NUMBER 290-436 DATE 900821 TYPE Programming TITLE IBM AS/400 OPERATING SYSTEM/400 AND RELATED LICENSED PROGRAMS RELEASE 3 ABSTRACT The Operating System/400 (R) (OS/400 (R)) provides a comprehensive, fully integrated set of batch and interactive work management functions to provide efficient and productive application processing. A complete and consistent end-user interface and application portability is provided across all models. OS/400 implements the IBM strategic architectures, including Systems Application Architecture (TM) (SAA (TM)), ensuring compatibility with present and future IBM product families. A wide spectrum of communication connectivity options provided in the operating system allow data and application access among the Application System/400 (R) (AS/400 (TM)) family of systems and other IBM mainframe and personal computers. The enhancements in Release 3 of the OS/400 and the other related licensed programs address specific customer requirements. These enhancements improve the usability, simplify the installation, expand the connectivity, enhance the systems management capabilities, and increase the availability of the AS/400 system. Details and the list of enhancements included in this announcement are available in the APPLICATION SYSTEM/400 NEW PRODUCT PLANNING INFORMATION FOR RELEASE 3 (GA21-9579). Planned Availability Date: September 28, 1990. Planned availability date for CallPath (TM)/400, including the Teleos support, is March 29, 1991. (R) Registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. (TM) Trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. PRODNO 5728-SS1 AS/400 Operating System/400 5728-CF1 AS/400 Point-of-Sale Communication Utility 5728-CR1 AS/400 Cryptographic Support 5728-PT1 AS/400 Performance Tools 5728-QU1 AS/400 Query 5728-ST1 Structured Query Language/400 (SQL/400) 5730-TL1 AS/400 CallPath/400 5798-RXP AS/400 Telephony Applications Services LPO
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