IBM AS/400e - Product Preview; Statement of Direction

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AS/400 Future Announcements
• IBM provides a wide range of integration options between the AS/400e server and
Microsoft Windows products. IBM intends to provide support for Windows 2000. IBM
also intends to support Microsoft Windows 2000 on the Integrated Netfinity Server in a
future release of OS/400.
• Support for Common Programming APIs (CPA) Toolkit will be discontinued in future
OS/400 releases.
There are two components of the CPA Toolkit: the development environment and the
runtime environment. The CPA Toolkit development environment allows customers to
create or update a CPA application. The CPA Toolkit runtime environment allows
customers to run existing CPA applications.
OS/400 V4R4 is the last release to support the CPA Toolkit development environment.
The CPA Toolkit runtime environment will be supported for one additional release after
V4R4.
Product Preview
OS/400 V4R4 will be enhanced to provide facsimile protocol support for ISDN
Communications Adapters (#2750 and #2751). These features will provide the AS/400 with
the latest high-speed technology available for the transmission and receipt of facsimile data
from a Group 3 capable fax machine, another AS/400 system with equivalent
communications adapter, or PCs with appropriately programmed fax adapters.
Statement of Direction
As part of the OS/400 V4R4 announcements made in February 1999 and August 1999, IBM
announced the following Statement of Direction. With the announcement of V4R5, it is a
product preview status for delivery in the next release beyond V4R5.
IBM intends to extend the AS/400 Integrated Netfinity Server design to include the option
for direct attachment of symmetric multi-processor Netfinity servers to the AS/400
system.
Integrated Netfinity Server for AS/400 is designed to leverage the industry leading
technologies of both the IBM AS/400 and IBM Netfinity server brands. It further
demonstrates IBM vision and commitment to providing cross-architecture integration
options for companies deploying Microsoft Windows NT on IBM Netfinity servers in
conjunction with their AS/400, RS/6000, and S/390 servers.