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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 on the following iSeries administrator questions and concerns: Today's Featured Administrator Tip: -- CWBPING does what PING can't for your 400 Answers to Other Technical Questions 1. Managing TCP/IP connections 2. Ending the correct TCP/IP connection 3. Saving Outq reports 4. The best way to set the form types Important Announcements and Links 1. Live Audio Chat: Protect yourself from disaster 2. Tips Contest: December winners announced 3. Win a Microsoft Xbox: Refer a friend to search400 4. Systems Management: Best Web Links ______________________________________________________________ ************** SPONSORED BY: FORMation mg ********************* Introducing SmartRouting! 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But there are things PING can't do that are needed in an OS/400 environment, particularly verifying whether Client Access host socket servers are available to a TCP/IP client. For that IBM provides the CWBPING utility with Client Access Express for Windows V5R1. In this tip, Joe Hertvik shows you how to use CWBPING and provides a list of parameters to tell the program just what server you want to verify. >> CLICK here for the full tip... http://www.search400.com/tip/1,289483,sid3_gci789473,00.html ============================================================= Answers to Other Administrator Questions ============================================================= 1. Managing TCP/IP connections With the iSeries 400 running TCP/IP servers, it has become a little more difficult to manage those connections. IBM has a menu that will help. Check out this tip for all the details. http://search400.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid3_gci334170,00.html 2. Ending the correct TCP/IP connection When you have several TCP/IP connections, this tip can quickly help you find the one you need to terminate. http://search400.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid3_gci556022,00.html 3. Saving Outq reports One member asks, "Do you know of a way that we can save reports from an outq to a tape? I know that the outq description will save, but not the reports." Read what other member suggested. http://search400.discussions.techtarget.com/WebX?[EMAIL PROTECTED]^[email protected]/1057 4. The best way to set the form types This member wonders how to set the form types to be used for an output que, and then to save those settings? Systems Management expert Richard Belles offers some advice. http://search400.techtarget.com/ateQuestionNResponse/0,289625,sid3_cid415052_tax285222,00.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 :::::: =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= LIVE AUDIO CHAT | Protect yourself from disaster: Backup essentials Who: Tom Huntington, vice president of technical services at Help/Systems Inc. When: Jan. 16, 2002 at 2:00 PM EST (19:00 GMT) Tom will provide you with a clear understanding of what to back up on your iSeries and when to back it up. Learn about running the SAVSECDTA and SAVCFG commands, the benefits of journaling your database, running unattended backups and more. >>Pre-register for the event: http://search400.techtarget.com/onlineEvents/0,289675,sid3,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- DECEMBER WINNERS ANNOUNCED | Search400 tips contest Congratulations to Mike Faust for winning search400's Tip of the Month contest for December. Mike won a R.A.D. Robot and was added to our Hall of Fame for his tip: "iSeries & AS/400 data in an HTML table," http://www.search400.com/tip/1,289483,sid3_gci785868,00.html Congratulations also to our runner-up winners: Freddie Cogburn, Timothy Grove and Azmat Bhatti. NEW CONTEST FOR JANUARY: This month we're giving away an AMTc Nightstar Night-Vision Spotting Scope. This night-vision spotting scope sports a built-in standard infrared illuminator and has great resolution, clarity and light gain. It's compact, lightweight and small enough to slip into your shirt pocket. Send in your tip -- you could be our next winner. >> SUBMIT a Tip: http://www.search400.com/tipsPrize/0,289492,sid3_prz786944_cts786942,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- WIN A MICROSOFT XBOX | Refer a friend to search400 Here's your chance to win a Microsoft Xbox. Simply tell your peers about the valuable tech tips, industry news and expert advice you get FREE from search400 and an Xbox could be yours. >> Click for info on how to win... http://search400.techtarget.com/referFriendContest/1,290949,sid3,00.html?promo_code=xbox =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT | Best Web Links These Best Web Links provide you with resources to help you with your general systems management issues. 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