Mysterious AS/400 record locking
We have been experiencing a surge in the number of occurrences of record locks in our shop. We make sure we follow the rules for preventing record locks. But I have seen programs where the UNLOCK is not used even though the UPDATE operation is embedded in between If-EndIf statements. At first I thought these [...]
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| January 19, 2009 10:44 AM
AS/400 administration, AS/400 Records, Record lock
We have been experiencing a surge in the number of occurrences of record locks in our shop. We make sure we follow the rules for preventing record locks. But I have seen programs where the UNLOCK is not used even though the UPDATE operation is embedded in between If-EndIf statements. At first I thought these [...]
AS/400 restoring across partitions
I recently got sucked into an AS/400 issue, but know very little about the system so am using manuals to figure things out.(Our sys. admin. left) We’ve got a server set up with a few partitions. One corresponds to our production partition, another corresponds to our testing partition. They have different user setups but are [...]
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| January 19, 2009 4:51 PM
AS/400 administration, AS/400 backup, Option 21 backup, Option 22 backup
I recently got sucked into an AS/400 issue, but know very little about the system so am using manuals to figure things out.(Our sys. admin. left) We’ve got a server set up with a few partitions. One corresponds to our production partition, another corresponds to our testing partition. They have different user setups but are [...]
I want to copy the IFS fIle from one directory to another file and i want to ftp that file
I want to copy the IFS fIle from one directory to another file and i want to ftp that file..I need a solution how to perform this??
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| January 17, 2009 6:40 AM
AS/400 administration, AS/400 FTP, IFS, Integrated File System
I want to copy the IFS fIle from one directory to another file and i want to ftp that file..I need a solution how to perform this??
How can minimize System ASP used
My As/400 System % System ASP Used goes to 76 %, How can we minimize this, I already delete Spool File.
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| March 15, 2011 5:37 AM
AS/400 administration, AS/400 storage, Auxiliary Storage Pool, Spool files
My As/400 System % System ASP Used goes to 76 %, How can we minimize this, I already delete Spool File.
Job Scheduling in AS/400
How do I schedule a job in AS400?
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| January 14, 2009 4:38 AM
AS/400 administration, AS/400 job scheduler
How do I schedule a job in AS400?
MSGW
Thank You for your reply But I need the process how I can write a program in order to get all the process to be done that is, giving opt7 & reply ‘G’ for a MSGW job. Or can I have any other process to do the same that means sending a reply to a [...]
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| January 12, 2009 4:43 AM
AS/400 administration, CL, Message Waiting, MSGW, RPGLE
Thank You for your reply But I need the process how I can write a program in order to get all the process to be done that is, giving opt7 & reply ‘G’ for a MSGW job. Or can I have any other process to do the same that means sending a reply to a [...]
What is a QPJOBLOG?
what is a QPJOBLOG & how to interpret it? pls. can u give some examples
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| January 8, 2009 9:00 AM
AS/400 administration, OUTQ, QPJOBLOG
what is a QPJOBLOG & how to interpret it? pls. can u give some examples
Regarding deletion of user profile from AS/400 system
While changing the owner of the objects of the user profile from the system i encountered an error ‘Ownership of 0 document library objects changed to profile XXXXXX; 1 not …’. I need to know how can i solve this error. Thanks,
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| January 8, 2009 6:43 AM
AS/400 administration, AS/400 error messages, AS/400 errors, AS/400 objects, AS/400 user profiles
While changing the owner of the objects of the user profile from the system i encountered an error ‘Ownership of 0 document library objects changed to profile XXXXXX; 1 not …’. I need to know how can i solve this error. Thanks,
AS400
what will happen in system ( initial process) after sign on the new session.
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| December 31, 2008 4:43 AM
AS/400 administration
what will happen in system ( initial process) after sign on the new session.
Command to copy database file to folder in AS/400?
AS400
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| March 4, 2010 7:34 AM
AS/400 administration, Copy To Import File, Copy To PC Document, CPYTOIMPF, CPYTOPCD
AS400
Numeric fields in AS/400
I have a numeric field 5,2 in a display file. when i am entering values i have blanks in between two numeric digits. the program is considering these blanks as zero. I hvae to avoid this, please let me know the way.
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| December 29, 2008 12:26 PM
AS/400 administration, AS/400 numeric fields, Display File
I have a numeric field 5,2 in a display file. when i am entering values i have blanks in between two numeric digits. the program is considering these blanks as zero. I hvae to avoid this, please let me know the way.
Copying a USRPRF to create a new one
Copied user A’s profile to create user B. However, objects owned by A did not get copied on B’s profile. How do I add about 50 objs owned by A to B’s profile? Thanks.
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| December 19, 2008 6:37 AM
AS/400 administration, AS/400 objects, AS/400 user profiles, USRPRF
Copied user A’s profile to create user B. However, objects owned by A did not get copied on B’s profile. How do I add about 50 objs owned by A to B’s profile? Thanks.
How to view online the new data added to a PF?
Hi, I need to display in a subfile the new data added to a phisical file, in real time. Who knows unix, this is something like the command “tail -f”. Thanks a lot!
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| December 10, 2008 1:24 AM
AS/400 administration, PF/LF, Physical File, Subfile
Hi, I need to display in a subfile the new data added to a phisical file, in real time. Who knows unix, this is something like the command “tail -f”. Thanks a lot!
AS/400 – Physical File in update mode
hi all, i have a physical file i need to update that file (not append) ,I opened that file in update mode eg F MYFILE UF E K DISK (i didn’t mention ‘A’ because i dont need to append records) now after certain checks i update (any field) with syntex. UPDATE RECORD FORMAT but when [...]
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| April 14, 2009 4:30 AM
AS/400 administration, CHAIN, Physical File
hi all, i have a physical file i need to update that file (not append) ,I opened that file in update mode eg F MYFILE UF E K DISK (i didn’t mention ‘A’ because i dont need to append records) now after certain checks i update (any field) with syntex. UPDATE RECORD FORMAT but when [...]
IFS maximum record size
I retrieved a file via FTP and placed it on the AS/400 IFS drive. Then when I viewed the data all the records wrapped at 4096 characters. Is this a system limit or is there a system config that can be changed to allow longer record lengths?
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| December 11, 2008 8:30 AM
AS/400 administration, AS/400 FTP, IFS, IFS record size, Integrated File System
I retrieved a file via FTP and placed it on the AS/400 IFS drive. Then when I viewed the data all the records wrapped at 4096 characters. Is this a system limit or is there a system config that can be changed to allow longer record lengths?
AS/400: Unique records in file
hi all, i have a problem , suppose i have a physical file which has multiple occurrences of fld1 , now i need to access that in distinct (one data single time) order. so i created a logical file with UNIQUE keyword . but when i make query on this LF then msg comes that [...]
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| December 3, 2008 8:39 AM
AS/400 administration, Logical File, PF/LF, Physical File
hi all, i have a problem , suppose i have a physical file which has multiple occurrences of fld1 , now i need to access that in distinct (one data single time) order. so i created a logical file with UNIQUE keyword . but when i make query on this LF then msg comes that [...]
Login timestamp of an AS/400 user into a subsystem
I want to extract all the timestamps of an particular user when he logged into the sub-system. Is there any report or file which extracts this information i.e login timestamp of an user in AS/400. Kindly provide me the solution. Thanks, Gadang
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| November 25, 2008 1:57 AM
AS/400 administration, AS/400 Login TimeStamp, AS/400 user administration, AS/400 user sessions
I want to extract all the timestamps of an particular user when he logged into the sub-system. Is there any report or file which extracts this information i.e login timestamp of an user in AS/400. Kindly provide me the solution. Thanks, Gadang
Remote access the login time stamp of user, where it is being stored by system
In case of AS/400 Remote access the login time stamp of user is being stored by system some where and displaying correctly, whenever required. Please let us know where this data is being stored and how to extract the same. Thanks, Gadang
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| November 24, 2008 2:14 AM
AS/400 administration, AS/400 remote access, AS/400 TimeStamp, AS/400 user sessions
In case of AS/400 Remote access the login time stamp of user is being stored by system some where and displaying correctly, whenever required. Please let us know where this data is being stored and how to extract the same. Thanks, Gadang
Objects transfer between AS/400 Environments
Hello, Can anybody briefly explain the process of identifying the active user sessions in a AS/400 environment and kill the sessions?
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| January 9, 2009 11:48 AM
AS/400 administration, AS/400 command functions, AS/400 user sessions
Hello, Can anybody briefly explain the process of identifying the active user sessions in a AS/400 environment and kill the sessions?
Default authority for a user profile
What is the default autority for a user profile in AS400?
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| November 14, 2008 5:24 AM
AS/400 administration, AS/400 user authority, AS/400 user profiles
What is the default autority for a user profile in AS400?





