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IT Jungle published my latest tip on how to create new job queues for work management in a batch subsystem. Check it out now by clicking here. ************************************************** Follow Joe Hertvik on Twitter @JoeHertvik. You can also add Joe to … Continue reading →

Here’s a common fix for when you can’t perform a Windows FTP transfer with your IBM i partition. It’s common for a Windows-to-IBM i FTP transfer to get blocked, when the Windows desktop firewall blocks port 20 traffic to the Windows … Continue reading →

For a project I’m working on, we’re trying to determine how much network traffic travels to a particular IBM i partition and what IP addresses the traffic is coming from. The purpose is to model the traffic before we move … Continue reading →

IT Jungle just posted my latest tip on preparing to switch production processing to your IBM i CBU machine. There’s a lot of good tips in there including: Getting temporary keys for products that aren’t licensed to your CBU Quieting … Continue reading →

IT Jungle just posted my latest tip on how to load a digital certificate into an IBM i certificate store when your Digital Certificate Manager gives you this dreaded error message. “An error occurred during certificate validation. The issuer of … Continue reading →

IT Jungle just posted my latest article detailing a checklist for monitoring IBM i systems. This piece builds on the checklist I started in October and adds several new items to the checklist. This is a good starter checklist for … Continue reading →

Some of my technical cohorts and I were having a discussion as to whether you could tell what type of LTO tape you were holding by the color of the tape case. After a quick google search (search: color lto … Continue reading →

Besides managing IBM i machines, I also run a PC and network Help Desk for two companies. Both companies use a Windows network combined with multiple IBM i servers. One of our biggest issues is fielding calls from users who … Continue reading →

IT Jungle just published my latest tip on how to speed up an AS/400 Integrated File System (IFS) backup by breaking the backup into a full backup combined with incremental backups. In this piece, I also show green-screen and System … Continue reading →

IT Jungle just published my latest article on moving Power i partitions to a new location. This information comes in handy when: Your company is sold or spun-off and your machine is moving to another location Your parent company is … Continue reading →