AS/400 Message Monitor
Can i have a common message monitor for different systems? I want to monitor all the critical messages of all my as 400 systems in a single window. Any way to accomplish that? They are different systems and not logical partitions..

Answer Question   |  May 2, 2011  6:02 AM
AS/400 Message Monitoring, AS400 Message Monitor, Logical partitions

Logical Partition Windows Server 2003
Hi I am using windows server 2003 standard edition,with three RAID DISKS and I created RAID 0,with capacity totalling to 408 GB,now I want to create a partition.I can’t get it right, need help

Answer Question   |  July 16, 2009  9:23 AM
Logical partitions, RAID, RAID 0, RAID configuration, Windows Server 2003

AS400
How to create Lpars ?

Answer Question   |  July 13, 2009  9:14 PM
AS/400 administration, Logical partitions, LPAR

How Can I down and up lpars in AS400 ? please explain step by step
How Can I down and up lpars in AS400 ? please explain step by step

Answer Question   |  March 11, 2010  1:51 AM
AS/400 administration, Logical partitions, LPAR

Partition Creation Error
When trying to create a partition on a logical drive I receive the following error message: ‘The Operation was cancelled due to an Internal error’ and the partition failed to create. I have tried deleting the array and recreating the logical drive but it failed to resolve the issue. I have run hardware diagnostics in [...]

Answer Question   |  February 6, 2009  2:31 PM
Logical disk manager, Logical partitions, Partitioning, Windows Server 2003

how to schedule operation in I5 HMC to move physical adaptor
Need to schedule HMC to move physical adaptor between two AS400 partitions so they can be backed up with no manual intervention

Answer Question   |  October 16, 2008  7:32 PM
Backup & recovery, Backup and Recovery Hardware, i5, iSeries, Logical partitions, OS/400

BRMS and Tape Library on iSeries (AS/400) with concurrent backup of LPARs
Hi, I have a TS3500 Tape Library which has four LTO-3 drives. The system that I am running on is iSeries 870 with OS version V5R3. The 870 system has a total of 6 LPARs (Logical Partitions), each running the same OS V5R3. Recently, the BRMS for this version of V5R3 was implemented. Now, the [...]

Answer Question   |  September 18, 2008  8:13 AM
BRMS, IBM TS3500 Tape Library, iSeries, iSeries 870, iSeries backup, Logical partitions, LPARs, V5R3

What is Harvesting an LPAR
What is Harvesting an AS/400 LPAR

Answer Question   |  June 11, 2008  7:54 PM
AS/400, Logical partitions, LPAR

zSERIES Operating System – different maint levels across a SYSPLEX
I seem to remember that IBM recommend that the length of time LPARs in a SYSPLEX remain on different maintenance levels is kept to a minimum. This would seem logical but I can’t find any documentation actually detailing why this is important. Has anyone seen this documented to any degree?

Answer Question   |  November 27, 2007  2:37 PM
Logical partitions, Sysplex

File transfer to the iSeries problem.
I am trying to transfer an excel speadsheet file to my AS/400. I have tried setting up a file transfer through client access and tried sending the file directly from Excel. Both times I get the following error cwbtf0023 – pc file description file was not specified or is empty The file is not empty. [...]

Answer Question   |  December 9, 2011  10:11 AM
AS/400, Backup & recovery, Hardware, i5, Installation, Integration/Connectivity, iSeries, Logical partitions, OS/400, PC/Windows Connectivity, Performance/Tuning, Printing, PTFs, Security, Server consolidation, System monitoring, tips and tricks, Tools

Is *JOBCTL needed to view job logs?
I have read IBM’s Security manual and Work Management manual and I know that *JOBCTL is needed to change job priorities and other things for jobs on the system, but I do not see any statements that say *JOBCTL is needed to view the job logs of other user’s jobs on the system. Does anyone [...]

Answer Question   |  October 25, 2010  2:09 PM
Backup & recovery, Hardware, i5, Installation, Integration/Connectivity, iSeries, Logical partitions, OS/400, PC/Windows Connectivity, Performance/Tuning, Printing, PTFs, Security, Server consolidation, System monitoring, tips and tricks, Tools

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

Can you transfer active jobs to another subsystem?
If a job is already active in one subsystem, can you use tfrbchjob or tfrjob to move into a different job queue to run in a different subsystem, or will you get errors because the job is already active in one subsystem?

Answer Question   |  October 26, 2009  4:52 PM
Backup & recovery, Hardware, i5, Installation, Integration/Connectivity, iSeries, Logical partitions, OS/400, PC/Windows Connectivity, Performance/Tuning, Printing, PTFs, Security, Server consolidation, System monitoring, tips and tricks, Tools

Damaged File In Save Operations
I have a file that is damaged, therefore, it will not save during my nightly backups. The file is QASZRAIRD in library QUSRSYS. Does anyone know what this file is used for or how I can find out what this file is used for? Can I delete the file and re-create the file, or will [...]

Answer Question   |  June 7, 2005  3:24 PM
Backup & recovery, Hardware, i5, Installation, Integration/Connectivity, iSeries, Logical partitions, OS/400, PC/Windows Connectivity, Performance/Tuning, Printing, PTFs, Security, Server consolidation, System monitoring, tips and tricks, Tools

Installing PTFs questions and concerns.
I am now responsible for installing PTFs on the as400. I will be performing my first install on June 25th. I have some questions if someone doesn’t mind helping? 1. Documentation says to check the CD to make sure that it works. I put the CD in my CD drive at my local PC and [...]

Answer Question   |  May 25, 2005  9:42 AM
Backup & recovery, Hardware, i5, IBM, IBM/Tivoli, Installation, Integration/Connectivity, iSeries, Logical partitions, OS/400, PC/Windows Connectivity, Performance/Tuning, Printing, PTFs, Security, Server consolidation, System monitoring, tips and tricks, Tools

Need some performance tuning tips or suggestions.
We currently have a 720-9406 model iSeries AS/400 system. We recently upgraded are OS to version V5R3M0. We are using the system mainly for our payroll processing which occurs weekly, as well as we have the system set up as a web server which we have employees accessing throughout the day. Since the upgrade, our [...]

Answer Question   |  October 26, 2009  9:46 AM
Backup & recovery, Hardware, i5, IBM, Installation, Integration/Connectivity, iSeries, Logical partitions, OS/400, PC/Windows Connectivity, Performance/Tuning, Printing, PTFs, Security, Server consolidation, Servers, System monitoring, tips and tricks, Tools, Web services

How To Print A Hardware Configuration List?
Does anyone know of another command to use to print out a hardware configuration list for the AS/400. I have already used the following command: DSPHDWRSC TYPE(*AHW) OUTPUT(*PRINT) Is there anything else that can be used?

Answer Question   |  October 25, 2009  9:34 AM
Backup & recovery, Hardware, i5, IBM, IBM/Tivoli, Installation, Integration/Connectivity, iSeries, Logical partitions, OS/400, PC/Windows Connectivity, Performance/Tuning, Printing, PTFs, Security, Server consolidation, System monitoring, tips and tricks, Tools

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

Possible to direct converter/interpreter phase?
I have two versions of z/OS running in the same sysplex. Therefore I have different PROCLIB concatenations on the different LPARs. I can direct the batch jobs using the jobclass to be running on the different LPARs. My problem is that I have different PROCs with the same name on the different LPARs. A job [...]

Answer Question   |  April 27, 2005  8:01 AM
Logical partitions, Mainframe, MVS, Technical support

I5 HMC Not Saving Scheduled Operations on Reboot
I use our HMC to schedule moves of our tape resource overnight so two of our AS400 LPARS can be backed up with no manual intervention. I schedule this move within HMC configuration then ‘Schedule Operations’. The I/O resource moves have infinte repeats and run quite happily from night to night. However, if I reboot [...]

Answer Question   |  April 1, 2005  9:59 AM
Backup & recovery, Hardware, i5, iSeries, Logical partitions, OS/400, tips and tricks, Tools