IBM OS/2 Developer

This was a magazine (formerly the IBM Personal Systems Developer) focused on OS/2 development.

• Editor: Dick Conklin
• Publisher: Miller Freeman Publications, Inc. / IBM Corporation

Since the Volume 5 Number 3 issue the magazine dropped the IBM logo on the cover. Later issues were called OS/2 Developer.

Issues

Volume 4 - 1992

No. 1 & 2: IBM Personal Systems Developer

No. 3 - Summer - G362-0001-14

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IBM OS/2 Developer Magazine Volume 4 Number 3 Cover

• Editorial
  • 5 - A new OS/2; a new magazine [1]
• Spotlight
  • 6 - Wright: Spotlight on the OS/2 2.0 Development Team [2]
  • Software Tools
  • 16 - Henry; Williams: Building Production-Quality Client/Server Applications [3]
  • 26 - Mitarotondo: Application Development Aids for OS/2 2.0 [4]
  • 32 - Proffit: The Enhanced Editor [5]
  • 34 - Garrison; Rogers:IBM Snapdump/2: Capture File for Problem Determination [6]
• 32-Bit
  • 42 - Perks: Application Printing Using OS/2 2.0 [7]
  • 52 - Knott: Where, Oh Where, Did the Print Manager Go? [8]
  • 58 - Schroder: DOS Application Printing: Understanding the Differences Under OS/2 [9]
  • 67 - Sessions; Coskun, N.: Class Objects in SOM [10]
  • 78 - Wright: The OS/2 Workplace Programming Interface [11]
• Multimedia
  • 90 - Chu: DVI Support by Audio Visual Connection [12]
  • 98 - Dinallo: Listen to the Sounds: The MMPM/2 Audio Subsystem [13]
• Database
  • 103 - Amundsen; Hofman: Advanced Programming Considerations for Database Manager [14]
  • 110 - Bezviner: User Exits: Using Nonstandard Devices with DBM [15]
• LAN
  • 121 - Beatty: The LAN Transport Layer of Extended Services and LAN Services [16]
  • 124 - Beatty: Creating 32 Bit NetBIOS C Programs [17]
• Communications
  • 127 - Thompson: Hyperaccess/5 and OS/2 Multitasking Communications [18]
• Systems Applicaton Architecture
  • 132 - Taylor: CCL/2: A User Interface Migration Tool for OS/2 2.0 [19]

No. 4 - Fall - G362-0001-15

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IBM OS/2 Developer Magazine Volume 4 Number 4 Cover

• Editorial
  • 5 - Race Cars, Swimming Pools, and OS/2
• Spotlight
  • 6 - OS/2 Tracks the Indy 500
  • 16 - Borland: Tremor in the Valley
• Software Tools
  • 30 - SourceLink: A Source Code Processor
  • 36 - Smalltalking With the Database Manager
  • 44 - Synetics: A New Distributed Processing Architecture
  • 62 - AM/Workplace: Building Client/Server Applications
• Performance
  • 58 - OS/2 Productivity Through Multitasking Multimedia
• Multimedia
  • 72 - Plugging into MMPM/2
  • 81 - Networked Full Motion Digital Video
  • 90 - MMPM/2 and OS/2: The Multimedia Advantage
  • 102 - Multimedia Waveform Audio Support
  • 111 - IBM ActionMedia II Support for MMPM/2
• Database
  • 117 - Driving Forward with the Database Manager Command Line Interface
• Hardware
  • 125 - Making OS/2 Run Across Industry PCs
• International
  • 132 - EMEA Developer Assistance Program Update (Fall 1992)
• Interview
  • 134 - Interview: Bob Orfali and Dan Harkey

Volume 5 - 1993

No. 1 (Winter) - G362-0001-16

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IBM OS/2 Developer Magazine Volume 5 Number 1 Cover

• 5 - Delivering More Beef
• 8 - Computer Associates' Success: Platform-Adaptive Applications
• 15 - Steve Mastrianni: Designing an OS/2 Device Driver
• 25 - LAN Interoperability with OS/2 2.0
• 39 - Softool: Software Change Management on the PC
• 43 - Testing Client/Server Applications
• 53 - Testing in the GUI and Client/Server World
• 63 - OS/2 2.0 Video Systems: Structure and Behavior
• 69 - OS/2: The International Scene (Winter 1993)
• 75 - AlertVIEW: Network Management
• 80 - PMfax: Device-Independent Fax Services for OS/2 2.0
• 85 - Why PL/I
• 96 - Peter Haggar; Peter Brightbill: Programming the OS/2 Container Control: The Basics
• 102 - Dave Hock: Implementing a Wastebasket in the Workplace Shell
• 112 - Thinking in Presentation Manager
• 120 - Matt Smith; Mark Benge: Demystifying Custom Controls
• 132 - Developing Applications with Query Manager

No. 2 (Spring) - G362-0001-17

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IBM OS/2 Developer Magazine Volume 5 Number 2 Cover

• 5 - New Responsiveness And A New Look
• 6 - Oracle: OS/2 Preferences and Portability
• 17 - Automating Application Installability With Communications Manager/2
• 27 - Extending Application Interfaces for Communications: Client/Server
• 39 - Application Design For Remote Access
• 48 - Programming the OS/2 Container Control: By Example
• 60 - Richard Redpath, Sue Henshaw, Joe Coulombe: Workplace Shell Programming using Multiple Processes
• 72 - Matt Smith; Mark Benge: Designing Custom Controls
• 86 - A Bird's Eye View of SOM
• 94 - Method Resolution in SOM
• 103 - Nurcan Coskun: Using Name-Lookup Resolution in SOM
• 113 - Network Plotting Formation: The LAN NetView Start Objects
• 123 - Server-Based Systems: Protection From Disk Failures
• 127 - Larry Salomon jr.: Writing Memory Allocation Functions with DosSubAllocMem

No. 3 (July/Aug 1993) - G362-0001-18

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IBM OS/2 Developer Magazine Volume 5 Number 3 Cover

• 5 - What's New, OS/2?
• 6 - Taligent: A New Paradigm, A New Approach
• 25 - The Release of OS/2 2.1: An Overview
• 31 - CD-ROM Support in OS/2 2.1
• 40 - Printing Performance Options in OS/2 2.1 Printer Drivers
• 48 - LAN NetView: A Programming Overview
• 52 - 32-Bit GUI Client/Server Application Development With Personal AS/2
• 66 - Client/Server Programming With Distributed Application/2
• 73 - Easel Workbench: Robust Client/Server Development
• 83 - Speech-Enabling Your Applications with ICSS
• 91 - OS/2 32-Bit Porting and Technical Consulting Workshops
• 97 - Steve Clark: Debugging REXX Applications
• 108 - Enhancing Your Smalltalk/V Programs

Included: IBM Direct Summer l993 - PC Power Tool (G326-0328-88)
Included: Independent Vendor League Catalog

No. 4 (Sept/Oct 1993) - G362-0001-19

IBM OS/2 Developer Magazine Volume 5 Number 4 Cover

• 5 - Two Paths Converge
• 6 - Digitalk: Object Pioneer Pushes the Envelope
• 19 - Network SignON Coordinator/2: A Plus for Network Applications
• 29 - The LAN Distance Product: LAN Application Transparency for the Remote User
• 37 - Using NetWare 4.01 for OS/2
• 46 - Chris Andrew; Mark Benge; Matt Smith: A Color-Full Example: Using Color In Control Design
• 59 - Graphics Interface Kit/2: Visualizing and Manipulating Data
• 70 - Demystifying the OS/2 Presentation Manager
• 80 - Johnston, Donald G.: Programming the Graphical User Interface Extensions of MMPM/2
• 86 - Converting Real Addresses to Virtual Addresses in OS/2 2.x
• 100 - SPM/2: Fine-Tuning Your Application
• 109 - Using LINK386 Options to Improve Performance

Included: IBM OS/2 2.1 and Development Tools Programmer's Paradise Catalog.

No. 5 (November/December 1993) - G362-0001-20

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IBM OS/2 Developer Magazine Volume 5 Number 5 Cover

• 5 - On Sneakers, SOM, and Support
• 6 - Sessions, R.; Coskun, N.; Erickson, C.: SOMObjects Developer Toolkit: An Overview
• 38 - Migrating from File-Based Storage to Object Database Storage on OS/2
• 46 - An Object of Many Colors: Using Custom Controls Within A Workplace Object
• 60 - Writing WPS-Compliant Applications
• 70 - The IBM Microkernel Technology
• 76 - Programming PCMCIA: It's All In The Cards
• 82 - Reuse: Recognizing the Opportunities
• 92 - Introduction to LAN NetView Application Development: An Xmp/Xom Primer
• 104 - IBM Software Installer: Installations Made Easy

Links

• IBM OS/2 Developer Magazine Submission Guidelines
• MMPM/2 and OS/2: The Multimedia Advantage — Eye Catching Artwork by Maria Ingold