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 News & Views
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Volume 5, Issue 11  
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  • Tech: Easy way to record date and time in Servlets
  • Business: Today's biggest technology trends
  • Hotline Question of the Month
  • Event: iSeries DevCon, Las Vegas: November 7-8
  • mrc: November's featured enhancement!



  • Tech
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    Because the Internet doesn't have "office hours," your Web site can receive communications such as customer inquiries, or support questions, at any hour.

    So, it is important to track the dates and times that Web forms are filled out, so that you can handle these items in a timely manner. Here is an easy way to add the current date and time to the Java applications you build with m-Power. Learn how»


    Business: Today's biggest technology trends
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    New technology is entering the enterprise not in a sweeping, all encompassing fashion that pushes old ways aside, but in more thoughtful and measured ways that leverage existing technology.

    Here are today's top IT trends»


    Hotline Question of the Month
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    “I have a Java servlet retrieval that lists over 5000 records. Our users use the advanced search option to extract records containing a certain term in the description field. For example, all records that had "United" in the title.

    How can I modify the application to bring those records first without taking the ability from the users to search on some other fields if they choose to? ”

    View the answer »


    Event: iSeries Devcon with a free Java lab
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    What are you doing November 7-8? Are you interested in repurposing iSeries applications for the Web? Web Development strategies? Java applications? Tips, Techniques, and New Insights for the iSeries platform? If so, come see us at Devcon in Las Vegas!

    And, if you'd like to build your own Java applications, make sure you save time for our exclusive
    hands-on lab when you're there!

    m-Powered Featured Update (Customers Only)
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    This section is for customers only and is password-protected.



    Do you have all of the capabilities available in m-Power and in the mrc-Productivity Series? Because there have been so many enhancements recently, it can sometimes be difficult to keep up with all of the updates.

    That's why this month's featured update to the BED version of the mrc-Productivity.com and m-Power will make it that much easier from now on. This update creates a new Version link under the Data Dictionary tab so you can always find the date of your last update.

    This week's featured update is dated 2005-09-27, and starts out "Add version control..."

    Get to the updates»

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