This Week: Tech tips for all iSeries pros

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June 16, 2003 >> Receive this email as text  >> About this email   In this Issue >> From the Editor: Search400.com tip library has something for everyone >> Featured Topic: Featuring LUGs nearest you >> Expert Technical Advice: * Featured Expert: Carol Woodbury, security * Discussion Forum: What's causing disabled user profile? * Administrator Tip: How to set up a system resource accounting system -- Part I >> Site Highlights: * Security Tip: Four tools for controlling user profiles * WebSphere Strategies Tip: Tap into the power of XML * IT Insights: Time to hold software companies accountable  From the Editor: by Debra Tart, assistant editor Search400.com tip library has something for everyone Where can you go and hang out with thousands of other iSeries professionals without leaving your office or home? Search400.com! At last count, more than 100,000 iSeries professionals have come together to exchange their invaluable expertise at our Web site. One of our strongest community features, the Tip Exchange, is as useful as it is popular. As a Search400.com member, you have full access to a variety of tips, including Programmer, Security, WebSphere Strategies and Administrator. In fact, in this newsletter we're shining the spotlight on three of our recent featured tips: * Administrator Tip: How to set up a system resource accounting system -- Part I * Security Tip: Four tools for controlling user profiles * WebSphere Strategies Tip: Tap into the power of XML Visit the Search400.com tips page for a complete listing of tips. Looking for tips on a particular subject? We have a search engine for just tips. You can search for tips from any page in the tips section. Search through all the tip and newsletter categories or the one category you're most interested in. Don't just log off after you read a tip -- rate it to tell us what you think. Was it the best tip you've ever read or was it simply terrible? Let your opinion be heard. The ratings, combined with our judges' review, help determine the winners in our Tip of the Month contest. Speaking of the Tip of the Month contest: Why not submit a tip of your own? Any timesaving tip or trick that makes your life a little easier is sure to help other users -- and you could win a cool prize. This month we're giving away a hand-held color TV. The winner also gets the privilege of being inducted into the Search400.com Hall of Fame. As an assistant editor on Search400.com, I work directly with users who submit tips. If you have any questions or concerns regarding rating or submitting a tip, feel free to contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- I'd be happy to assist you.  Featured Topic: Featuring LUGs nearest you by Debra Tart, assistant editor Looking for other iSeries users to share ideas with? Want to bone up on new technologies? User groups can help. They often offer educational opportunities and can give you the sense of community you may need. Take a look at the information we have on local, national and international groups. Read more about this topic  Expert Technical Advice: Featured Expert: Carol Woodbury, president, CEO, SkyView Partners Categories:Security Having been one of IBM's top security pros for the iSeries, Carol can give you the scoop on how to protect your data and your machine. Read past Q&As or submit a question This Week: In the forums >> Need help with Client Access What would you do? "DavidHay" has Client Access Express R5.1.0 SP SI08389 running on a WIN2000 server, running MS SQL2000. He uses CWBRXD.EXE as a service to accept incoming remote commands to start a DTS job in SQL. The problem is that after a while the CWBRXD service begins to consume more and more CPU. When he tries to stop the service, the stop command times out and he can't force the stop service request. His only option is to shut down SQL (not nice to his users) and reboot his WIN2000 SQL box. How can he fix this? >> What's causing disabled user profile? "Manly1" says he constantly gets the following message in QSYSMSG and wonders if anyone knows what is causing the profile to be disabled, as the user says he is not continually trying to enter his password. Error message: CPF1393 Subsystem QSYSWRK disabled user profile RG03N on device *N. "3Strikes" thinks he knows what's going on. >> Converting a stream file to DB2 "Daptech" says, "We are trying to convert a file from a Unix system to DB2. We have FTP'd to a Unix system and successfully retrieved the stream file and stored it in the IFS of our iSeries. The data is EDI transactions in text format. The problem is we can't get the stream file to properly convert to our iSeries database." What should they do? "CLKelly" had an idea. Tip of the Week: How to set up a system resource accounting system -- Part I by Ron Turull No, this is not monetary accounting with debits, credits, ledgers and journals. We're going to discuss iSeries system resource accounting. System resource accounting is important to many shops whose IS budget and cost of iSeries ownership must be allocated to individual users and/or departments. Luckily, the iSeries is set up to provide you with the information to do just that. >> Read full tip  Site Highlights Security Tip: Four tools for controlling user profiles Even if you put procedures in place to control the users who are coming and going in your organization, chances are something will go wrong. How can you tell if all your profiles are what you want them to be? This tip discusses four command-line tools that will give you as much information as you can digest about the security situation in your iSeries. Read full tip WebSphere Strategies Tip: Tap into the power of XML When it comes to Web development, XML is a powerful tool. But you don't need to be a highly skilled Java XML developer to make use of it. WDSC for iSeries Version 5 (both the Standard and Advanced editions) offers several options to create Web database and XML applications, including a number of helpful wizards. Read full tip IT Insights: Time to hold software companies accountable Why do we hold McDonald's to a higher standard than Microsoft and IBM? When you buy a new computer system, if the monitor is defective, you can take it back. What do you do when the software is defective? Take it back and get software that works? You can't. Columnist John Brandt says that's just not right. Software companies need to be held accountable and provide what they advertise. Update your subscriptions Select newsletters you would like to receive from the list below. Administrator Tips Programmer Tips Top Expert Advice E-mail    Not a member? We'll activate your membership with your subscription. iSeries product news What are vendors such as ASNA, GST and PKWARE up to? We have the updates here. Learn more Automate labor mgmt. 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