This is regarding your recent posting titled “Quick Query over a Database File” that was published on August 23, 2006. This is truly a useless utility. There already is a RUNQRY command. Why would you post this as something that someone might be interested in? I use to wait anxiously for the next Four Hundred Guru e-mail and get really good things out of it, but this and some of the other ones posted are really not Guru material in my opinion. Next time maybe you can show them something like this: RUNQRY and press F4.

–Greg

Greg is absolutely

It seems like only yesterday that I recall people touting the benefits of upgrading to Office 97. Well here we are 10 years later at the release of Office 2007. From a System i5 developer’s perspective, I’ll briefly cover a few of the benefits of upgrading to Office 2007 by discussing some enhancements to this latest version of the Microsoft productivity suite.

First of all, the Office 2007 user interface has been redone using the new “ribbon” user interface. The main difference with this new interface is that drop down menus are now replaced with toolbar-like icons. Instead of each

Several readers have recently contacted me about inaccurate and missing information in previous columns regarding storage pools and WRKSYSACT. When readers provide new information, I sometimes revisit a topic to correct obvious flaws, provide better information, or to expand reader knowledge. With this new input, I have researched better techniques for creating fixed storage pools and for finding missing commands. In two parts, here’s my expanded take on these subjects.

Part 1: No Virginia, You Cannot Create Fixed Storage Pools from the WRKSHRPOOL Screen, But. . .

In my July column on moving subsystems into their own storage pools,