Unicom’s TURNOVER works neatly with IBM i ASP (Auxiliary Storage Pools) “Unicom TURNOVER” can refer to different things depending on the context. In this blog I am talking about the IBM i Software Lifecycle Manager (also called Change Management). So, if that is not what you are looking for, leave now before you go blind

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Have you ever seen a ‘Library QTEMP not found’ error? Weird Huh? After some head scratching we figured it out – this IBM i Power System is using an Independent Auxiliary Storage Pool (aka iASP). The previous administrators had installed and configured the iASP, but then decided to change the core IBM i System commands

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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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