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iSeries Architecture: Fundamental Strength of the iSeries
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iSeries Handbook
Information Center for iSeries
The Information Center for iSeries provides the starting point for finding iSeries technical
information and is available on a CD-ROM shipped with OS/400. It is also on the Internet at:
http://www.ibm.com/eserver/iseries/infocenter
In V5R1, the Supplemental Library on PDF is integrated with the Information Center to
provide a one-stop place to obtain technical information. You can search the PDF and HTML
files in one search at the Internet site. In V5R1, the Information Center installation provides a
wizard to install the Information Center to an intranet server from the iSeries. The wizard can
even configure your HTTP server and set up search on the intranet.
XML Enablers
eXtensible Markup Language (XML) is one of the key technologies fueling growth of
e-business and mobile e-business solutions. XML is becoming the standard way to represent
data in a portable, reusable format for use in a number of solutions ranging from
business-to-business (B2B) solutions that link together trading partners to pervasive
computing applications, which connect mobile devices such as cell phones to core business
solutions.
IBM and iSeries are committed to supporting XML. This support is demonstrated by the suite
of XML application enablers delivered with OS/400 in V5R1, providing a core of XML services
for applications to build on.
The XML application enablers provided in V5R1 include:
• XML parsers for use with Java and C++ applications. XML parsers are a common
building block that XML-based solutions use to work with data in XML format.
• XML parsing interfaces for procedural languages such as RPG, COBOL, and C. These
interfaces open the realm of XML to existing solutions, providing an easy path to
extend these solutions with XML support.
• An Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) processor used to apply XSL stylesheets to
transform an XML document into another markup language format. XSL stylesheets
are the standard way to convert data between two XML document types and are
commonly used to convert XML data to HTML for presentation in a Web browser
environment.
Security
The many levels of security available with OS/400 ease the job of system security
management. The five levels of security range from minimal to an enhanced level that