Developing Your As/400 Internet Strategy : A Guide to Business Solutions Created Through This Powerful Partnership

Developing Your AS/400 Internet Strategy answers the questions AS/400 managers are asking about using the AS/400 as an Internet server. Drawing on his experience helping client companies develop corporate Internet presences, Alan Arnold explains the value of the Internet as a market for electronic commerce and describes how to assess your company’s Internet opportunities. Alan then explores the AS/400’s strengths (and its weaknesses) as an Internet server, offering you the benefit of his experience as an AS/400 systems programmer. You will learn how to turn the AS/400’s reliability, security, and performance to competitive advantage in the Internet world, and how to establish a concrete plan to accomplish it. Alan helps you plan wisely how to protect valuable corporate data as you connect your AS/400 to the more open community of the Internet. The book addresses AS/400 networking technologies for making the Internet connection, procedures for configuring TCP/IP, and which client/server technologies the AS/400 supports natively. Beyond these basics, he offers practical information about setting up an AS/400 Web server, dealing with e-mail, interoperating with other Internet-capable systems, and conducting electronic business securely.