Post Road Query Plus Announced.
InnoVal Systems Solutions today announced Post Road Query Plus, an intelligent OS/2 client application for accessing mainframe MVS/DB2 and VM/SQL systems. Post Road Query Plus allows users to store SQL queries, manipulate returned tables, and easily export the results to other tools such as Lotus 1-2-3, Freelance, Lotus Notes, and other OS/2 productivity tools. Query Plus includes facilities for logon scripts, batch queries, and scheduling unattended queries during off-peak system hours.
Query Plus also includes client-side facilities for performing data joins of results from disparate systems and quicky resorting and summarizing the information.
Post Road Query Plus operates with IBM PCOM for OS/2, Communications Manager/2, and Advantis Passport/2.
The price is $49.95 for a single user license. Departmental and sites licenses are available. For more information please write to innoval@ibm.net or call InnoVal Customer Service at (914)835-3838. Also see the following web sites:
http://www.innoval.com
http://www.bestofos2.com
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InnoVal Systems Solution, Inc. has released a new version of the Best of OS/2 web site. This new site includes a new OS/2 Help Forum for obtaining help on OS/2 topics.
"This new Help Forum should be useful to many people," said Dan Porter, President of InnoVal. "It is much like a newsgroup but may be easily used by people with little or no newsgroup experience. Discussions are fully threaded and easy to use with any of the OS/2 web browsers."
"We have also added a page with current news about some of our products. This includes some "new" news about the news reader and the upcoming release 2.5 of the Post Road Mailer," Porter said.
The site is located at http://www.bestofos2.com. This site now replaces
the Ever Onward OS/2 site. Automatic linking is provided for persons
using the Netscape Navigator.
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IBM Enhances Warp Server Support of Windows Clients.
New Clients Provide Easy, Centralized Administration of Windows Users on an OS/2 Warp Server Network
IBM today announced three components designed to improve its OS/2* Warp Server support of Windows** 95 and Windows NT clients.
The new enhancements complement OS/2 Warp Server's strength as a platform for businesses in both client/server and network computing environments, adding further value to the industry's most feature-complete PC server operating system.
The Windows client enhancements for OS/2 Warp Server consist of three separate components: a new Windows 95 client, now available; a new Windows NT client, currently in beta testing; and a "Network Neighborhood" enabler for OS/2 Warp Server, also currently in beta testing.
With these enhancements, OS/2 Warp Server offers tight integration with Windows clients similar to that of Windows NT Server. This results in better administration of and increased security for Windows clients on an OS/2 Warp Server network.
OS/2 Warp Server already includes sophisticated systems management, backup & recovery, a Web server (the IBM Internet Connection Server for OS/2), remote access features and advanced printing capabilities, all for $629 (suggested retail price***). The new client functionality establishes it as the industry's leading PC server operating system for OS/2, Windows 3.x, Windows 95, Windows NT and DOS clients.
Centralized Administration, Improved Security and Increased Functionality
The Windows client enhancements allow system administrators to more completely manage their Windows 95 and Windows NT users from an OS/2 Warp Server network. Additionally, they create a designated home directory for Windows users located in the OS/2 Warp Server domain. The home directory stores all specific user information, such as applications and data, on the OS/2 Warp Server system itself. This private directory will further tighten security to protect customers' vital information and allow system administrators to easily manage that information.
"Network Neighborhood" Enablement for OS/2 Warp Server
In addition, OS/2 Warp Server is for the first time a recognized resource on the "Network Neighborhood" desktop object in Windows 95 and Windows NT. This allows Windows users to view OS/2 Warp Server and its resources from their desktop, providing easy, graphical access to information residing on OS/2 Warp Server, just as if they were accessing an NT Server.
A Simplified Log-On Process
The enhanced clients also provide Windows users with an easy log-on to an OS/2 Warp Server network. Windows 95 users are able to access OS/2 Warp Server with a single, primary log-on in which the user ID and password are validated at the OS/2 Warp Server system.
Windows NT users in mixed server environments also log-on only once, through a "coordinated log-on" in which the user ID and password are validated at both the OS/2 Warp Server system and the Windows NT system. This simplifies administration by allowing system administrators to provide Windows clients with a single user ID and password for access to both systems.
Enhanced Usability for Windows Clients on OS/2 Warp Server
Desktop preferences and system policies for Windows clients can now be stored and retrieved from an OS/2 Warp Server system. This allows users to work from any Windows 95 or Windows NT system on the network and retrieve their own desktop preferences, or "profiles," from OS/2 Warp Server, just as they would from an NT Server.
Likewise, system administrators can use system policies to ensure that Windows users will retain access privileges to all of the same resources, regardless of where on the network those users are physically located. They are also able to designate what their Windows clients can and cannot do, such as having read-only access to data as opposed to editing capabilities.
Availability
The enhanced Windows 95 client functionality for OS/2 Warp Server is now generally available via the World Wide Web at http://www.software.ibm.com/os/warp-server at no additional charge to licensees of Windows 95 who have purchased a connection to OS/2 Warp Server.
The enhanced Windows NT client functionality for OS/2 Warp Server and the
"Network Neighborhood" enabler for OS/2 Warp Server are both currently in beta
testing and are expected to be generally available in late February or early
March at no additional charge.
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PMMail v1.9 Released!
This Message is to announce the general availability of SouthSoft's PMMail 1.9
It can be downloaded from SouthSoft's updated website at http://www.southsoft.com
New Features in PMMail v1.9
File Freedom v1.5 Update.
NOW with Drag and Drop File Management!
File Freedom is a fast, very inexpensive, PM file manager with an uncluttered, easy-to-use interface. It is written with tight, efficient programming that gives you a very fast file manager that is also small in size. Compare its size and speed to your current file manager!
** AVAILABLE THROUGH BMT MICRO for ONLY $10.00 US **
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InJoy for OS/2 v1.0 Released.
A quick note before anything else:
* Sorry for a slow announcement! InJoy has been out for a few weeks, but not announced till now because of the following.
* After InJoy was released an INI file was discovered in the zip archive. Please backup your old "in-joy.ini" before installing the new InJoy on top of an existing copy.
* Those of you using SLIP should get an update from bj@fx.dk
The already successful InJoy PPP/SLIP dialer for OS/2 has now taken another step forward with the version 1.0 release. The first non-beta release of InJoy is available for download from:
IP Masquerading, Dial On Demand, Phone lists, SLIP support, Minimum CONNECT speed, and an awesome graphical ticker is there. Never has InJoy been extended this much in between releasing.
InJoy is neither an extension to, nor a user interface for the PPP.EXE
included in the OS/2 Internet Access Kit. Following either of those paths
would have served only to provide slower performance and more resource usage.
Instead InJoy is a completely new PPP dialer that uses the IBM TCP/IP stack
for transport. This means that InJoy provides improved performance and
functionality with your existing Internet applications.
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The Binary Newsreader v1.2 Now Available.
The Binary Newsreader (BNR) is designed for easy downloading and decoding single- and multipart binary files which are UUE- or BASE64 (Mime format) encoded from Internet newsgroups. BNR receives, connects and decodes the posts from a newsgroup and delivers ready-to-use binary files.
EXACTLY! It's made for all these alt.binaries... newsgroups.
If you want to know more about BNR, you can read the entire BNR manual of
Version 1.20 online at http://www.dataline.ch/~rch/bnrdoc.html. If you have questions or comments, do not hesitate to send me an E-Mail.
You can reach me at ralf.christen@ibm.net.
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OpenChat/2 v1.0 Released.
OpenChat/2 is 32-bit, multithreaded PM IRC (Internet Relay Chat Network) client which takes full advantage of the OS/2 operating system, its WPS and other features only found in OS/2. It has been designed with speed, power, and flexibility in mind.
OpenChat/2's main attraction comes from its flexibility. It provides a strong foundation for third party hobbyists to create IRC scripts and take advantage of its many features including drag and drop support, menu (popup & pulldown) support and much more!
OpenChat/2 comes with a sample script to get you up and running quickly.
This script also displays how easy it is to add features to OpenChat/2 and
serves as an example to all others wishing to add on to the client.
Download the latest version direct from the homepage! Order Online at BMT Micro.
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InnoVal Systems Solutions, Inc. has released version 1.3 of Surf'nRexx. This is a free update for licensed users. For additional information please see http://www.innoval.com.
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The URL for the WarpMap has changed! The old URL may still work, but the real URL is now:
http://falcon.cs.mercer.edu/~johnsont/warpmap/
Currently, there are more than 600 people listed, with more being added
each day!
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Enhanced E and the Enhanced EE Editors in Beta Testing.
The PillarSoft Enhanced E and the Enhanced EE Editors have entered a beta testing period.
The freeware Enhanced E Editor adds some minor enhancements to the OS/2
"E" System Editor such as:
Popup Menus
Printing (why wasn't this included in the "E")
The shareware Enhanced EE Editor has;
Popup menus
Toolbar
File history
Search by line number
Printer setup
Configurable autosave
Undo and more.
Both editors are contained in one file and can be downloaded from the incoming
directory on HOBBES.
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Entrepreneur BETA 5 Available.
You can get it via Stardock's website.
If you are not already part of the beta program, here's some basic information on the game.
In Entrepreneur, you start a company, choose a job (engineer, researcher, laborer, etc.) and a market (the game will come with a couple of markets such as the computer industry, other markets will be made available later on by Stardock as well as third parties).
You then begin researching new technologies, designing new products, building them and selling them. You have to mix technological prowess with marketing savvy while keeping an eye out for the changing mood of the market. Your opponents have a wide variety of things they can do to help themselves as well as hurt you. Everything from spreading FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt) to stealing your technology are things they may do to you.
Designed by the same group that created Galactic Civilizations, Entrepreneur,
like GalCiv, will have a top notch AI (Artificial Intelligence). However,
unlike GalCiv, Entrepreneur is also multiplayer over the LAN or Internet (even
in the betas). Also unlike GalCiv which is only on OS/2 Warp, Entrepreneur is
available on Windows95, Windows NT (4.0) as well as OS/2 Warp.
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N-Viro PM v1.1 Available.
N-Viro PM v1.1 is released as "commentware", which means I think it would be great to get some feedback. This would help me in developing better applications in the future.!
Features include:
* Easy editing and adding of system variables.
* Allows saving to alternate CONFIG.SYS
* Allows saving to OS/2 CMD file for later use.
The file can be found at my homepage.
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