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Columnists provide insight into iSeries industry |
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Featured Topic:
Can you identify the top 10 iSeries terms? |
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Expert Technical Advice:
* Featured expert: John Brandt, OS/400
* Discussion Forum: End an active server job
* Administrator Tip: The trouble with Reclaim Resources
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Site Highlights:
* June tip winners announced
* Search400.com IT Excellence Awards
* Download free book excerpts |
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by Tom Pappalardo, site manager
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Columnists provide insight into iSeries industry
Have you been reading our new columnists? The Search400.com team is constantly trying to improve the site and provide you with the most current and interesting iSeries information available. To help accomplish that, we've added two new columnists. John Brandt and The Value Manager, who are writing about issues that are making waves in the IT industry, especially those affecting iSeries users.
Take a look at the latest article:
Server integration threatens future of iSeries.
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Featured Expert: John Brandt, vice president of technical services, iStudio400.com
Category: OS/400
Have you run into a snag with OS/400? Thinking about upgrading to the newest release? John Brandt can get you on the right path.
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This Week: In the forums
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End an active server job
One user writes, "Is there a way to end an active server job that has a status of TIMW? I'm trying to program the server to end if communication gets disconnected for any reason. What I have are data queues that are set up to end and start the server, but if the server goes into TIMW mode it will not end." Site expert John Brandt responds.
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Unattended installs for iSeries
This member is interested in getting more information on unattended installs using image catalog. He's read that you can use it to install PTFs and go from V5R1 to V5R2 of OS/400. He wonders if anyone has used image catalog to do an unattended install of the operating system. Does it work well, if not what are the downfalls? Two people offered suggestions. Read what they said or post your own advice.
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OS/400 backup command
"Peterp1024" uses the 'Backup' command as his nightly backup process. He's having trouble finding documentation on it and wonders why most companies don't use this command. "MindNL" says he uses it. Click over and read what else he had to say. |
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The trouble with Reclaim Resources
by Ron Turull
It isn't uncommon for an application to execute the Reclaim Resources command (RCLRSC) periodically as a "garbage-collecting" device to improve performance. And programs sometimes rely on the command to free static memory, close open files and free other resources. But watch out if you need to have the program start fresh and execute a RCLRSC in the calling program before calling the RPG program. The RCLRSC command will not work if you convert the whole thing to ILE and tell it to run in an activation group other than the default.
There are things you can do, however, to help you avoid problems with the Reclaim Resources command as it relates to RPG programs.
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June tip winners announced
Congratulations to Justin Haase. Justin won a hand-held TV and was added to our Hall of Fame
for his tip: Determine DASD cache battery life.
Honors also go to Jonathan Mason, Kenny Barnes and Timothy Grove for their runner-up tips.
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There may be no such thing as a free lunch, but how about free sample chapters from some of your favorite iSeries books, including The Modern RPG IV Language, Third Edition and Exploring IBM eServer iSeries and AS/400 Computers, 10th Edition.
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