IBM AS/400e

IBM Licensed Programs: Office and Printing Products
690 AS/400e System Handbook
BlueNotes allows your AS/400 users and Lotus Notes users to both have access to the same
objects stored on the same AS/400 system with no duplication. There are two orderable
options of BNDW for AS/400:
• The Core Module (optional)
• The OV/400 Module (prerequisite for other modules)
The Core Module provides the Lotus Notes index of AS/400s documents and PC files using
system-based descriptions of shared folder objects. It then builds
logical folder views and
provides a full text search facility open that indexes data, thus enabling users to locate an
object. From a Notes view, users can then view, edit, copy, or delete the object. Access to the
objects is through Client Access/400 or OS/400 NetServer and therefore is subject to AS/400
object security. The launch of the appropriate viewers and editors is administrator controlled,
based on document and user profiles. A function to select documents and migrate to Notes
attachment (no content conversion) is also provided. Selection is by standard Notes methods.
A flag is set for optional batch deletion of the original objects if required.
The Core Module extends Notes to the file system giving AS/400 file serving an edge. It can
be used as the basis for:
• Server consolidation (consolidated view of many servers)
• Knowledge management (find it first and then know it)
• Application moderinization (launch files to a Notes interface)
The Core Module includes a Bonus Pack and a Developer’s Toolkit (which is comprised of
SmartSuite for AS/400 and MS Office for AS/400).
The OV/400 Module is used alongside the Core Module. It adds OfficeVision/400
user-created descriptions to the index. Therefore, it becomes an OV/400 to Notes
coexistence tool enabling the OV/400 user to be migrated to Notes while sharing documents
with Notes and non-Notes users.
It is also an enabler for OV/400-to-Notes document content migration tools, which require
access to the AS/400 file system and also need the index to be migrated alongside of the text
content.
The main benefit of the OV/400 Module is that documents can stay where they are, in shared
folders. OV/400 users have normal access and function. PC users access them as a file
system. Lotus Notes users have normal Notes Views of the document list and use PC-based
editors and viewers.
The developers of BlueNotes have announced their intention to make available two further
modules. The Spool module enables AS/400 spool files to be converted to documents in TIFF
or PDF format and accessed from Lotus Notes. It also enables OV/400 documents to be
resolved to these formats before OV/400 is removed from the system. The Domino.Doc