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Cleaning Up Spoolfiles – Record Count

September 29, 2022 by David Shears 2 Comments

Because sometimes I get the most interesting challenges to play with! On a dark and stormy night, or if we want to be precise a grey and miserable afternoon… I have a partition with about 4000 QPDZDTALOG spool files dating back over a number of years. For those not familiar, this print file is generated […]

WRKRDBDIRE part 2 – MYSELF and DDMDRDA

May 10, 2022 by David Shears Leave a Comment

Some of you may remember an article I wrote in December 2019 about using WRKRDBDIRE and DDM to get data from a V5R4 system. Recently I came across a couple of extra scenarios when pulling data from systems, so it seems a perfect opportunity for a part 2 article. First off, what if I want […]

Installing ACS on Ubuntu

August 31, 2021 by David Shears Leave a Comment

Recently I found myself installing Ubuntu 20.04 on a desktop in the office. Long story short I wanted to (dis)prove whether a problem with the PC was due to windows power settings. Since it was there, I thought I’d take the opportunity to see how easily you can get started with ACS on Linux. For […]

Removing drives from guest partitions

June 11, 2021 by David Shears Leave a Comment

“You’ve not done a lot during lockdown, so it’s time to trim the fat.” Technically words from my GP, but I figured perhaps I could apply it to my partitions as well! To set the scene, I want to do a system save of a Power7 with the slight issue that the tape drive isn’t […]

IBM i Security – Duct Tape & String

April 25, 2021 by David Shears Leave a Comment

Having recently watched the Helpsystems annual State of IBM i Security study, along with listening to Robin talk about it on the Incredible i Show, it seemed a good time to reflect on how I originally got introduced to the need for security. As the title suggests my solution at the time was a bit […]

IBMi password – pick a number

April 5, 2021 by David Shears Leave a Comment

We’ve all been there, the password expiration has come around (QPWDEXPITV) and you’re struggling to think of a new one that matches the password rules on your system. One day I decided “screw that, the system can pick for me”. Thus I started tinkering in NodeJS, as mentioned in previous articles I’m not a GUI […]

My source is MIA – RTVCLSRC

February 16, 2021 by David Shears 2 Comments

A bit of a follow on to my article in July last year about checking the date of source against your program. I have a customer who for their sins continues to run a V5R4 partition, part of the reason for this is if you run ANZOBJCVN you’ll kill a small forest with the number […]

SAVE21 to the IFS – Worst, Idea, Ever

December 31, 2020 by David Shears Leave a Comment

Maybe not quite the worst, but I imagine there’s a good selection of better ones, something to keep in the back pocket though. I originally wondered about this when I got to a customer site to do a full system save and their tape drive was acting up, fortunately I got it going again but […]

Logical File – more than the sum of its parts

November 27, 2020 by David Shears 1 Comment

An interesting problem I came across recently, completely self-inflicted as these things often are so hopefully a cautionary tale to avoid others repeating it! I was investigating disk space usage on a customer server, trying to figure out if they could do some housekeeping or if it was time for them to invest in some […]

Last signon date – set it yourself

October 31, 2020 by David Shears 1 Comment

Something that came up recently and jogged my memory for a tweak I made a few years ago. I was asked to confirm if a user had logged into a profile, now on the face of it a nice simple question and answer. WRKUSRPRF <username> and return the date I get on the screen. The […]

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