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Dedications
To my wonderful family, my wife Inge and my kids Till, Nils, and Nina
”CW
To two very remarkable people: my mother and father. Thank you for all of your love and support.
”EB
About the Authors
Claus Weiss is an advisory software consultant with the iSeries Application Development Tools team at the IBM Canada Toronto Laboratory. He has an Industrial Engineer degree and a Computer Science degree from the University of Hamburg, Germany. Claus worked as a systems engineer with IBM Germany and joined the IBM Toronto Laboratory in 1984. He was a developer and teamleader for System/38 development tools and has been a member of the Design Control Group for the AS/400 development tools. Claus has worked as a planner for iSeries Application Development for the past ten years , specializing in Visual Tools. Claus is a frequent speaker at COMMON and other iSeries conferences.
Emily Bruner is a technical writer for the iSeries Application Development Tools team at the IBM Canada Toronto Laboratory. She develops solution-level documentation for WebSphere Development Studio Client for iSeries, and also takes part in product testing and Web design. She obtained a degree in English Rhetoric and Professional Writing from the University of Waterloo, Ontario in 2001, and is continuing her education in Music, Philosophy, and Eastern European studies.
Acknowledgements
We want to thank the following people for their tremendous support:
Larry Schweyer for helping with the sample exercises
Maha Masri for supplying some of the exercises
Phil Coulthard for suggesting to write the book
Satish Gungabeesoon
George Farr
John Steinbacher
George Voutsinas
Melanie Steckham
Inge Weiss
Vadim Berestetsky