1 Brigham Young University-Idaho is unique: It endeavors to open the door to the attainment of a higher moral standard as well as an academic one for its 11,000 students. Administrators do not feel however, that while opening the minds of its students, they can afford to leave any unattended openings to their production computing environment. BYU-Idaho rests its faith in an IBM AS/400 model 730. It hosts an array of applications that you don’t come across too often, including programs that manage information on financial aid, scholarships, student data, accounting, alumni, student employment, and placement. By and large, all the applications on BYU-Idaho’s AS/400 are custom; all developed and maintained internally. When the school began opening up its environment to support TCP/IP so f

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