality software products and support services that reflect the
company's unique understanding of the new ways in which individuals and
businesses must work together to achieve success. Lotus' innovative
approach is evident in a new class of applications that allows
information to be accessed and communicated in ways never before
possible, both within and beyond organizational boundaries. The company
also provides numerous support services, both from its consulting
division and its award-winning 24-hour support center.
 
More Information
----------------
 
White papers about Lotus' Internet strategy and Notes, and "Notes Mail
and Notes Message Services", are available from the Lotus Development
Corp. home page on the Internet at http://www.lotus.com, and from the
IBM software home page at http://www.software.ibm.com .
 
For more information about Lotus Notes in North America, contact Lotus
at 1-800-346-1305.
 
A copy of this release and other company information is also available
via fax by dialing 1-800-57-LOTUS (1-800-575-6887) within the U.S. and
Canada, or 1-201-946-2336 outside the U.S. and Canada. Questions
concerning the service should be directed to Lotus' corporate
communications department at 1-617-693-5625.
 
All prices and terms are for the US only. Notes prices are estimated
retail prices for volume purchases through the Lotus Passport Program.
 
========================================================================
 
          +---------------------------------------------+
          | Live from Lotusphere: Lotus Notes Release 4 |        4sphere
          +---------------------------------------------+
 
          22 January 1996             8:30-10:30 a.m. EST
 
Can't make it to Lotusphere '96? Tune in, live via satellite, on 22
January 1996, from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. Eastern time, for the opening
session -- a global industry event featuring addresses by Louis V.
Gerstner, Jr., Chairman and CEO, IBM Corporation, and Mike Zisman, EVP
and CEO, Lotus.
 
Included will be a dramatic demonstration of Lotus Notes Release 4 by
Mike Zisman; Jeff Papows, EVP and COO, Lotus; and Ray Ozzie, President,
Iris Associates. Also planned are video testimonials from technology
leaders, and examples of strategic solutions from Lotus Business
Partners. See why Release 4 once again defines the power of messaging
and groupware, and revolutionizes the way people will work together in
the years ahead.
 
Broadcast Venues
----------------
 
The live broadcast will be available at locations around the world,
including:
 
- Atlanta, The Westin Peachtree Plaza
- Calgary, The Westin Hotel
- Chicago, Rosemont Convention Center
- Dallas, INFOMART
- Montreal, Le Centre Sheraton
- New York, The Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers
- Ottawa, The Ottawa Congress Center
- San Francisco, The Grand Hyatt San Francisco on Union Square
- Seattle, The Seattle Art Museum
- Toronto, The Metro Toronto Convention Center
- Vancouver, The Hotel Vancouver
- Washington DC, The Omni Shoreham
 
Sign Up Now!
------------
 
Reservations may be made in the US and Canada by calling 1-800-887-4640.
There is limited seating at each location, so call today!
 
========================================================================
 
                   +------------------------------------+
                   | The IBM Solution Developer Program |        progsdo
                   +------------------------------------+
 
(The following are the contents of a brochure dated May 1995 detailing
the IBM Solution Developer Program.)
 
Welcome from Jim Gant
---------------------
 
Welcome to the IBM Solution Developer Program. This "new" program pulls
together the best aspects of existing offerings across IBM into a single
support structure. This work will continue to evolve and is being
designed to help you develop the highest quality and most successful
solutions in the information technology world. Whether you develop
products for large systems or personal computers, IBM is dedicated to
giving you the breadth and depth of a convenient, single point of
contact for the technical, business, and marketing support that you
need.
 
The organization within IBM that has the lead responsibility for this
work is Solution Developer Operations. Our complete focus is one that
recognizes our partnership in developing critical solutions for our
mutual customers and prospects. If you are a member of one of IBM's
developer programs, you're already a member of the new IBM Solution
Developer Program. You'll maintain the mutually beneficial relationship
you've enjoyed over the years, and add the benefit of also having the
same level of access to programs for all of IBM's other platforms as you
venture into new markets for your products and services.
 
If you're a new member, welcome aboard! The enclosed information will
provide an overview of the breadth of this program, which is the premier
offering in the industry. Once you complete your application, you'll
receive additional information from IBM targeted to your interest. I
also urge you to visit the Solution Developer Operations Home Page on
the World Wide Web (URL=http://www.austin.ibm.com/developer) which will
provide the latest news on enhancements to our developer programs. It's
one of a number of ways for you to easily communicate with IBM. Your
feedback is crucial in our continuing efforts to provide you with the
support you want.
 
We look forward to working with each of you in the future and sharing in
the growth and success that our partnership can achieve.
 
                                        James J. Gant
                                        Vice President,
                                        Solution Developer Operations
 
Matrix of Offerings
-------------------
 
                                                      Communications/
                                                      Tools/Database/
                   OS/2   AIX   AS/400    System/390  Enablers
 
                                AS/400                APPC, CICS-MQ,
                   OS/2,  AIX   Partners  S/390       CM/2, NetView,
                   Pen,   POWER in        Developers  TCP/IP, DB2,
                   Speech Team  Developmt Association Information
                                                      Warehouse,
                                                      Application
                                                      Development,
                                                      WorkGroup,
                                                      Object
                                                      Connection
 
TECHNICAL SERVICES
 
 Q and A (voice     Yes    Yes     Yes        Yes         Yes
 and electronic
 support)
 
 Education          Yes    Yes     Yes        Yes         Yes
 
 Early Code         Yes    Yes     Yes        Yes         Yes
 
 Consulting         Yes    Yes     Yes                    Yes
 
 Software Tools     Yes    Yes     Yes                    Yes
 
 Porting Assistance Yes    Yes     Yes        Yes         Yes
 Centers
 
 Testing            Yes    Yes     Yes        Yes         Yes
 Environments
 
BUSINESS SERVICES
 
Hardware
 
 Hardware Discounts Yes    Yes     Yes        Yes         Yes
 
 Hardware Lease     Yes    Yes     Yes
 
Software
 
 Software Discounts Yes    Yes     Yes        Yes         Yes
 
Relationships and
Others
 
 Association        Yes                       Yes         Yes
 Discounts
 
 Relationship       Yes    Yes     Yes        Yes         Yes
 Management
 Representatives
 
 Newsletters        Yes    Yes     Yes        Yes         Yes
 
MARKETING SERVICES
 
Interest/Awareness
 
 National Solution  Yes    Yes     Yes        Yes         Yes
 Center
 Registration
 
 Advertising        Yes                                   Yes
 Directories
 
 Solutions          Yes    Yes     Yes        Yes         Yes
 Directories
 
 Magazines          Yes    Yes
 
 Advertising        Yes    Yes     Yes
 
 Bulletin Board/    Yes            Yes        Yes         Yes
 Internet Support
 
 Trade Shows and    Yes    Yes     Yes        Yes         Yes
 Conferences
 
 User Groups        Yes    Yes     Yes                    Yes
 
 Press              Yes                                   Yes
 Announcements
 
 Media (test        Yes    Yes                            Yes
 results,
 articles)
 
Demand Generation
 
 Direct Mail        Yes    Yes     Yes
 
 Product            Yes                                   Yes
 Compatibility
 Marks
 
 Customer Seminars, Yes            Yes                    Yes
 Roadshows, and
 Education
 
WORLDWIDE
AVAILABILITY (*)
 
 Asia, Pacific      Yes    Yes     Yes        Yes         Yes
 
 Europe, Middle     Yes    Yes     Yes        Yes         Yes
 East, Africa
 
 Latin America      Yes    Yes     Yes        Yes         Yes
 
 North America      Yes    Yes     Yes        Yes         Yes
 
  * = Not all of the above programs are available in all countries at
      this time.
 
Call 1-800-627-8363 within the USA and Canada for additional
information. From elsewhere, call 1-770-835-9902.
 
Technical Services
------------------
 
Q and A (Voice and Electronic Support)
 
 IBM Solution Developer Operations provides a number of ways for you to
 get answers to your technical questions. Voice service puts you in
 contact with our technical experts. A toll free number is available in
 the US. Electronic Question and Answer forums are maintained on
 CompuServe, TALKLink, and the IBM Internet complex. The forums have
 both public and private sections. Although any user can view the public
 sections, only members of IBM Solution Developer Program can
 participate in the more detailed private forums. There, you can read
 questions posed by other ISVs and the answers given by the SDO
 Technical Support staff.
 
Education
 
 A variety of IBM technical education offerings are made available to
 members. Call to ask about current course offerings.
 
Early Code
 
 A variety of IBM early code offerings (Beta tests, remote access, focus
 programs, and test drives) are available to members. Call for detailed,
 up-to-the-minute information about these offerings.
 
Consulting
 
 We can arrange for customized consulting services to get you access to
 an array of IBM technical experts, and information about third party
 organizations. Services include everything from design reviews to
 performance analysis and technology exploitation. Delivery methods
 include on-site and teleconference options.
 
Software Tools
 
 Stay on top of emerging technologies by being among the first to use
 pre-release versions of software from IBM and other developers. Also, a
 variety of software application development tools are available for
 ISVs developing on IBM operating system platforms. Tools and other
 informative developer-oriented updates are distributed online as well
 as on diskette, tape, and CD-ROM.
 
Porting Assistance Centers
 
 Solution developers now have a place to go for access to the complete
 range of IBM platforms, from RISC hardware and software to OS/2 Warp
 and beyond. Porting assistance is available for OS/2, OS/2 for the
 PowerPC, and DB2. Current locations include San Mateo, California and
 Dallas, Texas. Before the end of 1995, sites are slated to open in
 Boston, Massachusetts; Boca Raton, Florida; Europe; and Asia.
 
Testing Environments
 
 Get expert assistance in software testing with Cross-Platform
 Connectivity, Standalone Systems, Remote Access, and Early Test
 environments.
 
Business Services
-----------------
 
HARDWARE
 
Hardware Discounts
 
 To help you purchase the hardware you need for development, and to run
 your day-to-day business, SDO offers discounts not only on IBM
 hardware, but on Lexmark printers as well.
 
Hardware Lease
 
 You can run your business on off-the-shelf computers. But when it comes
 to developing leading-edge software solutions, the name of the game is
 having your software available the day the new machines hit the
 shelves. To pull off such a miracle, you need to get equipment early in
 the development cycle. The earlier the better. Our lease programs help
 you get the hardware you need for development and product support
 activities at extremely attractive rates. Call for details.
 
SOFTWARE
 
Software Discounts
 
 Significant discounts are available on IBM software to fill your
 development needs. Products such as OS/2 Warp, AIX, DB2, VisualAge, and
 Smalltalk are available. Call for a detailed list.
 
RELATIONSHIPS AND OTHERS
 
Association Discounts
 
 Save on memberships in professional associations related to the
 development of software and the operation of your development business.
 
Relationship Management Representatives
 
 Your contact person within IBM is dedicated to helping you maintain
 communications by providing one point of entry into IBM for access to
 technical, business, and marketing services.
 
Newsletters
 
 IBM publishes a number of newsletters targeted to you, the developer.
 Keep up on the latest news about the platforms and tools that matter
 most to you. The newsletter can also provide a vehicle for you to
 publish your articles and product announcements. Your Representative
 can put you in touch with our editors.
 
Marketing Services
------------------
 
INTEREST/AWARENESS
 
National Solution Center Registration
 
 Take your place in this online database used by IBM Sales
 Representatives, Business Partners, and selected large accounts. The
 database, which lists solutions sorted by categories, is accessed over
 40,000 times a month by IBM Marketing Teams around the world.
 
Advertising Directories
 
 Reach the largest and most qualified groups of buyers for your products
 and services through such advertising directories as Sources and
 Solutions. Published every six months with planned distribution of
 700,000 copies, the advertising section is open to developers from any
 geography who wish to participate. Call for advertising rates and
 schedules.
 
Solutions Directories
 
 IBM publishes a vast array of directories on an ongoing basis. For
 example, the AS/400 Directory lists approximately 25,000 products! AIX
 and DB2 products are also listed in their own directories. A compendium
 of OS/2 products can be found alongside many of the most popular
 software books in computer stores and bookstores. Efforts are currently
 underway to make product directories available on World Wide Web and
 other commercial online services. As a member, this valuable publicity
 is yours free of charge. When IBM customers go shopping for software,
 you can be sure they will get the chance to read about your products.
 
Magazines
 
 Many developer assistance program members qualify for free
 subscriptions to magazines and other periodicals dedicated to their
 field of development expertise. Among the magazine choices available
 are the award-winning OS/2 Developer Magazine and AIXpert.
 
Advertising
 
 Receive discounted magazine placement rates in a group of high-impact
 magazines targeted to your product audience when you place ads through
 your IBM Solution Developer Program.
 
Bulletin Board / Internet Support
 
 A wide range of online support services are offered to members. See for
 yourself by visiting the IBM Solution Developer Operations Home Page on
 the World Wide Web (http://www.austin.ibm.com/developer).
 
Trade Shows and Conferences
 
 Demonstrate the effectiveness of your products right alongside IBM's
 own hardware and software. Surely you (and most of your customers) have
 visited IBM's booths at any number of trade shows. Through your
 membership, we can help you find the most suitable forum for your
 product, and help you make all the arrangements to get there.
 
User Groups
 
 Nearly one thousand user groups regularly look for speakers and
 information on new products. IBM fosters relationships with many user
 groups around the world, and can get information about you and your
 products into the right hands. During a recent six-month period, more
 than 50 companies used this membership benefit to spread the word to
 OS/2 user groups around the world.
 
Press Announcements
 
 As a member, you may qualify for special rates and discounts for
 Business Wire and PR Newswire. Business Wire is an international media
 relations wire service that electronically delivers news releases and
 photos around the world, 24 hours a day. Business Wire reaches more
 than 500 computer and electronic trade publications, key high-tech
 writers, newsletter editors, and industry analysts. PR Newswire has 40
 years of experience in the timely dissemination of information to the
 worldwide media. PR Newswire reaches industry editors the way they want
 to be reached -- by wire, fax, and e-mail.
 
Media (Test Results, Articles)
 
 We are always promoting good-news stories to the trade and general
 business press. Stories and articles that appear in the press are
 collected and distributed electronically throughout IBM for field use
 as IBM sales and marketing aids. Your Representative will make sure
 your story is told.
 
DEMAND GENERATION
 
Direct Mail
 
 Create, coordinate, plan, and implement top-quality direct mail
 campaigns with the help of our marketing specialists. Our mailing
 center can provide up-to-date lists of registered users, developers,
 and conference attendees. Assistance with design, printing, and list
 selection is also available. Mailing lists are rotated on a unique
 schedule to avoid saturation and exhaustion.
 
Product Compatibility Marks
 
 IBM's product compatibility programs give you a way to increase product
 visibility. IBM compatibility marks on your packaging, flyers,
 advertising, and other promotional materials adds value by assuring
 customers that your product is compatible with designated products and
 systems. Selling cycle time is reduced when your customers can make a
 better-informed decision about the compatibility of your product. IBM
 provides complete guidelines and assistance to help you with your
 compatibility testing. Once your testing is complete, IBM provides
 seals and artwork so your can prominently display the compatibility
 mark. IBM promotes your efforts by periodically publishing materials
 that feature compatibility-tested products.
 
Customer Seminars, Roadshows, and Education
 
 IBM Solution Developer Operations takes the industry's hottest
 technology on the road to a wide range of customers. We travel to
 customer locations, trade shows, IBM locations, and colleges and
 universities, providing demonstrations that focus attention on product
 highlights and competitive comparisons.
 
Developer Assistance Programs and Environments
----------------------------------------------
 
IBM Solution Developer Operations currently has Developer Assistance
Programs for these IBM development environments:
 
OS/2
 
 OS/2 Warp is the 32-bit multitasking, multimedia, crash-protected,
 Internet-accessed, totally cool new way to run your personal computer.
 Winner of numerous industry awards, OS/2 Warp is poised to handle
 personal computing needs as they grow during the next several years.
 Currently available on Intel-based PCs, OS/2 Warp will soon appear on
 PowerPC-based systems, and because of the common application
 programming interface, migrating your applications between hardware
 platforms will be fast, simple, and effective.
 
AIX; RISC System/6000
 
 The IBM RISC System/6000, with its industrial-strength, UNIX based
 operating system, AIX, is the price/performance leader for demanding
 client/server environments. RS/6000's industry leading open
 architectures enable the development of advanced software.
 
AS/400
 
 The IBM AS/400 family of midrange system products offers comprehensive
 solutions for commercial data processing, office, and communications
 environments while providing simple, consistent programmer and end-user
 interfaces. The broad range of compatible processors within the AS/400
 system family use the same operating system, Operating System/400
 (OS/400), at all levels. AS/400 provides a wide spectrum of
 connectivity options, enhancing application support and development by
 enabling the use of many well-established applications and tools.
 AS/400 delivers the best of client/server computing, standard open
 interfaces, state-of-the-art database, comprehensive connectivity,
 transaction processing, systems management, support for multiple file
 systems, and advanced application development.
 
System 390
 
 System 390 has been transformed from the mainframe of yesterday to the
 enterprise server of today. Object technology is transforming the way
 programmers work, and S/390 operating systems are transforming to
 interoperate with UNIX systems. S/390 integrates well into global,
 multi-vendor, distributed environments. Features like the UNIX function
 in MVS OpenEdition increases application platform choices for clients
 and servers. Open Blueprint forms the basis for future S/390 investment
 and the roadmap for building the open, enterprise-wide, client/server
 infrastructures that businesses need for fast and flexible deployment
 of new applications. The S/390 is renowned for its classic strength --
 the experience needed to protect and preserve business assets.
 
Communications; Tools; Database; Enablers
 
 Tying together the major platforms are cross-platform technologies and
 applications in areas such as networking, communications, development
 tools, databases, and application enablers. These leading-edge
 components utilize the advanced capabilities of IBM's platforms, and
 provide the future direction for personal, midrange, and enterprise
 computing.
 
More Information
----------------
 
For additional information about any of the Developer Assistance
Programs mentioned in this brochure, or to apply for membership, call
1-800-627-8363 in the US and Canada. Outside the USA and Canada, call
1-770-835-9902 for information about the IBM Solution Developer Program
worldwide. Detailed information is also available on the IBM Solution
Developer Operations Home Page on the World Wide Web
(url=http://www.austin.ibm.com/developer).
 
Membership requirements vary among the developer assistance programs
listed. IBM reserves the right to refuse membership to any company for
any reason. Program content, terms and conditions, and pricing may vary
by individual developer assistance programs, and by county.
 
========================================================================
 
    +---------------------------------------------------------+
    | How to Join the IBM Solution Developer Program for OS/2 |  joinhow
    +---------------------------------------------------------+
 
The IBM Worldwide Solution Developer Program for OS/2 is open to all
developers of IBM Personal Software-based products. These products
include applications and tools for PC-DOS, Pen, OS/2, Multimedia, and
LAN Systems. In addition, the Solution Developer Program is now open to
developers interested in producing applications and tools that exploit
OS/2 for PowerPC. The Solution Developer Program is designed to provide
a broad range of services for this growing and increasingly diverse
development community.
 
The Worldwide Solution Developer Program for OS/2 has a number of
extensions that offer customized services for specific developer needs.
Your eligibility for a specific service depends on the type of products
you are developing. Some services vary by country.
 
Worldwide Services
------------------
 
Worldwide Services are available to all developers of Personal
Software-based products. These developers include corporate programmers
producing in-house applications, MIS professionals, consultants,
educators, industry analysts, government agencies, and others with an
interest in PC DOS, Pen, OS/2, Multimedia, LAN Systems, and now OS/2 for
PowerPC application development.
 
The services include a variety of technical, business, and marketing
support activities, such as:
 
o Technical support through IBM OS/2 forums on CompuServe
o The opportunity to participate in early-code programs
o Access to DAPTOOLS via CompuServe and the Internet
o Access to OS/2 Custom Application Porting Workshops and LAN Systems
    Workshops
o Technical conferences
o Product announcements
 
Worldwide membership is open to individuals, with no company or product
prerequisites. Enrollment is done electronically through either the
CompuServe information service or Internet. On CompuServe, enter GO
OS2DAP and complete the online application form. On Internet, visit the
Solution Developer Home Page at
URL = http://www.austin.ibm.com/developer .
 
In addition to Worldwide Services, you may be eligible for extensions
such as Commercial Services and Premier Services. To see if you qualify
for these other programs, refer to the following descriptions and
enrollment instructions.
 
Commercial Services
-------------------
 
Commercial Services are available only to software vendors in the U.S.
and Canada who are developing or marketing IBM Personal Software-based
products for commercial release.
 
In addition to the Worldwide Services, Commercial Services members
receive additional services in support of their product development and
marketing activities:
 
o Online technical support at no charge
 
o Defect support for all warranted products that are supported by IBM
  support centers
 
o Complimentary access to the online database of Personal Software-based
  development tools
 
o Complimentary subscriptions to OS/2 Developer magazine
 
o Discounts on IBM Personal Software products
 
Offerings available to assist Commercial Services members in their
marketing activities include:
 
o OS/2 Warp and LAN Systems application database on the World Wide Web
  at http://www.austin.ibm.com/developer
 
o Sources and Solutions catalog
 
o "READY for OS/2 Warp" Certification Mark
 
o "READY for OS/2 Warp LAN Server" Certification Mark
 
o "Tested and Approved for OS/2 Warp LAN Systems" Certification Mark
 
o IBM Direct Marketing Center
 
To enroll in the Commercial Services extension, call 1-800-627-8363 (USA
and Canada) or 1-770-835-9002, and ask for the Commercial/Premier
Services Application form. You or your company must be currently
marketing a Personal Software-based product. If not, you should submit
(with your application) a non-confidential business plan showing
development and marketing activities and schedules for your planned
product.
 
Premier Services
----------------
 
Premier Services are available only in the U.S. and Canada. They are for
software developers who are marketing or have committed to develop
software products that provide native (32-bit API) support for OS/2, LAN
Systems products, or OS/2 for PowerPC. Products that exploit object
technologies like SOM and OpenDoc are also eligible.
 
In addition to the Worldwide Services and Commercial Services
extensions, Premier Services members have voice access to an advocate in
IBM who can assist them with various development and marketing
activities that are offered exclusively to Premier Services members.
 
To enroll in the Premier Services extension, call 1-800-627-8363 (USA
and Canada) or 1-770-835-9002, or fax to 1-770-835-9444, and ask for the
Commercial/Premier Services application form. You or your company must
be currently marketing a Personal Software-based product. If not, you
should submit (with your application) a non-confidential business plan
showing development and marketing activities and schedules for your
planned product.
 
Solution Developer Program for OS/2 Contacts Worldwide
------------------------------------------------------
 
IBM Solution Developer Programs for OS/2 exist in several geographic
areas around the world. For information about the program in your area,
consult the following list of contacts.
 
  Geographic Area                     Voice Phone       Fax Phone
  ---------------                     -----------       ---------
 
  Asia/Pacific                       +65-320-1482      +65-225-2617
 
  Australia                          +61-2-354-7684    +61-2-354-7766
 
  Europe, Middle East, and Africa                      +44(0)1256-50096
    OS/2 Developer Assistance Program                  +44(0)1256-336778
    Internet emeadap@vnet.ibm.com
 
  Japan                              +81-3-3279-8231
    Internet hhh03262@niftyserve.or.jp
 
  Mexico                             +525-627-1846     +525-580-4267
    Internet mxibmzwl@ibmmail.com
 
  Taiwan                             +886-2-776-7965
 
  United States                       1-800-627-8363    1-770-835-9444
                                      1-770-835-9002
 
========================================================================
 
   +----------------------------------------------------------+
   | Software Vendor Marketing Partnerships Enhances Programs | svmpprog
   +----------------------------------------------------------+
 
The following is a synopsis of the program offerings through IBM's
Software Vendor Marketing Partnerships.
 
National Software Remarketing
-----------------------------
 
National Software Remarketing offers application software vendors the
opportunity to acquire sales and marketing resources for their products
utilizing IBM NA distribution capabilities.
 
Products remarketed by IBM retain the vendors' logos, licenses, and
warranties. In a typical transaction, IBM assumes responsibility for
sales and marketing, billing, and accounts receivable. Manufacturing,
distribution, implementation, training, support, and services may be
assumed by IBM as appropriate and negotiated on a case-by-case basis.
 
Through National Software Remarketing, independent software vendors
grant IBM the right to resell their products either on an exclusive or
non-exclusive basis. Both the vendor and IBM gain from the relationship
-- the vendor through acquisition of a channel, and IBM through
additional offerings for its application software portfolio.
 
Vendor products remarketed by IBM may be sold through traditional IBM
channels, depending on the specific product needs of the various IBM
marketing and sales organizations. Alternately, they may be sold
through dedicated software sales units managed by the IBM North America
(NA) Software organization. In either case, the most cost-effective
means of distribution is selected for each type of product. This may
include selling methods, either individually or in combinations, ranging
from field sales representatives to direct response marketing,
telesales, and electronic marketing and/or delivery.
 
Each National Software Remarketing relationship is formalized in a
remarketing agreement based on extensive consultation with the vendor.
Responsibilities are delineated in the remarketing agreement, with
emphasis on the activities each party will perform to market the product
successfully.
 
National Software Remarketing relationships are assigned to sponsors,
which may be IBM NA sales and marketing organizations or IBM NA
Software. The role of the sponsors includes development, financing, and
execution of the go-to-market strategies and marketing programs designed
to support their vendors' products. Sponsors commit to target volumes
and financial performance objectives for each relationship.
 
The National Software Remarketing Program offers a unique opportunity
for independent software vendors to leverage IBM NA distribution
capabilities. This may involve launching new products, expanding
sales of existing products, bringing products into North America that
are already successful in other parts of the world, or other
arrangements that provide a win/win situation for both the vendor and
IBM.
 
For more information about SVMP's National Software Remarketing
program, call 1-800-627-8363 from the USA and Canada, or 1-770-835-9002
from elsewhere.
 
Software Vendor Marketing Programs
----------------------------------
 
IBM's Software Vendor Marketing Programs (fee-based programs) consist
of agreements between IBM and vendors who are providing non-IBM
application software, hardware, and services to help satisfy the
requirements of IBM's customers. The relationships that are part of
these offerings are non-exclusive and national in scope. IBM's
marketing reps are compensated for the sale of these products.
 
Membership and Developer Support Programs
-----------------------------------------
 
The following are the Membership and Developer Support Programs
currently available to qualified independent software developers who
are developing products for IBM platforms:
 
  AS/400 Partners in Development
  DB2 Developer Assistance Program
  VoiceType Dictation Developers Program
  PenAssist Developers Program
  BESTeam
  POWER Team
  S/390 Developers Association
  Retail Solutions Program
  Solution Developer Program for OS/2
  Power Series Developer's ToolBox Program
  NetView Association
  CICS and MQSeries DAP
  SystemView Advance Team
  Object Connection Program
 
For additional information about IBM's Membership and Developer Support
Programs, call 1-800-627-8363 (USA and Canada) or 1-770-835-9002, or
visit the IBM Solution Developer Operations Home Page on the World Wide
Web (URL=http://www.austin.ibm.com/developer).
 
Marketing Support Services
--------------------------
 
The newest of the SVMP offerings is Marketing Support Services. The
Marketing Support Services program offers fee-based marketing support
services to IBM business partners and other suppliers of non-IBM
software, hardware and services. IBM provides, or obtains through
external sources, a wide range of marketing support activities, i.e.,
direct mail, telemarketing, advertising, creation and development of
promotional media, marketing event coordination, and prospect sourcing.
For a complete list of activities or more information about Marketing
Support Services, call 1-800-627-8363 (USA and Canada) or
1-770-835-9002.
 
Developer Support Services
--------------------------
 
The following are current Developer Support Services being offered to
independent software vendors who are developing products for IBM
platforms:
 
  Development Discount Program
  Software Developer Lease Programs
  Developer Loan Programs
 
========================================================================
 
        +-------------------------------------------------+
        | The Solution Partnership Centers: Access to IBM |       spcovu
        +-------------------------------------------------+
 
Attention, solution developers!
 
Want to test an application in the works? Looking for information about
emerging technologies and trends? Need to migrate to additional
platforms?
 
The Solution Partnership Center has everything developers need to
develop software solutions on industry-leading IBM platforms. From
business seminars and 24-hour porting labs to direct technical support
and vendor recruiting, the center helps you streamline the
time-to-market process and expand market opportunities for your
strategic applications. All at no cost to you!
 
Access People and Information
-----------------------------
 
Keeping on top of emerging industry trends and IBM technologies requires
a tremendous amount of time and resources. Look no further than the
Solution Partnership Center's ongoing schedule of business seminars.
Relevant and informative, they cover critical industry issues that shape
the development and marketing of your solution offerings.
 
More first-hand information is also yours through consultant briefings,
special-interest sessions, and detailed product briefings on IBM's full
range of platforms. Walk in the lobby on any day, and you'll find
product demonstrations and a wealth of product brochures, evaluations,
technical white papers, and industry magazines for your reference.
 
Have a look at our SPC West and SPC East calendars for details of
upcoming events.
 
Port and Test Across Platforms
------------------------------
 
Today's increasingly competitive global marketplace demands networked
client/server distributed solutions across the enterprise. The center's
24-hour porting labs assist you with this goal as you port, validate,
performance-test, and fine-tune code across the entire spectrum of IBM
systems and configurations. This also includes access to advanced object
technologies such as Taligent, System Object Model (SOM), and OpenDoc.
 
The private, secure, and interruption-free environment allows you to
work at your own pace, with porting and prototyping assistance at your
disposal, in addition to an expansive networking lab for product
testing. Lab time is scheduled in advance to ensure that your
product-specific environment is set up and ready to go when you arrive.
 
Solve Technical Questions On-Site
---------------------------------
 
Even the most experienced solution developers need technical support now
and then. When you do, the center's team of experienced technical
consultants is ready. These on-site IBM experts provide leading-edge
information that can accelerate your software development project or
prepare you for the next wave of computing technology.
 
Maybe you want assistance in migrating a 16-bit Windows-based
application to a 32-bit OS/2 Warp industrial-strength environment. Or
maybe you simply need an answer regarding the use of shared libraries in
AIX. If you have a technical question, the center has just the people to
see -- supported by product developers at IBM labs in Austin, Texas
(AIX, RISC, SMP); Poughkeepsie, New York (SP1 and SP2); Boca Raton,
Florida (OS/2 Warp); Toronto, Canada (DB2); and other locations
worldwide.
 
Recruit Vendors and Partnerships
--------------------------------
 
You've developed your software vision. Now it's time to make marketing
decisions. Tap into the center's business resources to pinpoint the most
effective channels for getting your product to customers. Participate in
vendor recruiting seminars to establish all-important business
partnerships. The center offers many options.
 
Better still, take advantage of the profit-building business services
and marketing programs available through IBM's Business Partner Program.
Qualifying business partners also benefit from trade show opportunities,
listings in IBM Solutions catalogs, entry into IBM's National Solution
Center database, and much more.
 
Access Industry-Leading IBM Solutions
-------------------------------------
 
Hardware platforms:
 
o  PC
o  RISC System/6000 Family:
   -- SMP
   -- AIX
   -- POWERparallel
   -- SP2
   -- Power Personal (PowerPC)
o  AS/400
 
Software platforms:
 
o  OS/2 Warp
o  AIX
o  OS/400
o  DB2 Family
o  CICS
o  DCE
o  TCP/IP
o  SNA
o  NetView
o  DSMIT
o  KARAT
o  ADSM
 
Advanced technologies:
 
o  Client/Server
o  Distributed Data
o  Data Mining
o  Objects
o  OpenDoc
o  SOM/DSOM
o  Human Centered
o  Network Centric
o  Information Warehouse
o  Decision Support
 
Solution Partnership Center Locations
-------------------------------------
 
IBM Solution Partnership Center -- West
2929 Campus Drive, Suite 275
San Mateo CA 94403
1-800-678-4249 or 1-415-312-0240
fax 1-415-312-0254
 
IBM Solution Partnership Center -- East
404 Wyman St.
Waltham MA 02154
1-800-678-4249 or 1-617-895-2610
fax 1-617-895-2886
 
Go to Market
------------
 
The people. The technology. The resources. You'll find it all at IBM's
Solution Partnership Center. Add conveniences such as conference rooms,
classrooms, LAN room and library, and it's easy to see why solution
developers take full advantage of everything the center has to offer.
 
More Information
----------------
 
For more information about how the Solution Partnership Center can
assist you in deploying and marketing your IBM-driven applications, fill
in the attached questionnaire and fax it to 1-415-312-0254 (Western US)
or 1-617-895-2610 (Eastern US). Or simply call 1-800-678-4249.
 
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
                            INQUIRY FORM
 
Please send me more information about the Solution Partnership Center's:
 
____ Business Seminar Series
 
____ Application Porting and Support
 
____ Educational Events
 
____ Software Developer Discount Program
 
____ IBM Business Partner Program
 
I'm also interested in the following IBM technologies:
 
____ RISC System/6000          ____ POWERparallel
 
____ PC                        ____ DB2
 
____ Client/Server             ____ Systems Management
 
____ Power Personal            ____ SMP
 
____ AS/400                    ____ OS/2 Warp
 
____ Objects                   ____ Networking
 
 
____ Please keep me on the Solution Partnership Center's mailing list
     to receive announcements, materials, and updates.
 
 
________________________________________________________________________
Name
 
________________________________________________________________________
Title
 
________________________________________________________________________
Company
 
________________________________________________________________________
Address
 
________________________________________________________________________
City                                     State         Zip
 
________________________________________________________________________
Telephone                          Fax
 
________________________________________________________________________
E-Mail Address
 
________________________________________________________________________
Solution Offering
 
Please fax your filled-in form to 1-415-312-0254.
 
========================================================================
 
               +-------------------------------------------+
               | The IBM OS/2 Developer Assistance Program |     dapemea
               |    in Europe, Middle East, and Africa     |
               +-------------------------------------------+
 
The IBM OS/2 Developer Assistance Program (DAP) in Europe, Middle East,
and Africa (EMEA) provides a broad range of support for OS/2 solution
developers, including design, coding, porting, problem determination,
debugging, and publicity of OS/2 applications.
 
Open to Anyone in EMEA Actively Developing for OS/2
---------------------------------------------------
 
Membership in the EMEA OS/2 DAP is open to any solution developer in
EMEA who is actively developing a product or service for OS/2, be it a
device driver, a commercial product, a line-of-business application, or
a set of OS/2 objects.
 
Access to World Wide Web Service
--------------------------------
 
DAP members get full privileged access to our Internet World Wide Web
service, which provides extensive information on OS/2 and related
products, such as the VisualAge family, OpenDoc, LAN Server, DB2 for
OS/2, multimedia, and much more. In addition, our Question and Answer
facility allows you to direct your questions to experts in the IBM labs.
 
The addresses (URLs) for our developer home pages are:
 
  The IBM EMEA OS/2 DAP Home Page (direct):
    http://www.europe.ibm.com/getdoc/psmemea/progserv/dap/
  or via the IBM Software EMEA Home Page:
    http://www.europe.ibm.com/psmemea/
  or via the IBM Solution Developer Operations (SDO) Home Page:
    http://www.austin.ibm.com/developer/
 
  OS/2 device-driver repository:
    http://www.europe.ibm.com/getdoc/psmemea/progserv/device/
    and
    ftp.europe.ibm.com/psmemea/os2drivers/
 
Marketing Programs
------------------
 
If and when you have an application that is ready to ship, our marketing
programs will help you gain publicity and distinction for your product.
 
In addition to our electronic service, we periodically mail the latest
news and information to DAP members, and offer the opportunity for
solution developers to use this service to promote their solutions too.
The mailing programme is a chargeable service, and all contents are
subject to prior approval.
 
More Information
----------------
 
More information about the EMEA OS/2 Developer Assistance Program can be
obtained through:
 
HelpFax:  If you have a touch-tone telephone, call our IBM HelpFax
          automated response system in the UK on +44 (0)1256 50096 and
          request document number 30600 for a brochure or document
          number 33001 for an application form.
 
Fax:      +44 (0)1256 336778
 
Internet: emeadap@vnet.ibm.com
 
Post:     IBM EMEA OS/2 Developer Assistance Program
          ND1W Normandy House, Alencon Link
          Basingstoke, Hants.
          RG21 7EJ
          ENGLAND
 
========================================================================
 
     +------------------------------------------------------+
     | IBM Solution Developer Operations Worldwide Contacts |      wwsdo
     +------------------------------------------------------+
 
IBM Solution Developer Operations has contacts around the world who can
assist solution developers who want to know more about the programs and
services available to them. The list below provides information about
how to get in touch with the SDO contact for your country or geographic
region.
 
Asia and Pacific Region
-----------------------
 
Solution Developer Operations Executive:
  Sally Rogers
  E-mail: rogesal@vnet.ibm.com
  Phone:  +61 2-354-4976
  Fax:    +61 2-354-4981
 
Marketing Programs:
  Davender Chhabra
  E-mail: dchhabra@vnet.ibm.com
 
Developer Assistance Program Fulfillment:
  Jennifer Dulhunty
  E-mail: jdulhunty@vnet.ibm.com
  Phone:  +61 2-354-7684
  Fax:    +61 2-354-7766
 
Australia:
  Hillel Benedykt
  E-mail: hillel@vnet.ibm.com
  Phone:  +61 3-9626-6554
  Fax:    +61 3-9626-6612
 
China:
  W Yan
  E-mail: rogesal@vnet.ibm.com
 
India and Sri Lanka:
  Sally Rogers
  E-mail: rogesal@vnet.ibm.com
  Phone:  +61 2-354-4976
  Fax:    +61 2-354-4981
 
Japan:
  K Yonemitsu
  E-mail: kyonemitsu@vnet.ibm.com
 
Korea:
  Nool Park
  E-mail: Npark@sulvm1.vnet.ibm.com
 
New Zealand:
  Hillel Benedykt
  E-mail: hillel@vnet.ibm.com
  Phone:  +61 3-9626-6554
  Fax:    +61 3-9626-6612
 
Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam:
  J Srikant
  E-mail: rogesal@vnet.ibm.com
 
Taiwan:
  P H Chen
  E-mail: phchen@taivm1.vnet.ibm.com
 
Europe, Middle East, and Africa
-------------------------------
 
Central Europe and Russia:
  Justyna Nowak
  E-mail: ebro@vnet.ibm.com
  Phone:  +43 1 21145 6289
  Fax:    +43 1 21145 5714
 
Austria:
  Ingrid Sponer
  E-mail: isponer@vnet.ibm.com
  Phone:  +43 1 21145 2537
  Fax:    +43 1 2160886
 
Denmark
  Torjus Gylstorff
  E-mail: Torjus_Gylstorff@vnet.ibm.com
  Phone:  +45 93 45 45 ext. 3084
  Fax:    +45 88 95 69
 
France:
  Francois_Xavier de Bastard
  E-mail: fxbastard@vnet.ibm.com
  Phone:  +33 1 4905 7771
  Fax:    +33 1 49 05 9970
 
Finland:
  Ari Voutilainen
  E-mail: arivo@vnet.ibm.com
  Phone:  +358 0 4594082
  Fax:    +358 0 4596901
  OS/2 and DAP BBS: +358 0 4595900
 
Germany:
  Harald Hug
  E-mail: hhug@stutvm3.vnet.ibm.com
  Phone:  +49 (0)7032 926 330
 
Greece:
  Labros Kisouras
  E-mail: kisouras@vnet.ibm.com
  Phone:  +30 1 3281637
  Fax:    +30 1 3237278
 
Ireland:
  Catherine Tallon
  E-mail: catherine_tallon@ie.ibm.com
  Phone:  +353 1 6603744
  Fax:    +353 1 6602046
 
Israel:
  Jacob Levy
  E-mail: ilibm82m@ibmmail.com
  Phone:  +97 23 6978921
  Fax:    +97 23 6978907
 
Italy:
  Lorenzo Cassinelli
  E-mail: lorenzoc@vnet.ibm.com
  Phone:  +39 02 59625468
  Fax:    +39 02 59629587
 
The Netherlands:
  Ton Koopmans
  E-mail: nlibmn6p@ibmmail.com
  Phone:  +31 20 513 3257
  Fax:    +31 20 615 1489
 
Norway:
  Frode Aarheim
  E-mail: Frode.Aarheim@norway.ibm.com
  Phone:  +47 66 99 80 00
  Fax:    +47 66 99 93 33
 
Sweden:
  Anders Landstrom
  E-mail: mailto:andersl@se.ibm.com
  Phone:  +46 8 7931728
  Fax:    +46-8-7932472
 
Switzerland:
  Mohammed El Saghe
  E-mail: chibmw4l@ibmmail.com
  Phone:  +41 1 207-2602
  Fax:    +41 1 207-2410
 
Turkey:
  Ebru Aran
  E-mail: earan@ibm.net
 
United Kingdom:
  Software Developers Enquiry Line
  E-mail: gbib16jl@ibmmail.com
  Phone:  0345 522622 (UK LoCall)
  Fax:    +44 (0)1705 492222
 
North America
-------------
 
United States and Canada:
  IBM Software Vendor Hotline
  Phone:  1-800-627-8363
  Fax:    1-770-835-9444
 
========================================================================
 
                 +----------------------------------+
                 | IBM Device Driver Support Center |               ddsc
                 +----------------------------------+
 
If you are developing a device driver for OS/2, you need to know about
the IBM Device Driver Support Center, your one-stop shopping for:
 
o  Worldwide device-driver developer support
 
o  Specialized device-driver development workshops
 
o  The DUDE, a dedicated BBS providing up-to-the minute information
   solely for device-driver developers, as well as problem assistance.
   The BBS phone number is 1-407-982-3217, with settings 8, N, 1, and
   transmission rate 9600 bps.
 
   The DUDE is also accessible worldwide via Internet. To be given
   Internet access to The Dude, send a request to:
   sysop@thedude.bocaraton.ibm.com .
 
   Contact The DUDE for more information about:
 
   -- Logo program
   -- Test program
   -- Driver distribution program
   -- DUDE-ads
 
The DDSC team is in place to support your questions and education needs.
The team's voice-mail phone number, available at all times, is
1-407-982-4239.
 
========================================================================
 
          +------------------------------------------------+
          |      The Developer Connection for OS/2:        |    powerdev
          | The Power of the Future Delivered to Your Door |
          +------------------------------------------------+
 
The Developer Connection for OS/2 -- continuing proof of IBM's
commitment to OS/2 developers -- can greatly increase your productivity
by providing you with the latest tools, pre-release software, product
demos, and information you need on today's most convenient medium -- a
CD. And, because we live in changing times, an annual subscription to
The Developer Connection for OS/2 keeps your tools and information from
becoming obsolete. Each year you'll receive four volumes including CDs
and The Developer Connection News, each packed with the tools and
information you need for your OS/2 development efforts.
 
When accessed from your CD drive, The Developer Connection for OS/2
becomes a part of your Workplace Shell environment. Click on the
Developer Connection icon, and all the wealth of The Developer
Connection for OS/2 is instantly attainable. Use the powerful Developer
Connection browser to locate any piece of information. And because the
intuitive graphical user interface is a part of the Workplace Shell
environment, each task is familiar and simple. Try the products, install
them, or simply retrieve product information. There is also an available
option for creating diskettes for many of the products on the CD.
 
The Developer Connection program will continue to grow to support
emerging technologies. Subscribers also receive The Developer Connection
for LAN Systems, a cross-platform offering that supports the
installation of products and information to OS/2, Windows, DOS, and AIX
workstations. It provides a programming environment for client/server
and distributed computing application development. Device-driver
developers can now subscribe to The IBM Developer Connection Device
Driver Kit for OS/2 (Developer Connection DDK). The Developer Connection
DDK is an annual membership program that enables rapid development of
device drivers for your personal computer hardware using the 32-bit OS/2
operating platform. Members receive the updated information, test tools,
utilities, and many complete device-driver sources.
 
Put The Developer Connection for OS/2 to Work for You ... Now
-------------------------------------------------------------
 
o  Receive product-level versions of OS/2 developer toolkits (for OS/2
   2.1, OS/2 Warp Version 3, OS/2 SMP, Pen for OS/2, Multimedia
   Presentation Manager, LAN Systems)
 
o  Receive new versions of operating system technologies as soon as they
   are developed
 
o  Try new OS/2 products before you buy them
 
o  Use the sample source code to start on the path of more productive
   programming
 
o  Access pre-release versions of IBM's 32-bit tools to prepare for
   tomorrow's technology
 
o  Receive updates to SMART, One Up Corporation's powerful tool that
   helps migrate your 16-bit and 32-bit Windows code and 16-bit OS/2
   code to 32-bit OS/2 code
 
o  Read The Developer Connection News for timely OS/2 information
 
o  Access electronic support through the Internet, OS/2 BBS, and
   CompuServe
 
Features and Benefits
---------------------
 
Annual subscription     Subscribe and have the tools and information you
                        need delivered to you for a whole year. What
                        could be easier?
 
Powerful browser        This easy-to-use front end presents the contents
                        of the CD by category. You can expand and
                        collapse categories or install products with the
                        click of a mouse.
 
Developer's Toolkits    Provides the tools, sample programs, and
for OS/2 2.1 and OS/2   documentation that enables you to develop your
Warp                    OS/2 applications quickly and easily.
 
Presentation Manager    The fully documented sample programs illustrate
Multimedia Toolkit/2    the use of the comprehensive multimedia device-
                        and data-handling capabilities of MMPM/2.
 
Pen for OS/2            Provides the tools, sample programs, and
Developer's Toolkit     documentation to enable you to create new
                        pen-aware OS/2 applications, pen-enable existing
                        applications, and create new pen-centric OS/2
                        applications.
 
Pre-release software    Helps you keep on top of the emerging
                        technologies by allowing you to be one of the
                        first to use pre-release versions of OS/2 and
                        other exciting products from IBM and independent
                        software vendors.
 
Tools                   Use some of the internal tools that were
                        developed by IBM programmers to help get their
                        jobs done faster and easier.
 
Extensive technical     Have the complete OS/2 Technical Library at your
documentation           fingertips with the click of a mouse. Complete
                        online documentation provides a quick, effective
                        reference to all system APIs, messages, and
                        features, including code examples and helpful
                        notes. Also, view the best chapters from popular
                        OS/2 books by well-known authors.
 
Source code             Help to jump-start your OS/2 application
                        development with our collection of sample source
                        code.
 
System requirements     System must support OS/2 2.0 or higher.
 
Memory requirements     6 MB minimum; 10 MB recommended; actual memory
                        required varies depending on which programs you
                        choose to run. The performance of the catalog
                        and browser can be enhanced with the addition of
                        more memory.
 
Disk-space              Actual disk space required varies depending on
requirements            the requirements of the programs you choose to
                        install.
 
CD-ROM drive            A CD-ROM drive supported by OS/2.
 
Support                 Available through OS/2 BBS, Internet, and
                        CompuServe for the duration of the subscription.
                        If you are not currently a CompuServe member,
                        call 1-800-524-3388, and ask for Representative
                        239. You will receive a special introductory
                        membership which entitles you to a brochure with
                        an ID and password, one month of basic services
                        for free, 15 USD worth of free extended
                        services, and a free subscription to CompuServe
                        magazine.
 
Prices
------
 
In the USA, an annual (four-issue) subscription to The Developer
Connection for OS/2 is priced at 199 USD, and 75 USD for an additional
license. The price for Commercial and Premier members of the IBM US
Developer Assistance Program is 119 USD. These prices do not include
shipping and handling.
 
For prices in other countries, contact the phone numbers listed below.
 
Ordering Information
--------------------
 
To order The Developer Connection for OS/2 or additional licenses, call
the appropriate number:
 
  United States         1-800-6-DEVCON (1-800-633-8266),
                          fax 1-303-330-7655
  Argentina             313-0014
  Bolivia               35-1840
  Brazil                0800-111205, fax (011)886-3222
  Canada                1-800-561-5293, fax 1-905-821-1187
  Chile                 633-4400
  Colombia              257-0111
  Costa Rica            223-6222
  Dominican Republic    566-5161
  Ecuador               56-5100
  El Salvador           98-5011
  Guatemala             31-5859
  Honduras              32-2319
  Mexico                (525)627-1111 within Mexico City
                        91-800-00316 elsewhere in Mexico
  Panama                639-977
  Paraguay              444-094
  Peru                  36-6345
  Uruguay               923-617
  Venezuela             908-8901
 
The following require your country's international access code prior to
the listed number:
 
  Asia/Pacific          +61-2-354-7684, fax +61-2-354-7766
                        (61 is the country code for Australia)
 
  Europe, Middle East, and Africa -- call IBM ISMS Direct Services in
    Denmark (country code 45). Operators speaking the following
    languages are available:
 
       Danish    +45-48101300        German        +45-48101000
       Dutch     +45-48101400        Italian       +45-48101600
       English   +45-48101500        Norwegian     +45-48101250
       Finnish   +45-48101650        Spanish       +45-48101100
       French    +45-48101200        Swedish       +45-48101150
                      fax   +45-48142207
 
========================================================================
 
                 +-----------------------------------+
                 |    Questions and Answers about    |          devconqa
                 | The Developer Connection for OS/2 |
                 +-----------------------------------+
 
Q1.  What is The Developer Connection for OS/2?
 
A1.  The Developer Connection for OS/2 is an annual subscription program
     for application developers. Its purpose is to deliver: licenses to
     developers for toolkits, productivity tools, development tools, and
     sample code; licenses to the latest pre-release code, so developers
     can prepare for and simulate future environments; and the most
     up-to-date versions of technical documentation on OS/2. The
     Developer Connection for OS/2 consists of four issues (CDs and a
     newsletter), delivered over the course of one year, plus access to
     The Developer Connection section of the OS2DF2 forum on CompuServe
     until the subscription expires.
 
     For those subscribers who are not members of CompuServe, IBM has
     established the DEVCON CFORUM on the OS/2 BBS under TalkLink
     (TalkLink is a feature under the IBMLink Commercial Services), and
     Internet support by addressing your questions and comments to
     devcon@vnet.ibm.com .
 
Q2.  What does The Developer Connection cost?
 
A2.  An annual subscription entitles the subscriber to four issues of
     the CDs and newsletter, plus access to a private section of the
     CompuServe OS2DF2 forum. Customers may also purchase an additional
     license, which allows for making one additional copy of the
     contents of the four issues of the CDs and newsletters and one
     additional license to use the code delivered on the CDs.
 
     In the USA, the prices (in USD) are as follows (note that US prices
     DO NOT INCLUDE shipping and handling):
 
                             Regular    Commercial/  Student/
                             Price      Premier DAP  Faculty
                                        and BesTeam
 
     Annual Subscription      199.00     119.00       119.00
     Additional License        75.00      45.00         N/A
 
     In Canada, an annual subscription is 225 Canadian dollars.
 
     In Latin America, an annual subscription is between 137 and 150
     USD.
 
     In Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (E/ME/A), prices are (note
     that E/ME/A prices INCLUDE shipping and handling):
 
                               Annual        DUA (Addl.
     Country      Currency     Subscription  License)      VAT percent
 
     Austria      Schilling    2337 ATS       923 ATS      20
     Belgium      Franc        6962 BEF      2748 BEF      20,5
     Denmark      Kroner       1311 DKK       518 DKK      25
     Finland      Finmark      1170 FIM       462 FIM      22
     France       Franc        1146 FRF       452 FRF      18,6
     Germany      Mark          333 DEM       131 DEM      15
     Greece       Drachma     48423 GRD     19115 GRD      --
     Ireland      Pound         139 IEP        55 IEP      21
     Israel       US Dollar     190 USD        75 USD      --
     Italy        Lire       311030 ITL    122775 ITL      19
     Netherlands  Gylden        376 NLG       149 NLG      17,5
     Norway       Kroner       1446 NOK       571 NOK      23
     Portugal     Escudo      33778 PTE     13334 PTE      17
     Spain        Peseta      26786 ESP     10571 ESP      16
     Sweden       Kroner       1579 SEK       623 SEK      25
     Switzerland  Franc         295 CHF       116 CHF       6,5
     Turkey       US Dollar     190 USD        75 USD      --
     UK           Pound         131 GBP        52 GBP      18
 
Q3.  If I belong to the Developer Assistance Program, do I get a
     discount?
 
A3.  Members of the Commercial Services or Premier Services of the USA
     Developer Assistance Program (DAP) may purchase The Developer
     Connection for OS/2 at a reduced price -- 119 USD for an annual
     subscription, and 45 USD for each additional license. US members of
     the Worldwide DAP, however, purchase The Developer Connection at
     the regular 199 USD price.
 
     European DAP members purchase The Developer Connection at the
     regular price.
 
Q4.  What do The Developer Connection CDs contain?
 
A4.  The CDs contain pre-release versions of many IBM OS/2 and LAN
     products, internal development and productivity tools, bitmaps, and
     demos of products from IBM and others. Each volume also includes
     the latest release level of The Developer's Toolkit for OS/2, The
     Developer's Toolkit for OS/2 Warp Version 3, the Multimedia
     Presentation Manager Toolkit/2, and the Pen for OS/2 Developer's
     Toolkit. In addition to these programs, the CDs contain sample
     source code that can be used to develop your own applications, as
     well as thousands of pages of documentation with a search facility.
 
Q5.  How would you compare The Developer Connection for OS/2 against the
     Microsoft Developer Network CD-ROM?
 
A5.  The Developer Connection for OS/2 is a subscription program for
     application developers which includes CDs and newsletters delivered
     four times over one year, plus access to a private section of the
     OS2DF2 CompuServe forum. The Developer Connection CDs contain
     released versions of our developer toolkits, pre-release programs,
     a comprehensive technical library, sample source code which can be
     used by developers to write their own programs, and demonstration
     versions of Independent Software Vendor programs.
 
     The Developer Connection for OS/2 compares very favorably with
     Microsoft's Developer Network, Level 2. The Developer Connection
     delivers over 200 development tools every quarter, including
     toolkits, productivity tools, development tools, sample source
     code, and documentation.
 
Q6.  What advantages do I get from the CompuServe forum for The
     Developer Connection for OS/2 that I didn't have before?
 
A6.  Subscribing to The Developer Connection entitles you to access the
     private Developer Connection section of the OS2DF2 forum on
     CompuServe. IBM developers will be answering questions and carrying
     on dialogs with subscribers on a full-time basis, and will respond
     to your comments/issues/questions on a timely basis.
 
Q7.  How many copies of The Developer Connection for OS/2 do I have to
     subscribe to for my company? I have many programmers, do I have to
     buy one for each?
 
A7.  After your company has purchased its initial subscription to The
     Developer Connection, you may buy as many additional licenses as
     you want at 75 USD. For each additional license you order, four
     times during the year you will receive the current newsletter and a
     Proof of Additional License certificate, which entitles you to make
     one additional copy of the contents of the current volume.
     Additional licenses work best for Local Area Network development
     environments (for example, if you have ten developers on a LAN, you
     could buy one regular license and nine additional licenses).
 
Q8.  I've heard that the Developer Connection program will grow in the
     future. What do you mean by that? What will I see over the next
     year?
 
A8.  The IBM Developer Connection Device Driver Kit for OS/2, Developer
     Connection for AIX, and Developer Connection for Image Plus
     Visualinfo have already been announced. Future direction for The
     Developer Connection has not been announced; however, we are
     considering expanding the Developer Connection family of products.
 
Q9.  Does my license to use the release-level toolkits contained on The
     Developer Connection end if I do not renew my subscription at the
     end of my annual membership?
 
A9.  In general, the License Agreement to use the code on each volume of
     The Developer Connection is shipped with that volume, and expires
     120 days after receipt of that volume or upon receipt of the next
     volume, whichever comes first. However, your licenses to the
     following toolkits continue beyond expiration of your subscription:
     The Developer's Toolkit for OS/2 2.1, Multimedia Presentation
     Manager Toolkit/2 1.1, Pen for OS/2 Developer's Toolkit, and The
     Developer's Toolkit for OS/2 Warp Version 3. As long as you adhere
     to all other terms and conditions of the Agreement, your license to
     the abovementioned toolkits does not terminate.
 
Q10. Is the Developer Connection program available outside the US?
 
A10. The Developer Connection for OS/2 program has been announced in the
     USA, Canada, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Mexico, Brazil, and the
     Asia / Pacific countries. It is currently available in all of these
     geographies.
 
Q11. How do I subscribe to The Developer Connection for OS/2?
 
A11. Here is subscription information for all geographies:
 
     In the USA, you can subscribe to The Developer Connection for OS/2
     by calling 1-800-6-DEVCON (1-800-633-8266), fax 1-303-330-7655.
 
     In Canada, call 1-800-561-5293, fax 1-905-821-1187.
 
     In Germany, call 0130-812177.
 
     Elsewhere in Europe, call IBM ISMS Direct Services in Denmark. Be
     sure to dial the international access code applicable to your
     country BEFORE dialing the appropriate phone number. Operators
     speaking the following languages are available (note that 45 is
     the country code for Denmark):
 
                 Country
     Language    Code          Number
     --------    ----------    ---------
     Danish      Denmark=45    +48101300
     Dutch       Denmark=45    +48101400
     English     Denmark=45    +48101500
     Finnish     Denmark=45    +48101650
     French      Denmark=45    +48101200
     German      Denmark=45    +48101000
     Italian     Denmark=45    +48101600
     Norwegian   Denmark=45    +48101250
     Spanish     Denmark=45    +48101100
     Swedish     Denmark=45    +48101150
 
     TeleFax:    Denmark=45    +48142207
 
     In Asia/Pacific, call 61-2-354-7684, fax 61-2-354-7766. Note that
     61 is the country code for Australia.
 
     In Latin America and South America:
 
       Country               Phone            Fax
       -------               -----            ---
 
       Argentina             313-0014
       Bolivia               35-1840
       Brazil                0800-111205      (011)886-3222
       Chile                 633-4400
       Colombia              257-0111
       Costa Rica            223-6222
       Dominican Republic    566-5161
       Ecuador               56-5100
       El Salvador           98-5011
       Guatemala             31-5859
       Honduras              32-2319
       Mexico outside        91-800-00316 (toll-free)
         Mexico City
       Mexico City           (525)627-1111
       Panama                639-977
       Paraguay              444-094
       Peru                  36-6345
       Uruguay               923-617
       Venezuela             908-8901
 
Q12. The back of the newsletter says "For CompuServe membership
     information, call...  You will receive a special introductory
     membership for IBM customers". What does the special introductory
     offer include?
 
A12. The special introductory offer includes:
     - A brochure with an ID and password
     - One month of basic services for free
     - 15 USD of free extended services
     - A free subscription to CompuServe magazine
 
     To obtain a CompuServe ID, or just to inquire about membership,
     call one of the following numbers depending on where you are
     located, and ask for Representative 239:
 
     - From the USA, call 1-800-524-3388
     - From the United Kingdom, call 0800 289 378
     - From Germany, call 0130 37 32
     - From other countries in Europe, call +44 (117) 9760681
     - From elsewhere, call 1-614-457-0802 (direct to the US)
 
Q13. If I have a CompuServe id, how do I gain access to the private
     Developer Connection section of the OS2DF2 Forum?
 
A13. The Developer Connection section on the OS2DF2 forum is the way to
     obtain technical support and also to exchange messages, ideas,
     comments, and concerns with The Developer Connection for OS/2 team
     and forum members.
 
     To obtain access to this private section, send an e-mail note
     containing your Developer Connection subscription number to the
     Developer Connection Administrator at CompuServe user id
     73423,2767. You will receive notification of access to the
     Developer Connection section within two business days. To access
     the forum, type GO OS2DF2 at the ! prompt, then select the
     Developer Connection section.
 
Q14. Is there any other electronic support for The Developer Connection
     for OS/2?
 
A14. Yes, IBM has established the DEVCON CFORUM on the OS/2 BBS under
     TalkLink (TalkLink is a feature under the IBMLink Commercial
     Services). For more information, customers in the USA may call
     1-800-547-1283; customers outside of the US should contact their
     local IBM Marketing Representative. Support is also available
     through the Internet by addressing your questions and comments to
     devcon@vnet.ibm.com .
 
Q15. I have received a promotional copy of The Developer Connection for
     OS/2 CD, dated February 1995. I'm having some problems. How can I
     get some help?
 
A15. There is a question-and-answer file addressing commonly asked
     questions on CompuServe. The file is called DPROMO.TXT; it is
     located on OS/2 Developer 2 Forum (go OS2DF2), in library 17, IBM
     files, and is updated as necessary. This is the only help available
     for customers who are not current subscribers to The Developer
     Connection for OS/2.
 
Q16. How can I purchase the IBM Developer's Toolkit for OS/2 Warp,
     Version 3?
 
A16. The IBM Developer's Toolkit for OS/2 Warp, Version 3 is included on
     The Developer Connection for OS/2. By purchasing a subscription to
     The Developer Connection for OS/2, you will receive the most
     current OS/2 toolkit updates.
 
     For owners of previous OS/2 developer toolkits who do not have a
     CD-ROM player, there is a 3.5-inch diskette shrinkwrap package that
     contains the IBM Developer's Toolkit for OS/2 Warp, Version 3
     upgrade for 79 USD. This diskette package is available through
     1-800-6DEVCON. The GEMS part number for the diskette package is
     2419864.
 
Q17. How can I get The OpenDoc Developer's Kit for OS/2?
 
A17. The OpenDoc Developer's Kit for OS/2 is included with The Developer
     Connection for OS/2. By purchasing a subscription to The Developer
     Connection for OS/2, you will receive the most current OpenDoc
     toolkit updates.
 
Q18. What is OpenDoc?
 
A18. OpenDoc is a set of APIs (Application Program Interface) and
     software for building compound documents. The OpenDoc compound
     document architecture provides a container of parts and part
     handlers.
 
     What is a container in OpenDoc?
     A container is a place where parts can be inserted.
 
     What is a part?
     Parts are the fundamental building blocks of OpenDoc.
 
     What is a part handler?
     Part handlers are the independent programs that manipulate and
     display a part type. Part handlers are divided into two types:
     editors and viewers. Part viewers allow a user to display and print
     a part's content, but not edit it. Viewers are usually distributed
     for free, but you will have to pay for editors.
 
     What is a frame?
     Frames are areas of the display that represent a part. They also
     represent a part in the negotiations for space during the layout of
     a document.
 
     For more information about OpenDoc for OS/2, send an e-mail note to
     opendoc@austin.ibm.com .
 
Q19. Is OpenDoc compatible with OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) from
     Microsoft?
 
A19. Yes, OpenDoc parts and containers are OLE-compatible. You should be
     able to place OpenDoc parts in OLE containers, and vice versa.
 
Q20. What is The Developer Connection Device Driver Kit for OS/2 (DevCon
     DDK)? How much is it?
 
A20. The DevCon DDK is an enhanced version of The Developer Connection
     for OS/2. It INCLUDES a DevCon subscription PLUS source code, test
     tools and documentation for many driver classes: display, printer,
     storage, input/output, multimedia, physical, virtual, and double
     byte character set. The DevCon DDK is priced at 299 USD in the
     United States, and 220 USD in Europe. Prices in other countries can
     be obtained by calling the country order number (see answer A11).
 
Q21. A customer subscribes to The Developer Connection for OS/2 and
     wants to subscribe to the Developer Connection Device Driver Kit
     (DDK). Since the DDK now includes The Developer Connection for
     OS/2, and the customer does not need two copies of The Developer
     Connection for OS/2, what should he do?
 
A21. The customer should get an upgrade for The Developer Connection
     Device Driver Kit, which is the DDK WITHOUT The Developer
     Connection for OS/2. This upgrade is only available to current
     subscribers of The Developer Connection for OS/2. The price of the
     upgrade is 129 USD in the United States, and 110 USD in Europe.
     Prices in other countries can be obtained by calling the country
     order number (see answer A11).
 
Q22. How can I get the Software Migration Analysis and Reporting (SMART)
     tool?
 
A22. SMART is included with The Developer Connection for OS/2. By
     purchasing a subscription to The Developer Connection for OS/2, you
     will receive the most current SMART tool updates.
 
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                                                                 subdcon
 
   +----------------------------------------------------------------+
   | Subscription Information for The Developer Connection for OS/2 |
   |      and The Developer Connection Device Driver Kit (DDK)      |
   +----------------------------------------------------------------+
 
The following list of phone and fax numbers was published in Volume 8 of
The Developer Connection News.
 
The list applies to two products:
 
o  The Developer Connection for OS/2
o  The Developer Connection Device Driver Kit (DDK)
 
The phone numbers shown are for ordering both products unless otherwise
specified.
 
In the following countries:
 
  Canada              1-800-561-5293
  Germany             0130-812177
  United States       1-800-6DEVCON (1-800-633-8266)
                  fax 1-303-330-7655
 
  NOTE: Commercial and Premier Services members of the US Solution
        Developer Program are eligible for a discounted price for The
        Developer Connection for OS/2. When ordering, be sure to specify
        that you are a Commercial and Premier Services member, and give
        your membership number.
 
In Latin and South America:
 
   Argentina           313-0014         Honduras            32-2319
   Bolivia             35-1840          Mexico (except      91-800-00316
   Brazil              0800-111205        Mexico City)
   Chile               633-4400         Mexico City only    627-1111
   Colombia            257-0111         Panama              639-977
   Costa Rica          223-6222         Paraguay            444-094
   Dominican Republic  566-5161         Peru                36-6345
   Ecuador             56-5100          Uruguay             923-617
   El Salvador         98-5011          Venezuela           908-8901
   Guatemala           31-5859
 
In Asia/Pacific countries:
 
  Be sure to dial your country's international access code before
  dialing the listed phone number. 61 is the country code for Australia.
 
  Call +61-2-354-7684, or fax to +61-2-354-7766.
 
To order within Europe:
 
   Be sure to dial your country's international access code before
   dialing the appropriate phone number or fax number listed below. 45
   is the country code for Denmark.
 
  Operators speaking the following languages are available.
 
    Language   Phone Number          Language   Phone Number
    --------   ------------          --------   ------------
 
    Danish     +45-4-810-1300        German     +45-4-810-1000
    Dutch      +45-4-810-1400        Italian    +45-4-810-1600
    English    +45-4-810-1500        Norwegian  +45-4-810-1250
    Finnish    +45-4-810-1650        Spanish    +45-4-810-1100
    French     +45-4-810-1200        Swedish    +45-4-810-1150
                      Fax        +45-4-814-2207
 
Electronic Support
------------------
 
Electronic support is provided through CompuServe, OS/2 BBS, and the
Internet. Obtain technical support or use the forums to exchange
messages, ideas, comments, or concerns with The Developer Connection for
OS/2 team or other members.
 
The dedicated Developer Connection section on CompuServe is located in
hte IBM OS/2 Developer Forum 2. To obtain access to this section, please
send a note with your subscription number to The Developer Connection
administrator at CompuServe userid 73423,2767. You will receive
notification or access to The Developer Connection section within two
business days.
 
To access the forum, type GO OS2DF2 at the ! prompt; then, select The
Developer Connection section.
 
For CompuServe membership information, call one of the following numbers
depending on where you are located:
 
  Germany                       0130 37 32
  United Kingdom                0800 289 378
  Other European Countries      +44 (117) 9760681
  United States                 1-800-524-3388
  from elsewhere                1-614-457-0802
 
Ask for representative 239. You will receive a special introductory
membership for IBM customers.
 
The DEVCON CFORUM is on the OS/2 BBS under TALKLink, which is a feature
under the IBMLink Commercial Services. Customers in the U.S. can call
1-800-547-1283; customers outside of the U.S. should contact their local
IBM marketing representative.
 
Internet users may address their questions or comments to
devcon@vnet.ibm.com . Letters to the editor may be addressed to
lisa_demeo@bocaraton.ibm.com .
 
Additional Developer Connection DDK Electronic Support (DUDE)
-------------------------------------------------------------
 
In addition, Developer Connection DDK subscribers can obtain support
through the DUDE BBS at 1-407-982-3217. After completing a
self-registration, you will have limited access to the system; then,
within one business day, you will be notified that your access level has
been upgraded to NORMAL. Send your questions using your PC and modem.
 
If you have problems connecting to the DUDE BBS, you can leave a voice
message on 1-407-982-4239. A member of the DDSC team will return your
call before the end of the next business day.
 
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                   +----------------------------------+
                   | DB2 Developer Assistance Program |           dapdb2
                   +----------------------------------+
 
The IBM DB2 Developer Assistance Program assists ISVs porting or
developing applications and tools for DB2. The program encompasses DB2
for OS/2, DB2 for AIX, DB2 for HP/UX, and DB2 for SUN Solaris.
 
This program is free of charge and is open to professional developers
who are selling their software solutions commercially.
 
Program Benefits
----------------
 
Participants in the DB2 Developer Assistance Program are provided with:
 
o  The opportunity to acquire IBM DB2 and associated software, including
     full documentation, at special terms and conditions
o  Access to telephone technical support and electronic support through
     the DB2 ISV program forums
o  Participation in testing of early code and other joint programs
o  A vendor advocate who will address your questions and concerns
o  Access to IBM marketing programs such as exhibitions, conferences,
     advertisements, direct mailings, etc.
o  A free listing of your product in the DB2 Solutions Directory, which
     is distributed worldwide to customers and the IBM marketing force
 
Enrollment
----------
 
To enroll in the DB2 Developer Assistance Program, send a message,
including your name, company name, full address, phone number, fax
number, and e-mail address, to db2dap@vnet.ibm.com . In the USA and
Canada, you can also call 1-800-627-8363 (USA and Canada) or
1-770-835-9002. From other countries, fax your request to
1-203-262-2141.
 
========================================================================
 
                        +----------------------+
                        | CICS OS/2 Developers |                 os2cics
                        +----------------------+
 
ISVs who want to evaluate how their product or service could exploit the
capabilities of CICS OS/2 Version 2 can obtain CICS OS/2 V2 code,
documentation, educational video, and technical support. The code has a
90-day life, and is for development, test, and demonstration purposes
only. Unlimited-life code is available to ISVs who are willing to commit
to produce a product or service that exploits CICS OS/2. For more
information, contact Fred Holland at 1-301-240-8143, fax 1-301-240-8836.
 
========================================================================
 
               +-------------------------------------+
               | TCP/IP Application Partners Program |            os2tcp
               +-------------------------------------+
 
ISVs who have products that interoperate with the IBM TCP/IP V2.0 for
OS/2 product, or who wish to enable their products to do so, should join
the TCP/IP Application Partners Program (TAPP). ISVs who join TAPP get a
copy of TCP/IP for OS/2 for enablement (development and testing)
purposes only. To join the TAPP, call 1-919-254-2679.
 
========================================================================
 
                          +----------------+
                          | AIX POWER Team |                    poweraix
                          +----------------+
 
The POWER Team is an exciting program developed just for you, the
developer. It is tailored to help you gain access to the IBM tools that
can help build and grow your product in the AIX marketplace, using IBM's
POWER architecture and the RISC System/6000.
 
Membership in the POWER Team program allows you to take advantage of a
variety of programs, which include:
 
Technical Support
-----------------
 
Choose from our menu of special fee-based technical support programs.
You may select the type of technical support that is best for your
development situation:
 
o Porting assistance
o Ongoing technical support
o Consulting services
  - Design reviews
  - Performance tuning
  - On-site consulting
o Benchmarking
o Remote access to an RS/6000
 
Development
-----------
 
Receive information and tools to assist you in your ongoing development
activities:
 
o Electronic technical/marketing bulletin board
o Question-and-answer database
o Early product information
o Access to AIX public-domain software
o Porting information / white papers
 
Equipment
---------
 
Enjoy the availability of equipment without straining your budget:
 
o RS/6000 Developer's Discount Program
o RS/6000 Leasing Program
o RS/6000 Rentals
 
Marketing
---------
 
Expand your marketing opportunities through our programs:
 
o AIX POWER Solutions Catalog
 
  - 50-word product description in magazine format
  - Up to 5 pages of marketing / product information via fax
  - Advertising discounts available for POWER team members
  - Call 1-415-855-3333 and request a document or catalog
 
o IBM's online databases for AIX solutions
 
Education
---------
 
Keep your leading edge with information about the latest products, new
technologies, and trends:
 
o POWER conferences
  - Technical conferences for independent software and hardware
      developers.
o AIXpert magazine subscription
  - Quarterly technical publication with a distribution of 25,000
  - Advertising discounts available for POWER team members
o Seminars / classes
 
Technical, Business, Marketing Information
------------------------------------------
 
Learn about the many programs and facilities that IBM has to offer.
Making it easier for you to work with IBM is an important goal of this
program. POWER Team members receive technical, business, and marketing
information on a regular basis.
 
Who is Eligible?
----------------
 
The POWER Team is intended for developers working on products for
commercial release. You are eligible to participate in the program if:
 
o You are currently developing products for AIX and the RISC System/6000
o You are currently marketing AIX or UNIX products.
 
More Information
----------------
 
For more information, call the POWER Team information line at
1-800-222-2363 within the USA, and request additional information and a
membership application.
 
Become a member of the POWER Team, and work with IBM to expand your
sales and marketing opportunities, take advantage of the technical
support and equipment offerings, and keep on the leading edge of new
technologies.
 
========================================================================
 
              +--------------------------------------------+
              | The AS/400 Developer Connection on CD-ROM: |      rom400
              |   Connecting Developers with Development   |
              +--------------------------------------------+
 
The AS/400 Developer Connection on CD-ROM provides AS/400 developers
with a wealth of information to promote application development on the
AS/400. The BookManager Library Reader product is provided on the CD-ROM
to enable the user to search for and view what is needed, using WIN-OS/2
within OS/2.
 
Description
-----------
 
The AS/400 Developer Connection on CD-ROM, which is also provided to
participants in AS/400 Partners In Development Membership, provides a
wealth of information selected specifically for the AS/400 solution
provider. We have also included the IBM BookManager Library Reader
product to ensure that navigation through this information is easy. All
you need is a personal computer capable of running OS/2 or Windows, a
CD-ROM drive, and the AS/400 Developer Connection on CD-ROM.
 
The IBM BookManager Library Reader product provides a "search" function,
so you can enter a topic of interest and receive a list of references
where that topic is described. You can also select to view a book based
on the title of the book, and then chapters based on the chapter
headings. Functions are also included so that material of interest can
be printed (a whole topic area, marked text, or even the whole book!) or
copied to a file. One of the most popular features is the hypertext
linking that provides you a quick easy way to "jump" to related
information or more detailed information on the same topic.
 
The information on the CD-ROM is organized on "bookshelves." Each
bookshelf contains "books." You select the bookshelf based on the
subject matter you are interested in. Books on that shelf are then
listed for you. Once you are in a book, you can "page" through it or
"search" for what you need, or look through the table of contents and
jump directly to the chapter you want.
 
The information in "books" may be a presentation or a publication or
even a program that can be run.
 
Content of Volume 2
-------------------
 
The content of Volume 2 includes the following:
 
Presentations:
 
  Overview of AS/400 Partners In Development
  AS/400 Advanced Server (8+ presentations)
  AS/400 Client/Server Computing Strategy for the Workplace
  Application Development (AD) Partner Product Demos (18)
 
Publications:
 
  Handbook of AS/400 Partners In Development
  Notebook for AS/400 Partners In Development Members
  AS/400 Client/Server Applications Directory
  IBM's Directions for the AS/400 (9 white papers)
  AS/400 System Manuals (white books) (selected)
  (over 280 books in all)
 
  Additional selected papers addressing:
    AS/400 Client/Server
    AS/400 Object Oriented Technology
    The Application Development (AD) Program
 
  Reference materials:
    All past AS/400 Partners In Development Newsletters
    AS/400 Press Releases
    Merchandising Deliverables Directory
    Selected On-Line Forums (7)
    IBM Education and Training Catalogs (all platforms)
 
Programs:
 
    SystemView/400 Product Selection Guide
    Client/Server Tool
    Client/Server Applications Directory
    AS/400 Information Directory
    Guidelines product (JBA International)
 
Content will change from issue to issue.
 
Price
-----
 
The AS/400 Developer Connection on CD-ROM is included with AS/400
Partners In Development Membership at the Starter, Starter and 800,
Base, and Base and 800 levels.
 
Membership at the Starter level is 250 USD per year and includes up to
three issues of the AS/400 Developer Connection on CD-ROM, along with
many other benefits (Newsletter, On-Line connection and more).
Individual copies of the AS/400 Developer Connection on CD-ROM are
available to Complimentary Members for 100 USD.
 
More Information
----------------
 
To become a Member of AS/400 Partners In Development and receive the
AS/400 Developer Connection on CD-ROM up to three times every year
(along with many other benefits), call 1-800-365-4426, Extension 400, or
1-507-253-7291, Ext 400.
 
========================================================================
 
            +-------------------------------------------+
            | AS/400 Partners in Development Membership |        part400
            +-------------------------------------------+
 
AS/400 Partners in Development recognizes market realities. And, more
importantly, it acts on them.
 
The program gives solution providers direct access to top IBM technical
people. Depending on which membership option you select, this can take
the form of anything from bulletin boards to private consultations with
hardware and software developers. AS/400 Partners in Development also
helps you address design, implementation, marketing, packaging, and
after-market issues.
 
Quite simply, your success drives our success. And the better your
access to our systems -- our technology, our expertise, our marketing
initiatives -- the more successful you will be. Our common goals are
simple: Better solutions, reduced development times, and effective
marketing.
 
AS/400 Partners In Development welcomes you to some exciting new offers
through its Membership Program (formally ASsociation/400). As members of
Partners In Development, AS/400 Solution Providers have access to
development resources from the AS/400 Division through a wide array of
support and services.
 
There are several membership offerings to help you become more connected
with the AS/400 Division. Memberships range in price from no charge to
4990 USD, to meet your specific business needs.
 
Assistance Overview
-------------------
 
The assistance provided by AS/400 Partners in Development can take many
forms, outlined below.
 
In Person
---------
 
(No membership required, although discounts are available to members.
Fee-based.)
 
o  Modernization Strategies. A combination of long-term planning and
   hands-on customization of your existing product.
 
o  Consulting. One-on-one assistance from technical experts.
 
o  Classes. Informative lectures and hands-on labs.
 
o  Briefings. Short introductions to technical topics for solution
   providers or AS/400 briefings for your customers.
 
o  Benchmarks. Hands-on validation of system performance while running
   your application on a specific AS/400 configuration.
 
o  Solution Integration. Front-end process planning and definition for
   custom solution delivery.
 
o  System Customization. Customized systems delivered direct from the
   factory. Can include pre-loading your application.
 
o  Customized Assistance. A unique response to your particular
   development need.
 
These are all available in Rochester, Minnesota. Outside the USA, they
may be available through Advanced Solution Service Centres (ASSCs) in
European countries, Advanced Technology Centre (ATC) in the U.K., or
Japan's Solution Partner Lab. Through special arrangement, they may also
be offered at your location.
 
Electronic Access
-----------------
 
(Membership required for electronic access)
 
Online Developer Support gives you unlimited access to the AS/400 lab.
Included with this support are the following:
 
o  Online Q and A facility. You can search a database of previously
   asked questions, and submit questions electronically to a team of
   dedicated specialists with multiplatform skills. Depending on the
   enrollment option you choose, you may also author and answer
   questions. Includes cross-platform and competitive information.
 
o  Forums. On-line interactive communication among solution providers
   and IBM development personnel focused on specific technical areas.
   You can dialogue with IBM developers worldwide on a broad range of
   topics, such as Client/Server, Envy/400, VisualAge, C Programming,
   PC Support, AS/400 Tips and Techniques, Communications, SQL, and
   Openness. Additionally, this system may provide the vehicle for
   special development relationships on laboratory focus topics.
 
o  E-Mail. An opportunity to communicate with other Business Partners,
   IBM personnel with Information Exchange Addresses (IEAs), and other
   software mall subscribers.
 
o  Bulletin Boards. Postings of articles from past newsletter articles,
   course descriptions and schedules, upcoming events, and news.
 
o  News Flashes. Important information that is flagged for your
   convenience.
 
o  The AS/400 Merchandising Directory. This is your reference guide to
   key AS/400 marketing and technical presentations, videos, demo
   diskettes, consultant reports, press clippings, and brochures.
   Included in this guide are the description, source, and ordering
   instructions for each entry. An online order form is also available.
   Topics covered include: Client/Server, Openness, Application
   Development Tools, Object-Oriented Programming, and others.
 
o  On-Line Market Research. The Rochester Marketing Research Library
   provides summaries of consultant studies and various trade press
   articles about all the latest topics. Use this facility to gain
   insights into customer needs and market trends.
 
o  On-Line Trade Articles. Condensed versions of important technical
   articles.
 
o  Handbook. A detailed guide to worldwide classes, briefings, and
   other services. Updated on-line as changes are made.
 
Hard Goods (and Hard Copy)
--------------------------
 
(Membership required for all offerings except the technical newsletter,
the handbook, and PSAS)
 
o  Technical Newsletter. Quarterly newsletter from lab includes
   technical updates and tips, business trends, product trends and
   directions, and market information. Most articles are written by
   leading AS/400 Division developers.
 
o  Handbook. Updated twice a year in hardcopy. To receive a free copy,
   call 1-800-365-4426, ext. 400 within the USA, or 1-507-253-7291,
   ext. 400 from elsewhere.
 
o  Developer Lease. IBM hardware leased at special developers' rates.
   In the USA only, AS/400 systems, including Server and Portable 1
   models, may be leased for little as 1 percent of list price per
   month. Lease terms of 12, 24, and 36 months are available, with
   options. This allows you to maintain the latest technology for
   application development and demos. AS/400 equipment rentals are also
   available to members at a reduced rate for for short-term
   demonstration purposes.
 
o  Portable Sales Automation System (PSAS). PSAS is a notebook PC tool
   available to AS/400 Partners In Development members at no charge.
   This portable tool assists you in identifying customer requirements;
   specifying the appropriate hardware, software and service solution;
   evaluating financial alternatives; creating the proposal; and even
   directly uploading the order, all from the customer's office.
 
o  Early Release. New versions and releases of Operating System/400
   software provided at no charge several weeks prior to general
   availability. Early release code enables you to implement and market
   your software at the latest level more quickly, develop the knowledge
   and skills of your technical staff ahead of your customers, and more
   effectively support your customers.
 
o  No-Charge Software Products. No-charge software facilitates your
   application development, modernization or porting projects. You may
   choose two software licenses per year at no additional charge from a
   list of Advanced Technology offerings and/or many porting tools.
   Current offerings include Code/400, Callpath/400, Multimedia,
   Wireless Computing, porting tools, and more.
 
o  Rental Equipment. Short-duration rentals of software and hardware for
   customer demos, business shows, and product announcements. USA only.
 
o  Licensed Internal Program Interfaces (LIPIs). LIPIs are available
   exclusively to AS/400 Partners In Development annual fee members for
   a one-time charge. These LIPIs document internal software interface
   specifications, which allow midware application developers to use
   system functions that were previously unavailable from IBM. Solution
   Providers can now expand their suite of offerings in a more efficient
   manner by accessing the same key interfaces as IBM AS/400 developers.
   This offering is one more demonstration that the AS/400 is an open
   system.
 
   Active AS/400 Partners In Development members must sign the IBM
   Confidential Disclosure Agreement and the IBM Licensed Internal
   Programming Interface Contract to be eligible for this offering.
 
1-800 Support
-------------
 
(Membership required)
 
o  The 800 Developer Question and Answer facility. The Q and A facility
   gives you unlimited technical support by phone to answer your
   development questions in a timely way. This technical-support 800
   number is staffed by highly skilled specialists who have
   cross-platform knowledge to answer difficult development questions.
   They will engage specific AS/400 developers from the AS/400 Lab to
   assist when necessary to answer your questions. This service is
   available 12 hours a day (7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Central time),
   Monday through Friday, every business day.
 
   Membership at the "Starter and 800" level or the "Base and 800" level
   includes this support.
 
   Equivalent support is provided to worldwide AS/400 Partners In
   Development members through the online Q and A (electronic mail).
 
Topics
------
 
AS/400 Partners In Development offerings address topics of importance
to you. As technology changes, so will both specific offerings and
general areas of emphasis.
 
o  Modernization Strategies. A two-day session focused on your needs as
   defined by both your technical, marketing, and sales decision makers.
   Topics covered generally fall into four categories:
   -- Front-Ending or Screen Scraping tools
   -- Client/Server Application Development Tools
   -- Advanced Application Tools (e.g., Mobile, Multimedia)
   -- Object-Oriented Projects
 
   The session also typically includes updates on AS/400 Systems Content
   and Directions, Client/Server, and Systems Management. The second day
   is devoted to prototyping your application and constructing your
   roadmap.
 
o  Client/Server. Client/Server has become a dominant technology.
   Assistance with design, performance, and application management is
   available.
 
o  Object-Oriented Programming. Would you like to reduce your
   application development costs and decrease your time to market? If
   so, come and learn about VisualAge, a new and powerful visual
   application development environment for rapid combination of
   object-oriented AS/400 Client/Server applications. It could
   revolutionize the way you do business.
 
o  Database Management. Information is an asset. Database management,
   which maximizes the value of that asset, is becoming even more
   important. Issues discussed include distribution across machines and
   platforms, distributed client/server, and homogeneous environments,
   efficiency, and integrity.
 
o  Integrated Multimedia. With multimedia, companies can improve
   hundreds of business practices, like conducting meetings using video
   conferencing, updating employee skills through just-in-time training,
   communicating more effectively through multimedia, and integrating
   multimedia into current applications. Explore how to extend your
   application into the world of multimedia.
 
o  Integrated Facsimile. AS/400 integrated fax provides users with
   direct fax capabilities which will increase operational efficiency
   and productivity through rapid information dispersal.
 
o  Mobile Computing. Mobile workers can now access their AS/400 wherever
   they are, whenever it's convenient, with no wired connection
   whatsoever. Wireless LANs, which can be used independently or with
   wired LANs, meet the needs of mobile workers within the office,
   campus area, or job site. Mobile Network Access products, which
   include PagerPac/400 (one-way paging) and RadioPac/400 (two-way
   radio), are designed for mobile workers outside the office.
 
o  Advanced Function Printing. Understand AFP's significance, identify
   applications, and integrate solutions to save your customers money on
   printing costs.
 
o  Migration and Conversion. By extending your software offerings to
   AS/400, you can take advantage of the most popular mid-range computer
   ever. Specific topics include:
   -- Rightsizing
   -- Competitive Conversions
   -- S/36 to Native AS/400
 
o  Integrated Language Environment. ILE is the foundation for future
   application development. It provides new functions and interfaces on
   the AS/400 to allow better performance and more flexibility for
   application development.
 
o  Openness. The AS/400 supports many programming, database, and
   networking open standards. We can work with you on analyzing and
   porting your UNIX applications and PC-based networking applications
   to the AS/400.
 
Membership Levels
-----------------
 
The five membership levels range from no charge to 4,990 USD annually.
Program content, terms and conditions, and pricing may vary by country.
 
Complimentary Membership Option
-------------------------------
 
The Complimentary Membership option is a no-charge option designed to
give the solution provider continuing information about the AS/400. As
a Complimentary Member, you receive:
 
o  The AS/400 Partners In Development Developer Newsletter.
 
o  Portable Sales Automation System (PSAS) Code.
 
Starter Membership Option
-------------------------
 
As a Starter Member, you receive:
 
o  All services given to Complimentary Members
 
o  Online developer support, including:
   --  Forums
   --  Online Q and A facility
   --  AS/400 Merchandising Directory
   --  Marketing Research Library
   --  Worldwide electronic mail and fax
   --  Special Developer Lease Option
 
o  Licensed Program Internal Interfaces (LIPIs)
 
Starter and 800 Membership Option
---------------------------------
 
As a Starter and 800 member, you receive:
 
o  All services given to Starter Members
 
o  The 1-800 Developer Question and Answer facility
 
Base Membership Option
----------------------
 
As a Base Member, you will receive:
 
o  All services given to Starter Members
 
o  IBM education discounts
 
o  Early-release code
 
o  No-charge software
 
o  Performance modeling (USA only)
 
Base and 800 Membership Option
------------------------------
 
As a Base and 800 member, you receive:
 
o  All services given to Base Members
 
o  The 1-800 Developer Question and Answer facility
 
Enrollment and More Information
-------------------------------
 
To learn more about any of the offerings listed here or to enroll as an
AS/400 Partners In Development member, call 1-800-365-4426, ext. 400
within the USA, or 1-507-253-7291, ext. 400 from elsewhere.
 
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                   +---------------------------------+
                   | Object Connection for VisualAge |           connobj
                   +---------------------------------+
 
The IBM Object Connection is a program that encourages enterprises to go
into the business of building VisualAge enabled reusable parts for the
open market. Its intent is to ensure that there is a robust supply of
application part components available to VisualAge developers. These
parts, like those supplied by IBM, can be added to the VisualAge parts
palette, and used repetitively in the development of VisualAge
applications. These parts must be written to the interface
specifications provided in the IBM manual titled "Construction from
Parts Architecture: Building Parts for Fun and Profit".
 
In addition, the Object Connection Program accommodates enterprises in
the business of developing and offering VisualAge complementary
development tools and IBM Smalltalk compatible class libraries.
 
Who Can Join?
-------------
 
Enterprises interested in assessing the prospect of building VisualAge
objects (or parts) from the open market are eligible for membership in
the Object Connection.
 
Object Connection Services
--------------------------
 
Members are entitled to:
 
o  A development license for VisualAge at very favorable terms
o  Marketing assistance
o  Technical support
   - access via an 800 phone number to VisualAge Technical Consultants
       on a call-back basis
   - technical documentation updates
   - interactive technical support on CompuServe
 
More Information
----------------
 
To join, call VisualAge's Object Connection Program at 1-800-IBM-CARY
(1-800-426-2279) within the USA, and request a program information
package and membership application. Fill out the application form and
return it to the Object Connection Program. The program manager will
call you for a telephone interview.
 
========================================================================
 
                         +-------------------+
                         | PenAssist Program |                   helppen
                         +-------------------+
 
The IBM Pen Developer Assistance Program (PenAssist) is designed
especially for the developer of pen software. The program is tailored to
help you develop applications in the emerging technology.
 
A Variety of Programs
---------------------
 
Membership in the PenAssist program allows you to take advantage of a
variety of programs:
 
o Access to IBM test centers
  - Located in Palo Alto CA and Atlanta GA
  - Equipped with an IBM PS/2 and digitizing pads. The PS/2 has PenDOS
      SDK and Pen for OS/2 installed.
 
o Electronic mail. Enrolled developers can send to and receive messages
  directly from the software developers' support organization.
 
o IBM pen software CompuServe forum, a forum for pen and mobile systems.
  IBM monitors this forum and provides responses to inquiries.
 
o Special software discounts:
  - PenDOS SDK
  - Pen for OS/2 SDK
  - Pen development tools
 
o Special hardware discounts:
  - Special prices on pen hardware from IBM and other manufacturers.
  - Eligibility to receive a 50 percent discount on selected IBM
      printers and features.
  - Notification of special promotional offerings.
 
o IBM Fax Information Service
  - Provides immediate information about IBM's pen and mobile software
      systems and other IBM products and services.
  - Service is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, free of charge.
 
o Marketing
  - Pen application catalog
  - Personal Computer Company BBS - applications will be listed in this
      database at no additional charge.
  - Business-show support
  - A single point of contact will be provided to assist with reviewing
      development and marketing relationships.
 
Who is Eligible?
----------------
 
o Developers of pen applications
o Developers of commercially available applications
o Corporations developing pen applications for their own use.
 
More Information
----------------
 
For more information about PenAssist, call 1-800-627-8363 from the USA
and Canada, 1-770-835-9002 from elsewhere, or fax to 1-770-835-9444.
 
========================================================================
 
                +-----------------------------------+
                | IBM Product Compatibility Program |           compprog
                +-----------------------------------+
 
The IBM Product Compatibility Program provides an opportunity for
developers to gain increased visibility, marketability, and credibility
for their products.
 
Compatibility Testing Opportunity
---------------------------------
 
This program gives ISVs a testing opportunity to establish and
communicate the compatibility of their products with OS/2 Warp
standalone, clients, servers, and LAN systems.
 
Resource for Making Wise Purchasing Decisions
---------------------------------------------
 
This program is a resource that customers and their advisors can use to
make product purchase decisions with the confidence that a product has
been tested for compatibility with OS/2 Warp and LAN Server systems.
Consultants, resellers, integrators, OEMs, and other product decision
makers can confidently use the list of compatible products in selecting
products that meet their customers' needs. Recommending compatible
products can help expedite buying decisions and protect a customer's
investment.
 
Value of Tested Compatibility
-----------------------------
 
There are literally thousands of software products on the market today
to help solve customers' problems. The challenge is finding which
products are compatible and can be integrated into a customer's
environment.
 
Selecting tested compatible products gives buyers confidence in product
decisions and/or recommendations. Such confidence can speed up product
decisions and potentially lessen installation and support time.
 
Compatibility Program Description
---------------------------------
 
There are two options of product compatibility. The "Ready for..."
option shows compatibility of a software product with either OS/2 Warp
or IBM LAN Server with OS/2 Warp. The "Tested and Approved..." option
addresses a more sophisticated LAN systems environment to show
compatibility, interoperability, and coexistence with many LAN products.
 
Ready for OS/2 Warp and Ready for OS/2 Warp LAN Server
------------------------------------------------------
 
The "Ready for OS/2 Warp" and "Ready for OS/2 Warp LAN Server" programs
offer software developers a set of IBM guidelines to self-test their
products for compatibility with a particular version of either OS/2 Warp
or IBM LAN Server with OS/2 Warp.
 
This program, with some variations, also exists in some geographies
outside the USA and Canada. Developers outside of North America are
encouraged to contact their local IBM country representative for their
specific program benefits.
 
Call 1-800-IBM-4FAX (U.S.) to request documents 3241 and 3242 for a list
of compatible products under the Ready self-test program. In Canada,
call 1-800-HELP-FAX. From elsewhere, use a fax telephone to call
1-415-855-4329. Additional information can be obtained by calling
1-800-992-4777 within the U.S. and Canada.
 
Tested and Approved for OS/2 Warp LAN Systems
---------------------------------------------
 
The "Tested and Approved for OS/2 Warp LAN Systems" program offers
hardware and software developers the opportunity to have IBM test their
product with many IBM and non-IBM products in a LAN systems
real-world-like environment. IBM publishes the results of these tests to
help customers understand the test environment plus any workarounds
discovered during the testing. Customer knowledge of test results helps
customers make more informed purchases and experience smoother
installations.
 
Call 1-800-IBM-4FAX (U.S.) to request document 3605 for a list of
compatible products tested by IBM in the Tested and Approved category,
with their respective test document numbers. From Canada, call
1-800-HELP-FAX. From elsewhere, use a fax telephone to call
1-415-855-4329. Additional information can be obtained by calling
1-800-992-4777 within the U.S. and Canada.
 
Publicity: Where to Find Compatible Product Information
-------------------------------------------------------
 
Upon successful completion of testing, developers are given the use of a
compatibility mark to use with their products' advertising, brochures,
and other marketing materials.
 
Customers are encouraged to look at products displaying the mark with
confidence that the products have been tested in an appropriate
environment. Customers can receive names and/or reports of compatible
products through the following sources:
 
- CompuServe IBMDESK forum
- Internet WWW: http://www.austin.ibm.com/pspinfo/compatibility.html
- IBM's TALKLink OS/2 bulletin board, 1-800-547-1283
- MAX (CD-ROM from Computer Reseller News)
- Support on Site for Networks CD, 1-800-827-7889
- Sources and Solutions catalog (1-203-452-7704 or fax 1-203-268-1075)
- National Solution Center's database
- 1-800-IBM-4FAX (U.S.), 1-800-HELP-FAX (Canada), or from elsewhere,
    call 1-415-855-4329 from a fax phone, and request documents 3241,
    3242, 3605
- IBM Developer Connection CD, 1-800-633-8266
- IBM booths at major related trade shows
 
Compatible products also qualify for reduced advertising rates in major
magazines.
 
Program Q-and-A via Fax
-----------------------
 
A set of questions and answers about the Product Compatibility Program
can be found on the Internet or by requesting document 3657 from
1-800-IBM-4FAX (U.S.), 1-800-HELP-FAX in Canada, or (from elsewhere,
using a fax phone) 1-415-855-4329.
 
More Information
----------------
 
Additional information can be obtained by calling 1-800-992-4777 (U.S.
and Canada) or via fax: 1-512-838-2473.
 
========================================================================
 
            +---------------------------------------------+
            | Professional Certification Program from IBM |     certprof
            +---------------------------------------------+
 
The Professional Certification Program from IBM is an international
program that provides recognition to technical professionals who
demonstrate proficiency in IBM software and related products. To become
certified, individuals must demonstrate their proficiency in supporting
selected IBM products by passing a series of exams.
 
OS/2 and LAN Server Roles
-------------------------
 
Individuals, rather than organizations, can receive certification in the
following roles:
 
o  Certified OS/2 Engineer
 
   Provides the skills to support OS/2 installations and develop
   expertise in fine-tuning and customizing OS/2 platform systems.
 
o  Certified OS/2 Instructor
 
   Validates the skills required to teach OS/2 education courses, and
   provides technical instructor credentials.
 
o  Certified LAN Server Administrator
 
   Develops the skills necessary to support day-to-day network
   operations, such as backing up the server, maintaining security, and
   loading applications.
 
o  Certified LAN Server Engineer
 
   Provides service and support skills for LAN Server networks,
   including network design, performance tuning, and installation.
 
o  Certified LAN Server Instructor
 
   Enables participants to teach LAN Server education courses and
   provides technical instructor credentials.
 
Other Certification Roles
-------------------------
 
The Professional Certification Program from IBM also offers roles
for AIX, CallPath DirectTalk/2, and Client/Server. For information
about these certification options, contact Drake Prometric at
1-800-959-3926.
 
Testing
-------
 
Certification testing is administered by Drake Prometric, a worldwide
provider of certification testing in the computer industry. Classroom
education is offered through IBM Education and Training.
 
CERT95.ZIP, in the IBM/PSP Marketing Library on CompuServe (lib 8 of the
OS2USER forum), contains sample tests, test objectives, and program
descriptions for the current programs.
 
More Information
----------------
 
For more information about the PSP Professional Certification Program
from IBM, contact Drake Prometric:
 
United States and Canada                  1-800-959-3926
Germany, Austria, Switzerland,            +49 (0) 211 500 9950
  Italy, Eastern Europe
United Kingdom, Ireland, Scandinavia,     +44 (0) 71 437 6900
  The Middle East, South Africa
France, Spain, Portugal, North Africa     +33 (0) 1 4289 8749
Japan                                     +81 3 3269 9620
Australia                                 +61 2 414 3666
Latin America - fax request to US:        1-612-896-7020
  (include the name Melissa Loh and
   phone number 1-612-896-7458)
 
or visit our web site, http://www.austin.ibm.com/pspinfo/profesnl.html .
 
========================================================================
 
             +----------------------------------------------+
             | Professional Certification Program from IBM: |     certqa
             |            Questions and Answers             |
             +----------------------------------------------+
 
General Program
---------------
 
 Q1. What is the Professional Certification Program from IBM?
 
 A1. The Professional Certification from IBM is a formal program that
     provides a method for individuals to demonstrate their knowledge,
     professional skills, and proficiency on selected IBM products.
     Certification is based on identified roles pertaining to different
     IBM products or product lines. Individuals, rather than
     organizations, are certified for a specific role by passing a
     series of fee tests that are designed to measure their knowledge
     of the tasks of that role.
 
 Q2. How do I enroll in the program?
 
 A2. To enroll in the Professional Certification Program from IBM, an
     individual should contact Drake Prometric at 1-800-959-EXAM. Drake
     can supply you with information about the overall program
     requirements by sending you the IBM Professional Certification
     Program catalog. Drake can also tell you when and where tests are
     offered.
 
 Q3. What is the cost of a test?
 
 A3. Each test costs 100 USD, contains over 75 questions, and takes
     between one and two hours to complete.
 
Test Preparation
----------------
 
 Q4. Am I required to take an IBM Education course to prepare for
     certification tests?
 
 A4. No. As long as you possess sufficient knowledge, you need only pass
     each test that has been designated in the test roadmap for the
     certified role in which you are interested.
 
 Q5. What methods are available to me to help me ensure that I am
     prepared for the tests?
 
 A5. You have several alternatives to help you prepare for the tests.
     Once you determine the role for which you would like to certify,
     you should then study the roadmap for that role. The test roadmap
     will help you to map out your course for certification.
 
     The Professional Certification Program from IBM provides test
     objectives and sample tests free of charge to aid you in preparing
     for certification.
 
     Roadmaps, test objectives, and sample tests are available by
     calling 1-800-959-EXAM (1-800-959-3926).
 
     IBM Education and Training offers courses and, in some cases, sells
     the course material separately as an aid in self-study.
     Information about courses and course material is available by
     calling 1-800-IBM-TEACH (1-800-426-8322).
 
     The OS/2 Certification Handbook and the OS/2 LAN Server
     Certification Handbook are designed to be an inexpensive and
     convenient means of test preparation. These self-study books can be
     purchased by calling 1-800-959-EXAM (1-800-959-3926).
 
 Q6. Now that course information is not included in your roadmaps, how
     can I tell which course I need to take for any given test?
 
 A6. A list of courses is available with the new Professional
     Certification Program catalog. Courses are listed by topic, so you
     can readily see which courses are available to meet your needs.
     Courses no longer have a one-to-one correspondence with tests, but
     you will be able to pick and choose the course you need. For
     example, while the tests cover both old and new releases, the
     courses do not. Therefore, if you are already familiar with the old
     release, you need only take the course to prepare you for the part
     of the test that covers the new release.
 
 Q7. Do IBM courses and the self-study books cover everything I will
     need to know to pass the required certification exams?
 
 A7. IBM courses and the self-study books were designed with
     certification testing in mind, and are quite comprehensive.
     However, successful study through books and courses does not assure
     your success in passing certification exams.
 
     The recommendation for pursuing certification roles is that the
     individual has at least three months of hands-on knowledge with the
     product. The certification program is designed to test individuals'
     skills with the product -- not their study abilities.
 
New OS/2 and LAN Server Tests
-----------------------------
 
 Q8. Why do the new OS/2 and LAN Server tests cover both the old and new
     product releases?
 
 A8. Because the prior product releases are still used by many customers
     and supported by IBM, the Professional Certification Program from
     IBM will continue to support certification on these prior releases.
 
     To make it easier for new candidates to certify their skills on
     both releases of the product, the new test roadmaps were designed
     to require only one series of tests. Had the new tests only covered
     the new releases, an individual would have to take twice the number
     of tests to be certified on both product levels. A Certified OS/2
     or LAN Server Engineer will be more creditable by being technically
     competent on both levels of products which are available and
     supported in our customers' environments.
 
 Q9. How can I get certified only on the new product release?
 
 A9. If you already certified on a previous release, you need only take
     the one Update test for your role to certify on the new release. If
     you have never been certified, the new test process will certify
     you on both the old and new releases. At this time, there is no
     process which allows you to certify only on the new product
     release.
 
Q10. I am already certified on a previous product release. Since the new
     tests cover both old and new product releases, does this mean I
     will have to be retested on the old release while certifying on the
     new release?
 
A10. No. Update tests are available for each role, which allow you to
     update your certification to include the new product release by
     taking only one test. This Update test includes material relevant
     only to the new product release.
 
Q11. I am a Certified LAN Server Engineer and a Certified LAN Server
     Administrator on release 3.0. Do I need to take both update test
     number 120, LAN Server 4.0 Administration Update, and update test
     number 121, LAN Server 4.0 Engineer Update, to update my two
     certifications to release 4.0?
 
A11. No. You need only take test 121, which encompasses material from
     test 120, and you will update both of your certifications by
     passing one exam.
 
Q12. I am a Certified LAN Server Administrator on release 3.0. Can I
     take test 121, LAN Server 4.0 Engineer Update, instead of test 120,
     LAN Server 4.0 Administration Update?
 
A12. No. Test 121 is only for individuals who are Certified LAN Server
     Engineers. You will need to take test 120.
 
Q13. I am partially through the test process toward certification. How
     do I complete my certification, given these program changes?
 
A13. To complete your certification to include the latest product
     release, you will need to finish your certification process with
     the new tests, and then pass the Update test for your role.
 
Q14. Am I required to take this additional test to complete my
     certification?
 
A14. If you wish to complete your certification which began with the old
     tests but will finish with the new tests, you will need the Update
     test to complete your certification. You may choose to start the
     process over with all the new tests, in which case you will not
     need to take the Update test.
 
Q15. Why am I required to take this additional Update test to complete
     my certification to include the new product releases?
 
A15. To ensure the integrity of our program and to ensure the highest
     caliber of certified professionals, the Professional Certification
     Program from IBM has the responsibility to ensure thorough testing
     of all candidates. To allow individuals to certify on the new
     product release without adequately testing their knowledge on
     specific areas of that release, would not result in a quality
     certification process. The Update test is the easiest way -- with
     one test -- to ensure that individuals are tested on aspects of the
     new release which may have been missed when taking a combination of
     old and new tests.
 
Q16. I have only taken one core test toward my certification. Do I still
     need to take the Update test after finishing all remaining tests on
     the new release?
 
A16. If you have only taken one test, you may prefer to retake that one
     test in the new test scheme rather than the Update test. No matter
     how many tests you've completed, either the test(s) can be retaken
     or the Update test must be completed.
 
Q17. I have only taken test 009, Installing and Supporting OS/2, toward
     my LAN Server engineer certification. Do I still need to take the
     Update test after finishing all remaining tests on the new release?
 
A17. No. This is the only exception to requiring that all core tests be
     covered on the new release. To become a Certified LAN Server
     Engineer, your one test requirement on OS/2 can be filled with the
     old test until the time that the old test is no longer available.
 
Q18. I have only taken an elective toward my engineer certification. Do
     I still need to take the Update test after finishing all remaining
     (core) tests on the new release?
 
A18. No. Most electives will still be available and unchanged by this
     announcement. Therefore, any elective already taken will apply to
     certification.
 
Q19. Why is test 013, OS/2 Performance and Tuning, being withdrawn as an
     elective toward a Certified OS/2 Engineer?
 
A19. Performance and tuning information was determined to be knowledge
     that is key to support of OS/2. Therefore, the content of this test
     was moved into two of the new core tests (test 109, Installing
     OS/2, and test 112, Supporting OS/2).
 
Q20. Why are some of the new tests two hours instead of one hour (like
     they have been in the past)?
 
A20. Some new tests had to grow in size to adequately cover the added
     functions of the new product releases, as well as to include
     material on both product releases. In those cases, you are allowed
     two hours, but you may actually finish in less time.
 
Q21. Are the questions on the new tests equally divided between the old
     and new releases?
 
A21. The new tests cover questions specific to the old release,
     questions specific to the new release, and questions that pertain
     to both releases. The number of questions for any of these three
     types varies by tests, but was determined to be adequate coverage
     of that topic for both releases.
 
Q22. Do I still have only one year to pass all required tests after
     taking the first test to become certified?
 
A22. No. In order to encourage you to complete your certification at
     your own pace, this requirement has been removed.
 
Q23. If I certify on the new product release, what will I have to
     distinguish my credentials in the marketplace from someone who is
     certified only on the previous product release?
 
A23. Effective with this announcement, new certificates and photo IDs
     will reflect the release on which a person is certified. In
     addition, you will receive camera-ready copy for a new logo for use
     on your business cards, etc.  This new logo, also included in the
     new lapel pins, will clearly differentiate you from those certified
     through the old process.
 
OS/2 and LAN Server Instructor Certification
--------------------------------------------
 
Q24. I have obtained my instructor certification prior to this
     announcement of a change in the program. Am I still entitled to the
     benefits of the previous program?
 
A24. No. The previous instructor certification program -- with its
     accompanying benefits -- has been discontinued, and replaced by the
     newly described program.
 
Q25. I have obtained my instructor certification prior to this
     announcement of a change in the program. Do I have an easy way to
     recertify and qualify for the new instructor program benefits?
 
A25. Yes. If you are already a Certified OS/2 Engineer or a Certified
     LAN Server Engineer, your instructor certification will
     automatically transfer to the new program. Acquiring certification
     as either an OS/2 or LAN Server engineer, coupled with your
     previous certification as an instructor, will qualify you as a
     certified instructor in the new program. You will not need to
     complete the remaining steps.
 
Q26. Under the new instructor certification program, am I still required
     to be affiliated with an IBM Licensed Education Center and teach
     only from IBM course curriculum?
 
A26. No. The Professional Certification Program from IBM encourages you
     to use the curriculum you feel best teaches our products at the
     location and facilities most convenient to you.
 
Q27. Must I take instructional skills course through IBM to illustrate
     my instructional education?
 
A27. No. Any in-company or external instructional education will be
     accepted.
 
More Information
----------------
 
Q28. How can I get more information about the Professional Certification
     Program from IBM?
 
A28. Call 1-800-959-EXAM (1-800-959-3926) and ask for our latest
     catalog, which includes a list of all roles currently available
     through the program. Also, you may refer to our web site at
     http://www.austin.ibm.com/pspinfo/profesnl.html .
 
Q29. How can I purchase a self-study book?
 
A29. Call 1-800-959-EXAM (1-800-959-3926) to order a book.
 
Q30. How can I get more information on IBM Education and Training
     classes and course material for sale?
 
A30. Call 1-800-IBM-TEACH (1-800-426-8322).
 
Q31. How can I get a free copy of test objectives and sample tests for
     my role?
 
A31. Call 1-800-959-EXAM (1-800-959-3926).
 
Q32. Where else can I get information about the program?
 
A32. Call 1-800-IBM-4FAX (1-800-426-4329) for program information, test
     objectives, and an instructor certification application.
 
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            +----------------------------------------------+
            | Connections to IBM U.S. Announcement Letters |    lettconn
            +----------------------------------------------+
 
IBM U.S. Announcement Letters can be accessed in several ways.
 
Internet
--------
 
The Internet is a world-wide collection of networks that provides a wide
range of services including electronic mail, bulletin boards and file
transfer. You may access the Internet through Advantis (e.g., via
TCPGATE), other commercial Internet service providers, or via a direct
connection.
 
You can access IBM U.S. Announcement Letters on the Internet using
the Internet client/server code "Mosaic" and/or "Gopher".
 
  WORLD-WIDE WEB (MOSAIC OR OS/2 WEBEXPLORER)
 
  Mosaic/WebExplorer is a versatile, easy, point-and-click hypermedia
  interface to the World Wide Web. Hypermedia documents contain links,
  not only to other pieces of text, but also to other forms of media
  such as sounds, images, and movies. The World Wide Web server is a
  system that helps organize Internet information by linking documents
  together via a technology called hypertext. It allows selected words
  to "expand" to provide more information about the subject.
 
  The IBM home page, the primary entry point to IBM material, is located
  on a World Wide Web server. To access the IBM home page:
 
  o  Enter the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) http://www.ibm.com
 
  To access IBM U.S. Announcement Letters:
 
  1. Click on "What we offer" icon
 
     o  Click on "Offering Information"
     o  Click on "IBMLink" under United States
     o  Click on "Public information and services"
     o  Click on "INFOLink" or "Announcements"
     o  Save the fastpath in your "QuickList" (or "HotList")
     o  For follow-on access through your Web browser, click on
        "QuickList" (or "HotList") and directly access the
        announcements.
 
  2. Click on "Newsfeed" icon
 
     o   Click on "Raw data"
     o   Click on "US announcement letters"
 
  WebExplorer is available with OS/2 Warp.
 
  GOPHER
 
  Gopher is a menu-based, textual interface to the Gopher servers on the
  Internet. There are thousands of Gopher servers containing data on
  almost any subject.
 
  The IBMLink Gopher server is located at gopher.ibmlink.ibm.com . To
  access the Gopher server:
 
  1. Log on to Advantis, giving account code, userid, and password
 
     o  Select "TCPGATE"
     o  Select "Establish a Gopher connection"
     o  Select "IBMLink Information System"
     o  Announcements are listed for viewing and printing
 
  2. From your web browser, enter the URL: gopher://gopher.ibm.com
 
     o  Click on "IBM US Announcement Information"
     o  Click on "IBM US Announcement Letters"
 
  LISTSERVER
 
  The Listserver allows an Internet e-mail user to automatically receive
  U.S. Announcement Letter titles and, optionally, the letter itself
  from selected categories. This will occur when announcements are made
  public. For more information about the Listserver:
 
  o  Send an e-mail to announce@webster.ibmlink.ibm.com
  o  Enter the keyword "subscribe" in the body of the e-mail (leave the
     subject line blank)
 
  You will receive a list of categories and detailed instructions.
  Select the categories that interest you, and resend this information
  via e-mail to announce@webster.ibmlink.ibm.com.
 
IBM Fax Information Service
---------------------------
 
The IBM Fax Information Service allows you to access up-to-date
information, including announcement letters, 24 hours a day, seven days
a week. You may request up to five documents per call. You may also
request other product information. Outside the United States, dial
1-415-855-4329 from a fax machine.
 
From a touch-tone phone:
 
o  Dial 1-800-IBM-4FAX (1-800-426-4329)
 
o  Option 1
 
   -  Press 1 to have instructions faxed to you
   -  Press 2 to listen to instructions
 
o  Option 2
 
   -  Enter document number:
 
      1000 for current week's announcement listing
      1001 for past three months' announcement listing
      1002 for past twelve months' announcement listing
      6-digit announcement letter number (e.g., 195-042)
      3195 for "Connections to U.S. Announcement Letters"
      1025 for U.S. Announcement Listserver category form and details
 
IBMLink
-------
 
IBMLink is a comprehensive information retrieval system that provides
easy electronic access to support tools and product information.
IBMLink services are at the discretion of the IBM marketing field
location. Contact your IBM representative for additional information.
 
To access IBM announcement letters via IBMLink:
 
o  Log on to Advantis, giving account code, userid, and password
o  Select IBMLink option
o  On the IBMLink Main Menu:
   -  Select "INFOLink"
   -  Select "IBMAnnounces"
   -  Select "announcement"
   -  Choose selection criteria (date, search words, and so on)
   -  Announcements are listed for viewing and printing
o  Fastpath option from IBMLink Main Menu:
   -  Type "an" at the command line, and press Enter
   -  Choose selection criteria (date, search words, and so on)
   -  Announcements are listed for viewing and printing
 
More Information
----------------
 
If you have any questions about these electronic delivery vehicles, or
feedback on our announcement letter product, please call 1-914-642-6030,
fax 1-914-642-4063, or send an Internet message to
rtunstall@vnet.ibm.com .
 
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                       +-------------------+
                       | 800 Phone Numbers |                      800nos
                       +-------------------+
 
The 800 phone numbers below come from two sources:
(1) This issue and preceding issues of SDO Developer Support News
(2) Information posted on IBM internal forums
 
AIX POWER Team Information Line                           1-800-222-2363
Common Desktop Environment Developers Conference          1-800-225-4698
AIX Support Family Marketing Center                       1-800-225-5249
OS/2 Multimedia Tools                                     1-800-228-8584
OS/2 Dealer Locator Service                               1-800-237-4824
IBM National Service/IBM Support Center                 * 1-800-237-5511
IBM Multimedia Help Center                                1-800-241-1620
IBM PSP Developer Support Marketing Center              * 1-800-285-2936
OS/2 Sales                                                1-800-342-6672
    (in Canada, 1-800-465-7999)
Lotus Notes                                             * 1-800-346-1305
AS/400 Partners In Development                            1-800-365-4426
OS/2 Warp Server Beta 2                                   1-800-393-8922
    (in Canada, 1-800-426-2255, ext. 1292)
IBM International Marketing Information                   1-800-426-1774
IBM National Telesales Marketing (IBMCALL)                1-800-426-2255
IBM Cary (North Carolina) Customer Center                 1-800-426-2279
Boca Raton Technical Services Software System Test        1-800-426-2622
IBM Direct                                                1-800-426-2968
    (in Canada, 1-800-465-7999)
IBM general information                                   1-800-426-3333
    (in Canada, 1-800-465-1234)
IBM Business Partner Locator (PS/2 Dealers)               1-800-426-3377
IBM FAX Information Service                               1-800-426-4329
    (in Canada, HELPFAX, 1-800-465-3299)
IBM Worldwide Industry Hardware Support                 * 1-800-426-4579
IBM Translation Manager Support Center                    1-800-426-4862
IBM-4-YOU                                                 1-800-426-4968
Networking Services Marketing Center                      1-800-426-5148
PS/2, PS/1, PC publications                               1-800-426-7282
IBM Special Contracts Center                              1-800-426-7456
IBM Education and Training                                1-800-426-8322
    (in Canada, 1-800-661-2131)
IBM Partnerline                                           1-800-426-9990
S/390 Developers Association                              1-800-446-2568
IBM Global Network                                        1-800-455-5056
IBM Power Series information                              1-800-472-4693
Integrated Systems Solutions Corporation                  1-800-472-4772
1995 Data Warehouse Conference                            1-800-477-7514
Personal Software Products Advertising Program            1-800-491-5740
OS/2 2.1 and OS/2 2.1 for Windows ServicePaks             1-800-494-3044
CompuServe Membership                                   * 1-800-524-3388
ATT Business Translations (Solution Developer Program     1-800-544-5721
    member phone number)
Personal Systems Competency Center + TALKLink (OS2BBS)    1-800-547-1283
    (in Canada: IBMLink, 1-800-268-3100;
     Customer Assistance group, 1-800-465-1234)
IBM AntiVirus Direct                                      1-800-551-3579
Software Vendor Systems Center                            1-800-553-1623
Lotus Development Corp. company information             * 1-800-575-6887
Software Vendor Hotline                                 * 1-800-627-8363
IBM Developer Connection for OS/2                         1-800-633-8266
    (in Canada, 1-800-561-5293)
IBM Direct Response Marketing                             1-800-633-8266
ColoradOS/2 Conference                                  * 1-800-648-5717
IBM Custom Application Porting Workshops                  1-800-678-31UP
IBM Solution Partnership Center                           1-800-678-4249
Personal Systems Technical Solutions magazine             1-800-678-8014
Delphi                                                    1-800-695-4005
IBM AntiVirus Services Marketing                          1-800-742-2493
IBM Support Family Marketing Center                       1-800-742-9235
IBM Midwestern Customer Service Center                    1-800-756-4426
The Visual Revolution                                     1-800-759-8599
The Warped World Tour                                     1-800-766-4344
    fax 1-800-568-8852
IBM TechCon Client/Server Conference and Exposition       1-800-767-2336
Personal Systems HelpCenter                               1-800-772-2227
    (in Canada, 1-800-237-5511)
PRODIGY                                                   1-800-776-0845
                                                      and 1-800-776-3449
Indelible Blue, Inc.                                      1-800-776-8284
    (in Canada, 1-800-672-4255)
SunSoft Catalyst Early Access Program                     1-800-786-7638
Personal Systems Support Family Marketing Center          1-800-799-7765
IBM Microkernel Business Development Hotline              1-800-816-7493
Speech Products Support Center                            1-800-825-5263
America Online                                            1-800-827-6364
IBM Technical Directory                                   1-800-832-4347
CompuServe                                              * 1-800-848-8199
IBM Rebate and Redemption Center                          1-800-853-4777
1996 IBM Technical Interchange                          * 1-800-872-7109
IBM Publications (Software Manufacturing Solutions)       1-800-879-2755
Store Systems Support Family Marketing Center             1-800-882-3469
Lotusphere '96 satellite broadcast on 22 January 1996   * 1-800-887-4640
IBM Ultimedia Tools Series                                1-800-887-7771
PenDOS Software Developer Kit                             1-800-888-8242
IBM Software Manufacturing Company                        1-800-926-0364
OS/2 Developer magazine                                   1-800-926-8672
Drake Prometric (for Professional Certification         * 1-800-959-3926
  Program from IBM)
IBM Customer Support Center                               1-800-967-7882
IBM Software Solution Services/Personal Systems Support * 1-800-992-4777
  Family
 
 * indicates the number works in Canada also
 
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         +--------------------------------------------------+
         | Trademarks, Registered Trademarks, Service Marks |     tmarks
         +--------------------------------------------------+
 
(R)  AIX, AIX/6000, AIX SystemView NetView/6000, APL2, APL2/6000,
     Application System/400, AS/400, AT, Audio Visual Connection,
     BookManager, Communications Manager/2, C Set/2, DisplayWrite,
     HelpCenter, HelpWare, IBM, ImagePlus, LAN NetView, LAN NetView Fix,
     LAN NetView Manage, LAN NetView Monitor, LAN NetView Scan, LAN
     NetView Monitor, LAN Server, Micro Channel, MVS/ESA, NetView,
     NetView/6000, Operating System/2, Operating System/400, OS/2,
     OS/400, Pen for OS/2, Personal Computer AT, Personal System/2,
     Presentation Manager, PS/1, PS/2, RISC System/6000, RS/6000, S/390,
     SQL/400, SynchroStream, Systems Application Architecture, TALKLink,
     ThinkPad, Ultimedia, VM/ESA, VSE/ESA, and XGA are registered
     trademarks of International Business Machines Corp.
 
(R)  Apple, Bento, and Macintosh are registered trademarks of Apple
     Computer Corp.
(R)  ATI is a registered trademark of ATI Technologies, Inc.
(R)  BIX is a registered trademark of General Videotex Corp.
(R)  Cirrus Logic is a registered trademark of Cirrus Technology, Inc.
(R)  COMDEX is a registered trademark of The Interface Group, Inc.
(R)  CompuServe and CompuServe Information Manager are registered
     trademarks of CompuServe, Inc.
(R)  Computer Associates is a registered trademark of Computer
     Associates International, Inc.
(R)  dBASE is a registered trademark of Borland International.
(R)  Disneyland and Walt Disney World are registered trademarks of Walt
     Disney Productions.
(R)  Epson is a registered trademark of Seiko Epson Corp.
(R)  GEnie is a registered service mark of General Electric Information
     Services Co.
(R)  Headland is a registered trademark of Headland, Inc.
(R)  Hitachi is a registered trademark of Hitachi Corp.
(R)  HP, LaserJet, DeskJet, OpenView, and PaintJet are registered
     trademarks of Hewlett-Packard Co.
(R)  IEEE is a registered trademark of The Institute of Electrical and
     Electronics Engineers.
(R)  Indianapolis 500, Indy 500, Indy, and Gasoline Alley are registered
     trademarks of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Corporation, USA.
(R)  Intel and Indeo are registered trademarks of Intel Corp.
(R)  Internet is a registered trademark of Internet, Inc.
(R)  ISO is a registered trademark of the International Organization for
     Standardization.
(R)  Lotus, Lotus Notes, Lotusphere, Notes Express, and 1-2-3 are
     registered trademarks of Lotus Development Corp., a subsidiary of
     IBM.
(R)  MicroGate is a registered trademark of Gateway Microsystems, Inc.
(R)  Microsoft, Microsoft C, and NT Server are registered trademarks of
     Microsoft Corp.
(R)  NEC is a registered trademark of NEC Corp.
(R)  NetWare, NetWare Server, and Novell are registered trademarks of
     Novell, Inc.
(R)  Object Management Group and OMG are registered trademarks of Object
     Management Group, Inc.
(R)  OpenDoc is a registered trademark of Apple Computer Corp.
(R)  OPEN LOOK is a registered trademark of UNIX System Laboratories,
     Inc.
(R)  Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corp.
(R)  PenDOS is a registered trademark of Communication Intelligence
     Corp.
(R)  PRODIGY is a registered trademark of PRODIGY Services Corp.
(R)  SMART is a registered trademark of One Up Corp.
(R)  Sony is a registered trademark of Sony Corp.
(R)  Sybase is a registered trademark of Sybase, Inc.
(R)  Taligent is a registered trademark of Taligent, Inc.
(R)  ToolTalk and SunSoft are registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems,
     Inc.
(R)  Toshiba is a registered trademark of Toshiba Corp.
(R)  True Type is a registered trademark of Apple Computer, Inc.
(R)  TUXEDO is a registered trademark of Novell.
(R)  UNIX is a registered trademark licensed exclusively through X/Open
     Company Limited. IBM AIX 3.2.5 and IBM AIX 4.1 for the IBM RS/6000
     family of systems are branded X/Open UNIX 93.
(R)  Western Digital is a registered trademark of Western Digital Corp.
(R)  WordPerfect is a registered trademark of WordPerfect Corp.
(R)  Xerox is a registered trademark of Xerox Corp.
(R)  X/Open is a registered trademark, and the "X" device is a trademark
     of X/Open Co., Ltd.
 
(TM) AIX/6000, APPN, BookManager, BonusPak, CD Showcase, Certified LAN
     Server Engineer, Certified OS/2 Engineer, CICS, CICS/ESA, CICS MVS,
     CICS OS/2, CICS VSE, Common User Access, C Set ++, CUA, Current,
     DATABASE 2, DataGuide, DataHub, DataPropagator, DB2, DB2/2,
     DB2/6000, DDCS/2, The Developer Connection for OS/2, DISTRIBUTED
     DATABASE CONNECTION SERVICES/2, Distributed Relational Database
     Architecture, DRDA, Extended Services for OS/2, FlowMark,
     Human-Centered, IBMLink, IMS Client Server/2, Information
     Warehouse, LANStreamer, Library Reader, LinkWay, Matinee, Midware,
     Multimedia Presentation Manager/2, Natural Computing, NAVIGATOR,
     NetSp, NetView, NetView DM, Object Connection, Open Blueprint, Open
     Class, OpenEdition, PCjr, PenAssist, Person to Person, Personal
     Information Manager, PlayAtWill, PowerPC, PowerOpen, Power Series,
     RETAIN, Right at Home, SAA, Select-a-System, SOM, SOMobjects,
     Sources and Solutions, SQL/DS, Storyboard, SuperStor/DS,
     Support-on-Site, SYSINFO, Team Connection, TRANSFORMATION 2000,
     Ultimedia Video IN, Ultimotion, VSE/ESA, WIN-OS2, VisualAge,
     VisualGen, VoiceType, Workplace Shell, and XT are trademarks of
     International Business Machines Corp.
 
(TM) ActionMedia, DVI, Indeo, and Intel386 are trademarks of Intel Corp.
(TM) Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Premiere are
     trademarks of Adobe Systems, Inc.
(TM) AST is a trademark of AST Research, Inc.
(TM) Borland, Paradox, and Quattro Pro are trademarks of Borland
     International.
(TM) Bull is a trademark of Groupe Bull.
(TM) CasePoint is a trademark of Inference Corp.
(TM) Central Point Backup is a trademark of Central Point Software, Inc.
(TM) cpConstructor and cpProfessionals are trademarks of Taligent, Inc.
(TM) ColoradOS/2 is a trademark of Kovsky Conference Productions, Inc.
(TM) DEC is a trademark of Digital Equipment Corp.
(TM) Dialcom 400 is a trademark of BT Tymnet.
(TM) DirecPC and DIRECTV are trademarks of Hughes Network Systems, Inc.
(TM) Drake Training and Technologies is a trademark of Drake Training
     and Technologies.
(TM) EasyLink and ATandT Mail are trademarks of ATandT.
(TM) Ethernet is a trademark of Xerox Corp.
(TM) Excel is a trademark of Microsoft Corp.
(TM) FaxWorks is a trademark of SofNet, Inc.
(TM) GEIS Quick Comm is a trademark of General Electric Information
     Services Co.
(TM) Guidelines is a trademark of JBA International.
(TM) HP is a trademark of Hewlett Packard Co.
(TM) HyperACCESS and HyperACCESS Lite are trademarks of Hilgraeve, Inc.
(TM) IconAuthor and CBT Express are trademarks of AimTech Corp.
(TM) Java, JavaScript, and Solaris are trademarks of Sun Microsystems,
     Inc.
(TM) LAN Workplace and "Yes NetWare Tested and Approved" are trademarks
     of Novell, Inc.
(TM) InterNotes, InterNotes Web Publisher, InterNotes Web Navigator,
     Lotus Notes:Newsstand, LotusScript, and Notes are trademarks of
     Lotus Development Corp., a subsidiary of IBM.
(TM) Macintosh and MacOS are trademarks of Apple Computer Corp.
(TM) MCI Mail is a trademark of MCI.
(TM) Mesa and MOLI are trademarks of Athena Design, Inc.
(TM) Micro Focus is a trademark of Micro Focus Ltd.
(TM) Open Software Foundation, OSF, OSF/1, and Motif are trademarks of
     the Open Software Foundation, Inc.
(TM) Oracle7, Oracle Power Objects, Oracle Server, Oracle7 Workgroup
     Server, Personal Oracle7, Personal Oracle7 Enterprise Edition, and
     Workgroup/2000 are trademarks of Oracle Corp.
(TM) OS-9 is a trademark of Microware.
(TM) PACBASE and PACBASE/CS are trademarks of CGI Informatique, an IBM
     company.
(TM) PC Direct is a trademark of Ziff Communications Company and is used
     by IBM Corporation under license.
(TM) PCMCIA is a trademark of the Personal Computer Memory Card
     International Association.
(TM) PC/TCP is a trademark of FTP Software Inc.
(TM) Pentium is a trademark of Intel Corp.
(TM) PhoenixCARD Manager Plus is a trademark of Phoenix Technologies,
     Inc.
(TM) Photo CD is a trademark of the Eastman Kodak Co.
(TM) PostScript and Adobe Type Manager are trademark of Adobe Systems,
     Inc.
(TM) PSN and Private Satellite Network are trademarks of Private
     Satellite Network, Inc.
(TM) RAMBoost is a trademark of Central Point Software, Inc.
(TM) SCO is a trademark of The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
(TM) SmallTalk and Smalltalk V/PM are trademarks of Digitalk Corp.
(TM) SoundBlaster is a trademark of Creative Labs, Inc.
(TM) Source Migration and Analysis Tool and SMART are trademarks of One
     Up Corp.
(TM) SPARCstation is a trademark of SPARC International, Inc.
(TM) SUN is a trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc.
(TM) Support on Site is a trademark of Ziff-Davis.
(TM) Tandem, Himalaya, and ServerNet are trademarks of Tandem Computers,
     Inc.
(TM) TCP with Demand Protocol Architecture is a trademark of 3COM Corp.
(TM) TelePad is a trademark of TelePad Corp.
(TM) TPC-C is a trademark of the Transaction Processing Performance
     Council.
(TM) Tusk is a trademark of Tusk, Inc.
(TM) UNISYS is a trademark of Unisys Corp.
(TM) Univel is a trademark of Univel.
(TM) Versit is a trademark of IBM Corp. Apple Computer Corp., American
     Telephone and Telegraph Co., and Siemens Corp.
(TM) VX*REXX and WATCOM are trademarks of WATCOM International Corp.
(TM) VisualBasic, Windows, Win32, Windows NT, and Windows for Workgroups
     are trademarks of Microsoft Corp.
 
(SM) Advantis is a service mark of Advantis.
(SM) America Online is a service mark of America Online, Inc.
(SM) SprintMail is a service mark of US Sprint.
 
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This concludes 1995 Issue 19 of IBM SDO Developer Support News. Please
let us know how we can improve it -- send your feedback to
dsnews@vnet.ibm.com. Thank you!
 
