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Essential explanations, tools, and code for the iSeries administrator. More tips: http://search400.techtarget.com/tipsIndex/0,289482,sid3_tax2f8,00.html ============================================================= In today's technical advice roundup you'll find tips, expert answers and input from your peers to the following iSeries administrator questions and concerns: Today's Featured Administrator Tip: -- Give PC5250 Window titles more meaning Answers to Other Technical Questions 1. Use Express V5R1 to share PC5250 configurations 2. Edit efficiently using CA "Jump Next Active" function 3. Assign static device descriptions to workstations 4. What you should know about the new version of Client Access Important Announcements and Links 1. Tips contest: November winners announced 2. Best Systems Management Web Links 3. Featured book: The OS/400 and Microsoft Office Integ. Hndbk 4. Win a Microsoft Xbox: Refer a friend to search400 ______________________________________________________________ ************** SPONSORED BY: FORMation mg ******************** Introducing SmartRouting! Where do you want your reports and forms to go right now? FORMation mg's Smart Routing automatically directs the delivery of reports and e-documents such as checks, invoices, barcode/labels and more. Deliver to enterprise-wide recipients by e-mail, laser printer and fax! Download the FREE Trial Award-Winning flashFORM400 today! http://www.formationmg.com/index.asp?ad=2 ============================================================= Today's Featured Tip ============================================================= Give PC5250 Window titles more meaning In shops that have several iSeries or AS/400 machines, many administrators find themselves -- and their users -- plagued by obscure PC5250 Window title naming. By default Client Access Express PC5250 places three things in the Windows title of every PC5250 session: the word 'Session' followed by an IBM-generated session-ID (usually A, B, C, etc); a separator character of a '-' (dash); and the session dimensions (screen size) of the active PC5250 window. It would make things a whole lot easier if you could change PC5250 titles to include meaningful information so that you or your users know which OS/400 they are switching to when they maximize a particular session. Follow these easy steps to learn how to do this. >> CLICK here for the full tip: http://www.search400.com/tip/1,289483,sid3_gci785673,00.html ============================================================= Answers to Other Administrator Questions ============================================================= 1. Use Express V5R1 to share PC5250 configurations By creating one generic Client Access Express workstation profile (.WS file), you can share one PC5250 configuration among many machines. This simple technique, provided by Joe Hertvik, should save you a lot of time in setting up PC5250 devices throughout the network. You can also easily change your configuration for all computers by making a change to the shared .WS file. http://search400.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid3_gci770208,00.html 2. Edit efficiently using CA "Jump Next Active" function Most iSeries developers work with multiple Client Access sessions going at once, often with multiple PC applications active on their PC as well. Switching between sessions is often accomplished via the Windows Alt-Tab switching function or grabbing the mouse and clicking on the status bar representation for that session. When you are busy writing code for hours at a time, you want to focus on your Client Access sessions, not on the other PC applications you have open. Perhaps you would like to focus on specific Client Access sessions for a time, ignoring others for a bit. The Client Access Keyboard mapping function "Jump Next Active Session" helps nicely. http://search400.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid3_gci768544,00.html 3. Assign static device descriptions to workstations using CA Express This user would like to assign message queues for printer descriptions to certain devices using CA Express. Site expert Tim Granatir offers some advice. http://search400.techtarget.com/ateQuestionNResponse/0,289625,sid3_cid411847_tax285220,00.html 4. What you should know about the new version of Client Access In this transcript of a Live Expert Q&A session, Roger Pence answers your questions on Client Access Express. http://search400.techtarget.com/onlineEventsTranscript/0,289691,sid3_gci522299,00.html ============================================================= What other systems management issues do you have and/or need to be addressed? Talk to us and other members of search400: * Submit your technical questions to our systems management experts: http://search400.techtarget.com/ateQuestion/0,289624,sid3_tax285222,00.html * Talk to other users about systems management issues in our discussion forum: http://search400.discussions.techtarget.com/WebX?50@@.ee84638 * Send your iSeries systems management concerns directly to our site editor, Michelle Davidson, at: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] for feedback or suggestions. _____________________________________________________________ ::::::: DON'T MISS THESE IMPORTANT MESSAGES AND LINKS :::::: =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- NOVEMBER WINNERS ANNOUNCED | Search400 tips contest The envelope please ... The top winner for search400's Tips Contest for November is Guy Roberto Pacheco. Guy won a 64MB Pen Cam Mini Digital Camera and was added to our Hall of Fame for his tip: "Analyzing a journal with SQL," http://www.search400.com/tip/1,289483,sid3_gci782334,00.html Congratulations also to our runner-up winners: Doug Hart and Paul Ladouceur. NEW CONTEST FOR DECEMBER: This month we're giving away a R.A.D. Robot 2.0. Tough treads allow R.A.D. to conquer rough terrain -- indoors or outdoors. It also bends and picks up objects, and the "Voice Link" controller allows you to talk through R.A.D. Send in your tip -- you could be our next winner. >> SUBMIT a Tip: http://www.search400.com/tipsPrize/0,289492,sid3_prz783215_cts783214,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT-PERFORMANCE | Best Web Links Are you looking for some information or advice on how to get the best possible performance out of your iSeries 400? We have scoured the Web and gathered some of the best links out there on performance issues. Check out these tips to see how you can keep your iSeries running smoothly. http://search400.techtarget.com/bestWebLinks/0,289521,sid3_tax2c3,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- THIS WEEK'S FEATURED BOOK | search400 Bookstore Title: The OS/400 and Microsoft Office Integration Handbook Authors: Brian Singleton and Chris Peters Now you can use Client Access Express to combine the presentation capabilities of all versions of Microsoft Office (including Office 2000) with the database capabilities of the iSeries or AS/400 to provide your company with the best of both worlds. http://www.digitalguru.com/DigitalGuru/product_detail.asp?catalog%5Fname=Books&product%5Fid=1583470204&ac_id=55 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- WIN A MICROSOFT XBOX | Refer a friend to search400 Here's your chance to win a Microsoft Xbox, the hottest video game system of this holiday season. 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