AS400, Authority, IBM i, iSeries

IBM i Special Authorities

Special Authorities – What are they on IBM i? If you come from the world of IBM I you will have heard of *ALLOBJ authority. This is the ultimate level of object access authority on an IBM I system. *ALLOBJ literally means you are authorized to read, change, or delete any/all objects on the system! …

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IBM i, AS400, Programming

Ignore naughty special characters- Java and IBMi might get upset!

Naughty Special Characters – from Dollars to Pounds. Another IBM I Developer was having this weird problem with an IFS file. Trying to figure out the code page problems with a file that had been emailed from a British IBM i Server. naughty special characters- Java and IBMi might get upset! When the Java QSHELL command …

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