Brian W. Kelly is a retired Assistant Professor in the Business Information Technology (BIT) program at Marywood University, where he also served as the IBM i and midrange systems technical advisor to the IT faculty. Kelly developed and taught many college and professional courses in the IT and business areas. He is also a contributing technical editor to IT Jungle’s "The Four Hundred" and "Four Hundred Guru" Newsletters. A former IBM Senior Systems Engineer, he has an active consultancy in the information technology field, (www.kellyconsulting.com). He is the author of 87 books and numerous articles (hundreds) about current IT topics. Kelly is a frequent speaker at COMMON, IBM conferences, and other technical conferences and user group meetings across the United States. His favorite COMMON speaker was his buddy, the late Al Barsa Jr., one of the best ever. Though much of this book was conceived and some of it was published before today, publishing standards groups acknowledge this as Brian Kelly’s 87th book. Thank you for the great support of Kelly’s technical books from IT Jungle, MC Press, 29th Street Press and many seminars over the years.