============================================================= SEARCH400.COM | Administrator Tip December 26, 2001
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 on the following iSeries administrator questions and concerns: Today's Featured Administrator Tip: -- V5R1 puts FTP in its own SBSD place Answers to Other Technical Questions 1. V5R1's new way of locking down FTP 2. AUTOFTP reduces security exposure 3. Check the ASP threshold 4. Use shared connection with IBM modem Important Announcements and Links 1. Tips Exchange: Win a R.A.D. Robot 2.0 2. Win a Microsoft Xbox: Refer a friend to search400 3. Best Web Links: Systems Management-Performance ______________________________________________________________ ************** SPONSORED BY: FORMation mg ********************* Introducing SmartRouting! 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If you use your machine to provide a file download service -- where many users may be downloading large files at the same time -- the competition between FTP and other necessary server jobs can create a bottleneck on limited system resources. With V5R1, the situation has changed. >> CLICK here for the full tip: http://www.search400.com/tip/1,289483,sid3_gci787795,00.html ============================================================= Answers to Other Administrator Questions ============================================================= 1. V5R1's new way of locking down FTP OS/400 FTP has always been both a blessing and a curse on the iSeries. It's a blessing because it enables you to easily move files between OS/400 and other operating systems, such as Microsoft Windows, Unix and Linux. It's a curse because -- in the wrong hands -- FTP can also allow users to delete file members or libraries and to launch commands on your iSeries or AS/400 box. With OS/400 V5R1 and Client Access Express for Windows V5R1, IBM has provided new Operations Navigator-based FTP application settings that help fill those holes. http://search400.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid3_gci764642,00.html 2. AUTOFTP reduces security exposure Tips contest winner Philip Howells offers a new command called AUTOFTP that can reduce the main security exposure otherwise present when simply batching together FTP scripts (FTP input read by a CL). The command allows the processing of FTP input scripts to be further automated and scheduled (without the standard AS/400 scheduler) and provides a number of clear benefits. http://search400.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid3_gci770308,00.html 3. Check the ASP threshold A search400.com member writes, "One of our users is not allowed to access the System Service Tools menu. Is there a command in finding the ASP threshold without going to the System Service Tools menu?" Systems Management expert Richard Belles offers some advice. http://search400.techtarget.com/ateQuestionNResponse/0,289625,sid3_cid425364_tax285222,00.html 4. Use shared connection with IBM modem You can use your shipped IBM Service modem on two different lines without any complicated job/program loop. Check out this tip for the details. http://search400.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid3_gci779476,00.html ============================================================= What other systems management issues do you have and/or need to be addressed? 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