In today’s highly competitive business environment, companies want to extract business advantage from every technology in the enterprise. Many are looking to IP Telephony as a way to lower costs, simplify network management, and use existing systems and resources, while more tightly integrating business applications and customer communication with their voice and data networks. With IBM System i IP Telephony, you can get the business benefits and simplicity you seek from both your telephony and IT environments with one integrated, secure, and reliable solution delivered by two industry leaders, 3Com and IBM. System i IP Telephony delivers the proven solutions of 3Com, a leading supplier of secure, converged voice and data networking, on the IBM System i platform. This IBM Redbooks publication is intended for system administrators and field technicians. It will help them to understand and prepare their system for deploying a System i IP Telephony solution. It introduces the System i IP Telephony environment and the specific benefits of 3Com IP Telephony on the System i platform. It shows how to prepare your system using either direct or virtual resources, as well as how to maintain the IP Telephony environment on the System i platform. It includes information on how to set up the network environment to support IP Telephony, and guides you through all the steps required to set up and install the IP Telephony solution, leaving you ready for your IBM IP Telephony-approved business partner or 3Com installation team to configure your IP Telephony system for use in your enterprise.

This IBM Redbooks publication helps you to implement Lotus Enterprise Integrator (LEI) 6. It is targeted for system administrators who plan to implement or upgrade to LEI 6 in their organization. This book provides tips and techniques to help you successfully deploy and administer LEI 6. We begin by providing a brief introduction to what’s new with LEI 6 and cover some architectural scenarios of how LEI 6 infrastructure could be implemented in a customer’s environment. We then provide detailed information on how to install and administer LEI 6, as well as how to migrate or upgrade from LEI 3.x to LEI 6. Tools, techniques and utilities for debugging activities are described in depth, for testing connectivity to relational databases and testing connection documents in the LEI Administrator. Working examples are provided to illustrate how to use the Advanced RealTime activities that are new in LEI 6. It also provides examples of some of the batch activities previously available in LEI 3.x such as a scripted activity and a replication activity. Finally, the book concludes with a discussion of the LC LSX, the LotusScript programming interface to the Lotus Connectors which lets you program any functionality you need that isn’t available through the LEI forms. Please note that the additional material referenced in the text is not available from IBM.

This IBM Redbooks publication helps you to implement Lotus Enterprise Integrator (LEI) 6 on the IBM eServer iSeries server. It is targeted for system administrators who plan to implement or upgrade to LEI 6 in their organization. The book provides tips and techniques to help you successfully deploy and administer LEI 6 on an iSeries server. Please note that the additional material referenced in the text is not available from IBM.