Category Archives: IBM i Tech Info

Speeding Up IBM i Access Path Rebuilds–A Handy Technique

Here’s a handy technique I wrote up for IT Jungle in 2010 that I just reused again today. It shows you a simple way to speed up logical file access rebuilds when they are holding up system processing. Here’s the reader email and situation … Continue reading

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IT Jungle: A Primer for Setting Up PC5250 SSL Connectivity, Part 1

IT Jungle just published part one of my two part article on how to set up PC5250 Telnet SSL connectivity between your PCs and your IBM i partition. In Part 1, I look at how to set up your IBM … Continue reading

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How Hard is it to Add SSL Encryption to IBM i Access for Windows 7.1 and i OS 6.1?

Not very hard, it turns out. With one of my clients, we were able to do it from scratch in two days. IBM has some good instructions and it’s not that hard to implement SSL for use with all Access for … Continue reading

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IT Jungle: Cleaning Up Excessive Job Logs on Your IBM i Box

IT Jungle just published my latest tip on detecting and deleting excessive job logs on an IBM i machine. To view this article, click here. ************************************************** This post sponsored by Hertvik Business Services (HBS). HBS provides IT consulting and content … Continue reading

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Admin Alert: Six Tips for Managing IBM i Spooled File Storage

IT Jungle just published my latest tip on keeping tabs on and reducing IBM I spooled file storage. Check it out by clicking here. ******************************************* This post is sponsored by Hertvik Business Services. Follow Joe Hertvik on Twitter @JoeHertvik. You … Continue reading

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Nice Set of IBM Tips on Cleaning Up QSPL Storage

I’m working on a project to identify and clear out unnecessary spooled file storage on an IBM i (AS/400) system. To that end, I ran across a nice IBM i document on QSPL Storage Cleanup Tips. This is more of … Continue reading

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IBM i, iSeries, System i, AS/400: Why Don’t We Just Call it Bruce?

Why don’t we skip all the old and new names like IBM i, System I, iSeries, and AS/400 and just call it Bruce? Continue reading

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IT Jungle: Which Job is Filling Up My System Storage?

IT Jungle just posted my latest tip on finding runaway IBM i (iSeries, AS/400) jobs that are filling up system storage. Here I answered the following question from one of my clients: Every so often, our system storage breaches its … Continue reading

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Holy Crap!!! We Recovered How Much IBM i Storage?

Hard to believe but after using my techniques for recovering IBM i disk space from storage hogs, we got back 17% of our usable storage space…and we still have some storage hog hunting to do! In the course of a … Continue reading

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Finding IBM i Storage Hogs

We’ve been recently dealing with storage overflow issues on two of our IBM i boxes. As a result, I’ve been referencing the following articles I wrote on how to clean up disk storage when you’re approaching maximum storage usage on … Continue reading

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IT Jungle: Automatically Answering Unable to Allocate Record Messages

IT Jungle just published my latest tip on automatically answering record lock messages. Here’s the question I answered in this tip: We have a persistent problem with application jobs waiting on record locks with an RNQ1218 (unable to allocate a … Continue reading

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Interesting InfoTech Article: Is IBM i a Dying Platform or Going Strong?

Correction: When I originally posted this piece, I didn’t realize I was talking about an article from 2011. I realized that mistake later. But what strikes me most about this analysis is that the original article could have been written … Continue reading

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IT Jungle: Major and Minor Power System Upgrades

IT Jungle just published my latest article on leveraging your existing capacity at upgrade time by performing a minor upgrade on existing hardware, rather than moving to the latest Power 7+ machines. With the incredible capacity built in late-model Power … Continue reading

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IT Jungle: Adding a Job Queue to a Batch Subsystem

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

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It’s Offical: IBM i Does Not Support sFlow

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

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