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Category Archives: IBM i Tech Info
IT Jungle: Six Things to Do Before Switching Production Processing to Your CBU
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
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IT Jungle: How Do I Load This Digital Certificate on to My IBM i Box?
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
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Testing ManageEngine’s ADSelfService Plus Product for Windows-IBM i Password Synchronization
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
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IT Jungle: Using Incremental IFS Backups to Speed Up Backup Times
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
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IT Jungle: A Checklist for Moving Power i Partitions to a New Location
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
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IT Jungle: Another Way to Restrict IBM i FTP Access & More
IT Jungle just posted my latest article covering three different IBM i tips on: Determining the last time an IBM i DB2 library was backed up A simpler way to restrict FTP access to an IBM i box How to … Continue reading
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Stopping Unauthorized Users From FTPing To Your IBM i
IT Jungle just posted my new tip on stopping selected users from FTPing to an IBM i machine. Here’s the basic problem that it solves. Hey, Joe: My programmers keep setting up automatic FTP downloads from the network using the … Continue reading
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IT Jungle: Four Things to Do For Your IBM i in 2013
IT Jungle just posted my latest article of Four Things to Do For Your IBM i in 2013. The top four things I list there are: Check Your Job Scheduling Date Objects In January Schedule Your V5R4Mx Upgrade, If Needed … Continue reading
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Twitter Posts on the IBM i Cache Battery Maintenance Problem
If you’re interested in the IBM i cache battery maintenance issue I documented in IT Jungle, check out my ongoing discussion on this issue on my twitter feed @JoeHertvik. The problem is that due to new industry standards and regulations, … Continue reading
IBM i QuickTip: Date, Time, and System Stamping PC5250 Screens
I had a need come up last week where for Sarbanes-Oxley reporting, the auditors wanted us to date & time-stamp PC5250 screen shots as we were performing specific functions. The auditors wanted to make sure that our user adds, changes, … Continue reading
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IBM i QuickTip: Determining Total Disk Space Used and Free Disk Space on a Partition
The easiest way to get your IBM i total disk capacity and free disk space is by using the Work with System Status command (WRKSYSSTS). WRKSYSSTS The System ASP information is located in the upper right-hand corner of the screen … Continue reading
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Nice That IBM i Shops Don’t Need to Worry About Daylight Savings Time Any More
It just occurred to me that I was more worried about resetting my clocks at home this weekend than I was about resetting my IBM i for US Daylight Savings Time (DST) on November 3rd, when all of our clocks’ … Continue reading
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IT Jungle: Changing Sub Tree Authorities in the AS/400 IFS
IT Jungle just posted my latest article on how to change authorities for all objects (including files and sub folders) in an AS/400 Integrated File Systems (AS/400 IFS) folder. This is incredibly handy when you have to change all the … Continue reading
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IT Jungle: The Tick, Tick, Ticking of IBM i 7.1 Technology Refreshes and the TR5 Rundown
Tim Prickett Morgan has more on technology refresh 5 (TR5) for IBM i 7.1. Or in Tim’s very poetic words: Last week at the iBelieve NY event hosted by looksoftware, Allison Butterill, the IBM i product offering manager, was hinting … Continue reading
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IBM Power i Machine Upgrades: One Year Out
We’re hitting the end of our IBM i lease in a little over a year. And I’m starting the process for a possible upgrade to some of IBM i machines. While I can’t say that I can make all the … Continue reading
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