One of the challenges with IBM i on IBM Power Systems is simply knowing everything you need to know. It’s what you don’t know that can get you into trouble! This blog generally focuses on IBM i information.
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Posted: March 28, 2017 |
In the past, you could not copy a spooled file when it was still open; if you attempted the copy, it would fail with CPF3482, “Copy request failed. Spool file &1 is open.” The spooled file had to be completed before the copy would be allowed.
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Posted: March 22, 2017 |
The December 2016 update for Navigator for i included a number of enhancements; one of the most significant extends the work management tasks to include IBM i subsystem creation and configuration. This support is available for all current releases.
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Posted: March 14, 2017 |
The blog entry “QTEMP – Temporary or Permanent Storage,” was written before IBM i 7.2 was available, but it’s still applicable. That blog explained how storage used by a job’s QTEMP library is actually permanent storage, and it also included some tips on how to determine the size of QTEMP for a job.
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Posted: March 06, 2017 |
This article describes the new support to audit SNMPv3 requests. Additional SNMP enhancements exist for the system description, storage pool descriptions, and storage pool block sizes. These enhancements are available via PTFs.
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Posted: March 01, 2017 |
Stacy Benfield wrote this week’s blog about her participation in the Women in IT conference in 2016. This is timely with WMCPA holding their fourth Women in IT conference on March 24, 2017. This is a free event, open to everyone (no, you do not have to be a woman to attend). I participated in 2014 and it was an excellent professional development conference.
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Posted: February 21, 2017 |
Once again it is announcement time, with IBM i 7.3 Technology Refresh 2 and IBM i 7.2 Technology Refresh 6 being announced. As is somewhat typical for these Technology Refresh announcements, the content for both releases is quite similar. Steve Will’s blog
“Announcing IBM i 7.3 TR2 & 7.2 TR6”
reviews the announcement overall. I want to focus on a few enhancements that will make an IBM i administrator’s life a little easier.
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Posted: February 14, 2017 |
Last week I wrote about Application Administration with Navigator for i. I suspect most readers already knew about application administration with Navigator.
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Posted: February 08, 2017 |
System i Navigator (probably best known as iSeries Navigator) has long had Application Administration, where you can configure which “applications” a user is allowed to access. There are several uses of Application Administration: you can control access client applications, host applications, and Navigator tasks. When using Application Administration to control access to Navigator tasks, you create customizations which restrict some users from seeing certain tasks within the System i Navigator navigation frame.
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Posted: February 02, 2017 |
A common problem many IBM i users have is getting the cumulative group PTF media to their machine in a usable form when using a USB thumb drive. Many users would first carefully format that USB drive on IBM i, move it to an office PC, then copy the cumulative group from IBM distribution onto the thumb drive. When the thumb drive was put back into IBM i, the PTFs could not be loaded.
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Posted: January 18, 2017 |
