iSeries and Windows 7 shared drives
Why is it that when my iSeries password is “ABC” my shared drives connect when I signon to Windows 7, but when I change my iSeries password to “XYZ” the shared drive do not connect? I then have to go into Windows Explorer, click on one of the drives and re-enter my password. Neither of [...]

Answer Question   |  May 3, 2011  3:13 PM
AS/400, iSeries Access, iSeries passwords, iSeries security, Shared drives, Windows 7

FTP over SSL from iSeries
Hello, I send FTP over SSL to ten other servers from iSeries. I have loaded all certificates & trusted and it’s working fine. But my question is, How would iSeries system identifies a particular certificate to verify when we do FTP to any one server of ten ? Thanks Sim

Answer Question   |  November 5, 2010  4:13 AM
AS/400, FTP, iSeries, iSeries security, Security, SSL

Security issues going from V5R2 to V5r4
we upgraded from V5R2 to V5r4 and now I am getting authority problems on any update programs in our custom programing library. User authorities were copied over. That seems fine. Were there any know security problems going from R2 to R4? I get around each instance by changing program to use Adopted authority of the [...]

Answer Question   |  May 19, 2010  3:07 PM
i5 520, iSeries security, V5R2, V5R4

My iseries id gets disabled frequently.
My iseries id gets disabled frequently. when i check the log it gives me following message. Message ID . . . . . . :   CPIAD0B       Severity . . . . . . . :   00         Message type . . . . . :   Information                                         Date sent  . . . . . . :   23/03/10      [...]

Answer Question   |  March 26, 2010  9:30 AM
iSeries security, Passwords

How to block execute STRQM from command line
Hi all, To improve security of my iSeries database, I want to block excute STRQM command from command line. How can I do that Thanks a lot

Answer Question   |  February 3, 2010  8:49 PM
AS/400 Command Line, iSeries security

Secure file deletion on an iSeries
How can I perform a secure file deletion on an iSeries system, as per a secure file deletion on a PC? The PCI police are chasing me for an answer, but I’m not convinced its possible/necessary.

Answer Question   |  February 3, 2010  1:46 PM
iSeries security, PCI compliance

Users mapping a network drive to the iSeries getting disabled all too often
What is the best way to map a network drive to an iSeries so that the user password does not have to match the PC password as it often gets disabled due to the user changing the network password when both IDs are the same?

Answer Question   |  October 16, 2009  6:42 PM
AS/400 Configuration, AS/400 security, iSeries Access, iSeries security

Security Level Change from 20 to 30
I’m being asked to change our QSURITY level from 20 to 30. I do not have much iSeries OS background. What are the major issues with changing this level to 30? Is there any object level access changes that I need to be aware of? Can this be done with relatively little impact on the [...]

Answer Question   |  October 16, 2009  1:17 PM
AS/400 security, AS/400 Security Levels, iSeries security, QSECURITY, QSECURITY Level 20, QSECURITY Level 30

iSeries on the Web – some pages HTTP, some HTTPS?
Warning: newbie to web programming and all the security implications… We are developing a small shopping website to be hosted on our iSeries. We will be purchasing an SSL certificate. Only some of our pages need to be encrypted (https). Most of the pages do not contain sensitive info, so do not need to be [...]

Answer Question   |  May 27, 2009  2:34 AM
HTTP, HTTPS, iSeries, iSeries security, Web security

Restrict user to Specify Workstation ID
Here is the situatiion: We have told users to use only their workstation id range only but some users are not follow instructions and in that case they are using other user workstation id range. Although, system value QLMTDEVSSN is already set as ’1′ (Limit). By setting up system value we can only restrict users [...]

Answer Question   |  May 15, 2009  11:42 AM
iSeries Access for Windows, iSeries administration, iSeries security, QLMTDEVSSN, System administration, System Security, User restrictions

Security for Synon library lists?
I am having some problems locking down the library lists available to my developers. I’m sure previously, if they attempted to change their library list, using the synon library lists previously setup, and they were not authorised to one of the libraries in that list, it would fail. For some reason it doesn’t fail now [...]

Answer Question   |  May 15, 2009  11:12 AM
iSeries, iSeries security, Synon, Synon/2E, Synon/Cool 2E

IP Address not written to the Audit Journal – QAUDJRN
I am scrutinizing my Audit Journal and came across numerous entries of type Change Password (CP) which do not have a corresponding Remote Address (IP). Although there exist entries within same time frame of the same users with complete information including the IP Address. What are the instances/cases where the Remote Address (IP) is not [...]

Answer Question   |  March 27, 2009  12:09 PM
AS/400 journaling, iSeries security, iSeries System management, QAUDJRN

I am being asked to produce an Access Log from our iSeries Server
I am being asked to produce an Access Log from our iSeries Server. It doesn’t appear that the Audit Journal will identify who has signed on and when. Can someone point me in the right direction. Thank You, Bill

Answer Question   |  April 25, 2010  12:10 PM
AS/400, Audit Journal, i5, iSeries, iSeries Access, iSeries security

iSeries Object Authority vs. Menu Security
Hello, I am new to iSeries and OS/400. Here is my question: Let’s say in a level 30 security environment, user access is controlled through a menu, which does not alow them to access any sensitive objects. But a number of sensitive objects have been assigned *ALL authority for *PUBLIC. Can these users somehow still [...]

Answer Question   |  November 4, 2009  6:25 PM
AS/400 security, iSeries security, OS/400 and iSeries