Category Archives: IBM i Tech Info

       For my Admin Alert column for IT Jungle this week, I uncovered some interesting information about how to discover the history of your TCP/IP interfaces and how to retrieve the QUSRTOOL library for installing the IBM i NetServer GO NETS … Continue reading →

        Before I IPL my IBM i machine or run a High Availability switch test, I always make sure to take a copy of all the active jobs on my system by printing a Work with Active Jobs screen (WRKACTJOB). … Continue reading →

According to IBM, there’s a difference in when SMTP changes submitted by the Change SMTP Attributes command (CHGSMTPA) take effect when moving from i5/OS V5R4Mx to i 6.1.x. In i5/OS V5R4Mx, CHGSMTPA changes take effect the next time SMTP is started. … Continue reading →

In the June 20th SecureMyi Security Newsletter, Dan Riehl has a nice article about using the Use Adopted Authority system value (QUSEADPAUT) to keep programs that were compiled with adopted authority from having that authority flow down the call stack … Continue reading →

In my article for this week’s IT Jungle, one of my readers clued me in to a significant change to NetServer that affects a lot of people who use the Change User Profile command (CHGUSRPRF) to re-enable disabled NetServer profiles. … Continue reading →

Lora Powell, the lead for the Performance Tasks Gui in IBM Systems Director Navigator, sat in for Dawn May in Dawn’s i Can column in IBM Systems Magazine this month. In this column, Lora explains the changes that were made … Continue reading →

Steve will has a new column on using Mobile Devices to interface mobile devices to IBM i applications. Best to use as a primer introduction to mobile i or as Steve likes to call it: Mobilizing IBM i. You can read … Continue reading →

Pete Massiello has a nice article in his latest iTech Solutions Newsletter about how often you should IPL your IBM i box. According to Pete, you should IPL sparingly for one simple reason: database performance. Confused? Don’t be. Pete wraps … Continue reading →

IT Jungle just published my latest tech tip on solving NetServer access problem. You may have seen this issue where all of a sudden, a user loses their connection to an IBM i NetServer file share and cannot get it back. This tip … Continue reading →

This came up in a Twitter feed the other day so I’d thought I’d reiterate it here. At the iBelieve event, IBM has been quoted as saying that it is projecting support for IBM i past the year 2020. Support … Continue reading →

IT Jungle just posted my latest tip on stopping your system from running the system startup program after a full system backup. Here’s the reader question I’m answering today. Good article on the secrets of the IBM i IPL parameters. … Continue reading →

At COMMON today, I told someone the gory story of how in the past six months, I’ve had three occasions where two of the six IBM i partitions I manage have needed emergency IPLs to restart their systems. My audience’s response … Continue reading →