Well, IBM joined Linux...
If they really want support the OpenSource community they should relase the code of OS/2, due to their development stop. I think OS/2 source should give us many interesting knowledge, as we can revive the development scene around this cool OS. Well, this isn't first petition to IBM about OS/2. In this case I remember our initiative (http://os2.ru/voice/petition/index.html). I think that opensourced OS/2 is unreally because it contains some 3rd party companies copyrights for example. Maybe IBM will take this voice of people into considerations??

The Warpstock Event Team is pleased to announce that Computer Data Strategies will be exhibiting at Warpstock 2001. Be sure to visit their booth when youattend Warpstock this year.
Computer Data Strategies, Inc. is a software development and consulting organization focused on providing data management software and services to the computer industry. Best known for the BackAgain backup software, CDS now also distributes PMFax, which was originally developed by the Keller Group and is sometimes known as FaxWorks.
For more information on Computer Data Strategies and their products, please visit their web site at http://www.cds-inc.com.
The 5th annual Warpstock conference will be held October 6-8, 2001, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and is produced by Warpstock, Inc., a North Carolina non-profit corporation. The Warpstock annual conference is a gathering of OS/2 users, developers, and vendors from around the world for the purpose of education and advocacy. More information is available at the Warpstock 2001 website.

Lone Peak Automation to exhibit at Warpstock
The Warpstock Committee is pleased to announce that Lone Peak Automation, creators of UPS Monitor, X10 home automation software and other real-world interface software for OS/2 and eCS, will once again be exhibiting at Warpstock 2001.
Lone Peak Automation is proud to present two new products with support for OS/2 and eCS:

• The PowerCard by Guardian On Board, a unique Uninterruptible Power Supply that fits inside your computer. Through cooperation with Guardian On Board (http://www.guardian-ups.com), Lone Peak Automation design a special version of UPS Monitor to support this space-saving UPS.
• Cumulus, weather software for the affordable Oregon Scientific Weather Station model WMR-968. We will broadcast live, over the internet, local weather data and position to the APRS Citizen's WeatherNet (http://64.34.101.121/cgi-bin/wxpage.cgi?call=CW0120&last=120).

Be sure to visit their booth for hands-on demonstration of these two new products, plus UPS Monitor for OS/2, now supporting most UPS brands, and the popular HOUSE/2 series of X10 home automation software.
To get a taste of what Lone Peak Automation has to offer, visit their web site at http://home.att.net/~ASchw.
The 5th annual Warpstock conference will be held October 6-8, 2001, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
and is produced by Warpstock, Inc., a North Carolina non-profit corporation. The Warpstock annual conference is a gathering of OS/2 users, developers, and vendors from around the world for the purpose of education and advocacy.
More information is available at the Warpstock 2001 website, http://www.warpstock.org or its mirror site: http://warpstock.os2voice.org.

The attack on the World Trade Center has, understandably, caused many people to re-evaluate their travel plans. The Warpstock Board of Directors and the Event Team would like to reassure everyone that Warpstock 2001 has not been cancelled.
Warpstock is proud of the OS/2 Community and that less than a handful of people have told us that they have changed their plans to travel to Toronto. The Warpstock planners encourage all OS/2 users to follow through on their travel plans this October. Thanks to new security procedures, airline travel has never been safer.
The 5th annual Warpstock conference will be held October 6-8, 2001, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and is produced by Warpstock, Inc., a North Carolina non-profit corporation. The Warpstock annual conference is a gathering of OS/2 users, developers, and vendors from around the world for the purpose of education and advocacy. More information is available at the Warpstock 2001 website, http://www.warpstock.org or its mirror site: http://warpstock.os2voice.org.

Heute habe ich von meinem Rechtsanwalt die Information bekommen, daß Clemens-Elias Fischer aufgrund des von mir erwirkten Mahnbescheids zur Rückzahlung des "OS/2 Only!" Abonnementspreises die Eidesstattliche Versicherung abgegeben hat. Die Taschenpfändung blieb leider erfolglos. Mein Anwalt wird nun prüfen, ob anderweitige Pfändungsmaßnahmen erfolgversprechend sind.

Auf os2only.de gibt CE Fischer ein Statement ab, in dem er erklaert, dass es demnaechst auf dieser Domain ein Onlinemagizin zum Thema OS/2 geben wird.

The Warpstock Committee is pleased to announce that Finnegan Software will be exhibiting at Warpstock 2001. Be sure to visit their booth when you attend Warpstock this year.
Finnegan Software, Inc., Specialists in Home Office Automation and Small Business Networking. Finnegan Software specializes in providing fully installed computer systems, hardware components, and customer support for eComStation and ManagedClient solutions within North America.
For more information on Finnegan Software and their products, please visit their web site at http://www.finnsoft.com.
The 5th annual Warpstock conference will be held October 6-8, 2001, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and is produced by Warpstock, Inc., a North Carolina non-profit corporation. The Warpstock annual conference is a gathering of OS/2 users, developers, and vendors from around the world for the purpose of education and advocacy. More information is available at the Warpstock 2001 website.

The Warpstock Committee is pleased to announce that Jacaranda Business Systems (JBS) will be exhibiting at Warpstock 2001. Be sure to visit their booth when you attend Warpstock this year. Jacaranda Business Systems, Inc. distributes products through a network of Value-Added Resellers, Consultants, Independent Software Vendors, and Original Equipment Manufacturers. They work closely with partners in developing sales and marketing opportunities, as well as assisting with the planning of client demonstrations, training, and customer technical support agreements. They are the distributors of eComStation for Canada and a number of other countries.
JBS will be showcasing eComStation, the new verison of OS/2 Warp from Serenity Systems. If you're looking to update your OS/2 Warp 4 systems, eComStation might be just what you need. eComStation is based on IBM's "Merlin Convenience Pack" (an update to Warp 4), but includes lots of third-party applications, like Lotus SmartSuite. eCS is an excellent upgrade platform for all OS/2 users.
For more information on Jacaranda Business Systems and their products, please visit their web site at http://www.jbs.ca. For more information on eComStation, please visit http://www.ecomstation.com/.
The 5th annual Warpstock conference will be held October 6-8, 2001, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and is produced by Warpstock, Inc., a North Carolina non-profit corporation. The Warpstock annual conference is a gathering of OS/2 users, developers, and vendors from around the world for the purpose of education and advocacy. More information is available at the Warpstock 2001 website.

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The Warpstock Committee is pleased to announce that OS/2 NetLabs will be exhibiting at Warpstock 2001. Be sure to visit their booth when you attend Warpstock this year. OS/2 Netlabs was founded in 1997 with the goal of creating a center for free Open Source Software for OS/2. Today, OS/2 Netlabs is one of the largest developers of OS/2 software outside of IBM itself. With its many ground-breaking projects, OS/2 Netlabs has won a name for itself in the great OS/2 Community. OS/2 Netlabs is responsible for such amazing (and free) OS/2 software like Odin (lets you run 32-bit Windows application on OS/2), X-Workplace (a super enhancement to the WPS), and WarpIN (the new standard in OS/2 installers). For more information on OS/2 NetLabs and their products, please visit their web site at http://www.netlabs.org/.
The 5th annual Warpstock conference will be held October 6-8, 2001, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and is produced by Warpstock, Inc., a North Carolina non-profit corporation. The Warpstock annual conference is a gathering of OS/2 users, developers, and vendors from around the world for the purpose of education and advocacy. More information is available at the Warpstock 2001 website.

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The Warpstock Committee is pleased to announce that Lone Peak Automation
will again be exhibiting at Warpstock 2001. Be sure to visit their booth
when you attend Warpstock this year. Let Lone Peak Automation show you
all the cool things you can control from your OS/2 desktop.
Lone Peak Automation specializes in hardware and software design of
process and control automation in a wide range of industrial sectors. Lone
Peak Automation has over 15 years experience with system integration,
embedded system design, programmable logic controllers (PLC),
instrumentation and custom supervisory software design. Reliability and
ease of use are key characteristics of Lone Peak Automation's designs.
Lone Peak Automation is best known for their X10 and UPS control software.
House/2 (and related products) are inexpensive shareware applications for
controlling various X10 modules. X10 is a standard for controlling simple
electrical appliances, like light switches, from a computer console. UPS
Monitor is an application for controlling Uninterruptable Power Supplies.
UPS Monitor supports products from APC, Tripplite, and others. This year,
Lone Peak Automation introducts Cumulus, a program for the Oregon
Scientific WMR 968 Weather Station.
For more information on Lone Peak Automation and their products, please
visit their web site at http://home.att.net/~ASchw/
The 5th annual Warpstock conference will be held October 6-8, 2001, in
Toronto, Ontario, Canada and is produced by Warpstock, Inc., a North
Carolina non-profit corporation. The Warpstock annual conference is a
gathering of OS/2 users, developers, and vendors from around the world for
the purpose of education and advocacy. More information is available at
the Warpstock 2001 website, http://www.warpstock.org or its mirror site:
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The Warpstock Committee is pleased to announce that Zeryk Software will be exhibiting at Warpstock 2001. Be sure to visit their booth when you attend Warpstock this year.
Zeryx has been in business for 5 years, providing network and software solutions for small businesses. ZxMail Server is a multi-domain POP3 and SMTP server that also allows you to redistribute mail from an external POP3 account to users or domains on your server. ZxMail was previously distributed to private clients, but it now has been rewritten from the ground up to provide the best mail server running on OS/2.
For more information on Zeryx Software and their products, please visit their web site at http://www.zeryx.com.
The 5th annual Warpstock conference will be held October 6-8, 2001, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and is produced by Warpstock, Inc., a North Carolina non-profit corporation. The Warpstock annual conference is a gathering of OS/2 users, developers, and vendors from around the world for the purpose of education and advocacy. More information is available at the Warpstock 2001 website.

Dear All,
IBM is notifying you of a potential problem with DB2 UDB for OS/2 Versions 5, 6 and 7 that may cause "DB2 backups using userexit" to fail on or after Sept 8/2001 or Sept 9/2001 based on the timezone the machine operates under. This may require your customer to either install a fix or to follow a workaround procedure to circumvent the problem. Please forward the attached note to your customers immediately as this problem will manifest itself on the date/time that may vary slighlty for different customers based on the machine timezone.
Problem:
On September 8/2001 or 9/2001 (i.e., 21:46:40 Sept 8 EST (Toronto time) or 01:46:40 Sept 9 GMT), the 32-bit time value gains a digit to go from 999999999 to 1000000000. The exact time of the failure will depend on which timezone the machine operates under. The result is that DB2 will not pass the fifth parameter, the MODE or sequence #, to the BACKUP USEREXIT. As a result of this as of this date/time Database Backups on OS/2 via a USEREXIT for a database alias of 8 characters will no longer work and as
such a backup will not be taken.
The error or message you see will be dependant on how you have coded your userexit; If you are using the default userexit, you will see an invalid parameter error being reported by the userexit.
DB2 Products effected:
This problem is only related to the OS/2 platform and does not affect other USEREXITs (eg. LOG) or Backups taken without USEREXITs.
Customer Impact:
Inability to perform DB2 UDB backups on OS/2 via a USEREXIT as of September 8/2001 or 9/2001 (i.e., 01:46:40 Sept 9 GMT, or 21:46:40 Sept 8 EST)
Resolution: Apply DB2 UDB for OS/2 APAR JR16294 or use the suggested workaround.
Fix Availability:
Fix Status for releases currently in service: The fix for this problem has been uploaded to the DB2 UDB FIXPAK FTP site in the OS/2 directory for each release currently in service and we are developing a fix for V5 (out of service). The patched DLLs are stored in the archive file JR16294.zip. All NLV would use the same patch. A readme in the same directory (English only) is available to outline the problem/workaround/patch installation (JR16294.TXT). Location of FIX for V 6.1 FixPak 8: ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/ps/products/db2/fixes/english/db2os2v61/FP8_WR21255/
Location of FIX for V 7.1 FixPak 3: ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/ps/products/db2/fixes/english/db2os2v7/FP3_WR21251/
Note that this fix could only be applied to specified FIXPAK levels (FixPak 3 for V7.1 and FixPak 8 for V 6.1) and will not correct the problem for customers on special/private builds. They will either need to upgrade to one of these levels before applying the patch or will need to use the workaround until the next FixPak is made available.
Fix Status for releases which are not in service (V5 only) but customers may have bought a service extension:
Location of FIX for V 5.2 FixPak 16: A fix is being developed and will be uploaded to ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/ps/products/db2/fixes/english/db2os2v5/FP16_WR21262/ location. The fix will be in a file called "db22v5_JR16294.zip" and a readme in the same directory (English only) will also be available to outline the problem/workaround/patch installation (JR16294.TXT). We are expecting to have this fix developed and uploaded by end of day Friday Toronto time. Note that this fix could only be applied to V5.2 FixPak level 16 and will not correct the problem for customers on special/private builds. They will need to use the workaround.
TCO Customers can use one of the following options:

• Upgrade to one of the above listed levels and apply the available patch for your Version/FixPak level.
• Contact your local DB2 support organization and provide all the service/build level for your TCO to request a special fix. In the meantime, you may have to use the workaround to circumvent the problem until a fix can be made available for the requested TCO level.

Workaround:
Catalog another database alias to your database using 7 characters or less and use this database alias for performing your backups. You must ensure that the restores are performed using the same database alias as was used for the backup. By cataloging a separate alias, you avoid having to reconfigure all your remote database clients; making it transparent to your users.

The Warpstock Committee is pleased to announce that Starfire Technologies will be exhibiting at Warpstock 2001. Be sure to visit their booth when you attend Warpstock this year.
Starfire's premier partnerships with IBM and Lotus allows them to offer the "best of breed" products to tackle your most challenging business problems. Their cross-platform expertise covers the OS/2, Windows, AIX, and Linux operating systems. Starfire also provides the foundation for complex architecture, deployment, and development solutions. Starfire is recognized by IBM as one of the leading business partners in providing Server-Managed Client solutions with IBM's Network Computing software
family, specifically Workspace On-Demand.
For more information on Starfire Technologies and their products, please visit their web site at http://www.starfire.net.
The 5th annual Warpstock conference will be held October 6-8, 2001, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and is produced by Warpstock, Inc., a North Carolina non-profit corporation. The Warpstock annual conference is a gathering of OS/2 users, developers, and vendors from around the world for the purpose of education and advocacy. More information is available at the Warpstock 2001 website, http://www.warpstock.org or its mirror
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The Warpstock Committee is pleased to announce that Data Representations, creators of Java development tools, will once again be exhibiting at Warpstock 2001. Be sure to visit their booth when you attend Warpstock this year.
Data Representations provides specialized products and custom solutions for your Java Technology needs. They're best known for their Java-hosted rapid-application-development (RAD) tool, Simplicity for Java, but they also have RAD tools for a wide variety of platforms, from Palm Pilots to mainframes. Be sure to visit their booth for a jaw-dropping demo.
To get a taste of what Data Representations has to offer, visit their web site.
The 5th annual Warpstock conference will be held October 6-8, 2001, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and is produced by Warpstock, Inc., a North Carolina non-profit corporation. The Warpstock annual conference is a gathering of OS/2 users, developers, and vendors from around the world for the purpose of education and advocacy. More information is available at the Warpstock 2001 website.

The Warpstock Committee is pleased to announce that POSSI, the Phoenix OS/2 Society user group, will once again be exhibiting at Warpstock 2001. Be sure to visit their booth when you attend Warpstock this year.
The Phoenix OS/2 Society, Inc (POSSI) is an international computer user group dedicated to users of OS/2 and OS/2 Warp. The Society was founded in 1994 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA and now has members around the world. Anyone interested in OS/2 and related applications and topics is welcome to join. The Society's primary purpose is education. Members receive a subscription to the award-winning Extended Attributes magazine, information-packed meetings, access to members-only email lists, and a variety of other services.

At the POSSI booth, you'll be able to talk to POSSI officers about their organization, inquire into becoming a member, or just examine recent issues of Extended Attributes, the only print magazine dedicated to OS/2. Remember, you don't need to live in Arizona to be a member! For more information on POSSI, visit their web site at http://www.possi.org/.
The 5th annual Warpstock conference will be held October 6-8, 2001, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and is produced by Warpstock, Inc., a North Carolina non-profit corporation. The Warpstock annual conference is a gathering of OS/2 users, developers, and vendors from around the world for the purpose of education and advocacy. More information is available at the Warpstock 2001 website, http://www.warpstock.org or its mirror
site: http://warpstock.os2voice.org.