AS/400 administration Questions


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 [...]

Answer Question   |  January 19, 2009  10:44 AM
AS/400 administration, AS/400 Records, Record lock
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560 pts.

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 [...]

Answer Question   |  January 19, 2009  4:51 PM
AS/400 administration, AS/400 backup, Option 21 backup, Option 22 backup
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35 pts.

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??

Answer Question   |  January 17, 2009  6:40 AM
AS/400 administration, AS/400 FTP, IFS, Integrated File System
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140 pts.

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.

Answer Question   |  March 15, 2011  5:37 AM
AS/400 administration, AS/400 storage, Auxiliary Storage Pool, Spool files
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10 pts.

Job Scheduling in AS/400
How do I schedule a job in AS400?

Answer Question   |  January 14, 2009  4:38 AM
AS/400 administration, AS/400 job scheduler
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5 pts.

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 [...]

Answer Question   |  January 12, 2009  4:43 AM
AS/400 administration, CL, Message Waiting, MSGW, RPGLE
5 pts.

What is a QPJOBLOG?
what is a QPJOBLOG & how to interpret it? pls. can u give some examples

Answer Question   |  January 8, 2009  9:00 AM
AS/400 administration, OUTQ, QPJOBLOG
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340 pts.

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,

Answer Question   |  January 8, 2009  6:43 AM
AS/400 administration, AS/400 error messages, AS/400 errors, AS/400 objects, AS/400 user profiles
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45 pts.

AS400
what will happen in system ( initial process) after sign on the new session.

Answer Question   |  December 31, 2008  4:43 AM
AS/400 administration
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1,025 pts.

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5 pts.

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.

Answer Question   |  December 29, 2008  12:26 PM
AS/400 administration, AS/400 numeric fields, Display File
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360 pts.

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.

Answer Question   |  December 19, 2008  6:37 AM
AS/400 administration, AS/400 objects, AS/400 user profiles, USRPRF
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5 pts.

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!

Answer Question   |  December 10, 2008  1:24 AM
AS/400 administration, PF/LF, Physical File, Subfile
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2,790 pts.

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 [...]

Answer Question   |  April 14, 2009  4:30 AM
AS/400 administration, CHAIN, Physical File
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310 pts.

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?

Answer Question   |  December 11, 2008  8:30 AM
AS/400 administration, AS/400 FTP, IFS, IFS record size, Integrated File System
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145 pts.

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 [...]

Answer Question   |  December 3, 2008  8:39 AM
AS/400 administration, Logical File, PF/LF, Physical File
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310 pts.

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

Answer Question   |  November 25, 2008  1:57 AM
AS/400 administration, AS/400 Login TimeStamp, AS/400 user administration, AS/400 user sessions
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45 pts.

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

Answer Question   |  November 24, 2008  2:14 AM
AS/400 administration, AS/400 remote access, AS/400 TimeStamp, AS/400 user sessions
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45 pts.

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?

Answer Question   |  January 9, 2009  11:48 AM
AS/400 administration, AS/400 command functions, AS/400 user sessions
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55 pts.

Default authority for a user profile
What is the default autority for a user profile in AS400?

Answer Question   |  November 14, 2008  5:24 AM
AS/400 administration, AS/400 user authority, AS/400 user profiles
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55 pts.