Category Archives: IBM i Tech Info

If you get a second, check out my latest post on IT Jungle about eternal users and what to do about them. An eternal user, of course, is a user who has left your organization but you can’t remove their … Continue reading →

IT Jungle just posted my latest tip that answers the following question about documenting IBM i operating system and PTF levels for Sarbanes-Oxley documentation. You can read the entire tip by clicking here. ************************************************** Follow Joe Hertvik on Twitter @JoeHertvik. … Continue reading →

IT Jungle just posted my latest article detailing how to use the following IBM i Access for Windows parameters to make life easier for adminstrators and their users: Specifying a different default path for your PC5250 users Options for saving … Continue reading →

IT Jungle just posted my latest article on three ways to copy user profiles between IBM i systems. This information comes in handy when adding new users to more than one system or for adding a vendor user profile when … Continue reading →

Last month, I introduced a two-part article in IT Jungle discussing techniques for deleting IBM i user profiles. Part one focused on prepping a user profile for deletion. IT Jungle just published part two in this series, where I discuss … Continue reading →

Looking at IT Jungle’s latest System i PTF Guide, I noticed the following new cumulative PTF groups have been released for the IBM i 6.1 and 7.1 operating systems. i 6.1 – 2122 – Released around May 1, 2012 i … Continue reading →

IT Jungle just published part one of my two-part article on how to properly delete IBM i user profiles. It’s a primer on how to get the most out of the deletion process including: What you need to do in … Continue reading →

When we performed two IBM i 6.1 upgrades off Image Catalogs in the last week, we observed an interesting phenomena. Sometimes the system would refuse to load or verify our image catalogs. We’d either get a message that the image … Continue reading →

My shop just migrated from System i Access for Windows V5R4M0 to IBM i Access for Windows V7R1M0, and we’re still looking at the differences between the two programs. One of the small things I noticed is the difference between Copy and … Continue reading →

IT Jungle has just posted my new article on how to fix the Personal Communications package that comes with IBM i Access for Windows 7.1, when the Run the Same function won’t work correctly on Windows 7.  I also take … Continue reading →

Like many IBM i shops, we use Help/Systems’ Robot/SCHEDULE software to automatically submit batch jobs and run batch job streams on a regular basis. We recently discovered a valuable SCHEDULE parameter that allows us to configure jobs to run on … Continue reading →

Carole Woodbury (@carolwoodbury) just tweeted one of my favorite IBM i password tips. As a rule, IBM i doesn’t allow you to enter numeric passwords. But you can sign on with a numeric password if you change your password to start … Continue reading →