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Dear Uncle AS400, my disk space keeps creeping higher and higher, and I don’t mean up the stairs! Is there a simple way I can clean up my disk drives to reduce this amount of disk space being wasted by unnecessary ones and zeros? A: Yes, the system has a very simple command that will …
IBM i Defaults are just defaults – not the optimal settings This weekend I upgraded an old Turnover 5.4 Change Management installation to the newer V100 version across several LPAR’s of a customer’s IBMi installation. As part of the mission to tidy up the Software Change process – I see a lot of objects that …
Promoting Files using TURNOVER Using a Change Management tool to promote files makes the creation and replacement of target files so much easier. #INTERNET-FACT: Turnover for iSeries, is a change management tool that really eases this process for us developers. Consider this scenario – we want to make a change to an IBM i *PF …
Declare the default value for IBM-i Table Data The DFT Keyword is used to specify the default value of a field in the Physical File. The format of the keyword is: DFT(‘value’ | numeric-value | X’hexadecimal-value’ | *NULL) Without this keyword, character and hexadecimal fields are set to blanks as default and numeric fields are …
IBM i, AS400, iSeries, Programming, RPG
This morning I got question from an old RPG3 chum of mine: I know a couple of questions they will ask me, what are the different parms used on sub-procedures like *OMIT/*Nopass. Didn’t we use those any way? I thought we were writing programs that did or did not necessarily get parms depending what called …
Yes thats right. *SPLFS. IBM Spool Files. I sample several spliffs every day, so I want to keep them secure: Spool files and Printer security Question: I want to set up user profile who just can display spool file but who can not delete it. Answer 1. Spool file security is quite a bit different …
Talking about an OBJECT in the IBMi world conjures up images of all kinds of wonderful screens defining object parameters: AS400 iSERIES and IBM i Object Authority Question: If a library has security for a user of *USE will this user be able to update files in the library and If files were created with …
User profiles are such a wonderful and flexible part of the IBMi operating system. Group profiles, Security levels, authorization lists…. good stuff: Managing User Profiles Question I am having a problem with user profiles disabling randomly. Answer 1. It sounds like someone has used the Security Toolkit to activate the “automatically disable inactive profiles” option. …
More snippets of archaic and mostly outdated stuff… but worth saving online because I’m constantly amazed by the lax security setup at some IBM AS400 businesses I visit: AS/400 and Internet Security: Question: What security level (30, 40, or 50) is adequate for an AS/400 on the Internet? Answer 1. Levels 40 and 50 will …
JULY 2015 Update: I bit the bullet and bought IBM Rational Developer RDi a while ago. It’s a nice step up from the old WDSC client and it deffo runs faster, smoother and supports all the new opcodes that are being introduced to RPG over recent years. I highly recommend RDi to each and every RPG …
Softlanding Turnover Change Management tool works great and has a nice windows front end (based on Eclipse) and most of the functions are easy to find. For those green screen stalwarts out there – you can also access Turnover from the green screen 5250 command line. Most functions are pretty easy to find but some …
Why are so many IBMi developers still stuck in the same application design thought process they had 20 years ago? Why do so many IBMi developers still refer to IBM-i as AS400 (the old system that we used in the early 1990’s)? Why are some people still writing batch report programs and 5250 green screen enquiries? Evolving …
