=============================================================== SEARCH400.com | Administrator Tip Nov. 13, 2002 =============================================================== 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: -- FTP: You wish to remain anonymous? Answers to Other Technical Questions - Batch FTP using IIS - Set your system time using FTP - Execute remote commands using FTP - FTP secrets revealed Important Announcements and Links - Tips Contest: October winners announced - Free Book Excerpt: IBM eServer iSeries: Built for e-business - White Papers: Hundreds of free iSeries-related white papers - Advice: Managing the iSeries Discussion Forum - Monthly Newsletter: Top Expert Advice _______________________________________________________________ ****************** Previous Webcasts Archives **************** Take a look at these informative transcripts from previous webcasts: FTP Fundamental, Security, and Source Control Management tools. http://search400.techtarget.com/onlineEvents/0,289675,sid3,00.html ================================================================ Today's Featured Tip ================================================================ FTP: You wish to remain anonymous? Anonymous FTP was created to satisfy the demand of FTP-TCP/IP users all over the Internet to send and receive files of a public domain or publicly available nature. As you can imagine, with that amount of data available for FTP transfer, it was and is simply impossible to set-up user accounts and passwords for every user on every FTP server on the Internet. Follow Kris Neely's guidelines for using this feature. >> CLICK here to view the complete tip: http://www.search400.com/tip/1,289483,sid3_gci862680,00.html ================================================================ Answers to Other Administrator Questions ================================================================ Batch FTP using IIS Search400.com member Shawn Hunt says this technique is much easier than creating a file transfer or anything of that sort. He shows you how to set up the clients as well as the 400 side to take advantage of this process. http://search400.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid3_gci812185,00.html Set your system time using FTP Don't set your system time by hand. Use Doug Hart's method for using FTP to change the time on all your systems. http://search400.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid3_gci824068,00.html Execute remote commands using FTP Many of you use FTP to transfer files between systems, and FTP is an excellent tool for that purpose. Did you also know that by using FTP, you can enter commands on remote systems? You can do this with the quote command. http://search400.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid3_gci531740,00.html FTP secrets revealed FTP is one of the top utilities for transferring data to and from the iSeries. Still, users often have problems using it. These resources reveal tips you may not have considered before. http://search400.techtarget.com/featuredTopic/0,290042,sid3_gci817820,00.html ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ ::::::::: DON'T MISS THESE IMPORTANT MESSAGES AND LINKS :::::::: =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- OCTOBER WINNERS ANNOUNCED | Search400.com tips contest You've been patient all month, and the results are finally in... The top winner for Search400.com's Tips Contest for October is Robert Allen. Robert won a $50 Amazon.com gift certificate and was added to our Hall of Fame for his tip: "Password equal to profile revisited," http://www.search400.com/tip/1,289483,sid3_gci853244,00.html Congratulations also to our runner-up winners: Jim Doyle, Naveen Dronavalli and Alex Nubla. View all winning tips in Search400.com's Hall of Fame: http://search400.techtarget.com/tipsHallOfFame/0,289489,sid3_prz826588_cts826578,00.html NEW CONTEST FOR NOVEMBER: This month we're giving away a Panasonic RR-US320 IC digital voice recorder. Stay at the top of your game with this Panasonic digital voice recorder. It features three recording modes and stores up to 100 minutes in long-play mode. The dual display shows the remaining memory and you can even link up to your PC with the provided USB terminal and cable for data editing. Send in your tip -- you could be our next winner. >> SUBMIT a Tip: http://search400.techtarget.com/tipsSubmit/0,289485,sid3,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- FREE BOOK EXCERPT | IBM eServer iSeries: Built for e-business Search400.com would like to offer our members the opportunity to download for free the first chapter of IBM eServer iSeries: Built for e-business written by Bob Cancilla and published by IBM Press. With this book, author Bob Cancilla provides a road map for iSeries customers to identify and understand the tremendous wealth of e-business software bundled with OS/400. He takes each of the main e-business components and explains what it is, how it works, and how it can be used to improve business environments. Bob focuses on the function available and provides a glimpse into the future by describing function currently under development. >> DOWNLOAD the chapter: http://search400.techtarget.com/whitepaperPage/0,293857,sid3_gci859248,00.html >> BUY the book: http://www.digitalguru.com/DigitalGuru/product_detail.asp?catalog_name=Books&category_name=&product_id=1931182086&partner_id=55 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- HUNDREDS OF FREE WHITE PAPERS | Search400.com research Visit our new white papers section and start boning up before your next purchase decision. You can browse by topic, author, or even search with your own keywords. If you know of other white papers that should be included, e-mail us or use our simple submission form. Check back often as we're adding more white papers every day. >> CLICK for iSeries-related white papers: http://search400.techtarget.com/whitepapers/0,293835,sid3,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- MANAGING THE ISERIES DISCUSSION FORUM | Interact with your peers Check out Search400.com's Managing the iSeries discussion forum. If you have a performance problem you just can't figure out, or you need help recovering data after a system crash, we recommend you check out this forum. 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