Welcome to today’s session - which, fun fact, did not go the way I planned. What started as a simple lesson quietly spiraled into a full‑blown system emergency, then morphed again into a real‑time problem‑solving adventure. At one point the IBM i system was locking up, teetering on the edge of a crash, and I just kept the camera rolling.
I honestly thought I’d delete the whole recording… but then it hit me: someone out there might run into the exact same issue. And if watching me troubleshoot it live helps even one person, then it’s worth sharing.
In the middle of the chaos, I even used BOB to auto‑generate a CL script that wiped out a mountain of log files in an IFS directory — which was unexpectedly awesome.
And yes, there were many, many swear words. All safely edited out for viewer well‑being.
So buckle up... this is real‑world IBM i problem resolution, captured as it happened.