With less than a year on the market, Domino for AS/400 has become one of the most popular Domino platforms. The unique strengths of the AS/400 system architecture and Domino for AS/400 provide the solution for many customers. The following list shows the primary advantages of using Domino on the AS/400 system:
- E-mail
- Information and knowledge management
- Work flow
- Web server capabilities
- Reliability
- Scalability
- Server consolidation
- Enterprise application integration
Enterprise application integration is the place where Domino for AS/400 provides the most benefit. Real-time collaboration, e-commerce, wireless computing, and mobile workforces all need to associate the power of groupware tools and the strengths of enterprise applications.
This redbook is intended to help system architects, database administrators, and Lotus Notes developers to integrate Domino applications and AS/400 applications in a Domino for AS/400 environment. The information in this redbook provides a broad understanding of the different ways to integrate Notes and Domino applications with DB2/400 data and AS/400 applications in a Domino for AS/400 environment. In selecting the most appropriate tool, it is important to understand the trade-offs of each, such as where it can be used, the prerequisites, the required skills, scope of data or application access, and performance considerations.
To demonstrate the wide scope of functions Domino can provide to an organization, a sample AS/400 application, whose main function is Order Entry, is extended by several other functions. This is made possible through the usage of various Domino for AS/400 or Lotus Enterprise Integrator/Lotus NotesPump capabilities.
