AKA – How to copy IBM i IFS folder and all subfolders and documents to a new Location I just upgraded a clients PRESTO Server to the current version 8.1 What is Presto? It’s commonly called an IBM i Modernization Application : Essentially transforming the old fashioned AS400 style Green Screen terminals to modern Webstyle

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So, I just did an upgrade of the BCD Software GUI Client (now owned by Fresche Legacy by the way) for a client. This upgraded their older version of Presto to PRESTO 8.1 Server. This also comes with a new Presto Client and Screen Designer adding some nice new tweaks. Compulsive Library Naming Tendencies The

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TURNOVER and IBM i ASP (Auxiliary Storage Pools) Unicom (who bought out ‘Softlanding Systems’) recommends upgrading to TURNOVER V101 before implementing iASP technology. It recommends it because it only works on V101 😉 The main thing to remember is that you need to set your job, or session, to use the iASP before going into

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IBM i iASP (Independent Auxiliary Storage Pool) The independent auxiliary storage pool (IASP) is the strategic building block for availability on IBM i. There is a lot of mythology around migrating to an IASP environment, and some extremely wild estimates about the complexity of migrating. The reality is usually considerably easier than most people would

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By default, the IFS lives in the *SYSBASE ASP. But, we can move the IFS Directories, and all documents therein, to the iASP location easily: Let’s assume your ASP is called ‘my_iasp’ 1) Vary on iASP 2) Create your new directory on the iASP, if it doesn’t already exist 3) Move the directory, and all

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Many IBM shops have FTP locked down for supposed security reasons. But before I start ranting about sloppy security measures in IBM-i shops all over the world; locking down things like FTP while leaving file uploads wide open, *public rights on file shares, inherited authority on commands line access, SQL scripts that are just waiting

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I got the SNIP recently, but that’s whole different story to this very boring technical one… How to assign a keyboard shortcut to the Windows Snipping Tool I’ve been using the windows snipping tool a lot recently — to capture various 5250 screens and document them. I just remembered how to setup the tool against

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