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Please note that Starter Kit for the AS/400, Second Edition is copyright 1994. Although much of its content is still valid, much is also out-of-date. The good news is that iSeries NEWS technical editor Gary Guthrie has been working on an updated edition: Starter Kit for the IBM iSeries and AS/400. We've posted sample chapters of the new book here in place of the old ones. (Updated chapters are clearly labeled as such in the Table of Contents.)
The new Starter Kit for the IBM iSeries and AS/400, co-authored by Gary Guthrie and Wayne Madden, is now available from 29th Street Press (April 2001). Completely updated for the iSeries and expanded to cover new topics such as TCP/IP and Operations Navigator, the new book includes a CD containing all the sample code and utilities presented in the book. For more information or to order, visit the iSeries Network Store.
- Before You Install Your System
- Develop an Installation Plan
- Plan Education
- Prepare Users for Visual and Operational Differences
- Develop a Migration Plan
- Develop a Security Plan
- System Security Level
- Password Format Rules
- Identifying System Users
- Develop a Backup and Recovery Plan
- Establish Naming Conventions
- What Next?
- Signing On for the First Time
- Establishing Your Work Environment
- Now What?
- What Is a User Profile?
- Creating User Profiles
- USRPRF (User Profile)
- PASSWORD (User Password)
- PWDEXP (Set Password to Expired)
- STATUS (Profile Status)
- USRCLS (User Class) and SPCAUT (Special Authority)
- Initial Sign-On Options
- System Value Overrides
- Group Profiles
- JOBD (Job Description)
- SPCENV (Special Environment)
- Message Handling
- Printed Output Handling
- Documenting User Profiles
- Maintaining User Profiles
- Flexibility: The CRTUSR Command
- Making User Profiles Work for You
- What Are Public Authorities?
- Creating Public Authority by Default
- Limiting Public Authority
- Public Authority by Design
- Object-Level Public Authority
- Planning is Preventive Medicine
- The Planning Checklist
- Step 1: Is Your Order Complete?
- Step 2: Manual or Automatic?
- Step 3: Permanently Apply PTFs
- Step 4: Clean Up Your System
- Step 5: Is There Enough Room?
- Step 6: Document System Changes
- Step 7: Get the Latest Fixes
- Step 8: Save Your System
- Installation-Day Tasks
- Step 9: Resolve Pending Operations
- Step 10: Shut Down the INS
- Step 11: Verify System Integrity
- Step 12: Check System Values
- Ready, Set, Go!
- Final Advice
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- When Do You Need a PTF?
- How Do You Order a PTF?
- SNDPTFORD Basics
- Ordering PTFs on the Internet
- How Do You Install and Apply a PTF?
- Installing Licened Internal Code PTFs
- Installing Licensed Program Product PTFs
- Verifying Your PTF Installation
- How Current Are You?
- Developing a Proactive PTF Management Strategy
- Preventive Service Planning
- Preventive Service
- Corrective Service
- Sending Messages 101
- I Break for Messages
- Casting Network Messages
- Sending Messages into History
by Bryan Meyers- Return Reply Requested
- A Table of Matches
- Give Me a Break Message
- Take a Break
- It's Your Own Default
- How Do You Make It Print Like This?
- Where Have All the Job Logs Gone?
- What Is an Output Queue?
- How To Create Output Queues
- Who Should Create Output Queues?
- How Spooled Files Get on the Queue
- How Spooled Files Are Printed from the Queue
- A Different View of Spooled Files
- How Output Queues Should Be Organized
- The Old Solution
- A Better Solution
- The STRTFROUTQ Utility
- To Compile These Utilities
- A Data Queue Interface Facelift
- RCVDTAQE
- CLRDTAQ
- Automatic Cleanup Procedures
- Manual Cleanup Procedures
- Enhancing Your Manual Procedures
by Bryan Meyers- Arriving on Time
- Running on a Strict Schedule
- Two Trains on the Same Track
- Derailment Dangers
- System Message Show and Tell
- History Log Housekeeping
- Inside Information
by Debbie Saugen- Designing and Implementing a Backup Strategy
- Implementing a Simple Backup Strategy
- Implementing a Medium Backup Strategy
- Implementing a Complex Backup Strategy
- An Alternative Backup Strategy
- The Inner Workings of Menu SAVE
- Entire System (Option 21)
- System Data Only (Option 22)
- All User Data (Option 23)
- Setting Save Option Defaults
- Printing System Information
- Saving Data Concurrently Using Multiple Tape Devices
- Concurrent Saves of Libraries and Objects
- Concurrent Saves of DLOs (Folders)
- Concurrent Saves of Objects in Directories
- Save-While-Active
- How Does Save-While-Active Work?
- Save Commands That Support the Save-While-Active Option
- Backing Up Spooled Files
- Recovering Your System
- Availability Options [sidebar]
- Preparing and Managing Your Backup Media [sidebar]
by Debbie Saugen- An Introduction to BRMS
- Getting Started with BRMS
- Saving Data in Parallel with BRMS
- Online Backup of Lotus Notes Servers with BRMS
- Restricted-State Saves Using BRMS
- Backing Up Spooled Files with BRMS
- Including Spooled File Entries in a Backup List
- Restoring Spooled Files Saved Using BRMS
- The BRMS Operations Navigator Interface
- Terminology Differences
- Functional Differences
- Backup and Recovery with BRMS OpsNav
- Backup Policies
- Creating a BRMS Backup Policy
- Backing Up Individual Items
- Restoring Individual Items
- Scheduling Unattended Backup and Restore Operations
- System Recovery Report
- BRMS Security Functions
- Security Options for BRMS Functions, Components, and Items
- Media Management
- BRMS Housekeeping
- Check It Out
- Getting Oriented
- Defining a Subsystem
- Main Storage and Subsystem Pool Definitions
- Starting a Subsystem
- Types of Work Entries
- Conflicting Workstation Entries
- Job Queue Entries
- Communications Entries
- Prestart Job Entries
- Autostart Job Entry
- Where Jobs Go
- Routing Data for Interactive Jobs
- Routing Data for Batch Jobs
- Routing Data for Autostart, Communications, and Prestart Jobs
- The Importance of Routing Data
- Runtime Attributes
- Is There More Than One Way to Get There?
- Do-It-Yourself Routing
- Structural Fundamentals
- Data Members: A Challenge
- Database Files
- Source Files
- Device Files
- DDM Files
- Save Files
- Anatomy of Jobs
- Override Rules
- Scoping an Override
- Overriding the Same File Multiple Times
- The Order of Applying Overrides
- Protecting an Override
- Explicitly Removing an Override
- Miscellanea
- Important Additional Override Information
- Overriding the Scope of Open File
- Non-File Overrides
- Overrides and Multi-Threaded Jobs
- File Redirection
- Surprised?
- Record Format Definition/Physical File Selection
- Key Fields
- Select/Omit Logic
- Multiple Logical File Members
- Keys to the AS/400 Database
- Sharing Fundamentals
- Sharing Examples
- CL Coding Suggestions
- Classic Program #1: Changing Ownership
- The Technique
- Classic Program #2: Delete Database Relationships
- The Technique
- Classic Program #3: List Program-File References
- The Technique
- Why Use CL to Process Database Files?
- I DCLare!
- Extracting Field Definitions
- Reading the Database File
- File Positioning
- What About Record Output?
- A Useful Example
- CL Display File Basics
- CL Display File Examples
- Considerations
- The Command
- Start with a File and a Format
- Record Selection
- Key Fields
- Mapping Virtual Fields
- OPNQRYF Command Performance
- SQL Special Features
- OPNQRYF Special Features
- Basic Training
- Putting the Command to Work
- Knowing When To Speak
- Job Message Queues
- The SNDPGMMSG Command
- ILE-Induced Changes
- Message Types
- The Receiving End
- Program Message Uses
- Understanding Job Logs
- Receiving the Right Message
- Note on the V2R3 RCVMSG Command Parameter Changes
- Receiving the Right Values
- Monitoring for a Message
- Working with Examples
- What Else Can You Do with Messages?
- RCVMSG and the MSGTYPE and MSGKEY
- Commands: The Heart of the System
- Tips for Entering Commands
- Customizing Commands
- Modifying Default Values
- Creating a Data Area
- Local Data Areas
- Group Data Areas
Starter Kit for the AS/400, 2nd Edition
Copyright 1994 by Duke Press
DUKE COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL
Loveland, Colorado
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be
reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including
photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval)
without permission in writing from the publisher.
It is the reader's responsibility to ensure procedures
and techniques used from this book are accurate and appropriate
for the user's installation. No warranty is implied or expressed.
This book was printed and bound in the United States
of America.
Second Edition: April 1994
ISBN 10882419-09-X
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