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John Carr


http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?980825.ecas400.htm


IBM revs up performance of new  AS/400 servers 

  By Ted Smalley Bowen 
  InfoWorld Electric 

  Posted at 1:28 PM PT, Aug 25, 1998 

            NEW YORK -- IBM on Tuesday announced the next generation of
AS/400
  systems, due to ship next month, and provided a glimpse of future chip
technology slated to
  further boost the server's performance by late next year or early 2000. 

  IBM officials here released a torrent of details on the Sept. 11 release
of the new versions of
  models 170, S40, and 650 servers, which benefit from the company's
fourth-generation
  64-bit processor, code-named Northstar, as well as Version 4, Release 3
of OS/400, the
  operating system required to support the new processor. 

  "We're in our fourth generation after coming up with a 64-bit solution,
when our key
  competitors are only just getting there," said Drew Flaada, IBM's AS/400
project manager,
  referring to other Unix system vendors' 64-bit development as well as
Intel's now-delayed
  Merced chip running on Windows NT. 

  The upgrades also include disk compression and hierarchical storage
management features. 

  AS/400 models S40 and 650 boast a near-twofold performance improvement,
the doubling
  of memory capacity to 40GB, and a 40 percent increase in Direct Access
Storage Device
  (DASD) storage capacity to 2.1 terabytes; Model 170 has received a 140
percent
  performance improvement, top memory capacity of 3.58GB and maximum DASD
storage of
  175GB, according to IBM. 

  As part of its Internet-commerce lineup, IBM later this year will release
a Payment Server for
  AS/400 that supports the SET protocol for credit card transactions. 

  The AS/400 platform's Java support has also been updated, with the
addition of Enterprise
  JavaBeans support, support for Java Development Kit 1.1.6, and support
for Version 1.2 of
  IBM's San Francisco Java application frameworks. 

  The platform's database support has been improved with the use of IBM's
encoded vector
  indexes, patented database technology that applies a vectoring approach
for searching large
  bit-mapped indexes to improve query times. The technology will also be
added to IBM's
  universal database standard. 

  The upgrades also sport ease-of-use improvements, expanded systems and
network
  management capabilities, better Windows support, database performance
boosts, broader
  application development options, and Java and Web-specific improvements. 

  Pricing for the new systems will be announced next week. 

  In the future, AS/400 performance will be increased further by recently
announced IBM chip
  advances, including copper interconnects for silicon wafers and
silicon-on-insulator (SOI)
  technologies, according to Jim Pertzborn, vice president of server and
workstation
  development. 

  The forthcoming Northstar chip and OS/400 Version 4, Release 3-based
server boasts
  significantly faster query performance and data load rates for data
warehousing than earlier
  systems, according to Pertzborn, who cited IBM benchmarks of 35 seconds
to query
  225GB of data and 18 hours to load a 1 terabyte data warehouse. 

  IBM Corp., in Armonk, N.Y., can be reached at http://www.ibm.com. 

  Ted Smalley Bowen is InfoWorld's Boston bureau chief. 
         ted_bowen@infoworld.com


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Just when you think things couldn't get Better  they do.
Do we ever have problems with DB integrity ?


John Carr

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Microsoft database loses records 

                 By Mike Ricciuti
                 Staff Writer, CNET NEWS.COM
                 August 25, 1998, 1:10 p.m. PT 

                 Developers are furious over a flaw discovered in
                 Microsoft's Access database that could cause a
                 loss of data and scrambled records. 

                 The problem, discovered by a developer last week
                                     and since reproduced by
                                     many users, affects the
                                     way Access handles
                                     changes to database
                                     records. The flaw is
                                     particularly thorny
                                     because it can corrupt
                 database records without users realizing that
                 anything wrong has happened. 

                 Developers fear that the bug could require
                 reprogramming to applications already in use and
                 that existing databases could be corrupted. Even
                 worse, the problem could result in improper billing,
                 diagnoses, or other potentially disastrous legal
                 issues, according to developers. 

                 A Microsoft executive today confirmed the
                 existence of the bug and said the company has
                 devised a temporary solution while it determines
                 whether the problem affects multiple versions of the
                 popular database program. The company will also
                 post a bulletin, referred to by Microsoft as a
                 "Knowledge Base article," to its Web site later
                 today detailing the bug. 

                 Newsgroup postings indicate that the bug causes
                 edits made on one Access database record to be
                 saved to another. In other words, in a typical
                 business application, the bug could cause
                 information associated with a particular customer or
                 medical patient to be attached to the wrong
                 account. 

                 Access is used as the underlying database in many
                 business applications and is particularly popular
                 with consultants and systems integrators building
                 applications for small businesses, such as doctors'
                 offices and insurance agencies. 

                 The Access bug has been the subject of more than
                 100 postings to the "comp.databases.ms-access"
                 Internet newsgroup since last Wednesday.
                 Opinions on the bug's potential effects vary widely
                 in those postings. 

                 "This is by far the most heinous and destructive bug
                 I have ever seen," a developer said one posting.
                 Others warned that the flaw may easily go
                 undetected in many applications and have openly
                 questioned whether Access should be use used for
                 commercial applications until it is repaired. 

                 "Can you afford to trust your data to it [Access], if
                 the wrong client gets your address, your donation,
                 your invoice, your order, your merge letter?" one
                 developer asked rhetorically. 

                 The problem can be easily re-created, according to
                 one Access developer who has posted
                 step-by-step instructions to demonstrate the
                 problem. 

                 John Duncan, a Microsoft Office product manager,
                 said the company became aware of the problem
                 several days ago and has come up with a
                 work-around. The company is also considering
                 issuing a patch to Access 97, but no final decision
                 has been made. 

                 Users report that the bug affects Access versions
                 2.0, 95, and 97. However, Duncan said Microsoft
                 has been able to reproduce the bug only in Access
                 97. He also declined to say how many Access
                 users have contacted the company to report the
                 flaw. 

                 Duncan said the problem occurs under a specific
                 scenario. First, a person must be working with a
                 long set of records in an Access form. Users report
                 that the flaw affects forms displaying more than 200
                 records. 

                 Duncan would not confirm the exact number of
                 records. For the flaw to occur, users must delete a
                 record from the record set, use Access's Combo
                 Box (a feature intended to ease access to database
                 records) to edit another record, and then save the
                 changes. Access applies the changes to the record
                 just before the intended target of the change,
                 Duncan said. 

                 "If a user were to delete a record at the beginning
                 of a record set and then edit a later record without
                 using the Combo Box, the error probably will not
                 occur," Duncan said. 

                 He said the workaround is a simple process. First,
                 users need to go into Access's Design View and
                 right-click on Combo Box, which displays a dialog
                 box. Then, users need to type one line
                 (me.requery) into the dialog box and save it. 

                 Access 97 is sold as part of Microsoft's Office 97
                 desktop application package, and is used by
                 millions of people worldwide. Overall, Office
                 Professional 97, of which Access is a component,
                 is the third best-selling software title in the United
                 States, according to market researcher PC Data. 
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