A bimonthly print magazine released by IBM's Personal Systems Division in Texas, USA that was during its later years squarely focused on OS/2, although some other PS Division subjects such as PowerPC were covered from time to time. Note that it was not a free marketing publication but rather intended as a technical magazine for manager and required a somewhat hefty paid subscription, but on the other hand it was a professionally designed publication had an excellent layout and even had custom created cartoons, graphic illustrations and the like.
The Cover: Nine hundred years ago, the men and women of a small Viking ship, led by Leif Eriksson, pushed their knowledge and technology to the limits. Their courage and skill landed them on the shores of North America four hundred years before Christopher Columbus. Today, the men and women of IBM continue this tradition of exploration and leadership, keeping IBM at the frontier of computing technology.
Hardware
1 Power Factor: Non-Linear Loads and the Power Distribution System
Software
6 Database Manager: Highlights and Direction
13 OS/2® Communications Manager TM
23 Improving OS/2 Application Performance
33 Creating PM Windows with Dialog Templates
38 REXX Program for OS/2 LAN Server
49 Micro Focus® COBOL/2 and the DOS Database Requester
54 IBM DOS 5.0 Facts and Features
61 IBM DOS 5.0 Upgrade
65 DOS 5.0 Performance Improvements
70 DOS Memory Management Facilities
74 Disk Caching Under DOS
77 NetWare® Client-Server Interaction
89 LANACS Protocols
Random Data
95 New Book: Client-Server Programming with OS/2 Extended Edition
About the Cover: The cover shows a progression of technology and communication through the ages, from early Egyptian architecture, time-keeping, and calculation; through the industrial revolution and space-age communications devices; to the most advanced operating system on the market today
Focus
4 Technical Coordinator Broadcasts on IBM TV
5 IBM's Next Technical Conference: Orlando,
PS/ValuePoint Expands-40 More Models
8 LAD/2 and LAN NetView Start-Where Do They Fit?
9 The Bookshelf
Technical
11 OS/2 2.1-Everything You Wanted It to Be and More
21 Using REXX to Customize the Workplace Shell-Part II
30 Client/Server Application Development with OS/2 and CICS/ESA
36 Upgrading to OS/2 LAN Server 3.0-Advanced
40 Developing OS/2 LAN Server Services
47 PCMCIA PC Cards Provide Expandability and Network Interfacing
About the Cover: The cover design reflects dissimilar ekments coming together in a common environment--a critical requirement for today's businesses that have computing systems and products from dif ferent vendors that must operate together in an open environment.
Focus
4 Searching for Speed
8 The Journalism Network: Linking Technology and Education
10 The Imagination System
Technical
14 IBM PSP's LAN Systems Solutions
26 An Introduction to PCMCIA
29 PCMCIA Software: The Key to Compatibility
34 OS/2 Support for PCMCIA Memory Cards
40 Improving Remote Initial Program Load Performance
48 Installing and Configuring CM/2 1.0
54 Writing CID-Enabled Applications
58 Integrating LAD/2, CM/2, and D82/2 with IBM LAN NetView Start
About the Cover: PC-DOS 61 has arrived, and its colorful logo exemplifies its new colorfull functionality-including support for PCMCIA and pen, two mobile computing technologies used in IBM's popular ThinkPad series.
Focus
4 Point of View: OS/2-Killer Application or Killer Operating System?
6 Education Courses from Skill Dynamics
8 Single Sign-On Technology
10 Expanded OS/2 Relationships with Industry Giants
11 IBM TV Broadcasts
Technical
14 IBM PC-DOS 6.1: More Features than MS-DOS 6.0
20 SystemView Information Warehouse DataHub
26 Developing Data Hub Tools
31 Using MMPM/2 to Create Multimedia Applications
40 Advanced Client/Server Computing Using the IBM ThinkPad
About the Cover: How many ways can something be connected? Tiles from Milton Bradley's ever-popular, genera-tion-spanning Scrabble Brand Crossword Game are used on the cover to illustrate the wealth of networking solutions arlicles contained in this issue of Personal Systems.
Focus
4 Much Ado About Multimedia
9 PERFORMANCE 2.1, A Tuning Kit for OS/2 2.1-A Clear and Simple Solution to Your OS/2 Tuning Needs
11 Point of View: Some Enthusiastic Users Speak Out About OS/2
14 Team OS/2-A Groundswell of Support for OS/2
18 Manage Your LAN Systems More Effectively with IBM NetFinity
Technical
22 Plan, Plan, Plan Your NetWare 4.01 Network
32 LAD/2 in the LCU and NetView DM/2 Environments
40 Easy Setup of CID Code Servers
44 Managing Token-Ring Bridges with IBM's LAN Network Manager
50 IBM DCE for OS/2 Multiuser Application Performance
About the Cover: The artist choose an image he felt was a univer-sal symbol of intelligence to reflect the advance-ments being made in the field of artificial intel-ligence. Today's computers are rapidly approach-ing the power and capacity of the human mind. Read about artificial intelligence, speech recog-nition products, and more in this issue of Personal Systems.
Focus
6 If I Only Had A Brain
10 "Look, Mom! No Hands!" Speech Recognition Products Untie Your Hands
13 The Road Not Taken: Telecommuting in the '90s
16 Point of View: Not Just Another Database Article
17 Professional Certification Program from IBM
17 Celebrate the Past on Your Trip Back to the Future!
Technical
20 OS/2 2.1 Performance Tuning Tips - Part II
36 PC File Systems
44 NetWare 4.01 for OS/2: Features and Installation
56 NetWare Requester for OS/2, v2.01: Features and Installation
66 What's New in Novell NetWare 3.12?
69 LAN Analysis Using IBM's DatagLANce Network Analyser
About the Cover: "Wrightsizing at USAir," a feature story on that airline's implementation of an OS/ 2 client/server solution, serves as the impetus for Dallas artist Bill Carr's cover mosaic featuring bicycles and hex code, glider test flights, and Orville's searching gaze into the clouds and beyond.
Focus
6 Todd Watson: "Wrightsizing " at USAir
12 Getting the Word Out at Chemical Banking Corporation
18 Back Up for the Future
25 Lost in Cyberspace
28 The Book Shelf
Technical
30 Threads
40 Redirected Installation of OS/2 2.x
46 LAN Server Ultimedia 1.0 Performance and Tuning
About the Cover: IBM's Micro Channel architect, Chet Heath, characterizes as "alphabet soup" the wide and robust choices available to you today for personal computer architectures.
Focus
6 IBM's Personal Systems Support Family-Customer-Influenced Design
10 OS/2 Times and Scores the 1994 Indianapolis 500
13 Software compatibility: Good Relationship or One Night Stand?
16 Migrating Windows Applications to OS/2: Easing the Migration Path
19 OS/2 Conference Draws Praise
Technical
20 DCE: An Application Primer
27 Distributed Performance Characteristics of IBM DCE for OS/2
36 Architecture Soup: Understanding Modern IBM PC Architecture
48 TSHELL: A Text-Based Alternate Shell for OS/2
57 Extended Attributes for Files
63 Developing Lotus Notes Applications
68 Conserving Power with Personal Systems Power Management
About the Cover: "Look far ahead as a racing motorist looks ... at the horizon which he will have reached before he knows it," said essayist Arnold J Toynbee on looking ahead. With the capabilities of visual REXX products, the ease of programming we thought was far in the future is here today!
Focus
8 "Sneaker Net" or Systems Management?
12 Like Father Like Son
15 The Book Shelf
17 Cajun Electric Cooks Up OS/2 GUI with VisPro/REXX!
21 Application Development by Program Integration
24 IBM REXX for NetWare
25 GammaTech REXX SuperSet/2-Give Your REXX Programs the Power of C
27 BranchCard: A Viable Option to Stand Alone Hubs
Technical
29 A Hands-On Primer for REXX
34 Visual REXX Development Environments
40 CID Installation of OS/2 2.11 and LAPS
45 Upgrading from Microsoft LAN Manager to IBM LAN Server 3.0
49 Stretching Your LAN with LAN Distance
54 DB2/2-More Than Ever Before!
60 NetBIOS, SNA, and NetWare IPX Coexistance Under OS/2
About the Cover: Everyone's using pen products! Dallas artist Bill Carr used an electronic pen product with a digitizer to draw this issue's cover illustrating Saint Nick as he electronically records each child's wish list. Come Christmas Eve, with a twinkle in his eye, Santa will be making his list on his tablet computer and checking it twice with his untethered "pen."
Focus
6 Evolution, Not Revolution-Pen Computing Comes of Age
11 Handwriting Recognition: The State of the Art
14 Pen Digitizing Hardware
17 It's HaPENing!
20 Bill Carr: Fastest Draw in the West
22 Work Management in the Field
26 Communication Without Wires: IBM's Mobile Communications Module
28 Tomorrow's Networking Today-From IBM's Personal Systems Competency Center
29 Customers Speak Out About Consult Line
31 New DeScribe 5.0-Leader of the Pack
Technical
34 Super-Fast PenDOS
40 Pen for OS/2
43 A Development Environment for Pen-Centric Applications
50 Writing DOS Installation Programs for Selective Boot Systems
55 OS/2 for PowerPC: Transforming Architecture into Implementation
Cover: OS/2 Warp: this futuristic operating system is here today! Tried and tested by the masses! Backward-compatible with all your favorite applications! Easy to install! OS/2 Warp has it all--even a great name and an even greater look!
About the Cover: Noted Dallas artist Bill Carr takes us down the highway of reality, through an illusory door, and beyond to a vast universe of possibilities. Internet provides this superhighway to information, and OS/2 Warp's Internet Access Kit provides the door to the world of Internet.
About the Cover: Local area networks...they connect, they distribute, they make our lives easier, and sometimes they don't do any of the above. Dallas artist Bill Carr chose a fond childhood image to portray the modern-day technology of local area networks.
About the Cover: Databases make order out of chaos, weaving like and unlike bits of information into a fabric from which data can be extracted in whatever form you need. Dallas artist Bill Carr uses this analogy, along with his inimitable style, to illustrate the cover of our database issue.
About the Cover: Social interfaces continue to evolve, making human interaction with computers more friendly and familiar. The concept of this human-like approach to computing is reflected in noted Dallas artist Bill Carr's cover, where man meets machine with a universally- recognized gesture of cooperation.
About the Cover: Noted Dallas artist Bill Carr's highly effective use of visual imagery perfectly depicts the idea of connectivity on this month's cover.
About the Cover: Noted Dallas artist Bill Carr uses Todd Watson's analogy of 18th century global mercantilism to illustrate this issue's cover. The basic need to communicate has driven civilizations for centuries to identify ever more efficient ways to communicate. This issue of Personal Systems focuses on Lotus Notes--enabling you to link to the world.
About the Cover: Noted Dallas artist Bill Carr captures the essence of SOM's flexibility and power in this issues's cover, SOM transforms your application development efforts, letting you build robust, reusable, distributed applications.
About the Cover: A systems administrator, like an orchestra conductor, strives to keep disparate components working together in harmony. With management, the individual parts operate as a harmonious system. Noted Dallas artist Bill Carr's whimsical cover illustration reflects this analogy.
About the Cover: Application development is symbolized in this issue's cover illustration by noted Dallas artist Bill Carr. The crystalline rose, at its base only suggestive of its real world counterpart, transforms into a real flower, just as an application, beginning its existence as formless ideas, evolves into a tangible tool.
What's New?
Securing Your Communications from Mainframe to Desktop
Going Mobile
Creating Applications with VisualAge C++'s NMAKE Facility CODE UPDATE
Building Object-Oriented Applications from Existing C Code [11]
SOM Collection Classes: A Primer for the VisualAge COBOL Programmer [12]
About the Cover: This issue's cover illustration by noted Dallas artist Bill Carr showcases IBM's PC Server. Offering compatibility, expandability, and reliability, IBM's PC Server solutions take your networking capability to greater heights.
About the cover: 0S/ 2 Warp 4 is here! This issue's cover illustration by noted Dallas artist Bill Carr proudly announces the latest release of OS/2.
The last issue published was "November & December 1996" and when it was folded IBM published articles intended for the "January & February 1997" issue online instead.
About the cover: Conducting commerce over the Internet has truly given businesses worldwide reach. This issue's cover illustration by noted Dallas artist Bill Carr reflects the commercial capabilities afforded by the Internet.
The last issue was from "January/February 1997" was also published on the web site.
IBM provided permission for the articles to be republished, but sadly I was only able to find the online ones. If you have a copy of the physical magazine and you can scan it, I will request IBM permission to republish it online.