organizational software and hardware understanding.
When organisations have different hardware and software environments, how should they ensure that both organisations’ systems ‘understand’ the message being sent between them?

Answer Question   |  August 30, 2009  5:33 PM
Hardware, Integration with other platforms, Software

Setup Remote printer in zOS
We have zOS v1R4 in a z900 mainframe server. I am a newly joined MVS system programmer here in this Datacenter. My requirement is as follows: 1) Currently we use TCP/IP to connect to LPARs in the mainframe 2) There is a remote laser printer in the client place(which is already networked) 3) We would [...]

Answer Question   |  June 18, 2005  3:46 PM
Capacity planning, Hardware, Integration with other platforms, Logical partitions, Mainframe, MVS, z/OS, z/OS configuration

New to AS400 administration and need some help.
I have two questions here if someone can help. I will appreciate anything you can give. First, I am trying to configure a network printer on the AS400. I did wrkcfgsts, work with description, and copied the printer devices description and modified the printer device with the new info. All I changed was the IP [...]

Answer Question   |  April 6, 2009  12:04 PM
Auditing, Availability, Backup & recovery, Capacity planning, DataCenter, Hardware, Help Desk, i5, IBM, Installation, Integration with other platforms, Integration/Connectivity, iSeries, Logical partitions, Mainframe, Microsoft Windows, Networking, Operating systems, OS/400, PC/Windows Connectivity, Performance/Tuning, Printing, PTFs, Remote access, Reporting, Security, Security management, Server consolidation, Servers, System monitoring, Tech support, Technical support, tips and tricks, Tools

REXEC from IBM Mainframe
How do you run a batch script on an NT Server using REXEC?

Answer Question   |  February 2, 2005  11:34 AM
Integration with other platforms

Rogue Character After FTP’ing
I FTP a file from the AS400 to a Windows 2000 server and there is a carriage return and line feed character at the end of the file. How do you get rid of it?

Answer Question   |  December 7, 2004  6:08 AM
Desktops, Development, Integration with other platforms, Microsoft Windows, PC/Windows Connectivity, Servers, TCP, Tech support, Technical support, Windows 2000 desktop, Windows 95/98

Best rules of thumb?
What are five best rules of thumb when reviewing output from system monitors for preventing future problems. The system monitors could be any SMF/RMF MICS TSO/MON MXG OMEGAMON system monitor type report for reporting on the mainframe. Example might be 1. sustained CPU utilization over 85% 2. Long I/O ques 3. large variation in on-line [...]

Answer Question   |  August 6, 2009  5:39 PM
Availability, Capacity planning, EMC, Hardware, Hitachi Data Systems, IBM, Integration with other platforms, Mainframe, Storage products and equipment, Tech support, Third-party services, Vendor support